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“This is our war cry”: Listen to Halestorm’s new single, Rain Your Blood On Me

Fresh from supporting Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath in the UK over these past couple of weeks, Halestorm have unleashed a brand-new single.

“This is our war cry”: Listen to Halestorm’s new single, Rain Your Blood On Me
Words:
Emily Garner
Photo:
Jenn Five

Halestorm have just released a brand-new single, Rain Your Blood On Me.

The track arrives following some seriously huge support slots with Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath/Ozzy Osbourne in the UK recently, and is taken from the band’s forthcoming album Everest (due out on August 8 via Atlantic).

Vocalist/guitarist Lzzy Hale calls the single “our ode to women”, explaining that: “The crawl, the climb, the clenching of fists, the screaming of sirens, the breaking of glass – this is our war cry. As a woman, surrounded by my allies, Arejay, Joe, and Josh, we put everything we’ve fought for up until this moment into this opus. The music started with the stomping of feet at 3 in the morning, with a chant of Rain Your Blood On Me. We weren’t even sure what that title meant in the moment as we watched the sky crack through the eerie Spanish moss in Savannah, Georgia. But we knew it was right. By 11:30am the poem I had written had seemed to form itself like a story waiting to be told.

“We may not win the war in our lifetime, but we can pass the torch to our daughters so that they may light the way.”

See the band live with Bloodywood and Kelsy Karter:

Halestorm nEVEREST UK tour dates

November

20 Cardiff Utilitia Arena
21 Glasgow Hydro
23 Birmingham RWA/BP Pulse
24 Manchester AO Arena
26 London The O2

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