Evanescence

Having sold nearly 20 million records worldwide, more than 6 million in the U.S. alone, and earning two Grammys® with their major-label debut Fallen, Evanescence continue their meteoric rise with their latest effort, The Open Door (Wind-up Records). The Open Door debuted at the top of theBillboard charts selling more than 447,000 units in its first week and reached platinum status in just over a month. The album is defined by Amy Lee’s beautiful melodies, compelling lyrics, poignant piano and stunning vocals, fused with Terry Balsamo’s urgent yet intricate guitar to form a seamless, ethereal mixture that perfectly channels the band’s hard rock and classical sensibilities.

“Making this record was really intense,” explains Lee.  “Terry suffered a stroke in October after recording his guitar parts and thankfully continues to recover, we got a new manager [Andy Lurie at 110 Management in Los Angeles], and I’d come out of a difficult breakup.  But everything we’ve been through together has benefited this album.”  With Fallen, says Lee, the band had much to prove while defining its identity.  This time, finding a cohesive writing partner in Terry Balsamo, “we really took our time crafting this album and had the freedom to express a broader range of emotions: not just pain and sadness, but also anger and, yes, even happiness.”

Written late in 2005, The Open Door was recorded at The Record Plant in Los Angeles and mixed at Ocean Way Studios in March 2006.  Marking the return of producer Dave Fortman, the album’s musical elements include a classically-infused choir and strings on several tracks, giving further color to songs of introspection, longing, doubt, self-respect and, ultimately, empowerment.  The album opens with “Sweet Sacrifice,” a post-relationship catharsis that head-dives from an otherworldly intro into a hard-driving thrash of hard rock guitars and soaring rock vocals.  Its first single, the mid-tempo “Call Me When You’re Sober,” reinforces the moving-away-from-dysfunction theme.

Other standout tracks on The Open Door include the second single, “Lithium,” which embraces feeling over numbness, “All That I’m Living For,” Lee’s tribute to band life, “Weight of the World,” her plea for perspective from the expectation of young fans, and “Good Enough,” a string-and-choir-infused closer distinguished as the band’s first truly (almost) contented song (“It feels really good ending the album this way,” says Lee).

Its tour began immediately after the debut of The Open Door, rewarding hardcore fans with a “sneak peak” at the album with handful of more intimate theater dates in the US and Europe before segueing into much larger arena shows at the end of 2006.  Since the album’s release, the band has performed in front of well in excess of one million fans in more than 25 countries, including the US, Canada, France, UK, Spain, Germany, Greece, Turkey, Russia, Israel, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, South Africa, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.

As The Open Door nears sales of 2 million copies in the U.S. and more than 4 million copies worldwide, Evanescence will headline a North American tour, including 3 arena shows in Mexico, this Fall.  The tour will begin October 23rd in Miami and conclude on or about December 10th.   With the recent additions of Dark New Day’s (Warner Bros. Records) Will Hunt on drums and Troy McLawhorn on guitar, Evanescence is poised to finish up 2007 with a bang.  Evanescence has chosen Australian modern rock trio Sick Puppies and electronic rock act Julien-K to support them on the tour.

Evanescence is Amy Lee (vocals, piano), Terry Balsamo (guitar), Tim McCord (bass), Troy McLawhorn (guitar) and Will Hunt (drums).  Fallen, their major-label debut, was released in April 2003 to critical and commercial success and has sold more than fifteen million copies.  Their second major label debut, The Open Door, debuted at Number One on the Billboardcharts and reached platinum status in just over a month.

Originally hailing from Little Rock, Arkansas, the band’s evolving sound – a nearly mystical marriage between rock, goth and classical – was informed by a curious duality.  Lee, who spent nine years studying classical piano, explains, “When I was in high school I listened to a lot of death metal bands.  Both genres are intricate, complex types of music that are very dramatic, and I’m naturally drawn to that.”

Evanescence self-released two EPs and a first full-length album, the much-sought-after Origin, before finding a home at Wind-up Records.  Fallen, their major-label debut, was released in April 2003 to critical and commercial success.  The internationally appealing Top 10 singles “Bring Me to Life” and “My Immortal” helped drive airplay and led to two 2003 Grammy Awards (Best New Artist and Best Hard Rock Performance for “Bring Me To Life”).  Propelling the band to sales of nearly 14 million albums worldwide, Fallenspent more than 100 weeks on Billboard’s Top 200 chart, was certified gold or platinum in over 35 countries, and sold out arenas globally.  Anywhere But Home, their 2004 live DVD release, has sold over one million copies to date.

The inherent drama in Evanescence’s music – a kind of audio odyssey that can turn on a dime from piano-led introspection to hammering guitar – has resonated with listeners everywhere.  The band’s aggressive core finds a counterpart in Lee’s passionate vocals, lyrics that forge a connection with audiences searching for identity or struggling with feelings of desire, hope love and loss.  The Open Door is a logical (but certainly not predictable) transformation of epic proportions for the band, which, in many ways has only just begun to make its mark on the music world.

Sound Asleep - 1999



01. Give Unto Me
02. Whisper (Demo)
03. Understanding (Sound Asleep EP Version)
04. Forgive Me
05. Understanding (Evanescence EP Version)
06. Ascension of the Spirit

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Origin - 2000



01. Origin
02. Whisper
03. Imaginary
04. My Immortal
05. Where Will You Go
06. Field Of Innocence
07. Even In Death
08. Anywhere
09. Lies
10. Away From Me
11. Eternal

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Fallen - 2003

Evanescence Fallen Release Date 2003 03 04 Label Epic Fallen is the major-label debut of Evanescence, a Little Rock, AR-based quartet led by the soaring vocals of 20-year-old Amy Lee. Emboldened by the inclusion of its single &"Bring Me to Life" on the soundtrack to the hit film Daredevil, Fallen debuted at an impressive number seven on Billboard's Top 40. But &"Bring Me to Life" is a bit misleading. A flawless slice of Linkin Park-style anguish pop, it's actually a duet between Lee and 12 Stones' Paul McCoy. In fact, almost half of Fallen's 11 songs are piano-driven ballads that suggest Tori Amos if she wore too much mascara and recorded for the Projekt label. The other half of the album does include flashes of the single's PG-rated nu-metal (&"Everybody's Fool," &"Going Under"). But it's the symphonic goth rock of groups like Type O Negative that influences most of Fallen. Ethereal synths float above Ben Moody's crunching guitar in &"Haunted," while &"Whisper" even features apocalyptic strings and a scary chorus of Latin voices right out of &Carmina Burana. &"Tourniquet" is an anguished, urgent rocker driven by chugging guitars and spiraling synths, with brooding lyrics that reference Evanescence's Christian values: "Am I too lost to be saved?/Am I too lost?/My God! My tourniquet/Return to me salvation." The song is Fallen's emotional center point and defines the band's sound.

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Going Under	Lee, Hodges, Moody	3:34
2	Bring Me to Life	Lee, Hodges, Moody	3:57
3	Everybody's Fool	Lee, Hodges, Moody	3:15
4	My Immortal	Lee, Hodges, Moody	4:24
5	Haunted	Lee, Hodges, Moody	3:06
6	Tourniquet	Lee, Hodges, Moody, Gray	4:38
7	Imaginary	Lee, Hodges, Moody	4:17
8	Taking Over Me	Lee, Hodges, Moody, LeCompt	3:49
9	Hello	Lee, Hodges, Moody	3:40
10	My Last Breath	Lee, Hodges, Moody	4:07
11	Whisper	Lee, Hodges, Moody	5:27

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Not For Your Ears - 2003



01. Anything For You
02. Before The Dawn
03. Breathe No More
04. Bring Me To Life (Original)
05. Even In Death
06. Everybody's Fool
07. Forgive Me
08. Further Away
09. Haunted
10. Hello
11. Imaginary
12. Missing
13. My Tourniquet
14. Surrender
15. Taking Over Me (Long)
16. Taking Over Me
17. Untitled (I Must Be Dreaming)
18. Whisper 2002
19. You
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Anywhere But Home - 2004

Evanescence Anywhere But Home Release Date 2004 11 23 Label Epic Anywhere but Home is a live chronicle of where Evanescence have been since the spring 2003 release and subsequent sextuple-platinum reign of their debut album, Fallen. Recorded at a tour stop in Paris, the set includes all their hits, as well as a previously unreleased studio track (&"Missing"). While it's a fine holdover until the recording of a proper studio follow-up, Home also reasserts Amy Lee's position at Evanescence's center. Throughout the band's rise, there was the drama -- co-founder Ben Moody's contentious departure, the are-they-or-aren't-they Christian rock debates -- but there was always the singular force of Lee, whose powerful vocals, strident public persona, and striking fashion sense broke down the doors of the alternative metal boys club. Appropriately, Lee is the star of Anywhere but Home. Her voice has an impressively raw quality live, and her banter with the fawning Parisian crowd is always engaging. The mix also favors her (as well as the prominent use of keys/synthesizers), which unfortunately lessens the effect of John LeCompt and Terry Balsamo's guitars and Rocky Gray's impressive drumming. Still, &"Going Under" surges nicely into its anthemic chorus, and when the guitars do show up (like on &"Everybody's Fool"), Lee matches their power easily. She takes a softer approach for the arch piano ballad &"My Immortal," which becomes a singalong moment for 5,000 souls, and that song leads nicely into an extended vocal intro for the breakthrough hit (and Home standout) &"Bring Me to Life." (Evanescence's cover of Korn's &"Thoughtless" will be another fan highlight.) The album closes, as does Fallen, with the swirling, vaguely Eastern-tinged metal melodies of &"Whisper," and Lee's throaty vocal endures even as the synths and processed choir effects threaten to engulf her.

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Haunted	Lee, Hodges, Moody	4:04
2	Going Under	Lee, Hodges, Moody	3:57
3	Taking Over Me	Lee, Hodges, Moody, LeCompt	3:57
4	Everybody's Fool	Lee, Hodges, Moody	3:40
5	Thoughtless	Arvisu, Davis, Shaffer, Silveria, Welch	4:37
6	My Last Breath	Lee, Hodges, Moody	3:53
7	Farther Away	Lee, Hodges, Moody	5:02
8	Missing	Lee, Hodges, Moody	3:33
9	Breathe No More	Lee	4:38
10	My Immortal	Lee, Hodges, Moody	4:43
11	Bring Me to Life	Lee, Hodges, Moody	4:17
12	Tourniquet	Lee, Hodges, Moody, Gray	5:25
13	Imaginary	Lee, Hodges, Moody	5:45
14	Whisper	Lee, Hodges, Moody	4:16

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The Open Door - 2006

Evanescence Open Door Release Date 2006 10 03 Label Wind-Up It seems like a minor miracle that Evanescence released their second album at all, given the behind-the-scenes toil and trouble that surrounded the aftermath of their 2003 debut, Fallen, turning into an unexpected blockbuster. Actually, so much drama followed Evanescence that it's hardly the same band anymore. Certainly, pivotal songwriter/guitarist Ben Moody is no longer with the band, leaving not long after Fallen had become an international success, and sometime after that, they lost their bassist -- leaving behind Amy Lee as the indisputable leader of the band. She always was the face, voice, and spirit of the band anyway -- dominating so that it often seemed that she was named Evanescence and not fronting a band called that -- but by the time the group finally released their long-awaited second album, The Open Door, in October 2006, there was no question that it was her band, and she has learned well from the success of Fallen. Pushed to the background are the Tori-isms that constituted a good chunk of the debut -- they're saved for the brooding affirmation of a closer, &"Good Enough," and the churning &"Lithium," which most certainly is not a cover of Nirvana's classic (that song never mentioned its title, this repeats it incessantly) -- and in their place is the epic gothic rock (not quite the same thing as goth rock, mind you) that made Lee rock's leading witchy woman of the new millennium. And she doesn't hesitate to dig into the turmoil surrounding the band, since this truly is all about her -- she may artfully avoid the ugliness surrounding the lawsuit against her manager, whom she's alleged of sexual harassment, but she takes a few swipes against Moody, while hitting her semi-famous ex, Shaun Morgan of Seether, directly with &"Call Me When You're Sober," as blunt a dismissal as they come. To hear her tell it, she not only doesn't need anybody, she's better on her own. Yet artists aren't always the best judge of their own work, and Lee could use somebody to help sculpt her sound into songs, the way she did when Moody was around. Not that she's flailing about necessarily -- &"Call Me When You're Sober" not only has structure, it has hooks and momentum -- but far too often, The Open Door is a muddle of affections. Sonically, however, it captures the Evanescence mythos better and more consistently than the first album -- after all, Lee now has no apologies of being the thinking man's nu-metal chick, now that she's a star.

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Sweet Sacrifice	Lee, Balsamo	3:05
2	Call Me When You're Sober	Lee, Balsamo	3:34
3	Weight of the World	Lee, Balsamo	3:37
4	Lithium	Lee	3:44
5	Cloud Nine	Lee, Balsamo	4:22
6	Snow White Queen	Lee, Balsamo	4:22
7	Lacrymosa	Lee, Balsamo	3:37
8	Like You	Lee	4:16
9	Lose Control	Lee, Balsamo	4:50
10	Only One	Lee, Balsamo	4:40
11	Your Star	Lee, Balsamo	4:43
12	All That I'm Living For	Lee, LeCompt	3:48
13	Good Enough	Lee	5:31

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