Vicious

The title track of Halestorm's fourth album was written by frontwoman Lzzy Hale and guitarist Joe Hottinger with father-and-son producers Kevin and Kane Churko during the last writing session for the record. Hottinger had the riff already written on his Manson, Hale penned the lyrics and the Churko duo supplied the rest of the instrumentation.

Hottinger told Louder Sound that when the Halestorm vocalist hits on a title that she likes, "she just starts writing." When Lzzy came up with "Vicious" she "just went off" and penned all the lyrics. "She didn't even have a melody," he added, "just pages of lyrics and ideas."

Halestorm were going to call the record something totally different, but when they came up the "Vicious" track they knew that's what the record should be called. "We'd pretty much had the record written and then we had an offer to go to Los Angeles and write with some people," Hottinger recalled to HMV.com. "Me and Lzzy went, we wanted to test ourselves against all these songwriters with huge hits. In our last session, we came up with the title 'Vicious' and wondered what the song would be about. Then we started working through it and as a title, it just felt great."