Evanescence goes Nightwishy?
It’s now less than a month until Evanescence’s much anticipated 2nd album is released on 3 October. I’ve been doing the good fangirl thing in the build up period. I finally got around to buying Anywhere But Home, the ‘live’ album recorded during the band’s Fallen tour.
While lead singer Amy Lee often seems to try a bit too hard to force her vocal acrobatics on stage, the album does feature an awesome cover of Korn’s Thoughtless. And the CD really showcases the polished brilliance of the rest of Evanescence’s line up.
Anyway, there are a few previews of The Open Door already floating around the Net. Rolling Stone Magazine’s online exclusive article can be read here.
Meanwhile, New York Magazine had the following to say which suggests a classic/metal hybrid sound more in line with Finnish rockers Nightwish. Just ignore the article’s whole Christian music focus, which Evanescence has distanced themselves from.
Losing Their Religion
Evanescence, caterwauling Christian rockers, suffer a crisis of faith.
By Nick Catucci
Amy Lee has escaped to New York City. Raised in Arkansas, Evanescence’s 24-year-old singer and one of pop’s most searing voices recently relocated from L.A. to Union Square. The three trying years that followed Evanescence’s emergence from the Christian-rock scene undoubtedly sent her in search of a new home: Lee’s co-songwriter/ex-boyfriend quit mid-tour, and she later sued her former manager—charging, among other things, that he sexually assaulted her—and suffered a nasty breakup with Seether front man Shaun Morgan.
Evanescence’s 2003 debut, the goth-metal juggernaut Fallen, sold about 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone, and The Open Door, their highly anticipated new disc, comes late in a year when rock bands are scarcer than ever on the charts. The band is poised to reconquer them.
The Open Door bristles with righteous anger, but the two-ton guitar and meticulously produced arrangements are stately, even pretty, betraying an unusual influence: Scandinavian art-metal, beloved by aficionados for its excursions into the pastoral and emphasis on choirlike melody. Lee, however, whispers and wails with a pain and ambivalence closer in spirit to the blues. “The Only One” is an almost sultry, industrial-inflected entreaty to an absent God, animating the mighty struggle with faith that the religious and lapsed all share. Welcome to Amy Lee’s own private purple state.
Here’s the track listing for The Open Door:
1. Sweet Sacrifice
2. Call Me When You're Sober
3. Weight of the World
4. Lithium
5. Cloud Nine
6. Snow White Queen
7. Lacrymosa
8. Like You
9. Lose Control
10. The Only One
11. Your Star
12. All That I'm Living For
13. Good Enough
While lead singer Amy Lee often seems to try a bit too hard to force her vocal acrobatics on stage, the album does feature an awesome cover of Korn’s Thoughtless. And the CD really showcases the polished brilliance of the rest of Evanescence’s line up.
Anyway, there are a few previews of The Open Door already floating around the Net. Rolling Stone Magazine’s online exclusive article can be read here.
Meanwhile, New York Magazine had the following to say which suggests a classic/metal hybrid sound more in line with Finnish rockers Nightwish. Just ignore the article’s whole Christian music focus, which Evanescence has distanced themselves from.
Losing Their Religion
Evanescence, caterwauling Christian rockers, suffer a crisis of faith.
By Nick Catucci
Amy Lee has escaped to New York City. Raised in Arkansas, Evanescence’s 24-year-old singer and one of pop’s most searing voices recently relocated from L.A. to Union Square. The three trying years that followed Evanescence’s emergence from the Christian-rock scene undoubtedly sent her in search of a new home: Lee’s co-songwriter/ex-boyfriend quit mid-tour, and she later sued her former manager—charging, among other things, that he sexually assaulted her—and suffered a nasty breakup with Seether front man Shaun Morgan.
Evanescence’s 2003 debut, the goth-metal juggernaut Fallen, sold about 6.5 million copies in the U.S. alone, and The Open Door, their highly anticipated new disc, comes late in a year when rock bands are scarcer than ever on the charts. The band is poised to reconquer them.
The Open Door bristles with righteous anger, but the two-ton guitar and meticulously produced arrangements are stately, even pretty, betraying an unusual influence: Scandinavian art-metal, beloved by aficionados for its excursions into the pastoral and emphasis on choirlike melody. Lee, however, whispers and wails with a pain and ambivalence closer in spirit to the blues. “The Only One” is an almost sultry, industrial-inflected entreaty to an absent God, animating the mighty struggle with faith that the religious and lapsed all share. Welcome to Amy Lee’s own private purple state.
Here’s the track listing for The Open Door:
1. Sweet Sacrifice
2. Call Me When You're Sober
3. Weight of the World
4. Lithium
5. Cloud Nine
6. Snow White Queen
7. Lacrymosa
8. Like You
9. Lose Control
10. The Only One
11. Your Star
12. All That I'm Living For
13. Good Enough
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