To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Elsewhere the wonderful transition between "Mz Hyde" and "Miss The Misery" keeps the opening rock numbers strong, ("Freak Like Me" being the only notable exception) before we hit three ballads in a row "Beautiful With You," "In Your Room" and "Break In. We were on ‘ten,’ and we blew through the songs in a safe way – or as safe as something that goes, ‘I get off on you getting off on me’ can be. The Strange Case Of…’ opens with “Love Bites (So Do I)”, which, in my opinion, is up there with the best hard rock songs; it’s loud, energetic and full of attitude.

It is not the heavy hard-as-nails song that the first four tracks were; it’s more of a rock opera of sorts.Hyde based on the remarkably natural way she confers sweetness the usually biting tone of her voice. Hyde,” the singer wears the monster’s mask, and the song becomes a strong candidate for the album’s most apotheotic moment. The ballads are perfectly nice as rock ballads, though some of them (eg here's to us) sound like melodies I have heard before. I was extremely proud of Halestorm when we released it, and I still love it, but I think I was using mostly one musical technique throughout,” explains frontwoman Lzzy Hale. The bipolar tone and the singularity of Lzzy’s voice ( alto) cause our attention to wander between the instruments’ sharpness and the vocals’ turmoil.

Being married to a fellow former misfit kid, I can look back with relief that I found someone who gets me, and I, her. It's a much edgier, rockier release than "Into the Wild Life" and all the better for it, although she does slow it down for a few tracks after "Freak Like Me" which allows us to get our breath before once more going for the guts with Rock Show, Daughters Of Darkness, and other delights. Josh Smith is an excellent bass player, Joe Hottinger is a guitarist who's solos go somewhere - not just 1000 meaningless notes per second, he does something with them.The first single and video from the album "Love Bites (So Do I)" won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance. I was concerned when I heard Halestorm's brilliant first album that they had set the bar too high and could be one of those bands that never repeat their first success. Halestorm before they become famous I think that they had the same dreams with many people out there!