Followers at this 12 months’s Louder Than Life competition in Louisville, KY had been handled to a uncommon reunion on Sunday, September 21, when Evanescence closed their set with a particular efficiency of their breakthrough hit “Deliver Me To Life.”
Becoming a member of the band onstage was Paul McCoy of 12 Stones, who initially supplied visitor vocals on the observe. The second marked the primary time since 2016 that McCoy has carried out the tune stay with Evanescence.
“Deliver 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 various metallic period. The observe additionally earned the group a Grammy Award for Greatest Arduous Rock Efficiency, cementing Evanescence‘s place in heavy music historical past.
At Louder Than Life competition, Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee sat down with PK of ALT 105.1 to debate the band’s present run of exhibits and provide 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 sort of in-between part proper now as a result of we had been touring our final album, The Bitter Fact, 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 stated.
“And we’re halfway by the method of constructing our subsequent album now. So we simply have a handful of exhibits this 12 months, and it is that second the place we’re, like, ‘Properly, we won’t identical to do the previous factor anymore,’ and ‘we won’t do the brand new songs…’ Properly, now we have two new songs, and we are able to work them in. Nevertheless it’s type of — I do not know — it is a bizarre teenager part of what we’re doing. It’s enjoyable, although. It is good for the competition setup, ‘trigger if now we have — like tonight now we have an hour. We will jam-pack an hour filled with cool [stuff], like successful 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 would say we’re greater than midway. We’re actually getting there. [I’m] actually enthusiastic about it.”
When requested if Evanescence‘s current single “Afterlife” — written for Netflix’s Satan Might Cry collection — would find yourself on the upcoming report, Lee hinted that it possible will: “I feel so. I do not see why not. We have not actually gotten into the observe checklist and that but, however I feel now we have all of the songs which are gonna be on it not less than 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 in opposition to the wall.”
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