Evanescence’s Amy Lee and Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale talk women who rock ahead of tour

After a twelvemonth and a fractional of being cooped up, Amy Lee of Evanescence and Lzzy Hale of Halestorm are getting their bands unneurotic and hitting the road.

Both bands worked connected caller worldly during the pandemic and they’ll beryllium performing it unrecorded for the archetypal clip connected a co-headlining circuit that comes to the caller YouTube Theater astatine Hollywood Park successful Inglewood Wednesday, Nov. 10 and Viejas Arena astatine San Diego State University Saturday, Nov. 13.

“It’s truthful breathtaking and feels similar we decided connected this circuit truthful agelong ago, but it’s been a batch of patience and waiting for it to really happen,” Lee said during a caller Zoom interrogation with Hale from their respective homes successful Nashville.

“We commencement rehearsals this week and I person a batch of emotions,” Lee continued, noting that she hadn’t seen Evanescence guitarist Jen Majura successful idiosyncratic since the set finished the medium due to the fact that Majura was stuck successful Germany owed to the COVID-19 pandemic. “These shows volition beryllium our archetypal unrecorded shows backmost and not livestreaming and virtual, truthful I’m truthful excited to beryllium doing this. I’m going to effort to clasp backmost my emotions, but I’ll beryllium concentrating connected the caller music, too. That mightiness conscionable prevention me.”

While Evanescence dropped its archetypal caller medium successful a decade, “The Bitter Truth,” backmost successful March, Halestorm is presently putting the finishing touches connected its forthcoming grounds and has already added its latest single, “Back from the Dead,” into its setlist.

“I don’t deliberation I americium the aforesaid idiosyncratic I was erstwhile I started penning the songs for this record,” Hale said, adding that overmuch of the penning had been done pre-pandemic. But shutdown kept the set successful the workplace and continuously writing.

“We wrote a batch and threw a batch away; we recorded a batch and threw a batch away,” she continued. “New worldly conscionable roseate to the aboveground and the medium began shaping itself into what it needed to be. It was genuinely life-saving to person that outlet and that absorption during that clip and we enactment everything we had into it truthful it’s going to beryllium a barn burner due to the fact that of that.”

Lee’s besides grateful to person been capable to marque euphony during the pandemic. If anything, the other clip and effort enactment into the medium reignited her passionateness for creation, particularly with a timely opus similar “Use My Voice.”

“It felt bully to person euphony and to person a dependable to rage against the world,” she said. “Last year, everything was truthful uncertain and that feeling didn’t conscionable spell away. We truly needed thing to judge in, to cling to and to enactment towards truthful we didn’t conscionable consciousness similar we were simply existing. This gave america a intent and a dependable successful this whirlwind tempest of symptom and loss.

“It felt truly bully to marque a connection with ‘Use My Voice,’ to bash thing affirmative for the satellite and promote radical to vote. I deliberation everyone has a batch of pent-up vexation for a cardinal antithetic reasons, truthful the euphony was our lifesaver and we emotion this medium truthful overmuch due to the fact that we did determination our hearts into it. We realized each of a abrupt however overmuch much we wanted it, however overmuch the euphony matters and that we were consenting to combat for it. We had to larn caller ways to collaborate and get unneurotic and we made videos ourselves and did immoderate it took and to find that occurrence inactive there, that was bully for maine and bully for the music.”

Though they had crossed paths previously, Lee and Hale met erstwhile their bands landed connected a bundle circuit unneurotic backmost successful 2012. The brace bonded connected the roadworthy and enjoyed watching each different execute nighttime aft night. Lee guests connected the way “Break In” connected Halestorm’s 2020 “Reimagined” EP and Hale lent backing vocals to “Use My Voice” and appears successful the euphony video.

“Amy is conscionable special,” Hale said. “There’s thing otherworldly that happens erstwhile we get unneurotic and we enactment our voices together. It’s absorbing due to the fact that we person 2 antithetic styles and 2 antithetic voices, but erstwhile we travel together, there’s thing magical that happens. So I’m looking guardant to much of that connected this tour.”

At the clip of our interview, they were inactive putting unneurotic the setlists for the outing but confirmed the brace volition find clip to stock the stage. Both women said they were excited astir having 2 female-fronted bands connected a co-headlining circuit and that they were capable to bring retired 2 pistillate supporting acts — South African alternate stone set Plush and singer-songwriter Lilith Czar (Juliette Simms) — arsenic well.

“The information that we tin assistance up our chap women successful rock, wherever we’re not the astir communal benignant successful that regard, I deliberation it’s truthful awesome that we tin amusement that enactment and springiness each different a limb up,” Lee said. “It wasn’t casual for Lzzy oregon I to marque it this acold and truthful astatine least, successful presumption of choosing opening bands, we wanted to wage that guardant successful a large way.

“Especially erstwhile the euphony is good, that is archetypal and foremost, but we’re bringing it with this large show.”

Hale agreed.

“I’ve gotten to stock the signifier with Joan Jett and Lita Ford and I’ve gotten to speech to Pat Benatar and each azygous clip I conscionable them, I convey them for not giving up,” Hale said. “Because if they did, the storyline would person been, ‘Oh, they were trying to marque it successful the euphony concern and it got excessively hard, nary 1 took them earnestly and they gave up.’ That would beryllium our narrative. But these women who came earlier america gave america hope.

“With Amy and I and however agelong we’ve been doing our trade and each the hurdles and doors we’ve had to virtually bushed down to bash what we love, by america conscionable being connected signifier we’re capable to animate different young women who whitethorn not spot themselves successful immoderate of the different performers. The information that we tin beryllium that for them is truly important. I’m conscionable realizing that this circuit is truthful overmuch much than america getting up determination and swinging our hairsbreadth around,” she said. “It truly means thing to people.”

Evanescence & Halestorm

With: Plush and Lilith Czar

When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 10

Where: YouTube Theater, 1011 S. Stadium Drive, Inglewood

Tickets: $39.50-$399 astatine 800-745-3000 oregon Ticketmaster.com

Also: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13 astatine Viejas Arena astatine San Diego State University, 5500 Canyon Crest Drive, San Diego. $39.50-$129.50 astatine Ticketmaster.com.