We’ve all had our fair share of bad days - but, sometimes, life can truly outdo itself. While the hard rock glitz and glamour may fool you, Halestorm can empathise. No strangers to a miserable bout of misfortune, their 2012 sophomore record, The Strange Case Of…, served up the perfect toast to adversary: Here’s To Us. A glorious anthem for the down-but-not-out, Here’s To Us is Halestorm’s promise to come back from hardship even stronger - and, considering the track would go on to be re-recorded in 2013 with the likes of Slash, Myles Kennedy, Wolfgang Van Halen and more, they certainly did.
As Lzzy Hale explained to Classic Rock earlier this year, Here’s To Us was written in a “purgatory” period of uncertainty following their 2009 self-titled debut. “Our old A&R guy got fired, or some of our friends were no longer a band anymore…” she recalls. Naturally, it made them panic about their own future; “Are we going to remain on Atlantic Records? Or are we going to go home to Pennsylvania and just… play the local bar scene for the rest of our lives?”
