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Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale opens up about breaking up with alcohol: “I was looking for an escape in all the wrong places”

Halestorm’s singer/guitarist explains why she turned her back on booze in December 2023

Metal Hammer

"The album is packed with arena-sized intensity": Halestorm finally scale rock's summit on Everest

US hard rockers Halestorm bring on-stage ferocity into the recording studio

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“He took us to 5150, and it still had all the tapes up there. There was Jump, the old analog tapes, everything marked”: Lzzy Hale on why Wolfgang Van Halen is well positioned to “save rock ‘n’ roll”

Hale and the rest of Halestorm were invited to Eddie Van Halen's iconic home studio

Guitar World

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“Easily the band’s boldest work to date, boasting some of their most interesting songs yet”: Halestorm reach a career peak with new album Everest

Halestorm are still Halestorm on album number six, but the hard rockers have more ideas in their back pockets than ever before

Metal Hammer

"Iron Maiden's crew said, ‘We can't believe it. No middle fingers, no coins or shoes being thrown!'" Lzzy Hale on playing in front of one of metal's most stubborn fanbases

Lzzy Hale on why she relishes the challenge of winning over potential hostile crowds

Metal Hammer

“I saw a woman I did not want to become”: Halestorm are on the cover of the new Metal Hammer, as they prepare to release new album Everest

Lzzy Hale gives us the inside story of the personal journey that resulted in Everest – only in the new issue of Metal Hammer

Metal Hammer

"We are all fifteen-year-old boys. The fart jokes were rampant": Lzzy Hale reflects on touring with Skid Row

"The meat is so sweaty"

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The 11 new metal songs you need to hear right now

Soothe your post-Back To The Beginning blues with new tracks from Babymetal, Deftones, Halestorm and more, and vote for your favourite

Metal Hammer

9 moments that made me cheer, laugh, despair and cry like a baby at Black Sabbath's epic Back To The Beginning show

Filing down the biggest heavy metal show ever to pick out some key moments was hard - but I did it anyway

Metal Hammer

"It's not until Ozzy's actually there, thanking fans and getting tearful, that it sinks in." Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning: our ultimate review of their triumphant final show

Our blow-by-blow review of the biggest heavy metal show ever as Black Sabbath triumphantly bow out

Metal Hammer

“Hearing the crowd sing the War Pigs solo gave me chills”: Back to the Beginning was Ozzy Osbourne’s night – but it was also a tribute to Tony Iommi’s singular impact on guitar music

Iommi’s world-altering riffs led to some of the all-star farewell show’s biggest singalongs – no wonder the supporting cast of guitar heroes had so much fun playing them

Guitar World

Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne: Back to the Beginning review – all-star farewell to the gods of metal is epic and emotional

The biggest names in rock, from Metallica to Slayer, came to pay tribute to the men who created their entire genre – and even in old age, Sabbath’s sound has bludgeoning force

The Guardian - UK

“I took Heaven and Hell to a sleepover – the other girls looked at me like Ihad aliens crawling out of my ears”: Lzzy Hale on how Halestorm ended up playing Ronnie James Dio’s final show – and doing the same for Ozzy Osbourne

The Halestorm leader is a die-hard Black Sabbath fan who first encountered the Dio lineup before discovering the Ozzy era. She explains why Back to the Beginning will be a full-circle moment

Guitar World

"I would be trying to convince my friends who are listening to Mariah Carey and Backstreet Boys to listen to Black Sabbath." Lzzy Hale on why it was "different" for her growing up as a Black Sabbath fan

Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy's taste in music made her something of an outcast as school

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“The boys and I had just gotten off tour. We got a call from our booking agent…” How a “fluke accident” led to Lzzy Hale playing at Dio’s last-ever show

Halestorm saved the day when they were unexpectedly called upon to open for Heaven & Hell

Guitar World

Black Sabbath! The final interview with Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward – all yours in the new Guitar World

Plus interviews with Jake E. Lee, Adam Jones, Creed Bratton from The Office, the guys from Goose, former Jethro Tull man Martin Barre, K.K. Downing, Zakk Wylde, Jerry Cantrell, Tom Morello, Lzzy Hale, Billy Duffy, Robben Ford and more

Guitar World

Missed out on tickets to Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath’s last-ever live gig? Here’s how you can still watch the “greatest heavy metal show ever”

The blockbuster event – which features a who’s who of the heavy metal elite – will be live streamed for fans who can’t attend in person

MusicRadar

“I can sing it in the original key, with no backing tapes at all. I sing it at every show”: The smash hit ’80s power ballad that wouldn’t die

And after 30 years, the singer is still waiting for a reunion with his old band

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Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale says it’s an “honour” to be the only woman performing at Black Sabbath’s farewell show

The singer/guitarist believes that other leading women in rock and metal will “be there in spirit”

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Halestorm's Lzzy Hale feared Back to Beginning performance invite was fake and didn't reply at first

Halestorm's Lzzy Hale left Ozzy Osbourne's wife and manager Sharon Osbourne hanging for two days after she emailed the frontwoman to invite the band to perform at Black Sabbath's last-ever concert, 'Back to the Beginning', in July, but Lzzy wasn't sure if it was "real" or not.

Metal Hammer

Hear Halestorm return with rousing single Darkness Always Wins

The Pennsylvania hard rockers promise their new song isn’t as pessimistic as its title makes it sound

Metal Hammer

“All these men were like, ‘Lose your brother, lose the band, lose your buddies – you should be in pop’”: Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale reveals industry pressure to start a solo career

Halestorm’s singer/guitarist says that a number of businessmen tried to pull her away from being in a heavy metal band during her teens

MusicRadar

“You don’t stop the show for any reason - not even when you don’t have a drummer onstage because he's locked outside the building!”: Halestorm star Lzzy Hale tells her funniest gig story

Metal Hammer

“The one core thing about metal is that rebellious nature. You’re allowed to be yourself no matter what side of the spectrum you are”: How Halestorm went from teenage rockers to globe-conquering metal stars

Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale has been addicted to rock’n’roll since she was a kid

Metal Hammer

10 crazy metal collaborations that took us totally by surprise last year

From ska-punk/metalcore crossovers to industrial threesomes, these team-ups showed metal is more collaborative than ever

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