Followers at this 12 months’s Louder Than Life pageant in Louisville, KY have been handled to a uncommon reunion on Sunday, September 21, when Evanescence closed their set with a particular efficiency of their breakthrough hit “Convey Me To Life.”
Becoming a member of the band onstage was Paul McCoy of 12 Stones, who initially offered visitor vocals on the observe. The second marked the primary time since 2016 that McCoy has carried out the track dwell with Evanescence.
“Convey Me To Life,” which appeared on the band’s 2003 debut album Fallen, went on to attain diamond certification within the U.S. and stays some of the recognizable singles of the 2000s different metallic period. The observe additionally earned the group a Grammy Award for Greatest Exhausting Rock Efficiency, cementing Evanescence‘s place in heavy music historical past.
At Louder Than Life pageant, Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee sat down with PK of ALT 105.1 to debate the band’s present run of reveals and supply an replace on their subsequent album. Lee defined that the group is in a transitional part, balancing materials from throughout their catalog whereas making ready to unveil new music.
“We’re in this type of in-between part proper now as a result of we have been touring our final album, The Bitter Reality, for fairly some time and doing a present that had, clearly, songs from all the opposite albums, however it was centered round that theme and began with that intro and was that factor,” Lee mentioned.
“And we’re halfway by the method of creating our subsequent album now. So we simply have a handful of reveals this 12 months, and it is that second the place we’re, like, ‘Nicely, we won’t identical to do the outdated factor anymore,’ and ‘we won’t do the brand new songs…’ Nicely, we now have two new songs, and we will work them in. But it surely’s type of — I do not know — it is a bizarre teenager part of what we’re doing. It’s enjoyable, although. It is excellent for the pageant setup, ‘trigger if we now have — like tonight we now have an hour. We will jam-pack an hour stuffed with cool [stuff], like a success from each album and simply make it actually enjoyable.”
Pressed additional about the place the band is at within the recording course of, Lee revealed: “I might say we’re greater than midway. We’re actually getting there. [I’m] actually enthusiastic about it.”
When requested if Evanescence‘s latest single “Afterlife” — written for Netflix’s Satan Might Cry sequence — would find yourself on the upcoming file, Lee hinted that it probably will: “I believe so. I do not see why not. We’ve not actually gotten into the observe checklist and that but, however I believe we now have all of the songs which might be gonna be on it a minimum of began, so we’re in that second of finessing and beautifying and writing lyrics and doing the onerous stuff the place I slam my head up towards the wall.”
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