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“We lived through a mudslide, a flood, a fire and an earthquake, and we were living on 20 bucks a day”: Lzzy Hale looks back on the industry mishaps and natural disasters Halestorm endured to make their first album

Lzzy Hale onstage in 2025.

Halestorm singer/guitarist Lzzy Hale has looked back on the wild circumstances the hard rockers survived to make their 2009 debut album, which included their producer stepping down, their A&R representative being fired and the band surviving a flood, a mudslide and an earthquake in Los Angeles.

In a snippet taken from an upcoming episode of the Heavy Stories podcast, Hale, who co-founded her band with her drummer brother Arejay in 1997, remembers: “We had driven into L.A. [from their hometown of Red Lion, Pennsylvania] for the first time, just to try and find a producer and maybe do some writing there, get inspired.”

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