Followers at this yr’s Louder Than Life pageant in Louisville, KY have 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 supplied visitor vocals on the monitor. The second marked the primary time since 2016 that McCoy has carried out the track reside with Evanescence.
“Convey 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 one of the recognizable singles of the 2000s different steel period. The monitor additionally earned the group a Grammy Award for Finest Laborious 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 exhibits and supply an replace on their subsequent album. Lee defined that the group is in a transitional section, balancing materials from throughout their catalog whereas getting ready to unveil new music.
“We’re in this type of in-between section proper now as a result of we have been touring our final album, The Bitter Reality, 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 mentioned.
“And we’re halfway by the method of constructing our subsequent album now. So we simply have a handful of exhibits this yr, and it is that second the place we’re, like, ‘Effectively, we won’t identical to do the previous factor anymore,’ and ‘we won’t do the brand new songs…’ Effectively, we’ve two new songs, and we are able to work them in. But it surely’s type of — I do not know — it is a bizarre teenager section of what we’re doing. It’s enjoyable, although. It is good for the pageant setup, ‘trigger if we’ve — like tonight we’ve an hour. We are able to 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 sequence — would find yourself on the upcoming file, Lee hinted that it possible will: “I believe so. I do not see why not. We have not actually gotten into the monitor listing and that but, however I believe we’ve all of the songs which might be gonna be on it no less than began, so we’re in that second of finessing and beautifying and writing lyrics and doing the arduous stuff the place I slam my head up towards the wall.”
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