Loudwire caught up with Lzzy Haleof Halestorm recently at the Ronnie James Dio Awards on Monday night in Hollywood. They talked about Halestorm’s contribution to the Ronnie James Dio ‘This Is Your Life’ compilation that’s coming out next Friday, 28th of March as well as Halestorm’s new record! Check it out!

So how does it feel to be involved with all this love for Ronnie James Dio?

You know, its such a tremendous honor to be here. Were all just huge fans of no only Ronnie, but everybody that he touched and all the great music that he put out. He greatly influenced us as kids and thank god we had some cool rock n roll parents that showed it to us.

Im a little humbled by being here. Were definitely the new kids on the block and probably the least hardcore here, regardless of the baseball bat (as she references the album artwork backdrop on the red carpet). But I think its an amazing thing that were all able to get together for this cause and just to celebrate Ronnies legacy and his life you know.

And you mentioned having such great parents to raise you on this music. Can you talk about your first memories of hearing Ronnie?

Well, Holy Diver, the record, which has Straight Through the Heart on it, was the first record my dad showed me of them. And from there we went to theSabbathyears then with Dio and then backward in time to Rainbow and Elf. I mean what an amazing catalog. It was probably around 89 or 1990 or so the first time I really remember listening to that stuff.

Then when my brother and I were in middle school, when we started the band, my parents were like, Here, heres all our records, here is what youre listening to. And Im just so glad they did because I still remember trying to convince all my friends in middle school, cause when I was in middle school everyone was listening to Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls and I was trying to get them to listen to Dio. Theyre like, No, I dont think so. And Im like, Cmon! Its great!, much to my little friends chagrin.

Every time I look up I see you doing a song with David Draiman, rocking a stage with Myles Kennedy, Slash or Tom Keifer. How cool is it to have these opportunities and be kind of the go-to girl for these collaborations?

Its awesome and something that I never expected to happen. Its weird cause youll have these moments like, you go out to eat withDavid Draimanand I remember when The Sickness came out and my brother and I loved that record and ate it up. And it was like, Were never gonna meet David Draiman, and then Im actually having lunch with David Draiman and talking and as youre walking away, youre like, I just had lunch with David Draiman. Its the same thing tonight. I just had a conversation about guitars . Oh, its so cool. Im a fan girl right now.\

And at this point, I know Halestorm is starting to think about a new album. How are things coming along?

You know its the beginning stages and we just started writing for the next record. Its our third record and what a cool thing it is to make it to that point in your career. Were chasing the song dragon and were chasing after whatever gets us excited at this point. I think were starting to crack the code of what we have to do on this record.

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