Daughtry and Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale have joined forces to deliver a soaring cover of Journey's Separate Ways (World's Apart).
Speaking about the unexpected but inspired collaborative cover, Chris Daughtry revealed to Variety that he was inspired to record the cover by a love of Stranger Things, the finale of which features a brilliant drop of the Journey anthem.
“It was such an incredible episode — the way it was so cinematic, I remember the song coming on and, and the way they had chopped it up with the scenes, it was so vibey. I was like, ‘this is it.'”
He goes on to explain to Variety how Lzzy Hale ended up on the track, "Lzzy and I had been talking for years about working on a song together, whether it be an original or a cover. " "We’ve done stuff live before, but never recorded anything. I texted her about doing ‘Separate Ways’ and she was, like, ‘That’s my go-to karaoke song! I’m all in.”
The result is a fitting tribute to a vocal deity, Steve Perry, by two of modern rock's biggest voices.
Lzzy Hale's peformance on the track should come as no surprise to Maniacs readers, with the Grammy award-winning hard rockers Halestorm having released a Deluxe Edition of their massive 2022 release Back From The Dead recently.
Available for streaming, digital purchase and physical pre-order today, Back From The Dead (Deluxe) features seven new songs not included on the original album Produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Mastodon, Alice in Chains) with co-production by Scott Stevens (, Daughtry, New Years Day), Back From The Dead was released in May and saw the beloved band expand on their sound while maintaining the edge that has always seen them sit atop the pile of modern hard rock acts.
Maniacs are offering Back From The Dead (Deluxe) on CD and cassette, with all Australian pre-orders giving purchases a chance to win one of three double passes to Halestorm's Australian Shows.
The release of Back From The Dead (Deluxe) comes just months out from the band's impending Australian tour. Frontwoman and icon of modern rock, Lzzy Hale spoke to Maniacs earlier this year about her excitement to be heading downunder.
“After years of keepin’ the faith, we are finally returning to Australia and New Zealand to bring the Rock!”
“Thank you so much to all of our die hard fans for keepin’ the torch lit for us!!”
Maniacs has a long and storied history with the band, which we extended even further in our latest feature interview with Lzzy Hale which you can watch below.
During the wide-ranging interview, the ever personable Lzzy gives us insight into the mental space that conjured the collection of resilient hard rock anthems that make up Back From The Dead.
"Personally, I mean, if I can get you know, personal with you and you know, I promise I won't get too too deep down the rabbit hole but I was going through somewhat of an identity crisis. I got reacquainted with panic attacks that I hadn't had since I was in high school. Um, you know, definitely bouts of depression and and you know, anxiety which which always looms its head but you always have these other things in your life that distract you from it. So all of my other tools, you know, and, and weapons in my arsenal, were no longer really at my disposal to do that. So I really had to kind of deal with a lot of things that maybe I hadn't dealt with or maybe I've never dealt with"
Back From The Dead: Deluxe Edition Tracklist
1. Back From The Dead
2. Wicked Ways
3. Strange Girl
4. Brightside
5. The Steeple
6. Terrible Things
7. My Redemption
8. Bombshell
9.I Come First
10. Psycho Crazy
11. Raise Your Horns
12. Mine
13.F*ck Yea
14. Legendary
15. Wannabe
16. You Only Die Once
17. Alien
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