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Post by Admin on Nov 24, 2017 18:39:11 GMT
“People are like, ‘Oh, so you’ve been hanging out and doing nothing for five years, how come?’” she says sardonically, referencing the last hiatus following their third, self-titled album, released in 2011. “It’s never like that! We toured for a year and a half, and then, you know, I had a baby, blah, blah, blah…” she trails off, laughing. It quickly becomes apparent that she has a tendency to inject humour and gloss over some of the more personal aspects of her life, serving as another reminder that we’re talking to someone who at one time was a bona fide megastar, thrust into the limelight at 21.
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Post by Admin on Dec 8, 2017 18:37:43 GMT
EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee spoke to the 105.7 The Point about the two new songs that are included on the band's latest album, "Synthesis". The set is a reimagining of some of EVANESCENCE's best-loved tracks is the band's first full-length effort since its 2011 self-titled release. "[The song] 'Hi-Lo' we've had in the bank for a long time," Amy said (see video below). "I wasn't quite finished [writing it before], but it's just a song that never fit anywhere that I've been holding on to and waiting to find its right home for 10 years. So it's this weird thing that I feel very close to already that I've had to listen to with my family and my friends to now finish it out and have the orchestra on it. That's what it needed — it needed that beautiful, luscious emotion that [longtime collaborator, orchestra arranger and composer] David Campbell put on there. But I wrote that song with our producer on this album, the guy that did all the programming, Will [Hunt, not to be confused with EVANESCENCE's drummer, also named Will Hunt]. It was our first collaboration together 10 years ago. And the other one, 'Imperfection', is brand new. We just wrote it this year. And it was very collaborative between Will, again, and also David Campbell, the arranger. He's done all the string arranging for EVANESCENCE for all of our albums, but this one… We went in [and said], 'Let's go in and go really deep and rip [the songs] apart and elevate 'em to another place together and make something new.' So for all of it, and the new [song] included, he was a real part of what laid the foundation of what was gonna happen. So it gave the music and the writing and everything a chance to grow in some different directions."
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Post by Admin on May 15, 2018 18:10:45 GMT
Evanescence - If You Don’t Mind (Official Audio) Evanescence Asked how she looks back on EVANESCENCE's success so far, Amy said: "I feel proud when I look back. I look back to those early times and see my face, especially if I see an old an interview or a performance when we were on that 'Fallen' tour, and I look like a kid. I was a kid; I'd only lived outside my parents' house for, like, four years. So I see it and I'm, like, 'Woah! What an incredibly crazy thing to happen.' And I know that, behind it all, I was juggling a lot, just adjusting emotionally and trying to keep the band together and everything else crazy that goes along with doing this. "This has been a very retrospective era for us," she continued. "We made this box set of our history, and now we've done 'Synthesis', which is a beautiful reflection of our music throughout my career, and then adding some new things in it."
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Post by Admin on May 17, 2018 18:03:06 GMT
EVANESCENCE and acclaimed electronic violinist Lindsey Stirling will embark on a co-headlining 2018 summer amphitheater tour across North America. The trek, produced by Live Nation, will kick off July 6 in Kansas City, Missouri at the Starlight Theatre and will make stops in 31 North American cities. The tour will wrap September 8 in Ridgefield, Washington at the Sunlight Supply Amphitheater.
Both artists' shows will be accompanied by a full orchestra, highlighting both acts musicality and their incredible performance abilities that continue to blow fans away. The orchestrated performances will also perfectly accent the astounding amphitheater venues across the U.S. and Canada that the two will be performing in, making for a magical summer evening.
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Post by Admin on Jul 15, 2018 18:09:26 GMT
Amy Lee has confirmed that EVANESCENCE will soon begin work on the follow-up to 2011's self-titled effort. "That's the plan," she told Meltdown of Detroit, Michigan's WRIF 101.1 FM radio station. "The plan is for us to work on a new album next. We don't have a timeline going on right now — we've been focused on [the 'Synthesis'] tour and this whole crazy massive thing we've been doing. But, yeah, that's totally the plan. You will hear from us." Asked if she has been collecting ideas for new EVANESCENCE songs since the release of the band's last record, she said: "Yeah, always. I've got a nice little pile that's been building up over the years."
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