HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale‘s cover version of “I Will Always Love You”, the love ballad made famous by Whitney Houston and Dolly Parton, can be streamed below. The track is taken from HALESTORM‘s “Halestorm Reimagined”, which is being released today (Friday, August 14. The six-track effort also includes a reimagined version of the HALESTORM song “Break In”, featuring a guest appearance by EVANESCENCE‘s Amy Lee. The new version of the track, which originally appeared on HALESTORM‘s second album, 2012’s “The Strange Case Of…” , was recorded last October at a Nashville studio with producer Nick Raskulinecz, who had previously worked with both bands.
“Halestorm Reimagined” track listing:
01. I Get Off
02. Miss The Misery
03. I Am The Fire
04. Break In (featuring Amy Lee)
05. I Will Always Love You
06. Mz. Hyde
Lzzy and HALESTORM‘s Joe Hottinger recently told Cryptic Rock that they have been using the coronavirus downtime to work on the follow-up to 2018’s “Vicious” album. “Yeah, we have a lot of new music,” Joe said. “We had a ton of new music that we had been working on before this thing went down. Now, since we’ve been stuck [at home in Nashville], Lzzy has written a ton of songs and I’ve been working on those. It all feels kind of fresh again; topics have deeper, new meanings.”
Lzzy added: “There is that dichotomy of, I’m sad that we can’t be in a studio right now to make our new record. However, we were one of the lucky ones because we actually slated this time to be able to write a record. Right now we are supposed to be in pre-production in the studio, but we can’t do that. The positive is, I think, we are writing better songs right now with everything at a standstill. It has become less of a career move, less of ‘We have to do a record and promote it.’ It’s more looking deeper inward, but also looking at that big picture in all aspects; everything means something different now. I’m trying to take advantage of that as much as I can.”
HALESTORM has been writing and demoing material since January, with Hale saying she can record almost everything except drums in her home studio.
Lzzy and her brother Arejay (drums) formed the band in 1998 while in middle school. Hottinger joined the group in 2003, followed by bassist Josh Smith in 2004.
In December 2018, HALESTORM was nominated for a “Best Rock Performance” Grammy Award for its song “Uncomfortable”.
In 2012, the band won its first Grammy in the category of “Best Hard Rock/ Metal Performance” for “Love Bites (So Do I)”. According to the Grammy web site, Lzzy became the first woman to earn a Grammy in the category.
