Into the Wild Life by Halestorm

Into the Wild Life, Halestorm's third studio album, came out on Atlantic in April 2015, pushed back a week from its original date, and it had a lot to live up to: the previous record had won the Red Lion, Pennsylvania band a Grammy for "Love Bites (So Do I)". They answered the pressure the way they answer everything, which is loudly.

Lzzy Hale sings and plays guitar with a voice built to reach the back row of an arena, her brother Arejay hammers the drums, Joe Hottinger handles guitar and Josh Smith the bass. This is a band that has played as many as 250 shows in a year, and the songs sound road-tested, all brawn and big choruses, with "I Am the Fire" the one rock radio's countdowns latched onto. It climbed to number five on the Billboard 200, their highest-charting release in the US at the time.

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