Magnificent Eyes

After just over three weeks in the studio in New York, Evanescence’s Amy Lee says she feels “like I’m making the best album of my life.” “I know that seems weird to say, but I wouldn’t be here in the studio making another record if I didn’t think it was going to be better than anything I’ve ever done,” Lee — who came to fame with Evanescence’s seven-times platinum 2003 debut “Fallen” and continued with 2006′s double-platinum “The Open Door” — tells Billboard.com. “I feel like so much has already happened. I don’t even know where to begin to try to describe it…’cause it’s just so many things at once. I’m really excited.” Lee began writing for the as-yet untitled album — which is due for a fall release, with a first single out in the summer and a tour to follow — more than a year ago, then accelerated the process when she began working with percussionist and producer Will “Science” Hunt (not to be confused with Evanescence drummer Will Hunt), who’s been her chief collaborator on the new songs. The result, Lee says, is “a lot of electronic influence — industrial is a better word for it,” but she promises it’s not going to be a wholesale reinvention of the Evanescence sound. “It wouldn’t be an Evanescence album if it didn’t sound somewhat like Evanescence,” explains Lee, who’s incorporating the harp, which she learned to play between albums, in several of the new songs. “I feel like our band has always had programming and inspirations from Bjork and Depeche Mode and Massive Attack and that kind of thing. It’s not like we’re making one of those records; it’s just, like, that is playing a bigger role in the sound of Evanescence this time. Those little nuances and hints come in in ways that are cool. The sound that we’re going for as a group is to fuse synthetic instruments with organic instruments and create something that sounds like a whole new place. It just sounds larger than life.” (more…)

The group is working on their third album – a follow up to their 2006 album The Open Door – and singer and pianist Amy Lee said the sound of the album will more away from their established rock and classically influenced sound. Amy told Spin.com: “It’s going in an electro-pop direction — there are no organic instruments. It’s a Portishead or Massive Attack direction, and lyrically it’s about moving on, but in a very non-confrontational, non-angry way.” Amy, 28, has also assembled a new line up for the group- consisting of guitarist Terry Balsamo, bass player Tim McCord, drummer Will Hunt and a programmer who is also called Will Hunt – after all the original members left between 2003 and 2006 and formed rival band We Are The Fallen. Amy said there will be elements of the turmoil she went through with the former members of the Bring Me To Life rockers on the new record. She added: “There’s a lot of bull***t related to that band name for me, but I’m ready to move past it. I’ve realised that Evanescence is who I am. “There are moments of, ‘Hey, I’m over it and I’m good’ and others of fun sarcasm like, ‘Hey, everything’s not the most dramatic thing in the world’ on the new record. “But it gets really, really, really deep in places, too. That’s probably why it’s been really hard to pick an album title. Lyrically, it’s a more real version of myself. I’m saying things that I would’ve been afraid to say before.” Evanescence’s third album is set for release in Autumn this year. Source: MusicRooms.net & EvanescenceVille

Evanescence singer Amy Lee is over the drama. “There’s a lot of bullshit related to that band name for me,” Lee tells SPIN.com, “but I’m ready to move past it. I’ve realized that Evanescence is who I am.” She’s not kidding about the bullshit. Since their 2003 Grammy-winning, multi-platinum debut Fallen rocketed the Little Rock, AR, natives to world stardom, the group have been plagued by in-fighting and lineup changes, beginning with the departure of co-founder Ben Moody. In a very public 2006 spat, the last remaining original members — guitarist John LeCompt and drummer Rocky Gray — left or were fired, and soon joined Moody to form We Are the Fallen with ex-American Idol finalist Carly Smithson on vocals. Evanescence is also moving on. The goth-rock outfit will release their first album since 2006 this September, with a new lineup — and a new sound. Lee, guitarist Terry Balsamo, bassist Tim McCord, drummer Will Hunt, and the band’s newest member, producer, songwriter, and studio whiz Will “Science” Hunt (that’s right — the band has two guys named “Will Hunt”), are recording the album in a New York studio with producer Steve Lillywhite (U2, Rolling Stones). And they’re taking Evanescence’s characteristically heavy, goth-rock sound in an electro-pop direction inspired by Lee’s favorite bands: Massive Attack, Bjork, and Portishead. “The album has sounds that are distorted, changed, reversed,” says Lee. “There’s a lot of that fun stuff going on.” Continue reading…

It was originally believed that the Evanescence song “Good Enough” has parts of the song they wrote for The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe before it was cut from the soundtrack to the film. It was recently revealed that there may be another couple of songs. The one we’re not sure of is Lacrymosa, and the other song is called Together Again. Together Again is available to anyone that is willing to donate $5 to Haiti by way of the United Nations. A minimum of $5 is required to get the download. Here’s where you can Donate to Haiti!
Amy Lee says of the song: I wrote something else that was moody, dark and really cool, and the director wanted something that felt more hopeful. The song was about saying goodbye and moving on, and that’s what they’re doing in [the beginning of] the movie when they’re leaving their parents and going into some scary, unknown place. That’s how I wrote it, from their perspective. I thought the song was perfect. And it wasn’t like I put a bunch of guitars in it. I made stuff that was cool and vibey but was still haunting, and I think that’s the part they didn’t like.
Here are the lyrics:
Never thought that I’d be leaving you today
So alone and wondering why I feel this way
So wide the world
Can love remember how to get me home to you
Someday
We’ll be together again
All just a dream in the end
We’ll be together again
So many fears were swimming around and around in my mind
Who would have dreamed the secrets we would find
I’ve found a world where love and dreams and darkness all collide
Maybe this time we can leave our broken world behind
We’ll be together again
All just a dream in the end

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Lead singer Amy Lee said that the work for the next album are in full swing – but reveals that the band will not play unreleased stuff in Sao Paulo on November 8.
“Let’s give our best.” This is the assurance given by Amy Lee, Evanescence’s lead, to show that the band will do their best at the Festival Machinery in Sao Paulo on November 8. After an hiatus of nearly two years, the group prepares for a second visit to the country, where, according to the singer, the fans are “more special”.
By telephone, Amy was relaxed and excited about the presentation. However, the Australian public does not care for the new tracks: the last album, The Open Door, was released in 2006 – and the next one is planned to hit the market next year. Meanwhile, guitarist John LeCompt and drummer Rocky Gray, members of the old formation, left the band. Leaving the band so sudden, the process of creating and compositioning new stuff for the band came basically to a standstill, a fact lamented by Amy. (more…)

According to AntiMusic.com, Evanescence will play a one-off show at the Maquinária festival in São Paulo, Brazil in November, which will feature additional performances by Faith No More, Jane’s Addiction and Deftones and others.