HALESTORM: Lzzy Hale, Joe Hottinger play Intimate Acoustic Set In Nashville; Video Available

On July 26,Lzzy HaleandJoe HottingerofHALESTORMplayed an acoustic show at The Basement in Nashville, Tennessee as […]

July 28, 2014

On July 26,Lzzy HaleandJoe HottingerofHALESTORMplayed an acoustic show at The Basement in Nashville, Tennessee as the opening act forTHE DEAD DEADS. Fan-filmed video footage of the set can be seen below.

Halehas toldLoudwirein a recent interview thatHALESTORMis "almost done" with recording its third album.Haleexplained, "We have a lot of really great songs. I think we finally cracked the code for this next record! That's what I love about writing records, you don't really know what you want to say on a record when you begin writing it. At least we don't. It's always halfway through the process and then all of a sudden, the light bulb goes off and the floodgates open."

HALESTORMdebuted two new songs -"Heartbreaker"and"Mayhem"- at shows in Tennessee and England this past spring.

The group began writing its third album in January, after completing more than 20 months of touring behind 2012's"The Strange Case Of!"

Asked if"Mayhem"is a good indicator of whatHALESTORMfans can expect to hear on the band's next album,Halesaid: "Definitely. Especially since that one was the one that we felt like it needed a little bit of work, and we weren't really considering it one of our best songs. So we wanted to see how we could develop it on tour, and I think that the crowd has really gotten us excited about it now. So it might actually have a shot at being on the record." DrummerArejay Haleadded: "It definitely will help the writing process for the rest of the songs. Now we have an idea of, kind of, how the crowd reacts to certain things. So it kind ofgives you a good guideline, I guess."

Haleadded that fans might hear some more personal material on this record, saying, "I think that when our fans began to kind of let me into their lives a little bit, they made me feel so incredibly comfortable in my own skin that they're going to be hearing some stories on this record that they might not know about me."

Halealso said that the band wants to "bridge the gap" between its live show and its recorded sound on the next album, remarking, "I'm really proud of the last two records, but I think its time to simplify and really get back to what, in all honesty, what we do best."