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Post by Admin on Apr 17, 2020 23:51:41 GMT
EVANESCENCE has set "The Bitter Truth" as the title of its new album. The first single from the effort, "Wasted On You", will be made available next Friday, April 24. The band announced the news on Twitter, saying: "We promised you a new album in 2020 and we won't let anything stop us. We are proud to begin sharing our new album 'The Bitter Truth' with you, one piece at a time, starting with our first song 'Wasted On You' next Friday!" EVANESCENCE's new music is being produced by Nick Raskulinecz, who also worked on 2011's self-titled LP. Singer Amy Lee told Loudwire about the musical direction of the new EVANESCENCE material: "It's a combination of a lot of things. It's definitely one hundred percent us, but it's also taking risks. And I think it's meaningful — it's deeply meaningful. But at the same time, a lot of it has attitude. I don't know if I can explain that super well, but some of our music is like that. If you can listen back and think about, especially some of the later music, like 'What You Want' or 'Call Me When You're Sober', there's a track or two in there that is the next step from that in its feeling, I would say." This past January, EVANESCENCE returned with its first new rock recording in eight years, "The Chain (From Gears 5)". The band recorded its signature-rock version of the FLEETWOOD MAC classic following Lee having lent her vocals to the launch trailer for the Xbox Game Studios' "Gears 5" for Xbox One, Windows 10, and Steam, from the massively popular "Gears Of War" series. EVANESCENCE spent much of the last two years recording and touring in support of 2017's "Synthesis", which contained some of the band's best-loved songs — as well as a couple of new ones — reinvented with full orchestra over a deep electronic landscape. EVANESCENCE and WITHIN TEMPTATION recently announced the rescheduled dates for their joint "Worlds Collide" European tour. The trek was originally set to kick off this month, but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the globe.
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Post by Admin on Apr 24, 2020 18:31:03 GMT
Upon announcing their new album, Bitter Truth, last week, Evanescence promised the new song "Wasted on You" would be coming soon and that day has arrived.
In the lead-up to the release of new music, Amy Lee teased in a Loudwire Nights radio interview that the band took some risks, but reassured fans that the album is still 100 percent Evanescence. "Wasted on You" speaks to this assertion and is a tender, evocative song with an astonishing vocal performance from Lee, supported by twinkling melodies, atmospheric and beat-driven passages as well as Evanescence's usual metallic crunch.
"We were recording this music right up until we couldn’t go into the studio anymore, and finished it remotely through file sharing and phone calls," commented Lee.
Further detailing how the band dealt with stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic, the singer explained, "Tweaking mixes, adding background vocals, creating the video and album art all from home has been like water in the desert for me, my light in a dark time. We are still writing and have a lot more work to do on this album, but this time we wanted to release the songs individually, as we create, to live more in the moment with our fans and our music."
At 12PM ET today (April 24), Evanescence will release the official video for the new track while Amy Lee participates in a fan Q&A online.
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Post by Admin on Apr 27, 2020 22:58:25 GMT
Evanescence vocalist Amy Lee made her fans fall in love with herself by sharing cute bloopers videos on Instagram and showed how adorable a person she is. http://instagram.com/p/B_dMMiJHqKN As you can see in the videos below, Amy was trying to introduce the new song of the band, Wasted On You, but couldn’t finish this task. However, she was looking so cute every time she failed the recording. http://instagram.com/p/B_XolGJHbtM Also, Amy stated that these recording sessions are not as exciting as releasing a music video and mentioned how many times they recorded this video to make a perfect one for the followers. http://instagram.com/p/B_WfrXdn1Ge Amy’s video liked over 110K times in eleven hours and rising. Also, the fans headed to the comment section to share their reactions.
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2020 18:58:13 GMT
Last month, fans finally got the first taste of music from The Bitter Truth – Evanescence’s first new album in a whopping nine years. And vocalist Amy Lee has now hinted at what else is to come from the record following lead single Wasted On You, with “a handful of songs that are already mixed and finished and ready to go”.
Speaking to Music Week, Amy describes the band’s newest songs as “all different”, but with one uniting theme: “I think so far the one thing that ties them together is it’s going to a place that’s even more raw.”
The reason for this, the singer continues, is that Evanescence wanted to get “back to rocking” following 2017’s Synthesis, an album that featured orchestral and electronic reworkings of old material, plus two new tracks.
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“[Synthesis] was incredible, as was the experience of performing with a live orchestra, but it took a lot of work on an internal level,” Amy explains. “By the end of it we were all really ready to get back to rocking. I don’t want to say our new album is stripped back, because it’s not – it’s big, powerful and luscious. But we haven’t done any orchestra [parts] on any of the new songs, and that’s not because we couldn’t get together with one because of the pandemic!”
With the band stating that they will be releasing The Bitter Truth “incrementally throughout 2020”, Amy adds, “We’re still writing our new music and the pressure’s definitely on now we’ve released Wasted On You. We lit the fuse and now we’re screwed (laughs)…”
Last November, during a Reddit AMA, Amy was asked about the upcoming Evanescence album and she said that she was listening to the band’s new music “every day”.
“I’m absolutely living in it,” Amy wrote. “This is always the case for me, really, but I’m in the center of the zone right now, watching the picture take shape and swimming inside every new piece as it appears. I can’t wait for you to hear it. It’s dark and heavy. Its also got moments of weird and sparse. Little bit of everything. Definitely some [2006 album] Open Door vibes but not the same.”
Catch Evanescence and Within Temptation live on the Worlds Collide tour this year:
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2 Glasgow SSE Hydro Arena 3 Leeds First Direct Arena 5 Birmingham Arena 6 London The O2 8 Amsterdam Ziggo Dome 9 Amsterdam Ziggo Dome 11 Brussels Palais 12 Brussels Palais 14 Paris Accor hotels Arena 17 Hamburg Barclaycard Arena 18 Leipzig Arena 21 Berlin Velodrom 22 Munich Zenith 24 Düsseldorf Mitsubishi Electric Halle 25 Esch-Sur-Alzette Rockhal 27 Zurich Hallenstadion 29 Milan Mediolanum Forum Milan
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Post by Admin on Jun 12, 2020 0:32:03 GMT
Most of us know Evanescence for bringing gothic rock to our young ears in the early 2000s particularly with songs like "Bring Me to Life" and "My Immortal" off their debut album Fallen. Now it's been over 17 years since that album was released, and 9 years since the band came out with their last studio album – but we still sing their songs and they haven't stopped making music. The band is set to release a new studio album, The Bitter Truth, dropping their first single from that album, "Wasted on You" in April, while under quarantine. Frontwoman Amy Lee said that they were recording the music for "Wasted on You" until they couldn't go into the studio anymore, and continued to work on it remotely through file sharing and phone calls – which seems to be how many musicians have been working these days. Even the song's music video was filmed while the band was in quarantine. Amy said that working on the song "has been like water in the desert" for her, a light in the darkness of the pandemic. Evanescence has said that it will be releasing new songs from The Bitter Truth little by little this year, culminating with the release of the full album – though no dates have been set yet. It may be a little too much to hope for, but they also plan on going back on tour as soon as conditions permit. As the band continues to work on the new album, Amy tells Rappler a little bit about how the album came about, and how she's keeping creative under quarantine. What led up to the making of The Bitter Truth? When did you first decide to release a new album? We decided when we were making Synthesis that making a new album would be next. After we finished the orchestral touring we got back into rock mode and started playing lots of shows- getting into the spirit and loving it. We started getting together to intentionally write together in between the tours in the spring of 2019. Touring can get monotonous, and make you crave new material, writing can drive you insane, and make you crave touring. We started this process of inserting writing between the tours to keep it all fresh and exciting.
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