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Halestorm

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Hard Rock
Heavy Metal

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22 июл 2026 :
4 июл 2026 :	LZZY HALE On Why Using Backing Tracks Is Not Right For HALESTORM: 'I Feel Like I'd Be A Terrible Lip Syncer'
24 июн 2026 :	HALESTORM's JOE HOTTINGER On 'Secret' To Making His Romantic Relationship With LZZY HALE Work: 'We're Very Good Communicators'
18 июн 2026 :	LZZY HALE Says SEBASTIAN BACH Supposedly Thought She Did An 'Awesome' Job Singing For SKID ROW
27 май 2026 :
19 май 2026 :	HALESTORM's LZZY HALE On Upcoming Tour With BABYMETAL: 'I'm So Excited About The Idea Because It's A Little Off Center'
24 апр 2026 :
18 апр 2026 :	LZZY HALE: How HALESTORM 'Lost' Its 'Taste In Religion' After Starting Out As 'Christian' Rock Band
6 апр 2026 :	HALESTORM's LZZY HALE: 'When I Step On Stage, I Am Performing The Show Like This Is The Last Show That I'm Going To Ever Play'
19 мар 2026 :	HALESTORM's LZZY HALE Opens Up About Relationship With JOE HOTTINGER: 'There Is Nothing Like Doing The Thing That You Love With The Person You Love'
17 мар 2026 :	HALESTORM's JOE HOTTINGER: 'I Highly Recommend Joining A Band. It's The Best Time You'll Ever Have.'
3 мар 2026 :	AREJAY HALE On Why HALESTORM Doesn't Use Backing Tracks In Concert: 'We're So Technologically Illiterate That Everything Would Go Wrong'
28 фев 2026 :	HALESTORM's LZZY HALE On Growing Number Of Female Rock Musicians: 'My Only Responsibility Is To Try To Make It A Little Easier For Whoever Comes After Me'
18 янв 2026 :	HALESTORM's AREJAY HALE On Supporting IRON MAIDEN In Europe: 'I Was Very, Very Pleasantly Surprised By How Well That Tour Went'
30 дек 2025 :	JOSH SMITH On HALESTORM's Longevity: There 'Was Just Always This Family Vibe' Within The Band
25 ноя 2025 :
2 окт 2025 :	HALESTORM's JOE HOTTINGER On 'Back To The Beginning': 'That Was The Most Intense Musical Thing I've Ever Experienced'
13 авг 2025 :	HALESTORM's JOE HOTTINGER On 'Back To The Beginning': 'We Were So Excited Just To Be Asked To Play That Show'
10 авг 2025 :	HALESTORM's LZZY HALE On OZZY OSBOURNE: 'So Many Of Us Wouldn't Be Here If It Wasn't' For Him
8 авг 2025 :
26 июл 2025 :	HALESTORM's LZZY HALE On OZZY OSBOURNE's Death: 'It's So Sad To See One Of The Greats Go'
11 июл 2025 :	HALESTORM Shares New Song 'Rain Your Blood On Me' From Upcoming 'Everest' Album
7 июл 2025 :
26 июн 2025 :	HALESTORM Shares Official Music Video For 'Darkness Always Wins'
16 июн 2025 :	HALESTORM's LZZY HALE On Singing Live On Tour: 'I'm Proud To Say That I Hardly Warm Up Anymore'
8 июн 2025 :	HALESTORM's LZZY HALE On Decision To Play Five New Songs On Current Tour: 'We Don't Like Depending On Our Past Hits'

4 июл 2026

LZZY HALE On Why Using Backing Tracks Is Not Right For HALESTORM: 'I Feel Like I'd Be A Terrible Lip Syncer'

In a new interview with the Mark And Me podcast, HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale was asked if there are still moments when she goes, "How do I find the strength today to go on stage and just turn it on if I'm not feeling it?" She responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Oh, of course. Now, we do have some tricks that the four of us do where… It's gonna sound silly, but we will literally run in place and yell as loud as we can or whatever it is, if you are in that situation where you don't feel it."

She continued: "Now, as far as stage fright or nervousness, that's different now than it was when I was a kid. When I was a kid, I had to work very hard to figure out how to look at people and be outward on stage. I call myself a reformed introvert. I cite this band with helping me out with that. But now, there's still this... I feel like it's an internal countdown in my head. As soon as we get to maybe 15 minutes before we're about to take the stage, I'm, like, 'Okay.' And I can't sit down, and I'm kind of pacing. I call it a beautiful panic now because now what I love about that is that it's not really like I'm terrified or I'm having a panic attack and I'm, like, 'Oh, I can't do this.' It's more like I'm physically getting ready to jump out of an airplane or jump off a cliff, that kind of thing. And we even have kind of a running joke, where — I forget, a couple of shows before [playing at U.K.'s] Download [festival], I turn to my bass player and I'm, like, 'Okay, you ready to do this?' He's, like, 'Yeah, don't worry. I packed your parachute. We're all good.' He's, like, 'I think.' And so that's what we do every night. Anything could happen."

Lzzy added: "I feel like that is the biggest part of the excitement for us of playing live and keeping it in the moment is that you have to. A moment goes by, you can't worry about things if, 'Oh, maybe I flubbed a note,' or 'maybe I did this.' You have to constantly be living in the moment, which is something that you rarely get in normal life. So I feel like that's why we're addicted to it, but it's so exciting to be, like, 'Okay, here we go. Anything could happen, literally.' And it depends on us listening to each other and whether we're prepared enough to go out there. Do we know that certain part that we just added a couple days ago, that weird part that we're, like, 'Oh, let's do that. That's a good idea.' Is it gonna work? Are people gonna be into it?' It's incredible. I think that's the beauty of live music. And, again, I talk a lot about how we don't use tracks, and I kind of wanna make clear that I'm not against anybody for using tracks or not because that is your prerogative. But, for me, if we ended up doing that, then the live show would be less exciting for me. It would be more, like, 'Okay, are we dancing correctly? Am I miming correctly?' Which, I feel like I'd be a terrible lip syncer. [Laughs]"

Earlier this month, HALESTORM guitarist Joe Hottinger weighed in on bands who rely heavily on pre-recorded tracks during their live performances, telling Andy Guitar: "To me, a live show is an interpretation of your record. And it doesn't need to sound [exactly like the album]... If you wanna listen to the studio recording, listen to the studio recording. To me, rock and roll is supposed to be a little dangerous. Like, are we gonna fuck up tonight? Who knows what the song's gonna be like? What does it sound like when the four of us are making as much noise as we can?"

He continued: "Whatever — if people do their tracks and stuff, I don't give a fuck. That's how they choose to run their business, and we just like to have fun. I don't think it would be fun to have like a 'clink, clink, clink, clink' [in my in-ear monitors on stage]. How do you tap into the flow when there's a cowbell banging inside of your head? Things should go wrong. It's a rock show. There should be fuck-ups every [show]... We fuck up every show. It's awesome."

Joe's comments came four months after HALESTORM drummer Arejay Hale expressed a similar sentiment, telling Chile's PowerOfMetal.cl: "The challenging thing about HALESTORM is that we don't play to a click, we don't have any backing tracks. It's as raw as it gets. So to compete with these other bands that have these fail-safes — having a playback rig filling up the sound, and we have to do it ourselves with our hands and with our voices, it is a bit more challenging. It requires a lot more training, it requires a lot more practice and listening, and, for me, a lot more focus on my playing, my velocities, my consistency, my tempos, my singing — everything all at once. There's nothing easy about it, but I love a good challenge."

Arejay then clarified: "Let me just say that I'm not against bands that use playback. I have another project called KEMIKALFIRE. We use playback. I think it's fine if you wanna do that. I'm not anti-tracks. If you wanna express your art in that way, then that's great. But with HALESTORM, we're so technologically illiterate [laughs] that everything would go wrong every night. So the best approach for us is just to keep it as raw as possible, which is really good. It's the most effective, I think, for us, personally. But it does make it challenging, but also a fun challenge."

Arejay previously spoke about HALESTORM's insistence on performing completely live — without the aid of backing tracks — during a June 2024 interview with May The Rock Be With You, HALESTORM. He said at the time: "We've always kind of prided ourselves by being one of the few bands that doesn't use any backtracks or any type of sound enhancement. We always felt it was more important for us to get the playing right within the four of us and to get the sound right with our playing. And that's always been a really — it's an uphill battle, but it's worth it, 'cause live, we don't even play to a click track, and without a click track, we're able to adjust the tempos and let the songs breathe and kind of react to the energy of the crowd. But it's also harder for me because I have to really focus on not playing too fast or too slow. So, I think that's always just kind of been a unique thing about us, is that we just don't want to [use tracks]. And also we're not very technologically savvy, so we know that if we start running backtracks and stuff like that, sure enough, something will go wrong. So that's kind of always been one of our main objectives, is just wanting to be as raw as possible."

Back in June 2020, Lzzy, told "Offstage With DWP" about why she and her bandmates choose to play live: "We do it more selfishly, not necessarily as a statement. But it has kind of become this interesting statement. We're very proud of that. But also, just again selfishly, I don't think I'd enjoy myself. I've guested with people — I've dueted with people and got up onstage where they have those things and I can hear it in my in-ear monitors — and some of it is, like, 'Chorus in one, two, three, four…' I'm, like, 'Oh my gosh! This would drive me nuts.' And also, I would rather have us sound imperfect than have somebody figure out that I'm miming, or a shaker goes awry — 'Where's the tambourine coming from?'

"I'm not a fan of when I find out my favorite bands do that," she continued. "And, like I said, I'm not knocking anybody who does it — you do you. But for us, that's just not our M.O. And there's nothing more fun that going out on stage and knowing that you're responsible for either we're gonna be tight, we're gonna be loose, something's gonna go wrong, we're gonna have to pull the train back onto the tracks, but that's cause we're listening to each other.

"And also, if we weren't actually playing, we would just get worse as musicians," she added. "We've been to shows where somebody's computer went down — the tracks are no longer there — and then they don't play anymore. And we're, like, 'Can't you just plug the instruments in?' I honestly think you would get so used to kind of like doing a music video and just miming along that maybe you can't [play live] anymore. So we've become better musicians because we challenge ourselves in that way."

HALESTORM's sixth full-length studio album, "Everest", came out last August via Atlantic Records. HALESTORM worked with producer Dave Cobb, after making three records with Nick Raskulinecz.

Photo credit: Jimmy Fontaine

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