Into the Wild Life by Halestorm

This GRAMMY®-winning metal band hit hard on their third full-length, mixing epic soundscapes and tender sides with metal anthems. It’s no great departure from Halestorm\'s previous albums, but that’s no slight. This is the best of what they do. There’s classic rock (“Sick Individual”), hardcore (“Scream”), pop balladry (the beautiful ode “Dear Daughter”), and even some folk and blues. Big-voiced singer/guitarist Lzzy Hale is a masterful frontwoman, able to bring some veracity to songs about bad girls, anarchy, breakup sex, and personal reclamation. You get the feeling that Hale and the boys are playing as if their lives depended on it.

4 / 5

Check out our album review of Artist's Into the Wild Life on Rolling Stone.com.

The third studio long-player from the Grammy Award-winning hard rockers led by powerhouse vocalist Lzzy Hale, Into the Wild Life doubles down on the more radio-friendly elements that were introduced on 2012's Strange Case Of…, but it also plays fast and loose with the formula, pouring as many different stylistic elements as it can into each of its 13 (15 if you pick up the Deluxe Edition) cuts.

A heavy-handed production job makes this previously likable hard-rock band sound plastic and cynical