HALESTORM LABEL BANKS ON PARAMORE EXPERIENCE & ROCK PEDIGREE

Halestorm is Atlantic Records’ new rockers and with a female fronted band did the label bank on work with Paramore and a rock pedigree?

Halestorm is currently supporting their new single, “I Get Off,” from their forthcoming self-titled album, which comes out April 28. The band is powered by frontwoman Lzzy Hale (pronounced Lizzy), and she holds a little more pedigree than your typical woman in music in 2009. She’s the latest and perhaps truest rock singer of the new crop of female fronted bands which includes Flyleaf and Paramore among others.

Halestorm is signed to Atlantic Records and we asked Lzzy if their experience with Paramore and their frontwoman Hayley Williams bodes well for her band.

“Oh, absolutely. I couldn’t be happier. It’s like having a big family around you looking out for you like your family. It’s not like, ‘Hey, you’re the product and go out there and we don’t care how we make a buck.’ We’ve actually had some people come down to the photo shoots to make sure everything was couth and to make sure the photographer doesn’t try and make me take my clothes off, that kind of thing. I knew almost instantaneously when we became partners with Atlantic that they really understood who I was and didn’t want to exploit the fact that I was a girl. A lot of the reasoning for that is that there are a lot of strong women at Atlantic, a lot of women that just know what being a woman in rock music is all about and how to properly promote that. I think they might know me better than I know me, so they’re definitely looking out.”

Lzzy also talked about her hard rock pedigree and influences.

“For me personally, it was two different reasons. One; I have extremely supportive rock and roll parents. My dad was in bands back in the day, so he made sure we grew up on Deep Purple, and Alice Cooper, and Heart, and Pink Floyd and all of that, so there’s that whole side of it. But with me, I think it was hard for me to find someone of my generation that I could really identify with as a rock and roll identity; someone I could say, ‘Hey, I want to be just like him or her.’ So a lot of what I did was I would pull from my parents music because there’s something about Classic Rock that I can always go back to it, and I can always learn something new.”

Halestorm is currently touring with friends and labelmates Shinedown. Halestorm will be at the Hard Rock festival Rock On The Range next month. Halestorm was actually formed back in 1998 by Lzzy and her brother Arejay, when she was 13 and her brother was just 10.rn