Metal Anarchy

During a recent appearance on the Make It Perfect podcast, Halestorm vocalist/guitarist Lzzy Hale revealed that she is currently working on a new book. According to her, the effort will be a biography/fantasy novel.

Hale said the following:

“I’ve been writing my biography, but it is also a fantasy novel because all the names have been changed, but the stories are true. And this is how I feel comfortable doing my biography.

The thing that makes me sad about reading people’s biographies, especially in the music business, is that then you know their secrets, you know they’ve been raped, or you know their parents don’t like them, or you know that they have to struggle to be sober, or they almost died. And it’s, like, it ruins the magic, because when I think about [Ronnie James] Dio or I think about David Lee Roth or I think about Eddie Van Halen or I think about Alice Cooper, I think about them as being the gods of rock and roll — you know, Black Sabbath, Tony Iommi. I don’t wanna know that their mom didn’t let ’em suck on their thumb when they were kids.”

She continued when asked why she doesn’t like knowing those types of things:

“Well, because I think that it ruins the joy. Because people always focus on people’s struggle and not on their recovery or not on their joy. And I feel like a lot of fans and people that aren’t willing to understand and deep dive are seeing people like Eminem or people like my good friend Rob Halford [of Judas Priest]. He just celebrated his — I don’t know — 25th anniversary from when he got sober, but everyone’s, like, ‘Well, you know, here’s… ‘ It’s, like, they focus on the alcoholism or they focus on the drug use or they focus on the drug use, and they’re not focusing on the fact that they’re celebrating themselves.”

[via Blabbermouth]