Followers at this 12 months’s Louder Than Life pageant 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 “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 tune reside with Evanescence.
“Convey Me To Life,” which appeared on the band’s 2003 debut album Fallen, went on to realize diamond certification within the U.S. and stays some of the recognizable singles of the 2000s different steel period. The observe additionally earned the group a Grammy Award for Finest Onerous 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 provide an replace on their subsequent album. Lee defined that the group is in a transitional part, balancing materials from throughout their catalog whereas getting ready to unveil new music.
“We’re in this type 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, but it surely was centered round that theme and began with that intro and was that factor,” Lee stated.
“And we’re halfway via the method of constructing 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handful of reveals this 12 months, and it is that second the place we’re, like, ‘Properly, we won’t identical to do the outdated factor anymore,’ and ‘we won’t do the brand new songs…’ Properly, we’ve got two new songs, and we will work them in. However it’s sort 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’ve got — like tonight we’ve got an hour. We will jam-pack an hour filled 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 collection — would find yourself on the upcoming document, Lee hinted that it probably will: “I feel so. I do not see why not. We have not actually gotten into the observe listing and that but, however I feel we’ve got all of the songs which might be gonna be on it at the least began, so we’re in that second of finessing and beautifying and writing lyrics and doing the exhausting stuff the place I slam my head up towards the wall.”
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