On October 29, Niclas Müller-Hansen of Sweden's Metalshrine conducted an interview with vocalist/guitarist Lzzy Hale of Pennsylvanian rockers HALESTORM at Arenan in Stockholm, Sweden during the band's European tour with ALTER BRIDGE and SHINEDOWN. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Metalshrine: আপনি recorded a DIO song that didn't end up on [HALESTORM's new EP, "ReAniMate 2.0: The CoVeRs eP"].

Lzzy: Yeah, we recorded Ronnie James Dio's "Straight Through The Heart" and that one is gonna go on another project that I can't speak of right now. It's pretty awesome! It's gonna be a lot of different people on this record that it's coming out on. I'm excited for the people that asked us to do it, and I'm also excited to be included. We were gonna include it on the EP, and that's the reason we recorded it, but then when this project came up, we said, "OK, we'll save it for that." That was the stipulation. They said, "We're gonna release this, but if it comes out before then, it's gonna be weird."

Metalshrine: What's the plan after this [European tour]?

Lzzy: We go প্রথমপাতা on the 17th of November and then we have about a week off and then we have a headlining tour until the middle of December in the States. Then we break for বড়দিন and we'll be taking a little bit of time off at the beginning of the year, to settle down and do another record. We always write, but we've begun trying to narrow it down and লেখা for the পরবর্তি record.

Metalshrine: Do আপনি sit down and go, "OK, this is what we're gonna do"? Take the সঙ্গীত in another direction অথবা stay with the HALESTORM sound?

Lzzy: For the most part, it's a little bit of both, because we usually try to go, "What's the পরবর্তি step?" We don't wanna make the last record, but we don't necessarily wanna depart completely. We're not gonna put out a country record. [laughs] We do wanna take a little bit of a risk and I fell there's gonna be a couple of songs অথবা pieces of songs where there's different styles within the rock realm that we haven't really experimented with yet. Just diving in head first and we also don't wanna do what everybody normally does with their third record and we don't wanna go softer. I think we wanna go a little bit আরো aggressive. There's a lot of things that we've been thinking about. It's exciting but also extremely frustrating, because now it's real and we gotta figure it out now. There's so many different things we wanna do and we're just trying to organize it all and then get all the songs finished. It's quite the task, to the point that আপনি have to put stuff down on your phone between catering on a দিন like this. We're in that obsessive mode right now.

Metalshrine: I read that someone asked আপনি about doing প্লেবয় and আপনি weren't totally against it. Is that something আপনি feel is a necessary thing to do these days? What would your parents say about it?

Lzzy: I think my mom ব্যক্ত something like, "You're gonna do that after I'm dead, right?" No, I don't think it's necessary at all and it's your own prerogative. I do find myself walking a certain line and obviously আপনি can walk out in the short shorts and high heels, but as long as you've got something to back it up with. To me, it would have to be a good situation, whether it would be Maxim অথবা প্লেবয় অথবা something like that. And again, it would have to do with however I feel at the moment. If I feel I wanna be a little bit debaucherous and do that, I probably will. I feel bad for people who think it's a necessary evil. If you're going to do that, it has to be your decision and have it be a selfish situation.

Metalshrine: Is it a bit of an ego boost as well?

Lzzy: I think so too. I don't know… If you're one of those people that has been working extremely hard for many years with your body অথবা your image to look good and আপনি wanna প্রদর্শনী everybody that, আরো power to you! If you're one of those people that don't wanna do it for moral reasons অথবা religious reasons, do not! It's your prerogative. I'm আরো of a pro person and whatever আপনি feel like doing, rock on! I'm not entirely a religious person either, so I don't have a whole lot holding me back. [laughs] I relate that a lot to my সঙ্গীত as well and just the way I do things.