HALESTORM has unveiled “Darkness At all times Wins”, a slowly constructing, cinematic laborious rock anthem that marks the Grammy-winning band’s first launch of 2025. The track, helmed by Grammy-winning producer Dave Cobb, is the primary to be revealed from a brand new album from Atlantic Information, particulars of which might be introduced quickly.
“‘Darkness At all times Wins’ shouldn’t be a track of hope, neither is it a track of despair,” mentioned HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale. “It’s actuality. Historical past repeating. Evil prevails and the nice depart first. However we’re not doomed so long as we persist and maintain our fires burning. The conflict is probably not received on this lifetime. However our mission is to go the torch in order that those that observe have a light-weight to combat with.”
In a social media submit, HALESTORM guitarist Joe Hottinger wrote about “Darkness At all times Wins”: “We wrote this down in Savannah, GA. It was the primary track we wrote for what turned the album. It was like a take a look at session… we went down there to see the way it was working with Dave Cobb. Wrote and recorded this in two days at his then new studio. It was the start of a stupendous relationship that was a stupendous album.
“Cannot wait for everybody to listen to what we have been as much as.”
In a current interview with Cutter’s Rockcast, Lzzy spoke about HALESTORM‘s songwriting and recording classes with Cobb, identified for his earlier collaborations with the likes of Sammy Hagar, Slash, GRETA VAN FLEET and RIVAL SONS. Requested if the band’s follow-up to 2022’s “Again From The Useless” album was “finished”, Lzzy mentioned: “Sure. Actually we’re getting mixes again as we communicate.”
Concerning the musical course of the brand new HALESTORM materials, Lzzy mentioned: “It is actually laborious to explain this one. We did the file with Dave Cobb, which is a brand new producer for us. His ADHD combined very nicely with our ADHD. However we did not do it historically the best way we at all times do these albums. First day, we walked in and I at all times have, like, no matter, a ton of half-written songs or full-written songs, or, ‘This is a riff or no matter’ — you are available in together with your bag of methods. And Dave Cobb says, ‘Oh, we’re not gonna do any of that.’ And I am, like, ‘What do you imply?’ He is, like, ‘We’re not doing demos. I hate demos. What we’re gonna do is we’re gonna begin and we’re gonna write, and as we’re writing, we’re recording on the identical time.’ So that is what we did. The primary day we truly ended up writing our first single that’ll be popping out quickly. However, yeah, we began, like, ‘Okay, who’s obtained a line?’ ‘Oh, I’ve this that I considered yesterday.’ ‘Cool. That’ll work. Let’s go.’ Arrange the drums, arrange the guitar, this is the vocals. And so we might be recording whereas we had been writing it, after which we might get finished and we’d transfer on to the subsequent day. And so there are songs that do not also have a click on monitor to them or a information as a result of we forgot.”
Lzzy continued: “There’s so many alternative parts of songs that we used to write down after we had been children, however, clearly, as adults — numerous that feeling. It was type of an emotional rollercoaster. There’s additionally, I feel, among the heaviest songs we have ever written on there, some actually lovely mid-tempos. Numerous personalities that I’ve at all times wished to type of placed on a file, however I by no means actually had the liberty or time to, as a result of normally after we do a HALESTORM file, it is, like, ‘Okay, we’ve got to have all of the songs picked. Now we have to have them rehearsed.’ We go in and type of do it like an meeting line. Like, ‘Okay, you do the bass, do the drums, do the guitar, do the vocals, and we’re good.’ So there is no time to essentially like sit with issues earlier than they’re, like, ‘Okay, we have already determined we’re gonna try this.’ And so the liberty and type of the nerve-racking type of ingredient of the truth that there wasn’t actually a plan ended up being the particular sauce on this album, as a result of we had been simply chasing all the things that obtained us excited. And if it wasn’t a ‘hell yeah’, it was a ‘hell no’. So there’s nothing on there on this album that we do not really feel full possession over. There’s nothing on this album that anyone pressured us to do. There’s nothing on this album that is not a part of our personalities.”
Elaborating on why the brand new HALESTORM album seems like it’s a return to the band’s roots in a method, Lzzy mentioned: “My bass participant mentioned it yesterday. He is, like, ‘It is type of like this lengthy highway to the start,’ ‘trigger all the guys at one time limit mentioned this actually seems like we’re again in our dad and mom’ basement once more and we’re hustling and we’re attempting to determine easy methods to write songs on the radio. However we’ve got all this data now. So all the things ended up coming collectively so extremely nicely. Nevertheless it was nearly just like the reverse, that the music was telling us what to do and never us attempting to love shoehorn something in.
“I am telling you, man, — it’s the most HALESTORM file we have ever finished,” Lzzy added. “It’s the first time within the 20 years we have been on Atlantic Information that we’ve got not felt lorded over in concerning to creating information, as a result of normally it is time crunch. Someone’s at all times there being, like, ‘Oh, we will not try this.’ ‘Oh, you most likely should not say that.’ ‘What about this factor?’ And that type of factor. So it normally turns into like a challenge, like a bunch challenge.
“We did not do it in Nashville — we did it in Savannah, Georgia, locked in a home in the midst of nowhere, subsequent to a river,” Hale revealed. “The blokes and I might get up like round 11:30 a.m., we might begin recording and we would not cease till 4:00 a.m. After which we might annoy the hell out of the engineer who was attempting to sleep with enjoying on the correct keyboard and developing with bizarre stuff. However we had been unsupervised in the easiest way, and it was all about, who’re we now? Who had been we then? That is our story. For me, after I hearken to this album, it is my private opus — all of the issues that I’ve gone by means of in my life, each darkish and never. There’s extra questions than solutions. It isn’t simply me giving myself a pep discuss, like ‘I am the hearth’, ‘I am again from the lifeless.’ It is like I am coping with numerous my actuality and numerous the fact of the world in my very own method. After which it is also our story as a band, and you may actually hear it within the music and within the lyrics. So I am so excited for individuals to listen to it. And it is to the purpose the place it is, like, I do not even actually care if anyone likes it as a result of all 4 of us are, like, ‘That is our favourite album we have ever finished.'”
Earlier this yr, Lzzy and Joe accomplished “Halestorm’s Lzzy And Joe: The Dwelling Room Periods” tour that includes the duo performing acoustic, stripped down variations of HALESTORM favorites and the music that impressed the band.
Cobb has shared in 9 Grammy wins, together with 4 for “Finest Americana Album” and three for “Finest Nation Album”. He is additionally been named “Producer Of The Yr” by the Nation Music Awards, the Americana Music Affiliation (twice) and the Music Row Awards, and has been a Grammy nominee within the class.
Final summer season HALESTORM and I PREVAIL accomplished a co-headlining tour. Produced by Dwell Nation, the trek was additionally the catalyst and the artistic spark for HALESTORM and I PREVAIL‘s collaborative monitor “Can U See Me In The Darkish?”, which was launched final June.
“Again From The Useless” has tallied over 100 million streams worldwide. Rolling Stone referred to as the title monitor “a biting however cathartic howler about overcoming all obstacles,” and that track in addition to “The Steeple” marked their fifth and sixth quantity ones at rock radio, respectively. Related Press mentioned the album “will certainly be within the operating for greatest laborious rock/metallic album of the yr.” Their earlier album, “Vicious”, earned the band their second Grammy nomination, for “Finest Arduous Rock Efficiency” for the track “Uncomfortable”, the band’s fourth #1 at rock radio, and led Loudwire to call HALESTORM “Rock Artist Of The Decade” in 2019.
Fronted by Lzzy with drummer Arejay Hale, Hottinger and bass participant Josh Smith, HALESTORM‘s music has earned a number of platinum and gold certifications from the RIAA, and the band has earned a status as a strong dwell music power, headlining sold-out reveals and topping competition payments world wide, and sharing the stage with icons together with HEAVEN & HELL, Alice Cooper, Joan Jett and JUDAS PRIEST. Moreover, Lzzy was named the primary feminine model ambassador for Gibson and served as host of AXS TV‘s “A Yr In Music”.
Photograph credit score: Jimmy Fontaine
