Metal Anarchy

During an appearance on 100.3 The X Rocks’ “The Morning After With Nic & Big J,” Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale offered an update on the band’s new album. According to her, the group will begin “final wrap-ups” for the effort in December.

Hale said the following:

“We’ll be getting everything, like final wrap-ups are in the beginning of December. And so we’ll be wrapping that up and then literally — we’ll probably be pushing something out a little sooner than that, hopefully. But all best-laid plans, as you know. So I’m really excited. I’m ready for it to be done.

It’s been a really crazy whirlwind making it. We ended up going in with Dave Cobb, the producer. And it’s something completely different than what we’ve ever had. We literally rolled in with all of our baggage, all of our songs, our riffs, the whole thing, and he’s, like, ‘No, we’re not gonna do any of that. We’re just gonna start.’ And I’m, like, ‘What? There’s no plan? What’s happening.’ And it’s kind of beautiful ’cause all of us are very ADHD, and we’re locked together in this house in Savannah, Georgia, which, if you’ve ever been to Savannah, Georgia, there’s no scene. It’s a spooky historic town with a lot of Spanish moss. And we’re locked — literally I’m saying locked, because we locked the doors — we’re locked in this house full of every piece of equipment you could ever need. It’s all set up. The board is there — everything — and we’re all unsupervised. Which I can’t tell you the last time that has happened making an album — probably since the first record, [when] we were all living in an apartment together. So, all of our inner children are screaming and we’re all just getting into the sandbox and playing, ‘Hey, I brought some LEGOs. You brought a rocket. Let’s see if we can get it to space.’ And so all of this stuff has really been coming together in such a weird and organic way, to the point that it’s very much peeling back the onion of what is HALESTORM.

My brother [drummer Arejay Hale] and I have had many moments while making this record where we look at each other and we’re, like, ‘This reminds me of when we were 14.’ It’s just wild. So, I’m very excited for everyone to hear it and I’m excited for it to be done. And so hopefully we wrap it up in December and get get it the hell out — out of my house. [Laughs]”

She also added the following when asked about the writing process for the record:

“I think that the big lesson in the front of the race here that has been answered is that usually the weirdest ideas are the best. And sometimes it’s the things that you don’t think are very good that everyone collectively is, like, ‘No, that’s actually great.’ And I think that that’s been the beautiful thing is that the four of us, even though… I mean, my brother’s 37 — he’s the young gun, but we’re all in our early forties — and we’ve been doing this a long time together. And so to have that kind of reconnection to who you are as people and as friends and really having that kind of come out in the music and it not be this kind of assembly line, like, ‘Okay, Lzzy wrote 12 songs. We all really like ’em. Let’s record ’em.’ Or, ‘Hey, we have this collection. And we have a month to be in the studio. Let’s just go and bang it out.’ We’ve really kind of taken the time to really let the music tell us what to do and honestly let our weird brains tell us what to do, because we’re all terrible adults [laughs], and I think that we were never meant to be. So it’s been nice to just kind of have the freedom to do whatever the hell we want and then worry about the consequences later. [Laughs]”

[via Blabbermouth]