In a new interview with “The Mistress Carrie Podcast”, HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale spoke about her band’s upcoming co-headline tour with I PREVAIL, produced by Live Nation. The trek kicks off on July 9 in Raleigh and runs through August 17 in Las Vegas. HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD and FIT FOR A KING will serve as support. When host Mistress Carrie noted that this is “a big tour”, Lzzy concurred. “It really is,” she said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “And it’s actually so much — it goes a little, well, not a little, a lot deeper than how we’ve done other tours before. So, small surprise breaker here, the boys in I PREVAIL and me and my guys in HALESTORM have gotten together in the studio and we’ve written a song together, everybody collaborating. And we are going to be performing that together as an ode to our collective fan base.”
Regarding the inspiration for the collaborative song, Lzzy said: “We were talking a lot about the analogy of we’re all in the same circus together, as in this is all of our shows. It’s not just we’re saddling up our wagon against a band, ‘We’re playing. Here’s your set. Here’s my set.’ We really wanted to create this this haven, this sanctuary for our collective fan base, be, like, ‘Hey, he’s my buddy too. We come from different walks of life, but here’s how we come together,’ [and] really showcase that togetherness, especially considering, we all have this different flavor and these different influences. And so it’s a really beautiful, powerful song that we’re gonna be able to just kind of, like, ‘Hey, here’s something special for the tour.’ So we’re very much looking forward to being out with each other. And those guys inspire me to no end. Every time I hear their songs the radio, I’m, like, ‘How did they do that?’ I want a drop like that’ — you know, that kind of stuff. So I’m looking forward to being inspired every night and hanging out with all those boys.”
Asked if the HALESTORM–I PREVAIL collaboration is going to receive an official release or if it will only be performed at the live shows, Lzzy said: “We’re hoping to [put it out]. We’re just gonna kind of see what happens. We’re in a little bit of a purgatory with that because we’re getting it finished up at the moment, as far as just mixing and everything, and then we’re gonna be, like, ‘Well, should we? Shouldn’t we?’ I’m always of the thinking we should, but then there’s always a couple of people that are, like, ‘Should we though?’ We have yet to be at that conversation. But I’m hoping to. Keep your ears peeled for that. I’m gonna fight for it.”
Having amassed over 2.5 billion streams globally, the Grammy Award-winning band HALESTORM has grown from a childhood dream of siblings Lzzy and Arejay Hale into one of the most celebrated rock bands of the last two decades. Most recently, the band released “Back From The Dead”, their fifth full-length studio album which has tallied over 100 million streams worldwide. Rolling Stone called the title track “a biting but cathartic howler about overcoming all obstacles,” and that song as well as “The Steeple” marked their fifth and sixth number ones at rock radio, respectively. Associated Press said the album “will definitely be in the running for best hard rock/metal album of the year.” Their previous album, “Vicious”, earned the band their second Grammy nomination, for “Best Hard Rock Performance” for the song “Uncomfortable”, the band’s fourth #1 at rock radio, and led Loudwire to name HALESTORM “Rock Artist Of The Decade” in 2019. Fronted by the incomparable Lzzy Hale with drummer Arejay Hale, guitarist Joe Hottinger and bass player Josh Smith, HALESTORM‘s music has earned multiple platinum and gold certifications from the RIAA, and the band has earned a reputation as a powerful live music force, headlining sold-out shows and topping festival bills around the world, and sharing the stage with icons including HEAVEN & HELL, Alice Cooper, Joan Jett and JUDAS PRIEST. Additionally, Lzzy was named the first female brand ambassador for Gibson and served as host of AXS TV‘s “A Year In Music”.
I PREVAIL have established themselves as the forerunners of the genre in the 21st century. Their latest release, “True Power”, once again produced by Tyler Smyth, features the sort of stadium-sized riffs that will rattle your teeth loose from your gums and unforgettable, supremely catchy melodies that will camp out in your brain for weeks at a time. The band also alternately mixes screamed vocals that sound as though they crawled from the depths of hell with soaring, emotional vocals and heartfelt, intimate lyrics that go so deep, they hit marrow. The end result is an album that resonates with the listener in the most personal way. Rising to an arena level and receiving two Grammy nominations — “Best Rock Album” for “Trauma” and “Best Metal Performance” for crushing lead single “Bow Down” — I PREVAIL proved that they were built to last. To date, they’ve racked up more than 4.1 billion global streams, are approaching 716 million YouTube views, and saw both “Hurricane” and “Bad Things” singles top Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart in 2020 and 2022, respectively. A number of their singles and album “Lifelines” have now been certified gold and platinum, and they have been praised by press far and wide, including Forbes, Billboard, Hollywood Reporter and NPR.