Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale has revealed she relished the problem of opening up for Iron Maiden on the metallic legends’ fiftieth anniversary tour, although Maiden boast probably the most famously cussed fanbases in all of rock music.
Talking to Metallic Hammer in Budapest after enjoying the primary present of Maiden’s lauded Run For Your Lives world tour, Lzzy says she has earlier expertise with coping with probably hostile fanbases, and it is one thing she’s glad to get caught into.
“It is my favorite factor, truly,” she says. “It jogged my memory of after we opened up for Megadeth again in 2009 – infamous followers! They do not care who the opener is, and even again then, it was type of a sport for me. We had been speaking to the Iron Maiden crew final night time, and so they mentioned, ‘We will not imagine it. There have been no center fingers, no cash being thrown, footwear being thrown, something like that.’”
Halestorm are a fully-fledged enviornment band themselves now; later this yr, they’re going to play their largest ever UK present after they headline the 20,000-capacity O2 Area in London in help of imminent new album, Everest. Lzzy is fast to shoot down any concept that it may be irritating nonetheless having to win over metallic followers this far into the band’s profession.
“I actually do love that!” she says. “At this stage within the sport, we have been a band for nearly 28 years. It’s extremely thrilling to be opening up for a band the place the vast majority of followers almost certainly don’t know who we’re. That problem to win them over is what we dwell for.”
Learn extra within the model new problem of Metallic Hammer journal, out now. Order your copy by way of Magazines Direct. Everest is out August 8. Halestorm hit the UK and Europe beginning this October.