HALESTORM Is Working With Producer NICK RASKULINECZ On Fourth Album

HALESTORM is collaborating with Nick Raskulinecz on material for the band’s fourth album. At least some of the sessions are taking place at the Dark Horse Recording studios just outside Nashville.

Raskulinecz is an acclaimed producer who has previously worked with RUSH, KORN, ALICE IN CHAINS and DEFTONES, in addition to having helmed HALESTORM‘s third covers EP, “ReAniMate 3.0: The CoVeRs eP”, which came out in January.

Speaking to Moose of the 98.9 The Rock radio station at yesterday’s (Saturday, June 3) Rockfest at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, HALESTORM guitarist Joe Hottinger stated about the group’s follow-up to 2015’s “Into The Wild Life” disc (see video below): “We’re making a rock and roll record. We have a new producer, and he’s made some of our favorite records.”

HALESTORM singer Lzzy Hale added: “It’s been pretty epic so far.”

On May 22, Amy Lee of EVANESCENCE, which is working on a new album called “Synthesis”, posted a photo of Lzzy and Nick at Dark Horse, along with the caption: “The icing on the cake is two of my favorite people are working next door.”

Lzzy recently told the 97.7 WQLZ radio station that HALESTORM was “about half way” through the production process for the band’s next album. She said: “We have a lot of tracks. We’ve been kind of doing both [recording and working on pre-production]. We’ve been writing in my personal studio, at my house, and then we’ve been going into an actual studio with a producer and doing kind of pre-pro as we go along, which we’ve never really done. ‘Cause usually, it’s, like, ‘Okay, we have all the songs together, and then we’ll go in the studio.’ And this time we have like half-songs and then we go in the studio and we finish them. We have some keeper song takes and there’s maybe some vocal or guitar takes that we won’t redo later, but, yeah, it’s everything all at once at the same time, so we’re multitasking.”

“ReAniMate 3.0: The CoVeRs eP” featured an eclectic mix of songs from artists like METALLICA, SOUNDGARDEN, JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS, SOPHIE B. HAWKINS, TWENTY ONE PILOTS and WHITESNAKE.

“Into The Wild Life” was criticized by some fans for veering too far into pop music territory.