Lzzy Hale, the flame-lunged singer and guitarist of US rockers Halestorm, has heaped praise on Evanescence and their landmark debut album Fallen, which turns 20 this year. In an exclusive interview with Metal Hammer in their latest issue, Hale explains why Fallen felt like such an important and vindicating rock record at the time, and how she and Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee have become firm friends in the years since.
When asked how Evanescence first came onto her radar, Hale notes: “Probably the same way as just about everybody else: Bring Me To Life exploded into my life. For me personally, it was extremely vindicating. We had already been a band for a while and there were a lot of roadblocks that we were having a hard time getting through – the biggest being that we were a female-fronted rock band. Evanescence breaking out proved everybody wrong. It gave me hope, it was a huge middle finger to something we’d been dealing with firsthand.”
