HALESTORM – Back From The Dead (2022)
For a long time there were two Halestorms: the live beast and the slick, comparatively sanitised recorded entity. The former version earned them a mighty, mosh-pit-friendly reputation. The latter put them on the radio and won them a Grammy. On 2018’s Vicious, they finally brought their live chops into the studio in a meaningful way.
Now reunited with producer Nick Raskulinecz (of Evanescence fame, among others) for their upcoming new album “Back From The Dead“, HALESTORM have gone a few steps further, galvanising a pandemic’s worth of pent-up demons and pouring them into their heaviest record yet.
Where Vicious was angry, ”Back From The Dead” is livid. There are raw, tortured sentiments with furious chops and beats to match. It’s shiny (even with the live edge, Halestorm records still come with a decent helping of gloss)…