50 Fun Facts About Halestorm

Which Halestorm single won the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance?

Love Bites (So Do I) so impressed a group of Japanese musicians in rehearsal that they named their all-female metal band Lovebites after it.

Halestorm began as what kind of band, playing shows that urged teens to avoid drugs and violence?

Christian rock was the tag on the act when Lzzy and Arejay Hale started writing and performing in 1997, aged 13 and 10.

Which relative of Lzzy and Arejay Hale played bass on stage in Halestorm's earliest years?

Their father, Roger Hale, played bass alongside his teenage children. Josh Smith has held the job since 2004.

Which TV musical series had its cast perform Halestorm's "Here's to Us" in a 2012 episode?

Glee gave the song to Lea Michele and New Directions in a season three episode, using a version with cleaned-up words.

Halestorm played Back to the Beginning in July 2025, the farewell concert of which heavy metal band?

Black Sabbath reunited its original line-up for the first time since 2005 at Villa Park in Birmingham, near where the group formed in 1968.

Halestorm comes from Red Lion, the town where Lzzy Hale was born, in which US state?

Pennsylvania is where the Hale siblings grew up on a farm and began writing songs together as children in 1997.

Which Lady Gaga hit did Halestorm cover on a 2011 EP, a version later certified gold?

Bad Romance sat on the band's first covers EP beside songs by Heart, the Beatles and Guns N' Roses.

Arejay Hale, who co-founded Halestorm with his sister Lzzy, plays which instrument in the band?

Drums gave him an early showpiece: in the sibling act's first shows he played a rotating kit that flipped upside down.

Which guitar maker named Lzzy Hale of Halestorm its first female brand ambassador in 2021?

Gibson had already built a limited-edition Lzzy Hale Explorer, and in 2022 the pair created the Explorerbird, an Explorer body with a Firebird headstock.

Which Halestorm song became the band's first Mainstream Rock number one in April 2013?

Freak Like Me came with a video cut from footage of the band's 2012 world travels, made to thank fans after a breakthrough year.

Which song was Halestorm's debut single, a Mainstream Rock top ten hit later certified platinum?

I Get Off peaked at number six on that chart, and the band re-recorded it for the 2020 EP Reimagined.

Which Halestorm album, produced by Jay Joyce in Tennessee, reached number five on the Billboard 200?

Into the Wild Life had Rolling Stone noting the country influences of its Tennessee studio, and Loudwire later voted it the best hard rock album of 2015.

Which band did Halestorm's Lzzy Hale front for four US shows in 2024 after its singer left?

Skid Row was a full-circle booking: Halestorm covered its song Slave to the Grind in 2011, and that cover influenced their Grammy-winning single.

Which rock singer joins Lzzy Hale on the reworked "Break In" from Halestorm's 2020 EP Reimagined?

Amy Lee of Evanescence sings on the single from Reimagined, an EP of five reworked Halestorm songs plus one Dolly Parton cover.

Lzzy Hale of Halestorm sang on "Shatter Me", a 2014 single by which violinist?

Lindsey Stirling had never heard of Hale or her band before the session; she simply wanted a powerhouse female rock vocalist for the track.

Halestorm recorded a reimagined "Boot Scootin' Boogie" for a 2024 album by which country duo?

Brooks & Dunn opened Reboot II, their second album of re-recorded hits with guests, to acts from outside country music.

Which Halestorm song lost the 2019 Grammy for Best Rock Performance to a Chris Cornell track?

Uncomfortable grew from a guitar riff written as a joke and kept at the producer's urging, and it went to number one on rock radio in 2018.

Which London venue did Halestorm headline for a sold-out show on its 2023 tour?

Wembley Arena came seven years after the group sold out its first headlining arena show, following a long spell as a support act.

Which lead guitarist has been in Halestorm since 2003, a year before bassist Josh Smith came aboard?

Joe Hottinger has shared guitar duties with Lzzy Hale ever since, and the two became a long-term couple offstage.

Which single from Back from the Dead became Halestorm's sixth Mainstream Rock number one in June 2022?

The Steeple was conceived, its co-writer said, as an anthem for a church of rock and roll, and it was the band's second chart-topper in a row.

Which metalcore band shared the 2024 single "Can U See Me In the Dark?" with Halestorm?

I Prevail and Halestorm wrote the song to celebrate their co-headlining summer tour, and it topped Mainstream Rock that September.

Which British metal band did Halestorm support on the 2025 Run for Your Lives tour?

Iron Maiden took the group along for the first part of the tour, including dates in Dublin and at the London Stadium.

Which producer, best known for his work with country artists, made Halestorm's 2025 album Everest?

With Dave Cobb producing, the four members wrote the album from scratch in the studio rather than arriving with finished songs.

Which hashtag campaign did Halestorm launch in 2020 to raise money for idled concert crews?

#RoadieStrong won backing from Avenged Sevenfold and Shinedown after cancelled tours left live entertainment crews without work.

What was the punning title of Halestorm's 2015 photo book, made with photographer Rob Fenn?

To Hale and Back documented the group's career up to that point, by which time it had played more than 2,000 shows.

Halestorm played an Ohio business's grand reopening in a 2012 episode of which reality series?

Bar Rescue brought the group to Fairfield, Ohio, where a venue called Win, Place or Show was reborn as America Live.

Before taking guitar lessons at 16, Halestorm's Lzzy Hale moved from piano to which instrument?

Keytar was her step up from the piano she had started at five, while her younger brother settled behind the kit.

Which guitarist heads the guest list on the all-star 2013 version of Halestorm's "Here's to Us"?

Slash joined Wolfgang Van Halen, Myles Kennedy and Shinedown's Brent Smith among eight guests on the reissue's bonus track.

Which band joined New Years Day on Halestorm's 2019 arena tour of female-led acts?

In This Moment is fronted by Maria Brink, who had already sung with the headliners as a guest on the all-star 2013 version of Here's to Us.

Which song did Halestorm release in January 2015 as the lead single from its third studio album?

Apocalyptic went on to top Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart that March, the first of two number ones from the album.

Which 2018 Halestorm album topped both the US and UK rock album charts?

Vicious came together only after the group threw away 15 songs that Lzzy Hale felt had been written to please everybody.

Which major label signed Halestorm in 2005 and released the band's debut album four years later?

Atlantic first put out a live EP, One and Done, in 2006; the studio debut took another three years.

Which Dolly Parton song did Halestorm cover on Reimagined, a 2020 EP of reworked songs?

I Will Always Love You was the only cover among the EP's six tracks; the other five were new takes on the band's own songs.

What title do Halestorm's three covers EPs share, with the later two adding 2.0 and 3.0?

Reanimate began in 2011 as a digital download of six covers, and sequels followed in 2013 and 2017.

Halestorm's "Amen" tied a rock chart record for female-led bands set by which group?

The Pretty Reckless had reached three number ones on the chart only months earlier, and the two bands toured together in 2022.

Halestorm's Lzzy Hale sang "Close My Eyes Forever" with which frontman on the 2013 album by his project Device?

David Draiman filled the 2013 album with guests, among them Serj Tankian and Glenn Hughes, and picked a Lita Ford song for his duet with Hale.

Halestorm's Lzzy Hale joined Daughtry to cover "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)", a hit for which band?

Journey released the original in 1983, and the 2023 duet was made to mark the song's 40th anniversary.

Which late-night talk show hosted Halestorm in January 2013, two weeks before the band's Grammy win?

Jimmy Kimmel Live! aired one song from the visit and offered a second as a web-exclusive bonus performance.

Which song did Halestorm release in April 2025 as the first single from the album Everest?

Darkness Always Wins arrived a week before the group announced the album itself and a tour of North America and Europe.

Halestorm's Lzzy Hale played Ember Moon to the ring at a 2018 TakeOver event for which WWE brand?

NXT staged the show in New Orleans, where Hale and the band Cane Hill performed the champion's entrance theme live.

Halestorm's Lzzy Hale wrote an advice column called "Ask Lzzy" for which hard rock magazine?

Revolver also put her alone on its cover in 2015, just over five years after her first cover appearance for the magazine.

Which former Evanescence guitarist co-wrote "Innocence" on Halestorm's self-titled 2009 debut album?

Ben Moody was one of several outside writers on the record, a list that also included Kara DioGuardi and Slipknot's Corey Taylor.

Halestorm spent 19 months living in which California city to get its debut album made?

Burbank was home while the group also lived through a fire, a mudslide and an earthquake, as Lzzy Hale recalled when announcing the debut's tenth-anniversary edition.

Which Daft Punk hit did Halestorm cover on its second covers EP, released in 2013?

Get Lucky was less than six months old when the group reworked it, on an EP that also took on Judas Priest, AC/DC and Fleetwood Mac.

Halestorm covered "Straight Through the Heart" on a 2014 tribute album to which late metal singer?

Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer in 2010, and the album's proceeds went to the cancer fund set up in his name.

Which producer made both Halestorm's self-titled debut and its follow-up, The Strange Case Of...?

Howard Benson also shared writing credits with Lzzy Hale on most of the debut's songs, including its first single.

What was the title of Halestorm's first EP, released in 1997 when its founders were still children?

Forecast for the Future was a self-released cassette, made when Lzzy Hale was 13 and her brother was 10.

Halestorm first played "Back from the Dead" live in 2021 at a state fair in which New York city?

Syracuse heard the song on August 31, 2021, less than two weeks after it came out as the lead single from the album of the same name.

Lzzy Hale of Halestorm took over as host of A Year in Music in 2020 on which TV channel?

AXS TV kept her on for a fourth season, and she also judged No Cover, a contest for unsigned acts playing original songs.

Halestorm's Lzzy Hale guested on the deluxe edition of The Gereg by the Hu, from which country?

Mongolia's 13th-century nobles and officials carried the gereg, a diplomatic passport that gave the folk metal album its name.