After chatting toLzzy Hale和Halestorm吉他手Joe Hottingeramidst the hustle and bustle of their pre-tour rehearsals, we caught up with Lzzy alone back in her Nashville home to dig deeper into the themes and creation of new albumBack From The Dead, and we find the frontwoman in much more reflective mood.
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“This new album is very introspective, and I wrote it from a very personal place because that’s the only thing that I could do,” she explains of writing the album in a pandemic enforced lockdown, where all she had to keep her sane were her guitars and recording equipment.
“我真正能控制的唯一一件事就是坐下来试图创造性并通过事物进行工作。最有趣的是，我们甚至不确定我们是否要进入工作室。因此，实际上，我在写作写作，几乎将其用作您自己的个人治疗情况。”
While her home studio was well-spec’d with recording gear, mics and instruments, the isolated environment led Lzzy to approach their creation in a different way, with the home-recorded vocals ending up being the bedrock around which everything else was built once the band finally got into a real studio.
她解释说：“我录制了所有声乐的演示，然后我们进入了录音室，并围绕着那些声乐绘制了所有歌曲。”“通常，这是相反的。特别是在我们的上一张专辑中Vicious，这是完全的反向。我们有很多乐器，最终写了写作，然后我拿了一首歌给乐器。
“情况恰恰相反，这很有趣。具体来说，用吉他，我和我在写作的吉他旋律中启发了我，而是相反，我和乔都坐下来，所有的八度音阶，旋律的工作和我们的主要工作放下真的是跟随那些声乐旋律。就像人声领导了仪器的指控。”
结果？“这张专辑听起来像是由一辆怪异的货运火车领导的，” Hale笑着说。“我认为这使它变得非常凝聚，整个事情。”
House Band
黑尔（Hale）花了第二次采访，经常陷入温暖而轻松的笑声。这是一种轻松的自信和喜悦，从而巩固了超过25年的歌曲创作和表演，从死者的炽烈，光荣的11首新曲目中巩固。不过，黑尔（Hale）在打上工作室之前一直在家里烹饪一场声音风暴。从十几岁开始，她就一直在储存的玩具没有毛绒品种。
“I’ve been collecting gear and recording equipment for a couple of years now. The whole reason I got this house is because there was space to do that,” she says.
“One of my favourite pieces of equipment is the Universal Audio Compressor. I have an amazing Neumann mic around here somewhere. I did about 11 collaborations during the whole lockdown because everybody was like, ‘Lzzy, we’re recording so let’s guest vocal on that!’
“从字面上看，我的所有吉他都在这里，因为我们刚刚在世界变化之前就结束了上一张专辑周期。我的[Gibson Eds-1275]双领都在上面是标准，底部是男中音，目前处于Drop A中。探索者在这里。实际上，我什至爆出了我得到的第一个莱斯·保罗（Les Paul），烟草爆发了莱斯·保罗（Les Paul）的习俗。这是我十几岁的时候我买的第一个吉布森。我是一位可怕的女服务员，但我节省了所有的技巧来得到。”
Once she and guitarist Joe Hottinger got together to jam, they went hell for leather on the combinations they could evince from producer Nick Raskulinecz’s array of studio equipment.
“We combined a Bogner Head with Freidman. Obviously, we have a bunch of old Marshalls that we use,” she observes. “But combining some of those tones, amp-wise, really just made everything thick. There was always something that we needed to combine and not just stick to one sound… really, we would just pick everything up and try it.”
科琳娜，你得见她
在吉他阵线上，Hale主要使用她心爱的探险家人会感到震惊，但一本新版本脱颖而出。
她兴奋地说：“这是新的[Gibson Custom 1958] Korina Explorer。”“乔，得到了科琳娜五世，所以当我们聚集在录音室时，这两把吉他的结合是如此之大。V非常咬合，尖锐，只给出一点刺痛，然后探险家真的很肉，几乎是中距离和黑暗的。因此，这两者的结合至少在专辑的后半部分做到了这一点。”
Hale says the guitar spoke to her, and indeed, the album seemed to have a voice of its own, just taking its sweet time to be translated by Hale and her band.
“这就像这个令人讨厌的难题，您不知道图片是什么。您只是试图使其适应。我正在收集想法，制作演示，然后向家伙发送想法，然后他们将想法发送回我。当我们终于进入录音室时，所有人都被掩盖了，我们有泡沫，他们一起开始觉得我们真的要制作一张专辑。我们起草了许多不同的想法，但是Back From The Deadrose to the top, we were like ‘Okay, this is our roadmap’. Then the floodgates opened. Maybe it was the album telling us what to do rather than the reverse of us trying to figure it out.”
尖叫姐妹
Over the last decade, women guitarists have made their voices heard like never before, making the instrument a more diverse and interesting place as a result. Heavy music has regrettably somewhat lagged behind in this regard, but in recent years, but there are clear signs that the world is changing – both on the stage and off it – and it’s something a veteran like Hale doesn’t take for granted.
她反映说：“只有几年前，我不仅是一个节日上舞台上唯一的女孩，而且我也是唯一的后台。”“很高兴看到这浪发生，而不仅仅是女性音乐家：制片人，照明导演，旅游经理，舞台经理。观众充满了这些年轻，美丽，充满活力，疯狂的女人，她们对自己非常喜欢的这种类型拥有所有权。即使是我们上一代的摇滚校长也不会相信发生。”
Lzzy might be the current queen of heavy, but she celebrates this growing and thriving community by surrounding herself with like-minded women from across the hard-rocking world, whether that’s her ‘Sister of scream’ Taylor Momsen of The Pretty Reckless, Mexican trio The Warning, chameleonic solo artist Lilith Czar, or Evanescence icon Amy Lee.
“我们在经历过的事情上是善良的精神，” Lzzy兴奋地说道。“很高兴支持这些极强的女性，她们违背了这种类型所代表的社会规范，我们正在掌握自己喜欢的沉重音乐的所有权。我们不喜欢它，因为我们的男朋友或爸爸喜欢它。我们喜欢它，因为它是我们的一部分。”
Back From The Dead is out now on Capitol.