Love/Hate Heartbreak by Halestorm on Apple Music

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Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger of Halestorm at The Grammy Museum on March 5th, 2026, by Don Adkins. #halestorm @Halestorm

Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger of Halestorm at The Grammy Museum on March 5th, 2026, by Don Adkins

HALESTORM’s LZZY HALE Opens Up About Relationship With JOE HOTTINGER: ‘There Is Nothing Like Doing The Thing That You Love With The Person You Love’

On Thursday, March 5, HALESTORM members Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger rocked the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, California. Through a conversation moderated by Katherine Turman, Lzzy and Joe discussed the making of HALESTORM’s most recent album, “Everest”, what it felt like to be a part of Ozzy Osbourne’s “Back To The Beginning” show, and more about their journey in the industry. The musicians also put on an electrifying acoustic performance.

Prior to launching into the song “The Silence”, the closing track off HALESTORM’s 2018 album “Vicious”, Lzzy told the audience (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Just to throw another wrench into the works, for those of you who have just met us, I know there’s a lot of different dynamics and things, but Joe and I are together, and we have been for 22 years.

"Like Joe was saying earlier in the night, when we met, we had never met anyone like each other,” she continued. “You actually wanna sit till four in the morning and manifest our dreams and make them into reality. And so we were hanging out all the time and I’m, like, 'Man, it sucks that he’s in the band.’ That’s a big no-no. Like Joe said, you don’t wanna [end up like] FLEETWOOD MAC,” she said, referencing the fact that FLEETWOOD MAC’s relationships were famously volatile, characterized by simultaneous breakups and affairs among bandmembers. “What you wanna do is Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo,” who have been married and performing and recording together for more than four decades. “But you can’t predict those things. So we had these very adult conversations, like, 'Well, if we…’ 'Cause we were very immaturely flirting. We were flirting, but pretending we’re not… But no, we made the decision, we’re, like, 'If we don’t try this, then we could be losing out on something too.’ Because I will tell you over the last 22 years, there is nothing like having all of these firsts and chasing your dream, doing the thing that you love with the person you love.”

Back in April 2020, Lzzy was asked by a fan in a Twitter #AskLzzyAnything session when she and Joe were getting married. Lzzy responded: “I truly have never had the desire. Personal preference. Technically I was asked, have a ring passed down that my SO [significant other] was given from my dad. But I’m living a #newmodernlove”.

In October 2015, HALESTORM bassist Josh Smith confirmed the long-standing rumor that Lzzy and Joe were involved in a romantic relationship. He told the 103.9 The Bear radio station: “They’re pretty open about their relationship. They don’t talk about it openly, but, you know… At the end of the day, we’re all like family, and that’s more or less the road we take is… You know… Whatever the case may be relationship-wise, it’s not gonna break up our band, and that’s the… I guess, the big thing is the band is the marriage here.”

That same year, Lzzy was asked in an interview if she found it difficult to maintain a relationship while on the road. Hale replied: “In a relationship, you have to literally have everything out there to this other person, and they have to do the same thing with you, or it’s not gonna work. I’ve never been a jealous person either, and as of right now, I’m dating someone who is the same way. So we have a very amazing trust thing going on.”

She added: “I think you have to work hard, no matter what, at a relationship, but, really, the first couple of steps — laying everything out there — has been total saving graces for me and my relationship.”

Lzzy and her brother Arejay (drums) formed HALESTORM in 1998 while in middle school. Hottinger joined the band in 2003, followed by Smith in 2004.

Of course I got another hailstorm record

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You could say I’m different
And maybe I’m a freak
But I know how to twist you
To bring you to your knees

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Artist: Halestorm

Title: Back From the Dead

Album: Back from the Dead

Played on: Tue Mar 03 2026 08:39:05 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)

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HALESTORM’s LZZY HALE On Growing Number Of Female Rock Musicians: ‘My Only Responsibility Is To Try To Make It A Little Easier For Whoever Comes After Me’

In a new interview with Carl Craft of the New Jersey radio station 95.9 The Rat, HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale was asked what changes she, as one of the leaders of the female rock movement, hoped to see in the next few years. She responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I’ve had conversations with my counterparts, with Amy Lee [of EVANESCENCE] and my friends, about this, and the women that came before me and we’re talking my parents’ generation, what I grew up on, which is HEART and Pat Benatar and Joan Jett and Lita Ford and all of those women, who I’ve actually met and gotten the opportunity to say, 'Hey, thank you for not giving up,’ because I feel like if they had said, 'Oh, well, it’s too hard,’ that might’ve been my rhetoric as well. So they had it a lot harder than I had it, so they took some of the burden off of me by just existing and by passing the torch and keeping on keeping on. And so for me, my only responsibility is to try to make it a little easier for whoever comes after me. And that really — it’s the simplest and the hardest thing to just exist as your truest self, be as honest as you possibly can and keep doing the work. No matter how weird things get or hard things get, don’t roll over and die because of it, because that gives a signal to the next generation of female rockers saying, 'Oh, well, Lzzy did it, so therefore I can too.’ And then hopefully as we pass the torch, it just gets a little easier and easier as we go along.”

Lzzy continued: “No one generation can win the whole war, but we can win a lot of really tough battles and pass on some advice and just be an example.”

After HALESTORM guitarist Joe Hottinger noted that HALESTORM will headline one of the stages at this year's Louder Than Life festival in Kentucky on a bill with several other female-fronted rock acts, Lzzy said: “And, again, that’s a credit to all of us here, all the girls that came before us, for standing our ground, because now women feel like it’s even more possible than even when I was coming up in the scene. And there’s always gonna be misogyny and there’s always gonna be roadblocks, and there’s always gonna be these times where you feel, like, 'Oh, well, do I really belong here?’ Yes, you do. And a lot of these women, these young women, just those layers of burdens are just kind of shedding away. And I feel like these young girls are just so much more confident in the fact that they know that they can do it and they can make it.”

Hale added: “The misogyny roadblocks that I came up, for every one guy that was, like, 'Well, but you’re a girl doing this,’ for every one guy that did that, there were five or six other guys that were, like, 'Dude, there’s something special going on. You gotta keep going.’ So you have to choose what you believe as well. You can’t let the opinions of one person or a handful of people direct your dream, because ultimately that’s up to you. It’s, like I was born a girl. I happened to like hard rock, and all I’ve ever wanted to do is be in a band with my buddies and see how far we can take it.”

Back in 2019, Lzzy said that she didn’t mind being asked questions about being a female in a rock band. “I’ve been talking about this a little bit lately, about the importance of bringing that up,” she told Concert Addicts. “'Cause there’s a lot of my female counterparts that are very upset about being asked that question. And I never get upset about it. I think that there is one specific moment in my life where you have to kind of embrace the fact that you’re a girl.

"I grew up with my dad’s music, so my introduction to rock was ALICE COOPER and CINDERELLA and DIO and BLACK SABBATH, so I was listening to a lot of dude bands — GUNS N’ ROSES and METALLICA, all that stuff,” she continued. “And then I remember when I heard Ann Wilson [of HEART] sing for the first time. My mom got me this live CD, 'The Road Home’. So I hadn’t actually really heard a lot of their recorded stuff; I heard this live CD. And it blew my mind, because there was a small adjustment in my brain. It wasn’t, like, 'Okay, I wanna be a rock star,’ 'cause I wanted to be a rock star. But then also, like, 'Oh, a girl can sing that way.’ And also I was, like, 'It’s not so unreachable.’

"So I think that it’s important to bring that up,” she added. “Because some girls are, like, 'Oh, it’s great, and I love rock music. But who’s doing something that I wanna do? Who sounds like something that I wanna sound like? And who is in my gender?’”

HALESTORM’s sixth full-length studio album, “Everest”, came out last August via Atlantic Records. HALESTORM worked with producer Dave Cobb, after making three records with Nick Raskulinecz.

Fronted by Lzzy with drummer Arejay Hale, guitarist Joe Hottinger and bassist Josh Smith, HALESTORM’s music has earned multiple platinum and gold certifications from the RIAA, and the band has earned a reputation as a powerful live music force, headlining sold-out shows and topping festival bills around the world, and sharing the stage with icons including HEAVEN & HELL, Alice Cooper, Joan Jett and JUDAS PRIEST. Additionally, Lzzy was named the first female brand ambassador for Gibson and served as host of AXS TV's “A Year In Music”.

“Love Bites (So Do I)”, from HALESTORM’s second album in 2012, won the Grammy Award that year for “Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance”.

In 2019, HALESTORM was nominated for “Best Rock Performance" Grammy for the song "Uncomfortable”.

Broken bones and bloodshot eyes

I hope you like my new disguise

We’re not the same, you and I

So don’t you dare forget

In this crowded room alone

In the search of things unknown

The face I wear is not my own

So don’t you forget

Come feast your eyes on me

Can you see me in the dark?

Are you watching it all fall apart?

I needed your kiss of light

To bring me to life

My eyes open wide for the first time

So I black out the sun

The only way I know how to trust someone

You sharpen your knife

And enter the night

Your eyes open wide for the first time

I’m not like you, I speak in tongues

It’s a different language to those of us

Who’ve faced the storm against all odds

And found the truth inside

We’re beaten and weathered and broken, scarred

We’re pieced together with broken parts

Now that you’ve shown me just who you are

There’s nowhere left to hide

Hello Hale! 121 words have been added to the TGRB and 130 words have been added to Ugly duckling Bradley for you!!

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Run off a cliff, pretend that it’s flying,

Deep down I know I’m the only one trying.

Sometimes loving you feels like dying.

Song: Shiver (Halestorm)

you could say I’m different and maybe I’m a freak

But I know how to twist ya,

To bring ya to your knees.