Artist: Halestorm Title: Vicious (HDtracks) Format: WEB, 12 x files FLAC, Album, Remastered, 24bit 96kHz (HDtracks) Producer: Nick Raskulinecz Release Date: July 27, 2018 Recorded: 2018 at Rock Falcon, Franklin, TN Label: Atlantic Records Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Alternative Metal, Heavy Metal, Post-Grunge, Female Vocal Duration: 43:32
Halestorm:
Wikipedia: Halestorm is an American rock band from Red Lion, Pennsylvania, consisting of lead vocalist and guitarist Lzzy Hale, her brother drummer and percussionist Arejay Hale, guitarist Joe Hottinger, and bassist Josh Smith. The group's self-titled debut album was released on April 28, 2009, through Atlantic Records. Their second album The Strange Case Of... was released on April 10, 2012. Its lead single "Love Bites (So Do I)" from that album won their first Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance on February 10, 2013. Halestorm is well known for their near non-stop touring, often performing as many as 250 shows a year. Since 2006 they have toured with many hard rock and heavy metal acts including Alter Bridge, Chevelle, Seether, Staind, Papa Roach, Trapt, Three Days Grace, Theory of a Deadman, Buckcherry, In This Moment, Disturbed, Shinedown, Avenged Sevenfold, Stone Sour, Hellyeah, Heaven & Hell, Evanescence, The Pretty Reckless, Starset, Sevendust, Dorothy, Lita Ford and Bullet for My Valentine. Halestorm appeared on the first annual Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival, and in October 2010 the band traveled to Japan to participate in the Loud Park Festival. Halestorm also appeared on the 2010 Taste of Chaos tour.
Vicious:
Wikipedia: Vicious is the fourth studio album by American rock band Halestorm. The album was released on July 27, 2018 through Atlantic Records. The album has had three singles released, and a video for the song "Uncomfortable", which was directed by Evan Brace. This album is the follow-up album from Into the Wild Life, which debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 chart.
AllMusic Review by James Christopher Monger: Halestorm is aptly named, as vowel-averse frontwoman Lzzy Hale has an F5 tornado for a voice, which she uses to great effect on her band's fourth studio long-player. The follow-up to 2015's Into the Wild Life, which was the group's highest-charting outing to date, Vicious doesn't deviate too much from the stock hedonism of its predecessor -- the holy hard rock trinity of sex, drugs, and rock & roll is alive and well -- but it connects on such a visceral and familiar level that listeners will likely be unable to resist the urge to turn things up to 11. In lesser hands, big-box hard rock songs like "Skulls," "Uncomfortable," and "Black Vultures" would blow in one ear and out the other, but Hale and company are as adept with hooks as they are with decibels, which makes the material sticky enough to leave some residue on its way out of your head. Produced with a considerable amount of punch by Nick Raskulinecz (Ghost, Foo Fighters), the 12-track set ticks off all the boxes, from big, inclusive, arena-ready anthems like "Killing Ourselves to Live" and cigarette lighter-ready power ballads like "Heart of Novocaine" to the trashy vamp-ups "Do Not Disturb" and "Vicious," the latter of which gives off a surprising Pretty Hate Machine-era Nine Inch Nails vibe. The nostalgia-driven, Zeppelin-esque closer, "The Silence," feels a bit out of place tonally, but it does a nice job showing what a versatile singer Hale is -- equal parts Pat Benatar, Brandi Carlile, and Cinderella's Tom Keifer -- and allows some much needed light into the room. Four albums in and Halestorm appear to have officially hit their stride.
Tracklist:
01. Black Vultures - 4:10 02. Skulls - 3:19 03. Uncomfortable -0 3:40 04. Buzz - 3:22 05. Do Not Disturb - 3:23 06. Conflicted - 3:29 07. Killing Ourselves To Live - 4:00 08. Heart Of Novocaine - 3:33 09. Painkiller - 3:13 10. White Dress - 3:29 11. Vicious - 3:01 12. The Silence - 4:47
Personnel:
Lzzy Hale - Vocals, guitar, piano, synths Arejay Hale - Drums, vocals Joe Hottinger - Lead guitar, vocals, synths, astral whip Josh Smith - Bass guitar, piano, vocals, synths