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Evanescence's Amy Lee On Her Upcoming Tour With Halestorm, Friendship With Lzzy Hale & How She Feels About "My Immortal" Today

Amy Lee is glad she asked Lzzy Hale to sing on stage together nine years ago: They've been thick as thieves ever since. And come November 2021, their bands, Evanescence and Halestorm, will co-headline a tour again — older, wiser and still tight friends.

One day on tour nine years ago, Amy Lee decided she wanted to collaborate with Lzzy Hale — so she shot her shot. The Evanescence and Halestorm frontwomen had been friendly on their co-headlining tour, but hadn't appeared together on stage yet. That changed after Lee knocked on the door of Hale’s bus, asking if she wanted to sing Halestorm's "Break In" together on stage.

"She was like [Rapidly] 'Ohmygodyes!'" Lee recalls to GRAMMY.com over Zoom. "That became our favorite part of every night." Eventually, when it came time to record the tune together, producer Nick Raskulinecz encouraged them to cut it live in the studio. At first, Lee was reticent. But then, they discovered something special. "What I found is that we naturally tune to each other and find each other," she says. "It becomes a new voice."

Granted, Lee may not have a co-leader in Evanescence, who have won two GRAMMYs and been nominated for six. But in a way, this braiding of artistic voices defines their whole existence. Early in the band's tenure, Lee had to "fight" — to be heard, to be seen, to maintain her place in the band. And when "My Immortal" became a monster hit, she felt uncomfortable hearing it piped into every PA in North America, believing it was unrepresentative of the band.

But today, she realizes "My Immortal" isn't theirs anymore. It's their fans'. And, by blending her experience with theirs, she loves the song all over again. In essence, a new voice emerges from the fusion of two.

This November, Evanescence and Halestorm will ride again — with almost a decade of experience and close friendship under their belts. Starting Nov. 5, they're headed on a US co-headlining tour, their first together since 2012. Evanescence is supporting this year's The Bitter Truth ; Halestorm is touring on their 2020 EP, Reimagined , which features that version of "Break In."

This run of gigs is a tribute to both bands' indefatigable fans, as well as the two women's friendship. "It's a very essential thing to have good people in your life who are going to tell you the truth and be a real friend to you," Lee says. "I think Lzzy and I are that to each other."

Read on for an in-depth interview with Lee about her friendship with Hale, how the loss of her brother partly inspired The Bitter Truth and how her relationship with her past material has changed with time. (Oh, yes, and she reacts to the YouTube comments on the "My Immortal" music video.)

This interview has been edited for clarity.

This is one of the biggest — if not the biggest — female-headlined tours of the year. How does it feel to be part of that? I'm sure that jibes with the message you want to send to your young female fans.

Well, first and foremost, we just want to be the best — so, there's that. But also, it's empowering to empower each other. It's really cool that so many people in the hard rock and metal world right now who are killing it are female. I'm very proud to be one of the people to lift that up and be part of that.

I'm very excited to go on tour with our friends. I love Lzzy; we haven't toured together since 2012. We had one of the best tours ever and always wanted to do it [again] after that — to find a time it would work again.

After this horrible time of not being able to tour and the world [being] on fire, we really appreciate touring and the things we're able to do. We appreciate life. So, if we're going to go out there, we want to go out having a blast, going out with people we respect and have fun with.

So, I'm really excited! I'm excited about the venues; we're playing some really big places. I'm not going to be nervous; I'm just going to speak that out right now and make it true. We've got some practicing to do. A lot of new material!

How did you first cross paths with Lzzy and Halestorm?

Well, we met on that 2012 tour. I remember we decided to tour together, then we met the day of or before the first show. We just hit it off immediately. We have so much in common.

As a musician, as a leader, as a frontwoman, all those things, Lzzy is really incredible. Ever since then, we have stayed friends, always. Here and there, we've worked together in different ways.

I remember, on that 2012 tour, knocking on her bus one day and saying "You have this one song that I love! If you ever want me to come do background vocals, I'll do it." And she was like [Rapidly] "Ohmygodyes!" So, we rehearsed it in her dressing room and loved singing together. That became our favorite part of every night — this moment where we would sing "Break In" together.

Fast forward to 2017: They were doing recreations of a lot of their songs and we did our live version of that song in the studio. And we did it live, which was a really cool challenge! That's the other thing about Lzzy we have in common: We really enjoy being challenged and pushed into new territory.

So, our producer — both hers and mine from our new albums, Nick Raskulinecz — did that recording and pushed us to record the vocals live. I remember being like [Playfully] , "Why do you have to do that? Why do you have to make it hard? We know what to do. Let's record us one at a time and we'll get every note perfect!"

When he made us do it, he was like "You guys are both great. I know you can handle it. You can do this." I was like, "OK, we'll try, but, safety net: We might do it the other way." When you're standing in the room together, you have to go through it right at the same time to make it. [Laughs.] If someone did it well and the other didn't, it's scrapped. It doesn't work.

But we didn't do it that many times, and what I found is that we naturally tune to each other and find each other, and it becomes a new voice.

It's hard to explain, but I grew up being obsessed with choir. I went to all-region, all-state competitions and all that stuff when I was in junior high and high school. It reminds me of that feeling, where you are absolutely part of that sound, but you are not the sound. It creates something new when you become part of something else.

In all realms of creation, I love that feeling, and that's why I'm in a band. Singing with Lzzy is a real treat because she's an excellent singer. We can challenge [each other] and get in the zone together and create something that neither of us can do exactly on our own.

Whether it's music or banking or whatever, people in the same industry tend to get along because they have work in common. That said, what about your personal dynamic with Lzzy makes it special?

She's a real person. She's just a humble, down-to-earth, real person who's not afraid to do what it takes to get the job done. She's a boss, but not in a way that's unkind or unreasonable. She's good at what she does. We both strive to operate on the same level in that way.

I love watching her in that capacity, but as friends, we're regular friends. I don't have a big reason why I click with some people and have them be close friends in my life. It's a very essential thing to have good people in your life who are going to tell you the truth and be a real friend to you. I think Lzzy and I are that to each other.

What can fans expect on stage come November?

We are going to play almost the entire new album because we are all so excited to have all this new music that really represents who we are — what we've grown into. Even just lyrically, what we've been going through in this time — who we are in this moment — it feels so good to have that new music after so long.

I still relate to our old music, but it feels good to have something so fresh. So, we're really excited about the new stuff, but there are going to be a lot of old faves, too.

It's going to be kind of a long set [Laughs] . I'm at the point now where I'm trying to do vocal warm-ups on the reg and get myself to a place where I'm sure I can physically get myself to do the stuff we're aiming to do. We'll start rehearsals in a week and really get in there and get in the details.

We've been building a really cool new production, a new set for this tour. We've got these big shows, so we've got to make the production awesome. I'm so excited about it. We're still building it, but it's going to be something really cool.

It's a new moment, you know? We don't make a new album every year, so when we do, we've kind of got to pull out all the stops. So, that's what we're going to be doing.

Feel free to not broach this if you don't want to, but I'm interested in the component of grief in The Bitter Truth . Can you talk about that?

That's a huge component of the album. My little brother passed away in 2018. It's actually not my first sibling [I’ve lost], unfortunately. It's interesting because, from that moment, it felt like everything just changed shape.

Having my son — bringing new life into the world and getting to know that person — equally changed my perspective and made things take on a new color around you. You just go forward differently because of both those things. I feel like that about both of those things.

But right from the moment — ground zero of the devastation of that loss — that's not when music-writing started. The creation of this album — where this album is coming from — is from a year and change after that. Starting to go, "OK, I feel like I can get back up again." And you can't get back up again without talking about the pain of what threw you down in the first place.

Even though this album is so inspired by and related to loss and grief and all those deep questions about life — like, "Where are we in the scope of the universe?" — it comes from that stance of how to move forward. The drive and courage to take a step up, get up and move forward again, out of that.

For me, the album is really empowering to listen to. I hear it and hear the strength that I'm so relieved to find in myself. I think, as a band, we all feel that way. Not just relief, but satisfaction. More courage, compounded by each other's courage.

It feels really good to put something out in the world that is, at the heart of it, a positive message. More life will happen. We can go on. But it can't happen without facing the truth, as hard as that is. Getting up and being strong and making a better future — none of that comes from ignoring what's going on and what's wrong in the first place.

What was your brother like in life?

Absolutely hilarious. He was the funniest. One of my favorite people. All of ours: He was the favorite of the family. I have a big family — two other sisters. He was definitely the comic relief. He always refused to be defined by his severe epilepsy. Any opportunity to make everybody laugh was his favorite thing.

He loved creatures and was kind to all animals. I remember there was a wasp in the house once and I was ready to smack it. Rob was like, "Aw, come on, man. Just put it outside." I said, "It's a pestilence! This is a beast! I'm killing it. it's just going to sting somebody!" He was like, "Man, I like to keep this house a free space for all living things!" So, we put the wasp outside.

I think about that specific part of him now, after his death. I can see what that means after you face that grief and look the universe in the face and go, "Am I important at all? And how important? What are we? What is an ant?" We all are connected and important in some way and have to respect all life if we want our lives to be respected, and expected to be worth something.

My brother was a really, really rad guy.

Can I ask if it was expected, or if it was a shock?

It wasn't expected, but we always knew our time with him was precious. Robby had very severe epilepsy, starting when he was seven. We always knew we were lucky to have him.

We had some very close calls before. Each of us — between my sisters and parents and myself — had close calls that were on our watch and had faced the potential for loss before, but he was such an incredible, strong survivor every time and kept being OK. You learn to take that for granted a little bit and think, "He's got this. He's going to be here forever." It's never something you completely expect. It was definitely sudden.

In the wake of it, did you feel almost a sense of ambition? Like everything became crystal-clear? I’ve definitely felt that during my own grief experience.

In the beginning — I don't even know how to describe it. I definitely couldn't sing. I just felt a lot of pain. It takes you to a weird place of zooming way out. Seeing the whole world and trying to piece something together and make things make sense when they don't make sense, and they aren't fair. You start feeling inspiration for a while, at first, but you just feel the loss.

Evanescence's debut album, Fallen , is going to turn 20 pretty soon. How does that feel?

Crazy! But, at the same time, it feels like it was 20 years ago [Laughs] . A lot has happened since then.

It's sweet, though. I'm so much more at peace in my role now — doing what I do and being who I am — than I was making Fallen . I think the album came out when I was 21. I'm the same person, but I've grown a lot and am a different person, too.

I feel amazing being here after this time. There's a level of self-confidence and support. Now, with people, I can harness the nostalgia feels with my own music as well as blow their minds with new music, so it's really the best of both worlds.

What were you feeling while making Fallen ? Excitement? Nervousness? Naïveté?

A lot of emotions at once. Things were tumultuous behind the scenes back then. I had to fight a lot for my place. I had to fight to be where I was. I had to fight to have a voice. I had to fight, always, for my opinion, and my belief in our music and what I wanted it to be. Just to be a leader.

At the same time, there was lots of excitement — I couldn't believe what was happening. Going to the GRAMMYs and actually winning at the GRAMMYs. This was the dream in so many ways. [Editor's note: Evanescence won or were nominated for Best New Artist, Album Of The Year, Best Rock Album, and Best Hard Rock Performance at the 2003 GRAMMY Awards.]

You don't know if those things are possible, or if people are going to like your art — something you loved and did. Then, it's over the next year. You play in clubs, or whatever it is. You don't know exactly what's going to happen. To see it all go so well, right from the get-go of our first album, was overwhelming in all the ways. Positive and negative, but mostly positive.

At the time, I was constantly nervous and feeling like I was pretending to believe that I belonged there, when, deep down, I probably didn't know anything about what I was doing.

Is that shifting power dynamic what led to all the turnover in the band after Fallen ?

It was particularly about one guy, [original guitarist] Ben [Moody] — we started the band together. It was our thing. That pertains to him leaving in the middle of that first album's tour.

When you consider the arc of your career ever since, how do you feel you grew as a musician? As a person?

I don't know if I can pinpoint what changed the most. More and more and more, I've been on the road to challenge myself to be as open as possible. It's hard to say, because I hear things I did a long time ago and I do hear myself being very honest and raw.

But it's always a challenge for myself to keep doing it, and do it more — to be more honest. To picture myself in the music. Not trying to portray what I want to show, but what I am — what's coming straight from the heart. I feel I've done a better and better job of that since the first album.

We've really grown a lot as a band. We've become a band over the years. I've been with this lineup [for a long time]. [Guitarist] Jen [Majura] joined the band in 2015; the other three guys have been with me for 12 or 13 years.

Are you the kind of musician who can't hear old material — it hits you wrong — or do you love the whole discography?

I used to have a hard time with "My Immortal" because it was just everywhere , and I didn't feel like it summed up our band. But I got over it. I'm over it. I love it now. It's back to what I was saying a minute ago, about being honest about nostalgia.

That's the one song I didn't write the lyrics to. I helped a little bit, but they aren't my words. Those are Ben's words. I didn't want to sing it, but also, I just felt like they didn't mean a ton to me. All the other lyrics really mean something to me in my heart.

But, over time, [we realized that song has] such an important and huge piece of our history with our fans — what it means to them and the experiences we've now had. On our first-ever trip to Europe, we played to a huge field of people singing it so loudly I couldn't hear myself. I just let them do it.

That song, for me, has become really meaningful. It's about that. It's about our fans and our relationship. No, I don't have any songs that I hear and I'm just like "Ughhh!". Unless they're pre- Fallen . [Laughs.]

Have you seen the YouTube comments under "My Immortal" in a while? The video has almost 800 million views.

No! Are they hilarious?

Most aren't, actually. Can I read you a few?

Here's one from three days ago: Somebody said "Take the pain and turn it into strength. Wisdom. Be the sunlight you never had..."

"...For you. For others. I'm proud of you."

God, that's gorgeous.

Here's another one: "I held his hand and I never let go. When he died, they had to drag me out of the room. Love really knows no boundaries."

[Hushed] Wow.

There's a lot I don't want to repeat, actually. Stories of people losing kids and stuff.

Yeah, yeah. That's what I mean. It's about something so much bigger. It's not just a song on our album. It's about something else. It's about them. It's about what we can feel and understand together.

We've talked deeper on this call than I thought we would. But when you've gone through something really, really heavy — when you're talking about losing somebody — there's something you can't quite describe with words.

Music has been the place for me, always. It's been the one way to describe a deep place we can share. Being able to share it with people and communicate through music, to express how we feel and find out we're not alone in those feelings — that's magic. It's absolute magic. I'm so grateful to be a part of that and have it be part of my job.

This comment section has become like a bereavement forum. Someone's mom died; someone's boyfriend died. They're all commiserating. And it's been happening for more than a decade; the last comment was from yesterday.

That's incredible. It feels awesome.

Is there anything we didn't touch on regarding the new album and tour?

Man, I feel like we covered it. I'm just grateful, with how hard everything still is. I'm really grateful.

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GRAMMY Rewind: Kendrick Lamar Honors Hip-Hop's Greats While Accepting Best Rap Album GRAMMY For 'To Pimp a Butterfly' In 2016

Upon winning the GRAMMY for Best Rap Album for 'To Pimp a Butterfly,' Kendrick Lamar thanked those that helped him get to the stage, and the artists that blazed the trail for him.

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A GRAMMY veteran these days, Kendrick Lamar has won 17 GRAMMYs and has received 47 GRAMMY nominations overall. A sizable chunk of his trophies came from the 58th annual GRAMMY Awards in 2016, when he walked away with five — including his first-ever win in the Best Rap Album category.

This installment of GRAMMY Rewind turns back the clock to 2016, revisiting Lamar's acceptance speech upon winning Best Rap Album for To Pimp A Butterfly . Though Lamar was alone on stage, he made it clear that he wouldn't be at the top of his game without the help of a broad support system.

"First off, all glory to God, that's for sure," he said, kicking off a speech that went on to thank his parents, who he described as his "those who gave me the responsibility of knowing, of accepting the good with the bad."

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He also extended his love and gratitude to his fiancée, Whitney Alford, and shouted out his Top Dawg Entertainment labelmates. Lamar specifically praised Top Dawg's CEO, Anthony Tiffith, for finding and developing raw talent that might not otherwise get the chance to pursue their musical dreams.

"We'd never forget that: Taking these kids out of the projects, out of Compton, and putting them right here on this stage, to be the best that they can be," Lamar — a Compton native himself — continued, leading into an impassioned conclusion spotlighting some of the cornerstone rap albums that came before To Pimp a Butterfly .

"Hip-hop. Ice Cube . This is for hip-hop," he said. "This is for Snoop Dogg , Doggystyle . This is for Illmatic , this is for Nas . We will live forever. Believe that."

To Pimp a Butterfly singles "Alright" and "These Walls" earned Lamar three more GRAMMYs that night, the former winning Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song and the latter taking Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (the song features Bilal , Anna Wise and Thundercat ). He also won Best Music Video for the remix of Taylor Swift 's "Bad Blood."

Lamar has since won Best Rap Album two more times, taking home the golden gramophone in 2018 for his blockbuster LP DAMN ., and in 2023 for his bold fifth album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers .

Watch Lamar's full acceptance speech above, and check back at GRAMMY.com every Friday for more GRAMMY Rewind episodes.

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A Guide To Modern Funk For The Dance Floor: L'Imperatrice, Shiro Schwarz, Franc Moody, Say She She & Moniquea

James Brown changed the sound of popular music when he found the power of the one and unleashed the funk with "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag." Today, funk lives on in many forms, including these exciting bands from across the world.

It's rare that a genre can be traced back to a single artist or group, but for funk, that was James Brown . The Godfather of Soul coined the phrase and style of playing known as "on the one," where the first downbeat is emphasized, instead of the typical second and fourth beats in pop, soul and other styles. As David Cheal eloquently explains, playing on the one "left space for phrases and riffs, often syncopated around the beat, creating an intricate, interlocking grid which could go on and on." You know a funky bassline when you hear it; its fat chords beg your body to get up and groove.

Brown's 1965 classic, "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," became one of the first funk hits, and has been endlessly sampled and covered over the years, along with his other groovy tracks. Of course, many other funk acts followed in the '60s, and the genre thrived in the '70s and '80s as the disco craze came and went, and the originators of hip-hop and house music created new music from funk and disco's strong, flexible bones built for dancing.

Legendary funk bassist Bootsy Collins learned the power of the one from playing in Brown's band, and brought it to George Clinton , who created P-funk, an expansive, Afrofuturistic , psychedelic exploration of funk with his various bands and projects, including Parliament-Funkadelic . Both Collins and Clinton remain active and funkin', and have offered their timeless grooves to collabs with younger artists, including Kali Uchis , Silk Sonic , and Omar Apollo; and Kendrick Lamar , Flying Lotus , and Thundercat , respectively.

In the 1980s, electro-funk was born when artists like Afrika Bambaataa, Man Parrish, and Egyptian Lover began making futuristic beats with the Roland TR-808 drum machine — often with robotic vocals distorted through a talk box. A key distinguishing factor of electro-funk is a de-emphasis on vocals, with more phrases than choruses and verses. The sound influenced contemporaneous hip-hop, funk and electronica, along with acts around the globe, while current acts like Chromeo, DJ Stingray, and even Egyptian Lover himself keep electro-funk alive and well.

Today, funk lives in many places, with its heavy bass and syncopated grooves finding way into many nooks and crannies of music. There's nu-disco and boogie funk, nodding back to disco bands with soaring vocals and dance floor-designed instrumentation. G-funk continues to influence Los Angeles hip-hop, with innovative artists like Dam-Funk and Channel Tres bringing the funk and G-funk, into electro territory. Funk and disco-centered '70s revival is definitely having a moment, with acts like Ghost Funk Orchestra and Parcels , while its sparkly sprinklings can be heard in pop from Dua Lipa , Doja Cat , and, in full "Soul Train" character, Silk Sonic . There are also acts making dreamy, atmospheric music with a solid dose of funk, such as Khruangbin ’s global sonic collage.

There are many bands that play heavily with funk, creating lush grooves designed to get you moving. Read on for a taste of five current modern funk and nu-disco artists making band-led uptempo funk built for the dance floor. Be sure to press play on the Spotify playlist above, and check out GRAMMY.com's playlist on Apple Music , Amazon Music and Pandora .

Say She She

Aptly self-described as "discodelic soul," Brooklyn-based seven-piece Say She She make dreamy, operatic funk, led by singer-songwriters Nya Gazelle Brown, Piya Malik and Sabrina Mileo Cunningham. Their '70s girl group-inspired vocal harmonies echo, sooth and enchant as they cover poignant topics with feminist flair.

While they’ve been active in the New York scene for a few years, they’ve gained wider acclaim for the irresistible music they began releasing this year, including their debut album, Prism . Their 2022 debut single "Forget Me Not" is an ode to ground-breaking New York art collective Guerilla Girls, and " Norma " is their protest anthem in response to the news that Roe vs. Wade could be (and was) overturned. The band name is a nod to funk legend Nile Rodgers , from the "Le freak, c'est chi" exclamation in Chic's legendary tune "Le Freak."

Moniquea 's unique voice oozes confidence, yet invites you in to dance with her to the super funky boogie rhythms. The Pasadena, California artist was raised on funk music; her mom was in a cover band that would play classics like Aretha Franklin’ s "Get It Right" and Gladys Knight ’s "Love Overboard." Moniquea released her first boogie funk track at 20 and, in 2011, met local producer XL Middelton — a bonafide purveyor of funk. She's been a star artist on his MoFunk Records ever since, and they've collabed on countless tracks, channeling West Coast energy with a heavy dose of G-funk, sunny lyrics and upbeat, roller disco-ready rhythms.

Her latest release is an upbeat nod to classic West Coast funk, produced by Middleton, and follows her February 2022 groovy, collab-filled album, On Repeat .

Shiro Schwarz

Shiro Schwarz is a Mexico City-based duo, consisting of Pammela Rojas and Rafael Marfil, who helped establish a modern funk scene in the richly creative Mexican metropolis. On "Electrify" — originally released in 2016 on Fat Beats Records and reissued in 2021 by MoFunk — Shiro Schwarz's vocals playfully contrast each other, floating over an insistent, upbeat bassline and an '80s throwback electro-funk rhythm with synth flourishes.

Their music manages to be both nostalgic and futuristic — and impossible to sit still to. 2021 single "Be Kind" is sweet, mellow and groovy, perfect chic lounge funk. Shiro Schwarz’s latest track, the joyfully nostalgic "Hey DJ," is a collab with funkstress Saucy Lady and U-Key.

L'Impératrice

L'Impératrice (the empress in French) are a six-piece Parisian group serving an infectiously joyful blend of French pop, nu-disco, funk and psychedelia. Flore Benguigui's vocals are light and dreamy, yet commanding of your attention, while lyrics have a feminist touch.

During their energetic live sets, L'Impératrice members Charles de Boisseguin and Hagni Gwon (keys), David Gaugué (bass), Achille Trocellier (guitar), and Tom Daveau (drums) deliver extended instrumental jam sessions to expand and connect their music. Gaugué emphasizes the thick funky bass, and Benguigui jumps around the stage while sounding like an angel. L’Impératrice’s latest album, 2021’s Tako Tsubo , is a sunny, playful French disco journey.

Franc Moody

Franc Moody 's bio fittingly describes their music as "a soul funk and cosmic disco sound." The London outfit was birthed by friends Ned Franc and Jon Moody in the early 2010s, when they were living together and throwing parties in North London's warehouse scene. In 2017, the group grew to six members, including singer and multi-instrumentalist Amber-Simone.

Their music feels at home with other electro-pop bands like fellow Londoners Jungle and Aussie act Parcels. While much of it is upbeat and euphoric, Franc Moody also dips into the more chilled, dreamy realm, such as the vibey, sultry title track from their recently released Into the Ether .

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Living Legends: Billy Idol On Survival, Revival & Breaking Out Of The Cage

"One foot in the past and one foot into the future," Billy Idol says, describing his decade-spanning career in rock. "We’ve got the best of all possible worlds because that has been the modus operandi of Billy Idol."

Living Legends is a series that spotlights icons in music still going strong today. This week, GRAMMY.com spoke with Billy Idol about his latest EP, Cage , and continuing to rock through decades of changing tastes.

Billy Idol is a true rock 'n' roll survivor who has persevered through cultural shifts and personal struggles. While some may think of Idol solely for "Rebel Yell" and "White Wedding," the singer's musical influences span genres and many of his tunes are less turbo-charged than his '80s hits would belie.

Idol first made a splash in the latter half of the '70s with the British punk band Generation X. In the '80s, he went on to a solo career combining rock, pop, and punk into a distinct sound that transformed him and his musical partner, guitarist Steve Stevens, into icons. They have racked up multiple GRAMMY nominations, in addition to one gold, one double platinum, and four platinum albums thanks to hits like "Cradle Of Love," "Flesh For Fantasy," and "Eyes Without A Face."

But, unlike many legacy artists, Idol is anything but a relic. Billy continues to produce vital Idol music by collaborating with producers and songwriters — including Miley Cyrus — who share his forward-thinking vision. He will play a five-show Vegas residency in November, and filmmaker Jonas Akerlund is working on a documentary about Idol’s life.

His latest release is Cage , the second in a trilogy of annual four-song EPs. The title track is a classic Billy Idol banger expressing the desire to free himself from personal constraints and live a better life. Other tracks on Cage incorporate metallic riffing and funky R&B grooves.

Idol continues to reckon with his demons — they both grappled with addiction during the '80s — and the singer is open about those struggles on the record and the page. (Idol's 2014 memoir Dancing With Myself , details a 1990 motorcycle accident that nearly claimed a leg, and how becoming a father steered him to reject hard drugs. "Bitter Taste," from his last EP, The Roadside , reflects on surviving the accident.)

Although Idol and Stevens split in the late '80s — the skilled guitarist fronted Steve Stevens & The Atomic Playboys, and collaborated with Michael Jackson, Rick Ocasek, Vince Neil, and Harold Faltermeyer (on the GRAMMY-winning "Top Gun Anthem") — their common history and shared musical bond has been undeniable. The duo reunited in 2001 for an episode of " VH1 Storytellers " and have been back in the saddle for two decades. Their union remains one of the strongest collaborations in rock 'n roll history.

While there is recognizable personnel and a distinguishable sound throughout a lot of his work, Billy Idol has always pushed himself to try different things. Idol discusses his musical journey, his desire to constantly move forward, and the strong connection that he shares with Stevens.

Steve has said that you like to mix up a variety of styles, yet everyone assumes you're the "Rebel Yell"/"White Wedding" guy. But if they really listen to your catalog, it's vastly different.

Yeah, that's right. With someone like Steve Stevens, and then back in the day Keith Forsey producing... [Before that] Generation X actually did move around inside punk rock. We didn't stay doing just the Ramones two-minute music. We actually did a seven-minute song. [ Laughs ]. We did always mix things up.

Then when I got into my solo career, that was the fun of it. With someone like Steve, I knew what he could do. I could see whatever we needed to do, we could nail it. The world was my oyster musically.

"Cage" is a classic-sounding Billy Idol rocker, then "Running From The Ghost" is almost metal, like what the Devil's Playground album was like back in the mid-2000s. "Miss Nobody" comes out of nowhere with this pop/R&B flavor. What inspired that?

We really hadn't done anything like that since something like "Flesh For Fantasy" [which] had a bit of an R&B thing about it. Back in the early days of Billy Idol, "Hot In The City" and "Mony Mony" had girls [singing] on the backgrounds.

We always had a bit of R&B really, so it was actually fun to revisit that. We just hadn't done anything really quite like that for a long time. That was one of the reasons to work with someone like Sam Hollander [for the song "Rita Hayworth"] on The Roadside . We knew we could go [with him] into an R&B world, and he's a great songwriter and producer. That's the fun of music really, trying out these things and seeing if you can make them stick.

I listen to new music by veteran artists and debate that with some people. I'm sure you have those fans that want their nostalgia, and then there are some people who will embrace the newer stuff. Do you find it’s a challenge to reach people with new songs?

Obviously, what we're looking for is, how do we somehow have one foot in the past and one foot into the future? We’ve got the best of all possible worlds because that has been the modus operandi of Billy Idol.

You want to do things that are true to you, and you don't just want to try and do things that you're seeing there in the charts today. I think that we're achieving it with things like "Running From The Ghost" and "Cage" on this new EP. I think we’re managing to do both in a way.

** Obviously, "Running From The Ghost" is about addiction, all the stuff that you went through, and in "Cage" you’re talking about freeing yourself from a lot of personal shackles. Was there any one moment in your life that made you really thought I have to not let this weigh me down anymore ? **

I mean, things like the motorcycle accident I had, that was a bit of a wake up call way back. It was 32 years ago. But there were things like that, years ago, that gradually made me think about what I was doing with my life. I didn't want to ruin it, really. I didn't want to throw it away, and it made [me] be less cavalier.

I had to say to myself, about the drugs and stuff, that I've been there and I've done it. There’s no point in carrying on doing it. You couldn't get any higher. You didn't want to throw your life away casually, and I was close to doing that. It took me a bit of time, but then gradually I was able to get control of myself to a certain extent [with] drugs and everything. And I think Steve's done the same thing. We're on a similar path really, which has been great because we're in the same boat in terms of lyrics and stuff.

So a lot of things like that were wake up calls. Even having grandchildren and just watching my daughter enlarging her family and everything; it just makes you really positive about things and want to show a positive side to how you're feeling, about where you're going. We've lived with the demons so long, we've found a way to live with them. We found a way to be at peace with our demons, in a way. Maybe not completely, but certainly to where we’re enjoying what we do and excited about it.

[When writing] "Running From The Ghost" it was easy to go, what was the ghost for us? At one point, we were very drug addicted in the '80s. And Steve in particular is super sober [now]. I mean, I still vape pot and stuff. I don’t know how he’s doing it, but it’s incredible. All I want to be able to do is have a couple of glasses of wine at a restaurant or something. I can do that now.

I think working with people that are super talented, you just feel confident. That is a big reason why you open up and express yourself more because you feel comfortable with what's around you.

Did you watch Danny Boyle's recent Sex Pistols mini-series?

I did, yes.

You had a couple of cameos; well, an actor who portrayed you did. How did you react to it? How accurate do you think it was in portraying that particular time period?

I love Jonesy’s book, I thought his book was incredible. It's probably one of the best bio books really. It was incredible and so open. I was looking forward to that a lot.

It was as if [the show] kind of stayed with Steve [Jones’ memoir] about halfway through, and then departed from it. [John] Lydon, for instance, was never someone I ever saw acting out; he's more like that today. I never saw him do something like jump up in the room and run around going crazy. The only time I saw him ever do that was when they signed the recording deal with Virgin in front of Buckingham Palace. Whereas Sid Vicious was always acting out; he was always doing something in a horrible way or shouting at someone. I don't remember John being like that. I remember him being much more introverted.

But then I watched interviews with some of the actors about coming to grips with the parts they were playing. And they were saying, we knew punk rock happened but just didn't know any of the details. So I thought well, there you go . If ["Pistol" is] informing a lot of people who wouldn't know anything about punk rock, maybe that's what's good about it.

Maybe down the road John Lydon will get the chance to do John's version of the Pistols story. Maybe someone will go a lot deeper into it and it won't be so surface. But maybe you needed this just to get people back in the flow.

We had punk and metal over here in the States, but it feels like England it was legitimately more dangerous. British society was much more rigid.

It never went [as] mega in America. It went big in England. It exploded when the Pistols did that interview with [TV host Bill] Grundy, that lorry truck driver put his boot through his own TV, and all the national papers had "the filth and the fury" [headlines].

We went from being unknown to being known overnight. We waited a year, Generation X. We even told them [record labels] no for nine months to a year. Every record company wanted their own punk rock group. So it went really mega in England, and it affected the whole country – the style, the fashions, everything. I mean, the Ramones were massive in England. Devo had a No. 1 song [in England] with "Satisfaction" in '77. Actually, Devo was as big as or bigger than the Pistols.

You were ahead of the pop-punk thing that happened in the late '90s, and a lot of it became tongue-in-cheek by then. It didn't have the same sense of rebelliousness as the original movement. It was more pop.

It had become a style. There was a famous book in England called Revolt Into Style — and that's what had happened, a revolt that turned into style which then they were able to duplicate in their own way. Even recently, Billie Joe [Armstrong] did his own version of "Gimme Some Truth," the Lennon song we covered way back in 1977.

When we initially were making [punk] music, it hadn't become accepted yet. It was still dangerous and turned into a style that people were used to. We were still breaking barriers.

You have a band called Generation Sex with Steve Jones and Paul Cook. I assume you all have an easier time playing Pistols and Gen X songs together now and not worrying about getting spit on like back in the '70s?

Yeah, definitely. When I got to America I told the group I was putting it together, "No one spits at the audience."

We had five years of being spat on [in the UK], and it was revolting. And they spat at you if they liked you. If they didn't like it they smashed your gear up. One night, I remember I saw blood on my T-shirt, and I think Joe Strummer got meningitis when spit went in his mouth.

You had to go through a lot to become successful, it wasn't like you just kind of got up there and did a couple of gigs. I don't think some young rock bands really get that today.

With punk going so mega in England, we definitely got a leg up. We still had a lot of work to get where we got to, and rightly so because you find out that you need to do that. A lot of groups in the old days would be together three to five years before they ever made a record, and that time is really important. In a way, what was great about punk rock for me was it was very much a learning period. I really learned a lot [about] recording music and being in a group and even writing songs.

Then when I came to America, it was a flow, really. I also really started to know what I wanted Billy Idol to be. It took me a little bit, but I kind of knew what I wanted Billy Idol to be. And even that took a while to let it marinate.

You and Miley Cyrus have developed a good working relationship in the last several years. How do you think her fans have responded to you, and your fans have responded to her?

I think they're into it. It's more the record company that she had didn't really get "Night Crawling"— it was one of the best songs on Plastic Hearts , and I don't think they understood that. They wanted to go with Dua Lipa, they wanted to go with the modern, young acts, and I don't think they realized that that song was resonating with her fans. Which is a shame really because, with Andrew Watt producing, it's a hit song.

But at the same time, I enjoyed doing it. It came out really good and it's very Billy Idol. In fact, I think it’s more Billy Idol than Miley Cyrus. I think it shows you where Andrew Watt was. He was excited about doing a Billy Idol track. She's fun to work with. She’s a really great person and she works at her singing — I watched her rehearsing for the Super Bowl performance she gave. She rehearsed all Saturday morning, all Saturday afternoon, and Sunday morning and it was that afternoon. I have to admire her fortitude. She really cares.

I remember when you went on " Viva La Bam " back in 2005 and decided to give Bam Margera’s Lamborghini a new sunroof by taking a power saw to it. Did he own that car? Was that a rental?

I think it was his car.

Did he get over it later on?

He loved it. [ Laughs ] He’s got a wacky sense of humor. He’s fantastic, actually. I’m really sorry to see what he's been going through just lately. He's going through a lot, and I wish him the best. He's a fantastic person, and it's a shame that he's struggling so much with his addictions. I know what it's like. It's not easy.

Musically, what is the synergy like with you guys during the past 10 years, doing Kings and Queens of the Underground and this new stuff? What is your working relationship like now in this more sober, older, mature version of you two as opposed to what it was like back in the '80s?

In lots of ways it’s not so different because we always wrote the songs together, we always talked about what we're going to do together. It was just that we were getting high at the same time.We're just not getting [that way now] but we're doing all the same things.

We're still talking about things, still [planning] things:What are we going to do next? How are we going to find new people to work with? We want to find new producers. Let's be a little bit more timely about putting stuff out.That part of our relationship is the same, you know what I mean? That never got affected. We just happened to be overloading in the '80s.

The relationship’s… matured and it's carrying on being fruitful, and I think that's pretty amazing. Really, most people don't get to this place. Usually, they hate each other by now. [ Laughs ] We also give each other space. We're not stopping each other doing things outside of what we’re working on together. All of that enables us to carry on working together. I love and admire him. I respect him. He's been fantastic. I mean, just standing there on stage with him is always a treat. And he’s got an immensely great sense of humor. I think that's another reason why we can hang together after all this time because we've got the sense of humor to enable us to go forward.

There's a lot of fan reaction videos online, and I noticed a lot of younger women like "Rebel Yell" because, unlike a lot of other '80s alpha male rock tunes, you're talking about satisfying your lover.

It was about my girlfriend at the time, Perri Lister. It was about how great I thought she was, how much I was in love with her, and how great women are, how powerful they are.

It was a bit of a feminist anthem in a weird way. It was all about how relationships can free you and add a lot to your life. It was a cry of love, nothing to do with the Civil War or anything like that. Perri was a big part of my life, a big part of being Billy Idol. I wanted to write about it. I'm glad that's the effect.

Is there something you hope people get out of the songs you've been doing over the last 10 years? Do you find yourself putting out a message that keeps repeating?

Well, I suppose, if anything, is that you can come to terms with your life, you can keep a hold of it. You can work your dreams into reality in a way and, look, a million years later, still be enjoying it.

The only reason I'm singing about getting out of the cage is because I kicked out of the cage years ago. I joined Generation X when I said to my parents, "I'm leaving university, and I'm joining a punk rock group." And they didn't even know what a punk rock group was. Years ago, I’d write things for myself that put me on this path, so that maybe in 2022 I could sing something like "Cage" and be owning this territory and really having a good time. This is the life I wanted.

The original UK punk movement challenged societal norms. Despite all the craziness going on throughout the world, it seems like a lot of modern rock bands are afraid to do what you guys were doing. Do you think we'll see a shift in that?

Yeah. Art usually reacts to things, so I would think eventually there will be a massive reaction to the pop music that’s taken over — the middle of the road music, and then this kind of right wing politics. There will be a massive reaction if there's not already one. I don’t know where it will come from exactly. You never know who's gonna do [it].

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Hear All Of The Best Country Solo Performance Nominees For The 2023 GRAMMY Awards

The 2023 GRAMMY Award nominees for Best Country Solo Performance highlight country music's newcomers and veterans, featuring hits from Kelsea Ballerini, Zach Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Maren Morris and Willie Nelson.

Country music's evolution is well represented in the 2023 GRAMMY nominees for Best Country Solo Performance. From crossover pop hooks to red-dirt outlaw roots, the genre's most celebrated elements are on full display — thanks to rising stars, leading ladies and country icons.

Longtime hitmaker Miranda Lambert delivered a soulful performance on the rootsy ballad "In His Arms," an arrangement as sparing as the windswept west Texas highlands where she co-wrote the song. Viral newcomer Zach Bryan dug into similar organic territory on the Oklahoma side of the Red River for "Something in the Orange," his voice accompanied with little more than an acoustic guitar.

Two of country's 2010s breakout stars are clearly still shining, too, as Maren Morris and Kelsea Ballerini both received Best Country Solo Performance GRAMMY nods. Morris channeled the determination that drove her leap-of-faith move from Texas to Nashville for the playful clap-along "Circles Around This Town," while Ballerini brought poppy hooks with a country edge on the infectiously upbeat "HEARTFIRST."

Rounding out the category is the one and only Willie Nelson, who paid tribute to his late friend Billy Joe Shaver with a cover of "Live Forever" — a fitting sentiment for the 89-year-old legend, who is approaching his eighth decade in the business.

As the excitement builds for the 2023 GRAMMYs on Feb. 5, 2023, let's take a closer look at this year's nominees for Best Country Solo Performance.

Kelsea Ballerini — "HEARTFIRST"

In the tradition of Shania Twain , Faith Hill and Carrie Underwood , Kelsea Ballerini represents Nashville's sunnier side — and her single "HEARTFIRST" is a slice of bright, uptempo, confectionary country-pop for the ages.

Ballerini sings about leaning into a carefree crush with her heart on her sleeve, pushing aside her reservations and taking a risk on love at first sight. The scene plays out in a bar room and a back seat, as she sweeps nimbly through the verses and into a shimmering chorus, when the narrator decides she's ready to "wake up in your T-shirt."

There are enough steel guitar licks to let you know you're listening to a country song, but the story and melody are universal. "HEARTFIRST" is Ballerini's third GRAMMY nod, but first in the Best Country Solo Performance category.

Zach Bryan — "Something In The Orange"

Zach Bryan blew into Music City seemingly from nowhere in 2017, when his original song "Heading South" — recorded on an iPhone — went viral. Then an active officer in the U.S. Navy, the Oklahoma native chased his muse through music during his downtime, striking a chord with country music fans on stark songs led by his acoustic guitar and affecting vocals.

After his honorable discharge in 2021, Bryan began his music career in earnest, and in 2022 released "Something in the Orange," a haunting ballad that stakes a convincing claim to the territory between Tyler Childers and Jason Isbell in both sonics and songwriting. Slashing slide guitar drives home the song's heartbreak, as Bryan pines for a lover whose tail lights have long since vanished over the horizon.

"Something In The Orange" marks Bryan's first-ever GRAMMY nomination.

Miranda Lambert — "In His Arms"

Miranda Lambert is the rare, chart-topping contemporary country artist who does more than pay lip service to the genre's rural American roots. "In His Arms" originally surfaced on 2021's The Marfa Tapes , a casual recording Lambert made with Jack Ingram and Jon Randall in Marfa, Texas — a tiny arts enclave in the middle of the west Texas high desert.

In this proper studio version — recorded for her 2022 album, Palomino — Lambert retains the structure and organic feel of the mostly acoustic song; light percussion and soothing atmospherics keep her emotive vocals front and center. A native Texan herself, Lambert sounds fully at home on "In His Arms."

Lambert is the only Best Country Solo Performance nominee who is nominated in all four Country Field categories in 2023. To date, Miranda Lambert has won 3 GRAMMYs and received 27 nominations overall.

Maren Morris — "Circles Around This Town"

When Maren Morris found herself uninspired and dealing with writer's block, she went back to what inspired her to move to Nashville nearly a decade ago — and out came "Circles Around This Town," the lead single from her 2022 album Humble Quest .

Written in one of her first in-person songwriting sessions since the pandemic, Morris has called "Circles Around This Town" her "most autobiographical song" to date; she even recreated her own teenage bedroom for the song's video. As she looks back to her Texas beginnings and the life she left for Nashville, Morris' voice soars over anthemic, yet easygoing production.

Morris last won a GRAMMY for Best Country Solo Performance in 2017, when her song "My Church" earned the singer her first GRAMMY. To date, Maren Morris has won one GRAMMY and received 17 nominations overall.

Willie Nelson — "Live Forever"

Country music icon Willie Nelson is no stranger to the GRAMMYs, and this year he aims to add to his collection of 10 gramophones. He earned another three nominations for 2023 — bringing his career total to 56 — including a Best Country Solo Performance nod for "Live Forever."

Nelson's performance of "Live Forever," the lead track of the 2022 tribute album Live Forever: A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver , is a faithful rendition of Shaver's signature song. Still, Nelson puts his own twist on the tune, recruiting Lucinda Williams for backing vocals and echoing the melody with the inimitable tone of his nylon-string Martin guitar.

Shaver, an outlaw country pioneer who passed in 2020 at 81 years old, never had any hits of his own during his lifetime. But plenty of his songs were still heard, thanks to stars like Elvis Presley , Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings . Nelson was a longtime friend and frequent collaborator of Shaver's — and now has a GRAMMY nom to show for it.

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Evanescence's Amy Lee and Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on moving to Nashville and joining forces

Lzzy Hale first heard Amy Lee’s voice the same way millions of others did: on the radio.

“I immediately had to turn it up,” Hale tells The Tennessean. “Like, ‘What is this? Oh my gosh, these creatures exist.’”

In 2003, Hale’s rock band Halestorm was struggling to find a record deal when Lee’s group Evanescence burst onto the scene with their debut album. Buoyed by the massive hits “Bring Me To Life” and “My Immortal,” it went on to sell 17 million copies.

“It gave me hope for being a contemporary, hard rock female in the business,” Hale says. “There had been about six years where we were shopping to labels and talking to people, and I kind of got the same sentence over and over again: ‘Oh no, we love what you do, but there really isn't a market right now for female-fronted rock.’ And then of course, Amy came out and blew the doors open.”

She’s telling this story while Lee, who’s also on the line, listens.

“I'm glad that worked out,” Lee says. “Because they were giving me the same line.”

Halestorm went on to become one of the biggest acts in modern rock, winning a Grammy in 2013 for a song from their gold-certified album “The Strange Case Of…” Nearly 20 years later, Hale has a new memory involving Lee’s voice.

Last month, she was on stage at the 12,000-seat Veterans Memorial Coliseum, seated at the piano to sing Halestorm’s ballad “Break In,” when Lee came out to join her.

“I heard your voice in my ears,” Hale tells Lee. “And then all of a sudden, you had your hand on my shoulder. It was hard not to feel the emotions that first night back.”

For the last four weeks, Halestorm and Evanescence have been on a co-headlining arena tour. It makes a highly anticipated stop this Friday at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, where Lee and Hale both now reside.

It’s not the first time the two bands have joined forces on the road, but returning to the stage after the pandemic shut the concert industry down feels uniquely fresh for both. Lee calls it “a celebration of survival.”

“I can't even tell you how good it feels to be back … we have really been dreaming of this moment.”

Planting roots in Nashville

While both artists had to hole up at home for a while, they at least got to do so in Music City. Hale found her way here in 2013 after her parents – she and her brother and bandmate were still “shamelessly” living at home even as the band found success – decided to move from their native Pennsylvania to Florida.

The band was keeping their guitars and gear stored in Nashville, “And me being a guitar player, I'm like, ‘Well, I need to go be near those,’” Hale says with a smile.

“We met some of our nearest and dearest friends within those first two weeks. Everyone was so friendly. Also, there's an incredible rock and metal scene out here that I had no idea (about). Because everybody in Pennsylvania is like, ‘Oh, what? You're going to be country now?’ It’s just so great to completely prove all those guys wrong.”

Lee arrived in Nashville in 2019 after 13 years in Brooklyn – “longer than I've lived anywhere.” She has a seven-year-old son and wanted to be closer to family in Arkansas.

“There has just been this real migration of our New York people moving to Nashville over the past to 10 years. And we're always like, ‘No, you're giving in! Don't give in! Just because we can't put our groceries in the car? You're wimping out!’ (laughs) We finally got to a point where, well, there's just so many reasons. ... This is our central hub where we've always gathered anyway. All our stuff is here. It was just one of those (moments) like, ‘OK, I have to give in.’ And we have been really grateful to be here.”

'I always had to be ready to fight'

Giving in or not, the move coincided with Lee and Evanescence springing back into action. Earlier this year, they released their first album of new material in a decade: “The Bitter Truth,” which debuted at No. 11 on the Billboard 200.

Hale is as busy as ever, too. She’s actually calling from Nashville’s Ocean Way Studio, where her band is putting the final touches – strings, specifically – on their next album, due in 2022.

They’re both invigorated by the latest wave of women-led rock bands, including the teens and 20-somethings in New York quartet Plush, who opened for them on the first leg of the tour (Los Angeles solo artist Lilith Czar joins them on the second half, including Nashville).

“They're so confident, as if they've been doing it for 10 years,” Lee says. “It's just been so inspiring to see them with their confidence, and not up there feeling the way I remember feeling, which was that I always had to be ready to fight. Ready to prove myself, to make sure everybody knew I was supposed to be there.”

These days, both acts are greeted by passionate crowds who aren’t just fans of their individual bands, but the sound they make together. Along with “Break In,” Hale is also joining Lee on a cover of Linkin Park’s “Heavy” during these shows, and their chemistry has left many fans clamoring for more collaborations. Their tour wraps December 18 in Worster, Mass., but it doesn’t sound like that’s the end of the road for these two.

“I think the sky's the limit,” Hale says.

Evanescence and Halestorm perform at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Friday, December 3. The show starts at 7 p.m., and tickets start at $25.

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Evanescence and Halestorm Announce Co-Headlining U.S. Tour

Amy Lee of Evanescence and Lzzy Hale of Halestorm performing live.

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Evanescence and Halestorm are welcoming back live music with a lengthy fall U.S. arena tour

Evanescence and Halestorm have announced a massive co-headlining U.S. arena tour this fall. The joint trek is set to being Nov. 5 in Portland, Oregon, and will run through a Dec. 18 date in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Evanescence is hitting the road behind their new album, The Bitter Truth, which features Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale on the song, “Use My Voice.” Chances are, Hale and Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee will perform the song together on tour. Halestorm released their latest studio album in 2018, “Viciousm,” and have been working on a new album over the past year.

“Words can’t express how excited we are to go back on tour with our friends and rock out again,” Amy Lee said. “We’ve been building this new music in isolation for over a year and dreaming of what it will be like to finally play it live, and to experience it together with our fans for the first time. We can’t wait to see you there!”

“We have all been mourning the loss of live music, and patiently waiting, looking toward an uncertain future,” Hale added. “Finally, the future looks bright and I can’t think of a better way to break the silence than with our dear friends in Evanescence.”

Hale also said that she can “only imagine how it will feel to step on stage again night after night, and reconnect with all of the fans whom I’ve missed so much. Get ready for intense emotions, loud performances, and a newly exhilarated energy unlike any tour we’ve experienced in the past. Looking forward to seeing you all!”

Tickets for all of the dates will go on sale to the general public starting this Friday (May 14) at 10 a.m. local time. For ticket details, head to Evanescence.com or HalestormRocks.com .

Evanescence and Halestorm 2021 Tour Dates:

11/05 – Portland, OR @ Veterans Memorial Coliseum 11/07 – Seattle, WA @ Climate Pledge Arena 11/09 – San Jose, CA @ SAP Center at San Jose 11/12 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas – The Chelsea 11/13 – San Diego, CA @ San Diego State University – Viejas Arena 11/15 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Federal Theatre 11/20 – Fort Worth, TX @ Dickies Arena 12/02 – Duluth, GA @ Infinite Energy Arena 12/05 – Saint Louis, MO @ Saint Louis University – Chaifetz Arena 12/11 – Detroit, MI @ Little Caesars Arena 12/12 – Cincinnati, OH @ Heritage Bank Center 12/14 – Pittsburgh, PA @ University of Pittsburgh – Petersen Events Center 12/15 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center 12/17 – Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion 12/18 – Worcester, MA @ DCU Center

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EVANESCENCE's AMY LEE On HALESTORM's LZZY HALE: 'We Love Each Other, And We Get Along'

EVANESCENCE and HALESTORM will share stages this fall with a new tour that brings together two of the hardest-rocking women in the genre, EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee and HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale . Speaking to Matt Pinfield for the latest installment of 95.5 KLOS 's "New & Approved" music series, Lee stated about her personal friendship with Hale : "It started with music. It worked out for us to go do some shows together. We hadn't met in person before signing up to do a tour together in 2012. And I remember we had some kind of joint press or meet-and-greet to do on that first day. And I went in there, like, 'Hey,' before the fans came in. And we just clicked immediately. She's really humble and really down to earth. She doesn't take all the glory too seriously. She takes herself seriously and respects herself. She's just a really cool person.

"I feel like it takes something… Obviously, being a good musician and being a good songwriter, it's all key, but there's something deeper that makes the real pros, like Lzzy ," she continued. "And it comes from just a good heart — somebody with their shit in order, and their priorities are straight.

"We love each other, and we get along," Amy added. "We play hard and we work hard. So I'm very much looking forward… I'm looking forward to playing live music in general; I mean, everybody is. Everybody's been missing it so bad. But to be able to go back out for our first [tour] out with a whole group of people that we're friends with — the crew, the band, we love each other, all of us. So it's gonna be a really good time."

Produced by Live Nation , the The EVANESCENCE and HALESTORM tour will kick off Friday, November 5 in Portland, Oregon, and take the bands to arenas across the country before wrapping up in the Northeast right before the holidays. PLUSH will be joining for the first leg, and LILITH CZAR will open the shows for the second.

EVANESCENCE 's latest album, "The Bitter Truth" , debuted in March as the #1 Current Rock and Alternative album in the U.S., and the band will bring audiences a high-octane rock energy to match the album, which the Los Angeles Times hailed as their "fiercest songs to date." Consequence Of Sound said of "The Bitter Truth" , " Amy Lee and company triumphantly return … and it's certainly worth the wait," and the shows with HALESTORM this winter will further prove it.

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Amy Lee of Evanescence, Lzzy Hale of Halestorm know 'rock 'n' roll is very much alive.'

UPDATE: Evanescence announced via Instagram on Monday, Dec. 13 that shows with Halestorm were being rescheduled to January due to "multiple positive COVID tests in our touring party." The bands' New Jersey performances have been rescheduled for Jan. 16 at the BB&T Pavilion in Camden and Jan. 21 at the Prudential Center in Newark.

As the live music scene returns with a vengeance, arena-filling hard rockers Evanescence and Halestorm are prepared to finally hit New Jersey.

“We are so ready," said Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee. "Both of us have been in the creative zone, making new albums and doing what we can with the time. But I am so excited to get back on stage. It’s going to be surreal.”

“Especially in Jersey, man," added Halestorm singer and guitarist Lzzy Hale. "I grew up in Pennsylvania, I know all about you dirty Jerseys. Rock 'n' roll is very much alive in Jersey, always has been. I feel like it’s going to be kind of a family reunion of sorts. There are going to be a lot of people that come out of the woodwork for those shows, so it’s going to be fun.”

Lee, Hale and company kicked off their 21-date fall tour last month. They play the Prudential Center in Newark on Wednesday, Dec. 15, and the BB&T Pavilion in Camden on Friday, Dec. 17, with support from Lilth Czar.

“My favorite tours are the tours that I can go out and I have to step up my game because whoever is on this tour with me is obviously on 11," said Hale. "So it just makes me a better performer, it makes me a better musician.”

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The 2021 tour is just the latest step in the nearly decade-long friendship between the two singers.

“When we first toured together in 2012 and really got to know each other on that tour, I was so blown away and inspired watching Lzzy sing every night, honestly," said Lee. "Everybody’s different — we’re girls in rock bands but our music isn’t exactly the same — (and) it’s cool to get inspired by people.

"It’s rare to have the opportunity, still, honestly, to be on tour with somebody that is a woman fronting a rock band and that has that incredible, killer voice. ... I think both of us like to watch and learn from each other and get inspired by each other, and it’s cool to support each other.”

The tour is happening during a very active period for both Evanescence and Halestorm.

In March, Lee and her band released "The Bitter Truth" LP, their first album in a decade. Halestorm released a new single, "Back From the Dead," in August, and Hale told the Asbury Park Press in October that the band was in the 11th hour of work on its latest album, expected to be released next year.

The two singers have also found time to collaborate in the studio, with Lee appearing on Halestorm's 2020 "Reimagined" EP and Hale contributing vocals to the "Bitter Truth" single "Use My Voice."

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"Use My Voice," a righteous blast of advocacy and visibility released last August, was used by Evanescence to advocate for voter registration and engagement via a partnership with non-partisan, nonprofit organization HeadCount.

“This has been a time to not hold anything back and to really put perspectives in place, see what’s really important to us, see what’s really important in the world and have to draw some lines in the sand for everybody in a way that is, for me, about positive change," said Lee. "There are things that need to change, and that’s not easy."

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Lee said the "Use My Voice" collaboration — which featured Taylor Momsen, Sharon den Adel of Within Temptation, Deena Jakoub of VERIDIA and Lindsey Stirling in addition to Hale — “absolutely felt like something bigger than myself.”

Hale said she was "incredibly honored" to appear on the song.

"That’s what art is supposed to do," Hale said. "Art has always been the Northern Star for change, because music has that power. One song can change your life or change your course of action or make you look at something in a different way. So the fact that Amy decided to put that out there into the world, I think that helped a lot of people, and just to be a part of it was incredible.”

Alex Biese has been writing about art, entertainment, culture and news on a local and national level for more than 15 years.

Evanescence's Amy Lee and Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on Pre-Tour Rituals, Stage Fright, Joy of Singing Together

It's almost been a decade since two of the most famous women in heavy rock met for the first time. In a backstage greenroom during 2012's Carnival of Madness, Evanescence's Amy Lee and Halestorm's Lzzy Hale ignited an immediate friendship, recognizing in one another a kindred spirit and talent. Even with their significantly differing styles and approaches in singing, it wouldn't be hyperbole to say that Lee and Hale are among some of the planet's very best vocalists. And when those two magnificent tectonic forces eventually came together, they made a volcano.

Last year, fans were given a taste of the pair's combined power when Lee joined Halestorm for a collaborative version of the band's single " Break In ," and Hale returned the favor when she joined a chorus of some of rock's best leading ladies for Evanescence's pre-election anthem " Use My Voice ." Now, after 10 years of friendship and mutual admiration, the two bands are about to embark on a joint arena tour , beginning November 5th in Portland and spanning 15 cities across the States. Notably, it will be the first opportunity for Evanescence diehards to experience in-person songs from the group's first album in a decade, 2021's The Bitter Truth .

Not long before the kickoff, Revolver spoke to Lee and Hale about their friendship and collaborations and the adventures that lay ahead.

DO EITHER OF YOU HAVE PRE-TOUR RITUALS? AMY LEE I think it's definitely important for people to break bread. We spend a lot of time together before tour, getting ready for it and starting to live a little bit like a family. We do a lot of rehearsals. LZZY HALE It's mainly just practicing and trying to remember all the new stuff.

DO YOU TWO LIVE CLOSE TO EACH OTHER? HALE We do now actually. My bandmates and I have been living in Nashville for a second. We moved there on a whim and then fell in love with it. Then all of a sudden we were like, "Woah, Amy's moved here, too!" It kind of felt like an all-roads-lead-to-Nashville moment. LEE It's been a blessing to be here, to be near Nick Raskulinecz [who produced Evanescence's latest album, The Bitter Truth ] so we were able to still work together over the pandemic. Nashville has been Evanescence's hub for practicing and getting together and recording for quite a long time.

ARE EITHER OF YOU NERVOUS ABOUT RETURNING TO THE TOURING LIFESTYLE AFTER BEING IN SUCH AN INSULAR AND CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT OVER LOCKDOWN? LEE Lzzy's been out a bit. She's played some shows and festivals, so she's dipped her toe in the water. For me, it's been two years since we've played a show, so that alone — you get the nerves coming back. Every time that it's been a long time between shows for us, five seconds after stepping into the light, it just washes over you and everything's awesome and it feels so good to be back onstage. But to what you said, we've been so locked down and so isolated, and there have been so many things to worry about, so it's going to be very interesting getting back out there and being social again. I watched the movie What About Bob last night just randomly — I love that movie — the whole intro is about him just trying to leave his apartment, and I was cracking up because I was like, "That's how I feel coming back after COVID." HALE We've all become Bob. Halestorm and I had a two-week run, which was our first time out, [and] we had a strict manifesto. Everybody stayed safe, nobody got sick so it was a trial run, but the biggest difference is the nerves. For years and years, I hadn't necessarily gotten it totally under control — as soon as someone says, "10 minutes to show time," I freak out a little bit. I like that, and I like that fire that's still there — but those nerves have intensified. It's not like I ever took anything for granted before, but now I just appreciate every single moment, from walking onstage to looking at people's faces and reacting to the crowd. It's just so important to me now. There's this space that I'm able to live in and there's not a moment that goes by when I'm not giving everything, because now I know at any point in time it can be stolen from me again. You're just living in the now and playing every show like it's your last. In that way, it's actually kind of beautiful. This is going to be a very intense tour.

SINCE YOU WERE FORCED TO GET TO KNOW WHO YOU WERE WITHOUT A STAGE DURING THE PANDEMIC, WILL YOU BE RETURNING TO IT DIFFERENTLY? HALE I hadn't spent a whole lot of time with not Lzzy but Elizabeth, on my couch in my home, as a normal person in a long time. I had to get to know her a little bit and it was kind of scary. Like, what am I without this? Who am I without the stage and the people I see every day, my road family? I got reintroduced, I guess, to my former self before the band ever started. We joke about that a lot, once we started the band, I kind of stopped growing in a lot of other ways, like, just being a young adult. Now I'm not a young adult anymore so I'm like, Wait a minute! I still need to mature! So, I'm using that as a weapon. I've gotten a little bit more open with who I am and how I feel as a person versus just the rock star onstage. So now I'm bringing her with me on tour. I'll use it as a superpower. It's given me a gift to take with me into this new world. LEE I'm echoing a lot of that. It's interesting for us because we hadn't put out a full new album of new music in a decade, then when we finally did put our album out it was during 2020. But again, it forced me to really look in because there was nowhere else to look, and taking that and putting it into the creation of new music is just the best. It really allows you to make it the deepest, the most honest and the most vulnerable and true. Going out on tour again now after that, it's the first time we're going out with an arsenal of new music that is extremely close to all of our hearts, and a recent representation of who we are right now. That's what all of us are looking forward to — being a true and recent and raw representation of ourselves. HALE That's just the power of music, isn't it? I think with Amy and I, it took the music to save us again, and to be like, this is where we're supposed to be. LEE And to remember that it's worth fighting for. It wasn't easy to do. It's been hard through this time to keep it going and to find a way to get together safely and to find a way to push it forward when it's without all of the typical comforts that we have. It made me, and I think all of us, remember how much it's really worth and how much we're willing to work extra hard to make it happen because it's just truly such a special thing.

LZZY, YOU JUST CAME OUT OF RECORDING HALESTORM'S FIFTH ALBUM, RIGHT? HALE Yep. It's been very intense, we started writing for this record shortly before lockdown happened. It was a long time before we were actually able to get into the studio, and once we got in, we were constantly wondering whether we were going to be locked down again. So it feels like it's been a lifetime making this record. The fact we're at the end of it is just such a relief. Same thing with what Amy was saying, this is going to be a very intense record because of all of this, but I think it needed to happen that way. I don't think there was any other way around it. I'm just so excited for people to hear it and to gift it to the world because I think there are a lot of songs on here that our collective fan bases need to hear. Now I just have to be patient for it to come out even though I wish I could just leak it to the world!

KNOWING THAT YOU WERE JUST ABOUT TO EMBARK ON A BIG ARENA TOUR, DID THAT AFFECT THE ENERGY IN THE STUDIO AND THE SONGS THEMSELVES? HALE Absolutely, because there was no other outlet. Usually when we make a record we do some small runs during the time that we're making the record. We like doing that so we can try and keep up with the energy, then when we went onstage we found that we'd be thinking about these new songs and it would help us go back into work mode. But we didn't have that luxury this time, so all of the energy and everything we put into these new songs was more or less a replacement for the stage. We had to kind of pretend and really visualize how these songs were gonna be onstage. In that way, we ended up creating a lot of moments within the songs that normally we'd have to be out on tour to work out, but now they're built in. It's just gonna be a different record cycle for us — we're gonna come out swingin'

AMY, COLLABORATION IN GENERAL SEEMS TO BE A RELATIVELY RECENT DEVELOPMENT FOR EVANESCENCE. WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO BRANCH OUT? LEE I've definitely become someone who loves it more as I've grown up. I was a little bit, or a lot, resistant to that stuff in the beginning because I felt like everybody was trying to jump in and write my songs for me. There were a lot of people around who didn't have my best interests at heart, so I had to be defensive in the really early days. But then the more I started branching out and doing more things, the more I realized that collaboration can lead you to do something much bigger than yourself, which is something I've always wanted to do — it's why I started a band in the first place. I've learned that I can see and tap into different things in myself and see the beauty from others that I work with. You get something that you couldn't do on your own. You can make something bigger and better and new. During the pandemic in particular, right at the beginning of it, I think we all were really craving connection, everyone creative was missing each other. So, I did little collaborations all over the place with Lzzy and Lindsey Sterling and Body Count and Bring Me the Horizon, and found ways to tap into different kinds of creativity that were just remote. It was really beautiful and fulfilling and helpful for me to know that i wasn't completely alone.

I love touring with Lzzy, and I love touring with people that I admire, people that make great music first of all, but also people who are great to be around. Lzzy's a great professional and we like hanging out together. I think when you find that thing — which is the same way we go about putting our teams together — when you find someone that's good at what they do and great to be around, that's the person you need to net. You need to grab them!

WHAT IS IT THAT YOU ENJOY SO MUCH ABOUT SINGING WITH ONE ANOTHER? HALE With Amy, she's an otherworldly talent. Alice Cooper once told me that you can't teach charisma, you can't teach that intangible thing that makes you great, and Amy has that, she was born with it. You can teach people how to sing, but you can't teach people that. When Amy sings she reaches into your soul and squeezes it and doesn't let go until the song is over and you're like, "What just happened to me?!" For me, from a technical standpoint, it's effortless. LEE It is not. [ Laughs ] HALE Now that being said, as a singer myself, I know how hard you work, but you make it feel effortless, and that obviously takes paying attention to your craft, knowing your breathing techniques and your resonance areas and how to navigate through them and also how to take care of yourself, especially on the road so you're not tiring yourself out. That takes a lot of work. It takes a lot of discipline and getting to know your body and knowing when and where to hit it or lay back on it, how to get yourself through a show night after night after night. Both Amy and I don't mime. We're not up there lip-syncing to tracks, so there's a whole other skill set that goes with that. I absolutely admire Amy for never straying from that over the years. For me, I know I'm really proud to get up there and actually sing, to know how to use my voice every single night. Collaborating with Amy is so much fun because I know that she's on that top level and that she cares. LEE I'll put it simply, when we're singing together — our voices are different but similar in range — I end up not hearing the difference between us. We're singing different notes but when we both lock in it feels like being a part of a choir. You feel something happening and you know you're a part of it. You wonder if it'll keep going even after you stop. It's just very cool to be so in sync with a live singer. I think both of us are just used to locking in with our own vocals on a track and syncing up perfect background vocals to what we just did, but to have that happening in real time with two different voices is just really special. It's not something I get to experience often and it's just a complete pleasure. HALE It's kind of like a dance, too, we're waltzing together and we have to be listening to each other and the dynamics, the ebb and flow. Can you dance with your partner? LEE And that takes trust. We both trust each other. We both know that the other person has got it, so you're able to lose yourself in it.

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Music + concerts, music + concerts | evanescence’s amy lee and halestorm’s lzzy hale talk women who rock ahead of tour, the tour stops at youtube theater in inglewood wednesday, nov. 10 and viejas arena in san diego saturday, nov. 13..

After a year and a half of being cooped up, Amy Lee of Evanescence and Lzzy Hale of Halestorm are getting their bands together and hitting the road.

Both bands worked on fresh material during the pandemic and they’ll be performing it live for the first time on a co-headlining tour that comes to the new YouTube Theater at Hollywood Park in Inglewood Wednesday, Nov. 10 and Viejas Arena at San Diego State University Saturday, Nov. 13.

“It’s so exciting and feels like we decided on this tour so long ago, but it’s been a lot of patience and waiting for it to actually happen,” Lee said during a recent Zoom interview with Hale from their respective homes in Nashville.

“We start rehearsals this week and I have a lot of emotions,” Lee continued, noting that she hadn’t seen Evanescence guitarist Jen Majura in person since the band finished the album because Majura was stuck in Germany due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “These shows will be our first live shows back and not livestreaming and virtual, so I’m so excited to be doing this. I’m going to try to hold back my emotions, but I’ll be concentrating on the new music, too. That might just save me.”

Rock bands Evanescence (pictured) and Halestorm are out on a fall tour that is coming to YouTube Theater in Inglewood Nov. 10 and Viejas Arena in San Diego Nov. 13. (Photo by Nick Fancher)

Rock bands Halestorm (pictured) and Evanescence are out on a fall tour that is coming to YouTube Theater in Inglewood Nov. 10 and Viejas Arena in San Diego Nov. 13. (Photo by Jimmy Fontaine)

Rock bands Evanescence (vocalist Amy Lee pictured) and Halestorm are out on a fall tour that is coming to YouTube Theater in Inglewood Nov. 10 and Viejas Arena in San Diego Nov. 13. (Photo by Nick Fancher)

While Evanescence dropped its first new album in a decade, “The Bitter Truth,” back in March, Halestorm is currently putting the finishing touches on its forthcoming record and has already added its latest single, “Back from the Dead,” into its setlist.

“I don’t think I am the same person I was when I started writing the songs for this record,” Hale said, adding that much of the writing had been done pre-pandemic. But shutdown kept the band in the studio and continuously writing.

“We wrote a lot and threw a lot away; we recorded a lot and threw a lot away,” she continued. “New stuff just rose to the surface and the album began shaping itself into what it needed to be. It was truly life-saving to have that outlet and that direction during that time and we put everything we had into it so it’s going to be a barn burner because of that.”

Lee’s also grateful to have been able to make music during the pandemic. If anything, the extra time and effort put into the album reignited her passion for creation, especially with a timely song like “Use My Voice.”

“It felt good to have music and to have a voice to rage against the world,” she said. “Last year, everything was so uncertain and that feeling didn’t just go away. We really needed something to believe in, to cling to and to work towards so we didn’t just feel like we were merely existing. This gave us a purpose and a voice in this whirlwind storm of pain and loss.

“It felt really good to make a statement with ‘Use My Voice,’ to do something positive for the world and encourage people to vote. I think everyone has a lot of pent-up frustration for a million different reasons, so the music was our lifesaver and we love this album so much because we did pour our hearts into it. We realized all of a sudden how much more we wanted it, how much the music matters and that we were willing to fight for it. We had to learn new ways to collaborate and get together and we made videos ourselves and did whatever it took and to find that fire still there, that was good for me and good for the music.”

Though they had crossed paths previously, Lee and Hale met when their bands landed on a package tour together back in 2012. The pair bonded on the road and enjoyed watching each other perform night after night. Lee guests on the track “Break In” on Halestorm’s 2020 “Reimagined” EP and Hale lent backing vocals to “Use My Voice” and appears in the music video.

“Amy is just special,” Hale said. “There’s something otherworldly that happens when we get together and we put our voices together. It’s interesting because we have two different styles and two different voices, but when we come together, there’s something magical that happens. So I’m looking forward to more of that on this tour.”

At the time of our interview, they were still putting together the setlists for the outing but confirmed the pair will find time to share the stage. Both women said they were excited about having two female-fronted bands on a co-headlining tour and that they were able to bring out two female supporting acts — South African alternative rock band Plush and singer-songwriter Lilith Czar (Juliette Simms) — as well.

“The fact that we can lift up our fellow women in rock, where we’re not the most common type in that regard, I think it’s so awesome that we can show that support and give each other a leg up,” Lee said. “It wasn’t easy for Lzzy or I to make it this far and so at least, in terms of choosing opening bands, we wanted to pay that forward in a big way.

“Especially when the music is good, that is first and foremost, but we’re bringing it with this big show.”

Hale agreed.

“I’ve gotten to share the stage with Joan Jett and Lita Ford and I’ve gotten to talk to Pat Benatar and every single time I meet them, I thank them for not giving up,” Hale said. “Because if they did, the storyline would have been, ‘Oh, they were trying to make it in the music business and it got too hard, no one took them seriously and they gave up.’ That would be our narrative. But these women who came before us gave us hope.

“With Amy and I and how long we’ve been doing our craft and all the hurdles and doors we’ve had to literally beat down to do what we love, by us just being on stage we’re able to inspire other young women who may not see themselves in any of the other performers. The fact that we can be that for them is really important. I’m just realizing that this tour is so much more than us getting up there and swinging our hair around,” she said. “It really means something to people.”

Evanescence & Halestorm

With: Plush and Lilith Czar

When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10

Where: YouTube Theater, 1011 S. Stadium Drive, Inglewood

Tickets: $39.50-$399 at 800-745-3000 or Ticketmaster.com

Also: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13 at Viejas Arena at San Diego State University, 5500 Canyon Crest Drive, San Diego. $39.50-$129.50 at Ticketmaster.com .

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We got Evanescence's Amy Lee and Halestorm's Lzzy Hale on the phone before Cincinnati show

Just as Amy Lee and Lzzy Hale are co-headliners, they’re also co-interviewees.

Lee, the lead singer of Evanescence, and Hale, the lead singer of Halestorm, teamed up for an arena tour, and when it came time to do phone interviews to promote it, neither was going to put the burden solely on the other.

Taking turns singing the praises of each other, Lee and Hale made it clear why going out on the road in partnership is all upside.

Question: When did you two first discuss the possibility of doing this tour together?

Lee: I don’t remember how it came up. It was just this really natural choice. We both had to cancel and postpone quite a bit over the past couple of years, and when it finally got to be a time where it’s like, “OK, I think we can really, honestly book a U.S. tour by November,” it was a very natural, beautiful, wonderful “yes, that’s what I want to do most of all” idea, to have it be with Halestorm. We love touring together. We love singing together. We like hanging out with each other. All our bands get along. This is a time as never before to just say exactly what you want and make it happen because there’s no looking back. Seize the day. I’m going to tour with my favorite band to tour with, Halestorm.

Hale: I think we’ve been talking about it since 2012, the last time we actually toured together. As you know we’re both busy ladies, so it’s like “bucket list, what’s the best thing here?” I couldn’t imagine a better tour, to be like, “let’s get back out there.” It’s gonna be fun.

Q: It’s rare for two co-headliners of an arena tour to team up to do a phone interview together like this. Usually, conflicting schedules or conflicting egos wouldn’t allow for it. Why do you want to share the spotlight?

Lee: It just feels completely empowering and awesome. We’re a certain kind of people that like working with other talented people. On a creative level, when we’ve worked together, I feel challenged by Lzzy because she’s so talented. It’s an inspirational thing. When you can work with somebody like that who inspires you, it’s the best. I can’t imagine not wanting to.

Hale: I love her, and I think it’s important for not only the boys that love our music but especially the little girls to kind of see us united, because there’s always been this misunderstanding that girls don’t want to share the spotlight together, and it’s really important for us to show that’s not true, and that united front I think will inspire other girls to break that stigma.

Q: There’s lots of talk in the press releases for the tour about the rarity of two female artists headlining a tour of this size. Are the milestones you achieve as female artists something you think is important to make note of, or would you prefer to just be judged by your music, and leave gender out of the discussion?

Hale: I’m going to steal one of Amy’s lines, where she doesn’t want to be the greatest woman of all time, she wants to be the greatest of all time, and I think that both of us have always had that mission statement. It’s something to talk about, so the press likes to talk about it, so it is a thing, and I’m not going to say it’s not a thing. But I think that something we’ve seen on the front lines of our genre is that this music, this heavy music, is absolutely genderless. There’s all walks of life, all ages, all genders. A rock show doesn’t care if you’re a boy or a girl. We’re all the same there. This is our communion. This is our fellowship. Especially after everything that everybody has gone through over the past... it feels like a million years... I think it’s important for everybody to put aside those differences and really just celebrate that we’re all here to be together.

Q: Does doing this tour together have more to do with your friendship or with the way each band’s music fits with the other’s?

Lee: I think those go hand in hand. It’s really both. Any opportunity to work with somebody that musically and on a real-life level I love is a special thing that I wouldn’t want to waste, so there’s that. But I think our music works really well together. Our fans -– Halestorm fans and Evanescence fans – have loved and talked about our 2012 tour and asked us to do it again ever since. They’re not all the same. Some of them are from one team or the other but we all just get along so well. Combining those two worlds is a beautiful thing.

Hale: I can’t imagine anybody in this world who doesn’t know who Evanescence is. Our fanbase will have such an amazing time being with their brothers and sisters from that other army. With our forces combined, this will be big.

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Amy Lee and Lzzy Hale pour passion into Evanescence/Halestorm tour

You know those shows where you go, just a little concerned about whether the singer is going to be able to pull off the vocals?

That should not be a concern with Evanescence and Halestorm, who have joined forces in what they call "one of the biggest female-fronted tours in years."

This is a meeting of powerhouse singers with Amy Lee, who fronts goth-metal heavies Evanescence, and Lzzy Hale, who leads hard-rockers Halestorm.

Evanescence is touring behind emotionally charged fifth album "The Bitter Truth," the band's new first material in 10 years. Halestorm just came out roaring with "Back From The Dead," the first single from a new album coming in 2022.

The two singers jumped on a recent Zoom call to talk about the tour.

Q: So, you've been out on this tour for a while. How is it going?

Hale: It's amazing. It's so very magical and it feels so great to be back on stage. Nobody's holding anything back, we're living every moment like it could be taken away from us ... again.

Lee: Totally. It's amazing to be back and it's amazing to be back with people we love hanging out with and are inspiring to watch.

Q: Tell me how you got to know each other. It goes back to back to 2012, right?

Hale: Yeah, we met back on the Carnival of Madness Tour. Obviously, we had heard of each other before then but had never gotten the chance to meet. As all of us touring bands get to do, unlike normal people, we met on the road and we hit it off instantly. It was amazing to find a comrade, because we have very similar paths. Even though the boys in our bands are all allies, they don't have the same timeline as we do. It was very fulfilling, and we've kept in touch ever since.

Q: What are those similarities, other than being women running bands with a bunch of guys?

Lee: Both of us have musician dads and got into music through our parents. My dad was a radio DJ for 30 years and also played guitar and stuff and made it a point to get me excited about music and let me play with his records at work and teach me how to play guitar a little bit. Just being who we are and getting into music and, yeah, being a little bit different for being a female, I really saw that as a strength and something that would make us different, and that's good. It's interesting when you see other people's perspective, of seeing different as a bad thing, that industry mindset of, "Well, if it's not like something else, we're afraid of it," because all my favorite bands and artists did something that stood out, that was unique and different. They weren't following in somebody's footsteps, exactly. You need to be who you really are, so both of us, I think, we had to fight our own fight that way. ... And we both won.

Q: Do you have shared influences, or do you come from different musical worlds in that way?

Hale: Some shared but some are completely different. We both love the Beatles! And Janet Jackson. The full array. No, Amy has introduced me to a lot of things. During the '90s I was kind of a weird kid. I was listening to Alice Cooper and Dio when I was like 11 — again, my dad's influence. He was a bass player back in the day. But Amy and I both own this genre because it's what we like to listen to. It has nothing to do with gender. It's nice to have a friend that understands that, being a woman and owning this hard rock genre. My first influences were like a lot of '80s dude rock, and then I kind of missed the '90s so I went right from the '80s to early 2000s rock. And then when I met my guitar player he was like, "Dude, you gotta listen to Soundgarden and STP," and it was like, "Oh this is rad." So, I have some kind of a strange timeline.

Q: I've asked a lot of female artists about their influences and you expect them to say, like, Grace Slick or Ann Wilson or Stevie Nicks, and they so often will say, like, Robert Plant, or you, just now, the Beatles.

Lee: It's what Lzzy said. It's not about gender. Those women are empowering and are part of the reason that we're here, and totally rad. But it's more about the music than anything so superficial or physical as what you look like or what you come from, necessarily. It's cool what Lzzy said, because I was a weird kid, music-style wise, growing up too but in a very different way, because I was super grunge. I loved alternative music — big-time Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Veruca Salt, Garbage. Bjork is my favorite artist of all time. But also I was inspired by very dramatic classical music, big into Beethoven and Mozart and was studying classical piano, so I was a nerd on that level. I went to a prep school and I was one of the only kids who liked what I liked at all. It's interesting how that is, when you have that feeling that you have something that's just your own, your own discovery with music. It makes it special.

Q: Amy, there was a long wait for new Evanescence material, and then you got this album out in March. How do you define this record, and was it a relief to get it out?

Lee: It's been very life-giving, all of it, the whole creation of it, and during a time when there has been so much anxiety and uncertainty and frustration and angst. There were so many things that we needed to get out, that I needed to get out. We started making the album in 2019 and we had a few songs. We had started recording in 2020, and we had recorded four, but we didn't have the rest of it written. We blew all our rules out the window and said, "Let's just go in and record some, go out on tour for a while, come back and write some more," and I'm so glad that we did that. I'm into reinventing the process to keep things fresh and exciting, and we have done that in a lot of ways this time, and we did it because we had to do it. It was the pandemic and we were all stuck apart, living all over the world, and the isolation for me is part of my process. We all kind of used it to pour all those big feelings into the music, and for me this album has a new sense of purpose that's beyond myself, because I have just been feeling the weight of the world and also a communion with other humans, as we have all been fighting against, really, the same thing through this pandemic and just feeling connected to people through the sense of loss. Because I have experienced that before in my life, in a very great way. I just lost my brother in 2018 and was really still processing that big time through the writing of the album. The music on this album is about connecting with myself, with each other, with my band, also just with other people all over the world.

Q: What was it like to get back on stage?

Lee: It was just really the best release. It felt so good. We were all nervous. We were all hitting the gym hardcore that week and walking on stage like, "Oh God. I hope I can still do this ... after wearing sweatpants for two years."

Q: Lzzy, what's going on with Halestorm? You came out strong with "Back from the Dead."

Hale: Very similar to what Amy was saying, we started writing for this album before lockdown and then after the pandemic hit, really, all those songs just seemed very unimportant, just a little trite, so we kind of went back to the drawing board, and what you'll be hearing — we're done with the album and we're actually getting mixes daily as we speak — is everything that we were feeling, this roller coaster ride of emotions I was going through, mental health-wise when all of a sudden, this thing, this touring life that was 90% of your identity was stolen from you, and you have to put all that energy somewhere else, so we just put all of that into the record. And I hate saying this out loud, but I feel like this is the best record we've done, because we didn't have the other thing to fall back on and we were faced with an unknown future, so it's just is this roller coaster of loss and how to find yourself again and how do you use that as your superpower. I think for the fans and anybody who gets this record, I think they're going to be able to see themselves in that same ride that we were all on, because we're just writing very much in the now. We also switched up the recording process, where I did all my vocals first and we ended up building the tracks around that, so it has a different energy to it, because I guess we were kind of building the pyramid upside down, and I'm just leading the charge, and it's really fun to listen to it that way. Also, my little brother's in the band and our crazy drummer, and we just all went for "Go big or go home," because we weren't sure if we were going to be able to go out and do this the normal way again. So it's a banger of a record and I cannot wait for it.

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Evanescence’s Amy Lee and Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale Duet on Linkin Park Cover at Tour Kickoff: Watch

In addition to Linkin Park's "Heavy," the show featured Lee joining Halestorm for the song "Break In"

When Evanescence and Halestorm announced a co-headlining tour earlier this year, thoughts of powerhouse vocalists Amy Lee and Lzzy Hale sharing the stage together likely ran through fans’ minds. And that’s exactly what happened when the two frontwomen duetted on a cover of Linkin Park ’s “Heavy” at the tour kickoff on Friday (November 5th) in Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon.

During Evanescence’s set, Lee welcomed Hale to the stage, with the former sitting at the piano. They started by offering a haunting take on the Linkin Park track, before the rest of the band kicked in to turn it into a hard-rocking version of the song, as the two singers delivered their vocals side by side.

“Heavy” was the lead single on Linkin Park’s last album, One More Light , which was released just two months before singer Chester Bennington tragically took his own life.

Earlier in the night during Halestorm’s set, Lee joined Hale for the song “Break In.” The Evanescence singer previously appeared on an updated version of the Halestorm track for the latter’s 2020 EP, Reimagined .

Lee and Hale are good friends, with Lee telling Revolver before the tour, “I love touring with Lzzy, and I love touring with people that I admire, people that make great music first of all, but also people who are great to be around. Lzzy’s a great professional and we like hanging out together.”

Hale commented, “With Amy, she’s an otherworldly talent. Alice Cooper once told me that you can’t teach charisma, you can’t teach that intangible thing that makes you great, and Amy has that, she was born with it.”

Evanescence and Halestorm since played another show on Sunday (November 7th) in Seattle, where they once again duetted on “Heavy” and “Break In,” so fans can expect the onstage collaborations throughout the tour.

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Elsewhere in their 21-song set, Evanescence performed 10 tunes from their most recent album, The Bitter Truth , along with favorites like “Bring Me to Life,” “Going Under,” and “Call Me When You’re Sober.” Halestorm, meanwhile, played an 11-song set, including their 2021 single, “Back From the Dead.”

The arena outing runs through a December 18th show in Worcester, Massachusetts, with tickets available via Ticketmaster .

Watch Amy Lee and Lzzy Hale perform Linkin Park’s “Heavy” and Halestorm’s “Break In” together in the videos below.

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Watch Amy Lee Join Lzzy Hale on Duet of Halestorm’s ‘Break In’

Halestorm 's Lzzy Hale remains quite busy during the pandemic, heading online of late to take part in We Are Hear's streaming interview series. During her most recent Raise Your Horns With Lzzy Hale segment, Hale welcomed her "bestie," Evanescence 's Amy Lee , and not only did they catch up, but they also performed a socially-distanced duet.

Hale and Lee's chat begins at the 58:15 mark in the video below and culminated with Lee joining Hale for a performance of the Halestorm song "Break In" that originally appeared on Halestorm's The Strange Case Of ... album. Have a look at the chat and performance below.

Lzzy Hale + Amy Lee Perform "Break In"

Halestorm's Lzzy Hale Chats With Evanescence's Amy Lee (43:17 mark)

Late last month, Evanescence returned with the new song " Wasted on You " from their upcoming album The Bitter Truth . It appears as though the track will be the first of several songs rolled out before the new record officially arrives. In a chat with Entertainment Tonight , Amy Lee revealed that while the album will come out in 2020, it doesn't have a release date as of yet because of the current pandemic.

Speaking on the band's plans for the album, Lee explained, "It's gonna be this year, but who knows when we can leave the house [to finish it, due to the COVID-19 lockdown]. So it's kind of those things where we have to wait to give you an official date, although I'd love to give you a date. I'm considering this is it — we're just releasing it one [song] at a time for a while until we eventually drop the rest of the album at the end of it at some point this year."

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Halestorm, meanwhile, have turned some of their attention to supporting their road crew that is currently sidelined during the pandemic. They're encouraging their fans to help support and get involved in their #ROADIESTRONG campaign.

"Roadies are more than a crew, they are the beating heart of the show," they explain. "They are the soldiers on the front lines. They are the first to arrive, and the last to leave. They handle the dirty work, and make the hard decisions. They keep the wheels turning and our dreams alive. Roadies are our tour family. They are OUR people. And in most cases they are the only ones in this crazy life who understand us. They live it and breathe it. We stand with all the roadies who are struggling during this lockdown. And encourage you to show your love and support for the men and women behind the curtain."

Fans can help out by purchasing #ROADIESTRONG merchandise, which can be found here , or by donating to Live Nation's Crew Nation campaign , which is helping to support road crew members during this period when touring has come to a halt.

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