The Official Evanescence Thread

[micster]

Originally Posted by xiaou-xijiang

maybe, maybe not. It could've been in production during the release of Call Me When You're Sober, but that's a bit unrealistic.
It would've been nice though.
At least its released after Nekocon and I don't have to worry about saving my money.

Hmmm, i think when amy announced that Lithium was going to be second single they said that they were planning it then

ah well, atleast we've had the cover for weeks

[xiaou-xijiang]

^What cover do you mean?

EDIT

I have half the mind to make it my wallpaper. *giggle*

EDIT: (I thought this looked interesting...)

Originally Posted by From MusicOMH.com

Evanescence - The Song Remains The Same

Evanescence, minus an original member, are back. The Open Door is Amy Lee's band's follow-up to the global hit Fallen, and the weight of expectation is heavy indeed.

We caught up with Lee and guitarist John Lecompt to discover what's changed, and what's stayed the same, since they shot to fame.

The biggest difference to their formative years, Amy says, is creative freedom. In short, it's glorious what a few extra greenbacks can do...
Oops. I think I've created a rift between lead singer Amy Lee and guitarist John Lecompt. All because of one of my crazy questions: who's the ultimate female rock icon for you? "Janis Joplin," replied Amy, after some hesitation, allowing me to think it was a calculated response just because it seemed like the right thing to answer for a female rock star - an homage to the grandmother of today's young rock chicks, if you will.

But then John sounded his incredulity: "Oh no. I can't stand her voice."
Amy: "You have to get past the grit and hear the passion."
John: "Oh, I like grit. I just don't like her."
Amy: "Fine, I don't like you!"

Oops. John already imagines the headlines: "John leaves the band because they didn't agree on the importance of Janis Joplin!" Amy offers to school him and I offer to move on. So really, who did she want to be when she grew up? "Björk! My biggest influence as a kid. But now I've grown up." That says a lot about Björk, I guess. With her operatic voice and rock chick attitude, Amy could be described as something between Maria Callas and Joan Jett. She points to her t-shirt, the latter singer's image giving us a rebellious snarl.

But I doubt there's much rebellion about Evanescence. Sure, they offered a fresh take on rock, mixing in guitars and classical sounds with operatic singing, and their debut album, Fallen, was a phenomenal success. And they follow through on that success with their sophomore offering, The Open Door. In other words, the song remains the same. Sorry fans, but it sounds, well, like Evanscence. But then again, why should they change a successful formula, right, especially with a record company who wants a repeat performance of an album that sold a phenomenal 14 million copies worldwide and was certified platinum a whopping six times.

But Amy begs to differ. "If anything, the success of the first album made it a lot easier to create this time. The hard part was in the beginning with Fallen. If we had failed, that's pretty much like our shot would be over; you have that first shot. If we didn't create music and break into the industry, we wouldn't be making our second album right now!"

I'm not sure about that. Some bands, like U2, didn't do great first or even second albums. "The industry has changed. If you don't do well, you're pretty much done if you're a rock band: you don't sell it, you don't make it, you're dropped. It's a tough industry, and there was a lot of pressure to make it the first time. We were very successful and that was such a great gift for us because we got to completely relax and go, 'OK, I can do anything I want!' We made The Open Door because of that - all the freedom, everything that we were allowed, just no rules, and respect, too, gets you a lot of creative freedom."

A luxury nowadays, creative freedom is a much sought-after form of liberty for most artists. But listening to The Open Door, it's quite clear that Evanescence equates creative freedom with freedom to indulge in their gothic side. Some of the chords were recorded in church, and the sound is spine-tingling opera rock, but Amy stresses that it had nothing to do with religion. "The strings were recorded in a chapel for the acoustics. It wasn't any religious experience. Everyone's asking about it. It's all sensationalized. It's like, where did this come from?"

The band was only seeking an effect. "You can record an instrument like a voice and put reverb in a studio or, if you're just going to be fun and really indulgent like we were this time, you can go get real reverb. We went to a big church because it made the big ambient epic strings." Obviously, Amy's classical training is a huge influence, as are "Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Cartoon Network, and Danny Elfman." John, being a guitar player, lists most hard rock guitarists' list of bands to cite as an influence: "Pantera, Korn, Slayer, anything from that to old classical music to country to industrial."

The Open Door is open to interpretation but it's mostly about Amy's break-up with Seether frontman Shaun Morgan. "I had a lot more fun writing it and recording it. Lyrically, I was going through some tough times last year, but then when am I not? I mean, that's just life. Bad experiences can inspire great art, and I felt that I got some great songs out of those situations."

Considering the pain in her voice and the sombre ambience of the tracks, recording it was cathartic. "Absolutely. It always is. That's why I do what I do. I've gotten better what I do. I think as a band, we're all just better musicians and better creators. It was a more fun experience this time - we've done this before, we know what we're doing, now we can make it even better."

This was especially so with the arrival of guitarist Terry Balsamo in the band. "I think he made a huge improvement in the band," says Amy. "Playing on stage with him was wonderful as just a musician. He really likes to take things and make it his won. He wouldn't be satisfied with just playing; he would get creative with it. And once we got into writing songs, we were just totally thrilled because creatively, he's just totally innovative and trying to push the bar to something better. That's the way I like to work, so we would just play off of each other." Balsamo, who suffered a stroke this year, is currently at home recovering. "But he'll be on tour," Amy assures us.

There's still one thing Evanescence would like to achieve. "I'd love to have Tim Burton direct one of our videos, but he doesn't do videos..." muses Amy. He actually directed the latest The Killers video. "Really? I'm jealous!" Stand by your phone, Tim...

MusicOMH.com

[micster]

You've never seen the lithium single cover?



From the official UK forum

[xiaou-xijiang]

eek. that cover. Well her hair's better than CMWYS.

[micster]

I dunnno, i realllly liked the CMWYS hair

[spookshow]

is that the cover?

surely they have much prettier pictures of the band.... i like pretty pictures

[xiaou-xijiang]

Originally Posted by spookshow

is that the cover?

surely they have much prettier pictures of the band.... i like pretty pictures

[Mirai Noah]

I like pretty pictures too... but the cover isn't one of them.

[xiaou-xijiang]

Those pictures that were in the AWBH booklet and on the website for a LONG while would have made a BEAUTIFUL single cover. that was one hot pic.

[micster]

AHA an explaination for why amy dosent like my immortal

Amy doesn't like the original My Immortal, I believe - because it was recorded before the album was made and Wind-Up liked it too much to let them re-record it so I think Amy prefers the band version more. Also Ben wrote My Immortal. Go figure. And Amy probably wouldn't stop playing it because it's very popular amongst the mainstream fans.

[alice19th]

Is it me or does the beginning of Evanecence's Lacyrmosa sound like the Lacyrmosa by Sweetbox?

[micster]

Originally Posted by alice19th

Is it me or does the beginning of Evanecence's Lacyrmosa sound like the Lacyrmosa by Sweetbox?

Oh jesus

The Lacrimosa is a section of the Requiem mass. While the Lacrimosa is traditionally considered to be part of the Dies Irae hymn, the Requiem composers often create a separate movement in the mass for it.

Rock band Evanescence's 2006 release, "The Open Door," contains a track titled "Lacrymosa" which is based upon the violin motif in Mozart's composition.

[xiaou-xijiang]

Originally Posted by alice19th

Is it me or does the beginning of Evanecence's Lacyrmosa sound like the Lacyrmosa by Sweetbox?

yeah what Micster says. Sweetbox used Lacrymosa from Mozart's requiem. So did Amy.

Which is basically what Micster just said.

Amy also expressed in an article that Mozart's Requiem was special to her, and had changed her life in some way...let's see if I can find that article.

EDIT: Here's some clips from Evanescence's appearance and preformance on MTV 2006 Latin Music Awards.
Presenting Rock Videos
Preforming Call Me When Your Sober, Bring Me To Life

[xiaou-xijiang]

This would make for a much better Lithium cover. Its been circuling Evboards:


may be the cover and it might not be, we won't know until its been officialy released to the fans. Hopefully soon...

[micster]

Yeees, that was posted on Evuk

It seems possible ... but i dont think they woulda used a pic from the album booklet tbh

And the person who posted it on Evuk said about halloween release but that is like so untrue

[xiaou-xijiang]

I've been recently worshiping the greatness of Like You, has anybody tried to dicipher what those whispers in the first few the chords were? I thought I heard miss you but I also thought I heard a whole new language in Beautiful Fighters soo...

[Mad_Cactuar]

Ehehe, I just bought the album earlier. A gamble, I only heard the two singles, never downloaded other tracks.

Unfortunately, the one I bought was a digipak with no proper place to hold the booklet. So I just put the booklet on the CD, close the digipak and pray it doesn't fall off. At least they gave a free chain with a pretty pretty Evanescence pendant.

[xiaou-xijiang]

oh, I'd love an Evanescence pendent.

[Mad_Cactuar]

It's real pretty. I think it comes with the first press digipak CDs in Malaysia that you get by pre-ordering it at stores before the release date.

And this album is one of the best in my collection. It's frickin amazing.

Your Star, Lacrymosa, Good Enough, Call Me When You're Sober, Lithium, Lose Control, Cloud Nine and Sweet Sacrifice are plain brilliant and terribly addictive. The one I like least is probably Like You but even that isn't a bad track.

[xiaou-xijiang]

^ I'm so happy you like it. I've been reconnecting with this album over the past few days. Before when I first listened to it, I would get the urge to listen to their first album Fallen or their demos, or origin, not for your ears, etc. But now, I like how different and darker it is compared to fallen, I've got a new respect for the album now. But Like You is really sad, especially since its about her sister, that makes it that much more amazing for me. I really, really like that track.


ugh, look what I've done. I should be doing other things...like...life.

Spoiler:

http://ayunite.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28427