Hot on the heels of their show-stopping performance of Ozzy Osbourne‘s “Perry Mason” at Black Sabbath‘s final show over the weekend, Halestorm today dropped new song “Rain Your Blood On Me”, debuted live in that short set.
The track is a heavy siren call starting with a thumping dirge beat and before erupting with Arejay Hale‘s explosive drum fills, guitarist Joe Hottinger‘s lightning-fast guitar riffs, and Lzzy Hale‘s astronomical vocal harmonies, all tethered to earth by Josh Smith‘s dark bass grooves.
“Rain Your Blood On Me” follows “Darkness Always Wins” and title track “Everest” as the third song revealed from the Grammy Award-winning band’s album, out August 8 via Atlantic Records. “Darkness Always Wins” is steadily climbing the U.S. radio Active Rock chart, now entering the top 15, and already on the B-list at Planet Rock and Kerrang! Radio.
“‘Rain Your Blood On Me’ is our ode to women,” said Lzzy. “The crawl, the climb, the clenching of fists, the screaming of sirens, the breaking of glass — this is our war cry. As a woman, surrounded by my allies Arejay, Joe, and Josh, we put everything we’ve fought for up until this moment into this opus. The music started with the stomping of feet at 3 in the morning, with a chant of ‘Rain Your Blood On Me’. We weren’t even sure what that title meant in the moment as we watched the sky crack through the eerie Spanish moss in Savannah, Georgia. But we knew it was right. By 11:30 a.m., the poem I had written had seemed to form itself like a story waiting to be told.
“We may not win the war in our lifetime, but we can pass the torch to our daughters so that they may light the way.”
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Produced by Dave Cobb, Everest marks a significant chapter for the Grammy-winning group, both musically and emotionally.
“Our album Everest is a story of our journey as a band, full of beautiful endings and new beginnings,” Lzzy previously explained. “We weave a tangled web of melancholy, frustration, anger, and the vast purgatory of love and love lost. It is a rollercoaster of epic musical detours, great songwriting, and completely unhinged twists and turns. Everest is an auditory representation of the four pillars of Halestorm. Let us reintroduce ourselves and invite you into our world…if you dare.”
