HALESTORM's JOE HOTTINGER: 'We're Literally Doing What We've Always Dreamed Of Doing'

May 14, 2015

On March 18, Holland's FaceCulture conducted an interview with HALESTORM guitarist Joe Hottinger. You can now watch the chat in two parts below.

Asked about the meaning of the title of HALESTORM's third album, "Into The Wild Life", Joe said: "We were talking a while about album titles and… We actually wrote a song Lzzy [Hale, HALESTORM singer] and I called 'Into The Wild Life'. It's not on the record… It wasn't right for the record. We have it. It's there. Maybe we'll use it some day. Maybe not. I don't know. But, really, it's just about… We're literally doing what we've always dreamed of doing, and we're having a lot of fun doing it. We're going around the world, meeting crazy people, having great parties all over the place… We're having so much fun, and we have a great crew that's like our family, and we hang out with them when we can. And it's just amazing that we've kind of had this dream, and fifteen-plus years later, we're still doing it, still just trying to take one foot… step in front of the other and keep it going. And we're having a damn good time doing it."

"Into The Wild Life" was released on April 14. Lzzy Hale told The Pulse Of Radio that making the record was a satisfying experience for her and the band. "It was a lot of fun," she said. "It was such a freeing process 'cause it really didn't feel like we were — 'we're recording an album now, guys!' It just — we were in this big, overhauled church, you know, so it didn't feel like we were in a studio and there was just every instrument everywhere. There was a piano and everything was all set up so it's like, whatever you wanted to do, you could just do."

Hale posted a message online in which she said about the record, "My insider advice, listen to the record front to back, 'cause in a day and age where everyone is freaking out about the state of the music business, we said, fuck it, and made an 'album.'"

Hale added, "We erred on the side of performance and making moments, rather than perfection, bridging the gap between what you've heard on previous records and what you see at a live HALESTORM show."

"Into The Wild Life" follows up HALESTORM's Grammy-winning 2012 sophomore effort, "The Strange Case Of…"

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