In an interview with Ned of Iowa’s Rock 108 radio station performed at this previous weekend’s Upheaval competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan, singer Lacey Sturm spoke about how she ended up reuniting with FLYLEAF for his or her first stay reveals collectively in 11 years. She stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Properly, really, my assistant that was on tour with us from the very starting of FLYLEAF; we have been known as PASSERBY at the moment. We have been touring in an ’88 Ford Membership Wagon van, and we had a bunch of substances within the again with a mattress on prime, and you can climb in there and sleep. She really got here on tour with us to be a stylist or a merch individual — no matter we would have liked. She was with us from the start. So she received married. And we hadn’t seen one another in, like, ten years, 9 years, and so all of us ended up on the wedding ceremony collectively. And that is the way it began.”

Sturm went on to say that her reunion with FLYLEAF got here collectively in a “extra natural” means than has been the case with among the different high-profile band reunions lately. “I feel it needed to be that means,” she stated. “There have been some provides for us to get again collectively, to do reunion reveals, however we hadn’t seen one another, and all people has totally different lives, a number of kids. So it did not actually make sense in these instances, however as a result of we have been already connecting, we figured it out.”

Concerning her plans for FLYLEAF and her ongoing solo challenge within the coming months, Lacey stated: “We simply have these 5 festivals [Sick New World, Rock Fest, Upheaval, Inkcarceration and Blue Ridge] — really, we simply added these two on final minute — however we simply had the 5 festivals booked with FLYLEAF. And that was all that we had. Shifting ahead, once more, with the households, and the bandmembers have households, it is arduous to determine tips on how to, like… what does it seem like. In order that’s all now we have deliberate with FLYLEAF. The solo challenge stuff I do with my husband. It has been within the works for, like, 5 years, one other album. And so we simply put out a track a few days, which coincided with these reveals, which was simply — I do not know — it simply all converged. It was not intentional, actually. Nevertheless it all labored out. So right here now we have a track popping out, and hopefully we’ll have an album out on the finish of August that we have been engaged on for 5 years. It is type of all coming collectively.”

FLYLEAF performed its first live performance with Sturm in 11 years on April 27 at Schoepf’s BBQ in Belton, Texas.

FLYLEAF, which hadn’t carried out stay since 2016 previous to the Belton live performance, will make its ultimate competition look of this 12 months on the Blue Ridge Rock Pageant in September in Alton, Virginia.

Sturm left FLYLEAF in October 2012. She was changed by Kristen Could, who recorded one album with the group, 2014’s “Between The Stars”, earlier than exiting.

Lacey opened up about her causes for her departure from FLYLEAF in a video selling her 2014 memoir “The Purpose: How I Found A Life Price Residing”. On the time, she stated: “We have been on our second album once I received married. And the album was known as ‘Memento Mori’. And ‘memento mori’ means keep in mind you are mortal, keep in mind that you will die and keep in mind that your life is brief and treasured and so are the lives of these round you.

“For 2 years, I toured with my husband and it was actually wonderful, after which after these two years, we ended up getting pregnant with my son,” she continued. “And I acknowledged that my priorities have been gonna change much more and that message of ‘memento mori’ and remembering how quick your life is was actually weighing on my coronary heart.

“We toured for ten years. I imply, we weren’t house for greater than a month, most likely, a 12 months. So, for me, I simply felt actually blessed to be pregnant and to be in a spot the place I may keep house if I needed to, and actually ask that query: how is that this gonna change my priorities? How is that this gonna look? We had a couple of issues occur that basically introduced that message house, however the one which hit the toughest was the dying of our sound engineer [Rich Caldwell]. We did one final present with FLYLEAF as a profit for his spouse Katy and their son Kirby. And it was actually arduous to do a present with out him, and it was actually arduous to suppose it might be our final present. So I keep in mind taking a look at my son after Wealthy had handed and simply questioning to myself, if this was the final 12 months I had with my son, how would I spend it?

“It was actually wonderful to acknowledge this season altering in my life and the liberty that I used to be gonna be capable to concentrate on my household. And I am so grateful for that point. And though it was actually arduous, I am grateful. And that is the explanation I stepped down from FLYLEAF.”

Again in 2016, Sturm was requested in an interview with RockRevolt Journal if there was probability that she may reunite along with her former bandmates after that they had parted methods with Could. She responded: “Properly, you realize, I really feel like I am the type of person who I feel a lot occurred that I by no means in one million years thought would occur, so I’ve discovered to give up saying ‘by no means.’ However on the similar time, I am a very current individual.”

She added on the time: “I haven’t got any plans for that, however then once more, you by no means know. I do not know… [Laughs] They have not known as me. And I haven’t got any plans [to go back].”

At a number of reveals final 12 months, Sturm joined SEETHER on stage to carry out the FLYLEAF track “I am So Sick”.

Final week, Lacey debuted a music video for her aggressively introspective new track “Reconcile”, a long-awaited follow-up to 2021’s “Awaken Love”.