I’ve written two articles on Halestorm by now, one on their TheStrange Case Of... album (the first album I ever gave a 10/10 to) and then
one on their debut, so there really
is no need for paragraph after paragraph on the history of the band. Hence this
article may be shorter than most (at least pretend that’s a bad thing for my
sake).
I had so much fun writing about Halestorm’s The Strange Case Of... album a few months ago that I decided I’d go back to their
self-titled debut album. I discovered Halestorm
when the first Rockstar Energy Drink
Uproar Festival was announced. Since there was no way I was going to miss
what was essentially an Avenged
Sevenfold/Disturbed co-headliner, I checked out what other bands were going
to be there. Only two really caught my attention, and the main one was Halestorm. This was approximately a
year after the April 2009 release of their debut album, so I immediately went
to HMV to pick it up.
Halestorm have
really made a name for themselves since their 2009 debut in to the mainstream.
For starters, they had a prominent spot in the first Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festivalin 2010 opening the main
stage for such bands as Stone Sour, Avenged Sevenfold and Disturbed. It seemed they could only go
up from there, and that they did. A certain Grammy win for “Best Hard
Rock/Metal Song” should say enough. In honour of the Grammy win, it only seems
right to make this review on their most recent release, The Strange Case Of..., released in April of 2012, which showed the
band expand on their already tremendous sound.
