Oh boy, are you guys ready for the most epic tour announcement ever? 🤩🎸 HALESTORM is hitting the road with BABYMETAL, and we can’t even handle it! 🤯 Lzzy Hale, the queen of rock herself, spilled the beans on the Whiplash radio show, hosted by the one and only Full Metal Jackie, and we’re freaking out! 😱 The tour kicks off on September 2 in Denver, Colorado, and wraps up on October 1 in Phoenix, Arizona, so mark your calendars, folks! 📅
Lzzy said (and we’re totally fangirling over here): “Honestly, I’m so excited about the idea because it’s a little off center 🤪. And we’ve been fans of BABYMETAL for — good Lord — a little over 10 years now 🙌. Man, I forget what record we were making, but they were kind of inching their way out into the scene, and a bunch of my friends ended up sitting me down, like, ‘You have to listen to this BABYMETAL stuff. This is incredible 🤩.’ So, the fact that this worked out and this opportunity kind of came in is really exciting for us because one of our favorite things to do is… I’m guessing that there’s gonna be at least a decent percentage of the BABYMETAL crowd that has not actually seen a HALESTORM show before 🤔. So I’m looking forward to the handshake of, like, ‘Hey, how you doing? This is what we’re about’ 🤗. It’s gonna be amazing 🤩. And just the combination of our two crowds, I think that’s gonna… I think they’re gonna get along really well 🤝. And for me, it’s, like, the weirder, the better 🤪. Let’s go 🎉. It’s always the best decisions, because there’s this element of, like, ‘I don’t really know what’s gonna happen,’ and that’s exciting to me 😏.”
But wait, there’s more! 🤔 Lzzy also spilled the beans on what’s next for HALESTORM, and we’re talking new music, tours, and all the good stuff 🎉. “It’s a little bit of everything 🤯. We had a hell of a year last year 🙌. We were out pretty much consistently from, like, May through Christmas 🎄. So, we’re spending a little bit of time this year, trying to make sure everybody remembers what their houses look like and their wives and 🙃 … and kids 👧. But other than that, yeah, there’s some one-offs 🎉. We’re going back over to Europe, playing Download [festival in the U.K.], and then, actually, Joe [Hottinger, HALESTORM guitarist] and I are doing some acoustic dates over there for the first time, very much like what you had seen at the Grammy Museum [in Los Angeles in early March], but gonna give Europe a taste of that 🎶. And, yeah, continuing to write and to be creative 🎨. And we have a studio in our basement, so we’re gonna take advantage of that too 🎸.”
And, because you can’t have too much of a good thing 🤩, HALESTORM’s sixth full-length studio album, “Everest”, dropped last August via Atlantic Records 🎵. The band worked with producer Dave Cobb, after making three records with Nick Raskulinecz 🎤. And, fun fact: HALESTORM has earned multiple platinum and gold certifications from the RIAA 🎉, and they’ve shared the stage with icons like HEAVEN & HELL, Alice Cooper, Joan Jett, and JUDAS PRIEST 🤘. Not to mention, Lzzy was named the first female brand ambassador for Gibson 🎸, and she’s hosted AXS TV’s “A Year In Music” 📺.
Oh, and did we mention that HALESTORM won a Grammy Award for “Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance” for their song “Love Bites (So Do I)” 🏆? Because, yeah, that happened 🙌. And, in 2019, they were nominated for “Best Rock Performance” for the song “Uncomfortable” 🤔. So, yeah, they’re kind of a big deal 🤷♀️.
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