Arejay Hale Reveals Why Halestorm’s ‘Again From the Lifeless’ Album Is His Most Difficult But

If issues go as you’d hope, most bands will evolve over time, and for Halestorm, the band’s new album Again From the Lifeless will present followers with a particular step ahead when it comes to the drumming in line with the band’s drummer Arejay Hale.

Hale spoke passionately in regards to the change that occurred behind the equipment for the brand new album with Bloomington / Regular Rock 96.7’s Wes Kinds and what led to the change within the group’s method to their drum sound on the upcoming report.

In keeping with Hale, he had been working carefully with songwriters Scott Stevens and Taylor Carroll on one other still-to-be-revealed challenge and a few of his drumming there impressed a change in method behind the equipment when Hale says a number of the drumming hadn’t actually popped and felt a little bit boring on the brand new report.

“I began programming drums for that challenge and I might ship him drum information for [Scott] to place the demo collectively and he’d be like, ‘You possibly can play these things?,’ and I am like, ‘Yeah!,'” recalled Hale, talking about Stevens preliminary ideas upon listening to his extra fleshed out method.

As Hale defined, “I am not mad about it, I am superb with it and I am happy with every little thing that we have executed and I am glad we did it as a result of we did it for a purpose. However we have been a more moderen band attempting to make our mark and we needed to type of attempt to match this mould and there have been parameters and we needed to be on radio …. with all these rock bands that we have identified perpetually who established this massive area sound with massive and broad open however simply less complicated instrumental elements.”

“The beauty of these bands is that they are so good about leaving a lot house within the track and that is why these bands sound so nice in a giant area. So we all the time had that mentality that we have to simplify and play every little thing actual easy so there’s room to breathe,” defined the drummer. “However after we went into this album, we type of had that mindset that every little thing type of sounds boring and type of boring, so Scott began throwing all these loopy curveballs with the track demos and was like, ‘Hey, do this, do this, do this,’ and I am doing all these bizarre issues that felt so international to me. I am taking part in drum elements that I’d by no means even consider as a drummer and it is coming from somebody who will not be a drummer however simply an unimaginable songwriter, however he helped me write these loopy drum elements.”

Hale laughs, “It was actually tough for me to get comfy at studying the songs after which create them and humanize them within the studio trigger since he is not a drummer, he’ll have a component the place I am taking part in a tom, a cymbal and a snare and a kick drum, and I am like, ‘Scott, I haven’t got 5 arms’ (laughs). So I needed to humanize it and that was a extremely massive problem.”

The drummer admits that there had been loads of compromise in service of the songs previously, however he reveals how stoked he’s that the the belief issue is there not solely with the band but in addition with producer Nick Raskulinecz and Stevens to push for the brand new method. “Scott and Nick [Raskulinecz] actually helped me discover my voice as a drummer, and that is the album the place I feel you are listening to the type of taking part in that I’ve all the time wished to do. In order that’s why I really feel so amped about it,” says Hale.

The drummer credit the track “Depraved Methods” because the turning level for him on the album, with the double bass elements he laid down for the track inflicting Raskulinecz to ask that he re-track the songs they’d executed prior to fulfill the power of the brand new drumming sound. “My bandmates liked it and Nick liked it and administration, label, everyone in our crew liked it, so actually that track was the one which opened up the floodgates,” says Hale.

“I am simply so glad that we’re on the level the place the 4 of us, Nick and Scott, all of us felt like we had this unimaginable belief in one another. We all know what we’re doing and all of us had this unimaginable imaginative and prescient of what we wish this album to be, so let’s simply go for it.”

Halestorm’s Again From the Lifeless album is due Might 6. Pre-orders are at the moment out there right here.

Halestorm’s Arejay Hale Speaks to Rock 96.7’s Wes Kinds