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The Wild Side

here are some bands that, following We ask Josh whether they had to put up a go and make what we want and we certainly
Tsuccess, end up being a band people fight in order to do things the way they wanted did. Ultimately what has driven us through the
expect them to be rather than the band they ac- to do them. “Every album you have to know creative process period on every album is,
tually want to be. This time around Halestorm when to dig your heels in and take a stand, and ‘What gets us excited? What do we want to
has dared to push the boundaries and ‘Into The where to give a little bit. I feel like this album we play? What do we think will work for the fans
Wild Life’ is the result of a band whose confi- didn’t have to give anything up. With the first and for us?’ That’s truly our gauge for what will
dence has grown. “The success we’ve had has two albums there were a lot of political deci- be successful. We are ready to raise the bar
definitely built up our confidence, just that as- sions that we had to make and it seems with and challenge ourselves and challenge our
surance that what we’re doing is right, we can each record the politics have got a lot easier, fans to listen to something new and see if they
make good music and we have made good we’ve had more freedom. From our manage- like it as much as we do.”
music,” bass guitarist Josh Smith tells Black ment to our A&R guy and the head of our label,
Velvet. our team believes in us now enough to let us

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