Evanescence Discussion

[MusicMan88]

Sounds like it's going to be great!!!

[Mike]

Cool. Where does the August 22nd date come from?

[MusicMan88]

lol good question... I just copied it from a post on another message board.

[Gui393]

Love the title! Hope the album is good as Fallen.

[jazzyskye10²]

^^^Ditto. Thanks MusicMan88 for posting the scan. :)

[JayBoozer]

Yay! I wonder when we'll hear the new single... maybe in June?

[perfecto]

its about time really miss amy's voice can't wait for the new album

[Waffles]

I'm a huge fan! I love the album title, and I'm excited to hear their new sound without Ben.

I can't wait!

[Mike]

I'm just worried that this album won't be as marketable as the last one was...

[Filthy Pop]

Whoo, really looking forward to this. Thanks!

[Trebizond]

mikehunt11286 said:

I'm just worried that this album won't be as marketable as the last one was...

After reading that article I can see why. I would expect that her label will demand a few radio friendly tracks for singles, I would think.

[tortuga]

I'm so mean....

pulsemusic.proboards48.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=news&thread=1127573035&page=2

[polly]

Amy Lee, am I your bitch?

[lyrichord]

It's looking like October 3rd now...
Evanescence Opens Up on New Album

Rock act Evanescence will release it second Wind-Up album, "The Open Door," on Oct. 3. The set was recorded in Los Angeles earlier this year and produced by Dave Fortman, who was behind the boards for Evanescence's 2003 breakthrough, "Fallen."

That set has sold more than 6.5 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and spawned two top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, "My Immortal" and "Bring Me To Life."


"The making of this record has been really intense, but I've come out feeling purified," frontwoman Amy Lee says in a statement. "I've grown so much since 'Fallen,' and [guitarist] Terry [Balsamo] is the perfect writing partner -- I feel like I've been lifted up to a whole new level of inspiration and possibilities.

[Filthy Pop]

Damn I was looking forward to new material soon, oh well hopefully it'll get moved up from that date.

[MusicMan88]

Amy Lee Says New Evanescence LP Has More Sensuality
04.26.2006 2:09 PM EDT

Frontwoman says Ben Moody held her back, new songwriting partner lifts her up.

This summer's going to be an impossible one for Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee.

If she ruled the world (or at least ran her band's label, Wind-Up Records), The Open Door would be on shelves by week's end. But instead, fans will have to wait until October 3 for the follow-up to Evanescence's 2003 breakthrough, Fallen.

"I'm just totally dying to get it out," she said. "It seems like it's been forever since Fallen," which has sold about 6.5 million copies in the United States. Plus, Lee's just flat-out psyched about The Open Door.

"I feel like with Fallen, a lot of those songs sound like I was trying to prove myself and establish what we were and our sound," she explained. "I was trapped having to feel a certain way. But with the new record, I sort of went with everything. I am not afraid to feel happy sometimes, and I think there's moments on the album with sensuality, which is really fun and beautiful, instead of the last time, where I felt like I was only getting out part of me. This record embraces the whole me."

It's been a hell of a three years for Evanescence. The forthcoming disc --- which will feature 13 tracks including "Good Enough," "Weight of the World" and the first single, "Call Me When You're Sober" --- will be the Arkansas band's first since the departure of lead guitarist and principal songwriter Ben Moody, who jumped ship in 2003, in the middle of Evanescence's European tour (see "Evanescence Soldier On Without Ben Moody, Look Forward To Recording").

Moody, who was Lee's longtime writing partner, was immediately replaced on the road by former Cold guitarist Terry Balsamo, who suffered a stroke caused by a torn neck artery just five months ago. Balsamo was made a permanent band fixture more than two years ago (see "Evanescence Name New Guitarist").

And then there have been Lee's recent legal travails with former manager Dennis Rider. In December, Lee sued Rider, accusing him of "breach of fiduciary duty," sexual assault and battery and professional misconduct, among other claims (see "Evanescence's Amy Lee Sues Former Manager, Alleges Financial And Sexual Misconduct"). That matter, she said, is still pending.

But Lee didn't let the ups and downs of the last few years disrupt the creative process.

"The big amazing thing is I went through this spectrum of emotions," she said. "We started off feeling really free and amazing and good, because I felt like I'd been liberated as an artist. [After Moody's departure], I didn't have somebody --- I don't want to be mean --- holding me back. Instead, I had [Balsamo] lifting me up. Terry is just an amazing instigator. He'll push me to do something I wouldn't have done maybe, because I'd be afraid to or something. He's a great writer, and it was just like we were just having fun with it for a change. It was like, 'Let's stop taking everything so seriously and have fun,' and we wrote a lot of songs that I'm just totally in love with.

"Life happens," Lee continued. "We were writing for more than a year, and even during the recording process, there were all kinds of stuff like relationship problems, and then there were all kinds of drama with [Rider], which was really stressful and straining. Terry's stroke was the most difficult part. All the things that happened were really inspiring, because it was frustrating. But for me at least, every time we get really frustrated and you're hitting a wall and everything is chaos, it just makes the music that much better, because you have passion --- even if it's negative. That's sometimes better, actually. At the end of it, we all felt like we could take a new breath and start anew. We wrote great songs, and I love them. But at the same time, you need the trials to really be able to put something out there that's genuine and real."

Lee started writing material for the forthcoming LP more than a year ago (see "Evanescence's New Sound Is Reminiscent Of ... Evanescence") with Balsamo, who she called "the perfect writing partner." The effort was recorded at the Record Plant in Los Angeles earlier this year with producer and former Ugly Kid Joe guitarist Dave Fortman (Mudvayne, Superjoint Ritual), who also produced Fallen.

Lee said she forged a strong connection with Balsamo right off the bat.

"I was finally creating in the same room with someone," she said. "When Ben was in the band, we never wrote together. I would write my music, and I'd go as far as I could with it, and we'd come together and he'd write guitars and stuff. More commonly, he'd write stuff and bring it to me and I'd do lyrics and melodies and pianos and vocals. We could never really sit in the same room and create. I always felt my writing was too personal and too hard to share. But it was also that we didn't jell perfectly as writing partners. With Terry, I knew I liked his writing style, but I didn't know what the process would be like. But what we've come up with as a team is definitely better than what we could have done on our own."

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Interesting titles there... Call Me When You're Sober? uhh..

[Mike]

I know the last album sold 6.5 million in the US, but what are the sales worldwide?

[Alecia&Alicia]

mikehunt11286 said:

I know the last album sold 6.5 million in the US, but what are the sales worldwide?

13~14million

[singingsparrow]

Evanescence are going to have a very hard time ahead of them in terms of expectations.

If they can't go at least triple platinum with "The Open Door", any way their new album will be depicted as a sophomore slump. And with Ben Moody out of the group this time around, who was the driving force behind the hooks of their debut tracks, I highly doubt they'll be able to reach these overwhelming commerical expectations.

I think "The Open Door" will ultimately be for Evanescence what "Secret Samadhi" was for Live.

Sincerely,
Noah Eaton

[Mike]

I wonder what made them sell so much in the US with the last album... I mean, they really only had two hit singles that pushed the sales. Did they do a lot of promo or what? I'm not trying to downplay their success or anything, it just seems odd that so many people went out and bought it based on 2 songs.

[Love Plastic Love]

2 innovative sounding great songs that connected with masses and sounded refreshing on radio. Yes, it is amusing that they have doubled sales from people who have had probably quadruple the airplay...but sometimes its not about quantity, but how well you reach your audience, and Eva reached their audience through the music brilliantly.

[punkydoodle]

A few new articles with tidbits of album news...
www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/evanescence_ready_to_return_despite_troubles.html?200606190827
www.aolmusicnewsblog.com/2006/06/20/evanescence-dive-into-pink-floyd/
jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/E/Evanescence/2006/06/19/1641534-ca.html

The first single, "Call Me When You're Sober," has remnants of Evanescence's old goth sound, but with woman-scorned lyrics ("You never call me when you're sober/You only want it cause it's over") and a bluesy arrangement of strings and organ, it sounds more Fiona Apple than new metal.

On "Good Enough," a plaintive piano ballad, Lee's voice drops to a lower register, giving it a richness and nuance not present on previous albums. "I just feel purified," says Lee. "I still listen to the album now, and it couldn't mean more to me."

Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee says she listened to a lot of her tried-and-true favorites during the making of the band's upcoming album, 'Open the Door,' due Oct. 3. In frequent rotation: Depeche Mode, Tori Amos and Bjork. But she also credits new guitarist Terry Balsamo for turning her onto some new/old tunes.

"Terry passed on a lot of cool stuff to me. I kind of got into Pink Floyd for the first time," she told AOL Music with a laugh. "I'm young. Don't kill me."

Again teamed with "Fallen" producer Dave Fortman (Mudvayne), the record - which features 13 tracks including the propulsive "Weight Of The World," the full-bodied, "Lithium," the haunting "Good Enough" and the gut-spilling first single, "Call Me When You're Sober" - is everything Lee had ever wanted to try both as a singer and songwriter.

"On this record, I tried things that I couldn't do before because I'm better now as a musician. And anything that I had wanted to try, but before was afraid to do, I tried that too. Because of that, I feel this album steps out. It's grown up."

"I think if people expect this album is going to be softer and more feminine and more wimpy, they're going to be surprised," she begins carefully. "It's not an album full of "My Immortal"-like songs. Every song is completely different and I feel like at times it definitely goes heavier than we had the capacity to do before. But in a way that's still new and fun and unique and not trying to be like anything else that's out there."

[MusicMan88]

Hmm that makes me a little more excited!

[polly]

This sounds so awesome! I can not wait. I woner if they will even get close to Fallen's success on this one? I hope so.

[Nick]

I'm hoping the 1st single is strong.

[random]

fallen was one of the best albums i ve ever listened hope their sound without ben moody can meet my expectation for this one cos i really want to like it!

[Mike]

When do you guys think the single will leak?

[Jason C]

I don't know if this was already posted, but here is the supposed tracklisting for the new album:

"The Open Door"

01. Sweet Sacrifice
02. Call Me When You're Sober
03. Weight Of The World
04. Lithium
05. Cloud Nine
06. Snow White Queen
07. Lacrymosa
08. Like You
09. Lose Control
10. The Only One
11. Your Star
12. All That I'm Living For
13. Good Enough

I wonder if track six is the rumored song they did for the Narnia soundtrack that got rejected. That would be awesome. :)

You can check out the full article at imaginary-light.com.

[vinyl]

^^ Amy Lee said that rejected song would be on the album, so I guess it is.

Can't wait for this one. Sounds promising.

[lyrichord]

I hope Evanescence goes for a greater diversity of sound on this record. Amy Lee has the prettiest voice, but with the obvious exception of "My Immortal" (and maybe one or two other songs) on the last record, the songs sounded way too similar for me to listen to the CD over and over again. The tidbits sound promising for that direction, and now I just want clips!