Lzzy Hale is known for many things — her screeching guitar skills, her rebellious front-woman image and her Janis Joplin, banshee-like set of pipes.

Though the appropriately titled first track “Scream” on the new album renders that familiar Lzzy Hale shriek, it seems the heavy metal rock band Halestorm has changed it up with their latest album, “Into The Wild Life” – and comparatively, it doesn’t seem all that wild.

Compared to previous tracks such as “I Miss The Misery” and “Mz. Hyde” from their hard-hitting sophomore album “The Strange Case of…,” Halestorm embodies more of a classic rock feel on “Into The Wild Life.” The band has typically been viewed as far from mainstream with a rowdy leading lady and a knack for an intense and unorthodox musical style, but it seems the band is attempting to widen the floodgate of listeners with an unfamiliar softness added into their repertoire. The metal rockers even toured with the unconventional country crooner Eric Church on his appropriately titled The Outsiders World Tour this year. Therefore, this expansion of musical style and audiences seems to go hand in hand.

With slower tempos and softer guitar parts in songs like “Amen” and “The Reckoning,” the band takes their new musical mantra by storm and threads a certain easiness throughout the album. However new this feel may be to seasoned Halestorm fans, the band’s familiar themes are prevalent in songs such as the inspirational yet rebellious “Bad Girl’s World” and “I Am The Fire.”

For those ready to rock with those infamous Lzzy Hale-like “horns” (a.k.a. rock fists) thrown in the air, “Into The Wild Life” gets the job done even with the band’s new softer sound. The outlaw anthem “Sick Individual” has a riffy, cantankerous tempo, and “Apocolyptic” combines a whining electric guitar with dangerous breakup sex-themed lyrics to keep Halestorm thriving in their wild, rock genre.

But nothing sums up Halestorm’s familiar true metal heart of hearts like, “I Like It Heavy.” With lyrics like, “If the windows ain’t shaking/making my heart race/if I can’t feel it in my chest/I’m in the wrong damn place,” Lzzy Hale’s raspy vocals are enough to make Joan Jett proud.

So if you’re looking for the hard stuff, Halestorm’s got it. And if you’re looking for something a bit softer, well, they’ve got that too. So put on your shades, throw up your horns and give it a listen. Who knows, it might even leave you feeling cool enough to drop the “i” out of your name like you’re Lzzy Hale herself.