Fans of alt-metal heroes Halestorm won’t have too much longer to wait on a follow up to the band’s 2022 LP Back From the Dead, as frontwoman Lzzy Hale has confirmed that the band is close to finishing up their new album in the studio right now with producer Dave Cobb. In a recent interview with Louisville, Kentucky radio station ALT 105.1 (that was transcribed by Blabbermouth) Hale talked about their progress on making the album.
"We've had three separate sessions in the studio with — we're making a record with [producer] Dave Cobb,” Hale explained. “And he's actually a huge closet metal fan, and so he's really excited. And so we're making this great music, but we're constantly touring. So we've had, like, three different sessions in the studio. We're probably — what? — 70, 80, maybe, percent there. We have a studio in our house and so I'm doing a lot of the finishing touches on vocals and sewing everything up, doing solos and all that. And then we get back in in December to just say, 'Okay, this is good.' And then, yeah. And then there we are. So we're excited about it. We really are."
While Cobb is known primarily for country music, particularly as many of his awards, including several of his Grammy awards, are for country albums, he’s not actually a complete stranger to the metal world. Cobb produced Slash’s album 4 that he recorded with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, as well as Sammy Hagar and the Circle’s 2022 album Crazy Times. So it seems appropriate to have him working on the latest album from Halestorm. We look forward to hearing it.
