Evanescence
Evanescence, an American rock band from Little Rock, Arkansas, once had its music judged by rock radio in the form of a single incredulous question: "A chick and a piano? Are you kidding? On rock radio?" That is how Ed Vetri, the president of the band's record label, Wind-up Records, remembered the reaction. Decades later, the band has sold a total of 31.9 million albums. That figure places it among the best selling hard rock and metal acts of all time.
How did a sound that programmers waved away become one that millions sought out? Who decided what the band should be, and who fought over it? And why did so many musicians pass through a group that always seemed to have one fixed center, the singer, pianist and songwriter Amy Lee? The answers begin with two teenagers who did not belong at a summer camp.
In 1994, at a Christian youth camp near Little Rock, a pianist and a guitarist found each other. Amy Lee played piano during the sport activities, and Ben Moody played acoustic guitar. They were 13 and 14 years old. Lee thought the two of them could make music together. Years later she said that what bound them was that they "didn't fit in that well" and felt "out of their element in this silly camp environment".
Within a month, Lee handed Moody a cassette tape. On it she played guitar and sang a song she had written herself. They began working at her home and soon performed acoustic sets at book stores and coffee houses around Little Rock.
Their tools were modest. Lee owned a 16-track recorder, and she and Moody used it with Pro Tools. They played what Lee called "fake strings and choirs" on her keyboard and layered beats on top. What they wanted was something "dramatic, cinematic", but in her words they were "just two kids in a basement". She described the recordings as notes to remind themselves of the sound they heard in their heads.
That sound came from Lee's taste for opposites. She named the film scores of Danny Elfman as an early influence. She said the idea that excited her was "the idea of combinations that were unlikely". As a child training in classical piano, she had noticed that a passage by the Baroque composer Bach resembled heavy metal. Her favorite piece of music is the Lacrimosa movement of Mozart's Requiem, and she later wove it into her own song "Lacrymosa".
The name came after some false starts. Childish Intentions and Stricken were both tried and dropped. They settled on Evanescence, a word meaning disappearance or fading away. They wanted something "out of nowhere", and when they found the word they thought it "beautiful" and "elusive".
Two EPs followed. The first, called Evanescence, appeared in 1998, and only 100 copies were made, sold at early shows. The second, Sound Asleep, came in 1999 and is also known as the Whisper EP. Airplay on a local modern rock station built a hometown following. Even then the group stayed a duo, borrowing friends to play live once or twice a year. Moody dismissed the discs as CDs they could sell "so we could go out and buy pizza".
In 2000 they pressed a demo CD called Origin and packaged it to send to record labels. Once the band became famous, copies on eBay were selling for US$400. Before that, though, those demos needed polishing, and the studio that mastered them was in Memphis.
At Ardent Studios in Memphis, a producer overheard the Evanescence demos and passed them to a friend at Wind-up Records, the head of A&R, Diana Meltzer. She said she was drawn to Lee's voice, her lyrics and the gothic sound. On hearing "My Immortal" she said she "knew it was a hit". Wind-up signed the band in 2001.
The welcome in New York was lukewarm. Lee recalled the executives telling them, "we don't really totally know what to do with you". The label's plan was to move the pair to Los Angeles, where they would have nothing to do but write. Wind-up supplied an apartment, a rehearsal space and a gym membership. Meltzer said an acting teacher helped Lee, who was very introverted, with her stage fright.
Lee had expected to stay about six months. The stay lasted two years, and it "really frustrated" them. The label was uneasy about selling a band fronted by a woman, and told them to keep writing. Lee said that writing paid off, and half of the album was composed there.
After almost two years, Dave Fortman was brought in to produce. Then came an ultimatum. Executives refused to release the record unless Lee and Moody hired a full-time male co-vocalist. When the pair said no, the label announced it was pulling funding and dropping them. They drove back to Little Rock.
A few weeks later, Wind-up relented, but with a condition. The lead single, "Bring Me to Life", had to include a male rapper, to give listeners something familiar. Lee agreed reluctantly and wrote the part herself. Paul McCoy of the band 12 Stones supplied the guest vocals. She had wanted "Going Under" to lead. She feared the public would hear the rap and decide that was the band's sound.
The compromise left a mark. Lee says she prefers the song without the rap, because it "stamps a time period" on it. Still, she made her peace, since the band was able to "survive past it". She also blames that single for the nu metal tag, which she disliked. Moody agreed, saying the only nu-metal thing about them was one song with rap and singing. He said the goth label arose because people think "sad equals dark equals Goth".
A second fight broke out in April 2003. Wind-up had been promoting the band in the Christian market, and in an interview Lee and Moody said plainly that they were not a Christian band. Label chairman Alan Meltzer then wrote to Christian radio and retail outlets calling Evanescence "a secular band", and asked retailers and stations to return the album. Many stations pulled the songs from playlists.
The head of the Christian distributor Provident, Terry Hemmings, said he was puzzled and that the band "clearly understood the album would be sold in these channels". Rolling Stone noted that Wind-up had been courting that market since the 2002 debut of 12 Stones. Lee insisted she had opposed the Christian label from the start, while Moody had supported it. For her it was "an important fight" because it "felt false".
The songs themselves came from somewhere very different. Most of Lee's writing for the album was inspired by an abusive relationship she was in.
In February 2003, the action film Daredevil arrived with "Bring Me to Life" and "My Immortal" on its soundtrack. The debut album, Fallen, followed on the 4th of March 2003, and the lead single reached radio on the 7th of April.
Radio had not been won over by the label's pitch. It was the soundtrack that changed things. A grassroots fanbase formed, listeners began requesting the song, and stations were pushed to reconsider the band.
The results were quick. On the 6th of June 2003, "Bring Me to Life" stood at number five on the US Billboard Hot 100. In the United Kingdom it topped the singles chart for four weeks across June and July. Lee noted that the song spread "whether they wanted it to or not", so the band had fans in countries it had never visited, and that gave them a reason to tour everywhere.
The road work escalated fast. A first headlining tour of the United States ran in April and May. In June, shows in Germany were cancelled because Moody reportedly fell ill. Then Nintendo invited the band onto the Nintendo Fusion Tour, which Evanescence headlined from the 4th of August 2003. "Going Under" came out on the 18th of August. It reached number five on the US Modern Rock Tracks chart and number eight on the UK singles chart. Lee remembered going from club shows to arenas in two months.
By the 46th Grammy Awards in February 2004, the band won two trophies. One was Best Hard Rock Performance for "Bring Me to Life", and the other was Best New Artist.
Fallen kept selling long after the awards. It spent 43 weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and peaked at number three. It stayed on that chart for 104 weeks, and it was one of only eight albums in the chart's history to spend at least a year in the top 50. The Recording Industry Association of America certified it platinum in April 2003 and 4× platinum by January 2004. Sales have passed 17 million worldwide, including 10 million in the US.
The singles kept coming. "My Immortal" was released on the 8th of December 2003 and reached number seven on both the US Hot 100 and the UK chart. "Everybody's Fool" followed on the 31st of May 2004. On the 24th of November 2004 came Anywhere but Home, a live album and concert DVD with a Paris concert and a live cover of Korn's "Thoughtless". It sold more than a million copies worldwide.
Critics later credited the band with moving rock radio. Consequence wrote that Evanescence played a "large part" in mainstream-rock radio opening its mind to a female voice. Rolling Stone said the band brought theatrics and femininity to the hard-rock boys' club of the early 2000s. The Daily Telegraph wrote that those who doubted that pianos or female vocals belonged in rock were quickly proven wrong.
Behind that rise, the partnership that wrote the songs was already failing. It came apart on a stage in Europe.
On the 22nd of October 2003, in the middle of the European tour for Fallen, Ben Moody phoned the band's management and quit. The manager then rang Lee and asked her to "beg Moody to stay". She answered that this was "exactly what he wants me to do". She said the band would appreciate it if he waited until the tour ended, and if he could not, he should go. That night she improvised, and the band played as a foursome so that a show would not be cancelled.
Lee later described a band at a "breaking point". She said that without a change, they would not have been able to make a second record. In her telling, Moody had come to hate the band and touring, and his negativity affected everyone. His exit felt like "a weight had been lifted".
In her termination letter to the band's manager, Lee stated that Moody was physically and verbally abusive to her. Touring guitarist John LeCompt said in 2006 that Lee gained authority as soon as Moody walked out, and that he had strangled the life out of the band. Lee added that she and Moody had not been friends since their teenage years, and had pretended to be friends after the album came out. For months there were legal complications over whether the band could continue under the same name.
The way the album was written explains the strain. According to Lee, she and Moody never sat down and wrote together. Each wrote parts, and then they combined them. She found writing music a vulnerable process and felt disrespected and unsafe around him. Moody pushed a strict, more commercial approach, and she said Fallen "really is a lot of compromise". He objected when she wanted to play organ, and at one point she said her "pianoplaying rights were stripped away", because he felt she drew too much attention. A keyboard player was hired.
Moody gave a different account. In 2003 he said he aimed to make the album "as accessible as possible, to as many people as possible". In 2005 he granted that Lee was more educated musically and more creative, while he was more commercially minded. He also said he struggled with substance abuse in his time in the band. In August 2010 he issued a statement apologizing to Lee for things he said in anger. He wrote that he believed he had made the right choice in leaving.
In 2023 Lee looked back on that era in starker terms. Her brother was sick, she felt alone, and she found the exposure and objectification hard at her age. Her biggest early challenge, she said, was the "fight for credibility". Labels, she explained, believed new artists needed outside writers because "that's where the money was". As the frontwoman, she said, "people assume that it's not yours".
To fill the gap, Lee called Terry Balsamo, a former guitarist of the band Cold, with whom Evanescence had toured. He joined the Fallen tour, and they "clicked".
Lee and Balsamo began writing together in March 2004, just after the Fallen tour ended. The second album took a long time. Lee did not want to rush, Balsamo suffered a stroke, and there was turbulence with their former manager. Yet she called it "the best process" she ever had. She had "free rein" and wrote without being judged, which she named a "beautiful time of independence". She also wanted "homemade sounds".
Some of the material came from the previous era. "Lacrymosa" and "Together Again" were written for the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but the studio rejected them. Another song, "The Last Song I'm Wasting on You", was recorded in a bathroom on an analog recording device during the Fallen tour. It became a B-side on the single "Lithium". Asked whether it was about Moody, Lee said that answering would mean she was no longer hiding anything, "But I just sort of answered it, didn't I?"
Lee has said that Fallen was written while she was drowning in her misery. The Open Door was her reckoning with those problems. "There were things for me to get over", she explained. She said she was "purging the trials", but from a less hopeless place. She drew on her experience as the lone woman in the group and on the hard adjustment to fame.
The lead single, "Call Me When You're Sober", reached modern rock and alternative radio on the 7th of August 2006. Its video, shot in Los Angeles, was based on the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. The album followed on the 3rd of October 2006 in the US and Canada. It sold 447,000 copies in the US in its first week and gave the band its first number one on the Billboard 200. By October 2011, it had sold six million copies worldwide.
The lineup kept shifting. On the 13th of July 2006, Lee announced that bassist Will Boyd had left, saying he did not want another big tour and wanted to be close to his family. Tim McCord, a former guitarist of The Revolution Smile, switched instruments to take his place.
On the 4th of May 2007, guitarist John LeCompt announced he had been fired and drummer Rocky Gray said he was leaving. Lee explained that they had joined as tour players after Fallen and were treated as full members. They did not get along with her and Balsamo when they tried writing the second album. She said they stayed for the money while planning to leave. She admitted she let the negativity grow because she feared the appearance of falling apart. LeCompt later said he looked back on his time in the band with fondness.
On the 17th of May 2007, drummer Will Hunt and guitarist Troy McLawhorn, both from Dark New Day, were announced as replacements. The European leg ended with a sell-out concert in Ra'anana, Israel, on the 26th of June 2007. After the tour ended, Lee stepped away from the industry to live life away from it. About 18 months later, she started writing again.
On the 4th of November 2009, Evanescence played a "secret show" at the Manhattan Center Grand Ballroom in New York City. Tickets sold out in five minutes. It was a warm-up for a headline slot at the Maquinária Festival in São Paulo, four days later.
The recording sessions began on the 22nd of February 2010, with Steve Lillywhite producing. David Campbell, who had worked on The Open Door, returned to arrange strings. Lee later concluded that "Steve wasn't the right fit", and Nick Raskulinecz, who had produced for Alice in Chains, Deftones and Foo Fighters, took over. The label then scrapped everything recorded with Lillywhite.
Progress was slow. On the 21st of June 2010, Lee said the band had left the studio to "get our heads into the right creative space". She added that Wind-up Records was going through "uncertain times". The band returned in April 2011, and McLawhorn rejoined officially that June. They recorded at Blackbird Studio in Nashville.
The third album was self-titled, Evanescence, and it was released in October 2011. Lee said it was "about the band", because every member contributed. It was the first album written as a band, where earlier albums had been written by Lee and the lead guitarist. Its themes ran from her "falling back in love" with the band to nature, the ocean and the quest for freedom. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with US sales of 127,000.
The touring that followed was enormous. In October 2011, they played Rock in Rio alongside Guns N' Roses and System of a Down. On the 11th of December 2011, they performed "Lost in Paradise" and "Bring Me to Life" at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert. In 2012 they visited Japan, southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Africa and the Middle East. The Carnival of Madness Tour ran from the 31st of July to the 2nd of September 2012, and the tour ended on the 9th of November 2012 at Wembley Arena in London. Lee said the band would then break for a while to "get your head in order".
After that came the business trouble. In October 2013, Wind-up sold its back catalog, including the band's master recordings, to Bicycle Music Company. On the 3rd of January 2014, Lee's lawsuit against Wind-up was announced, seeking US$1.5 million in unpaid royalties. It was settled, and Lee said a non-disclosure agreement means she cannot say anything negative about the label. In March 2014, she announced that Evanescence had been released from its contract and was independent.
On the 7th of August 2015, Lee announced that Terry Balsamo had left the band. His place went to the German guitarist Jen Majura, who was recommended by Alex Skolnick of Testament. In November 2015 the band came back to the stage after the hiatus, with three US shows and the Ozzfest festival in Tokyo. Lee was busy with solo projects, saying it felt good to not be "just flexing one muscle".
In February 2017, the band released The Ultimate Collection, a six-LP vinyl box set with a 52-page casebound book of art, handwritten lyrics and photos. The compilation Lost Whispers reached streaming services alongside it. In the fall of 2016, the band had already played "Take Cover", an outtake from the scrapped 2010 sessions.
The next record was not a standard follow-up. Lee told Metal Hammer that it was "something unique, something complex" and "new territory". It was Synthesis, which rebuilt older songs as orchestral and electronic arrangements and added two new ones, "Hi-Lo" with violinist Lindsey Stirling and "Imperfection". The first recording session took place on the 23rd of May 2017. The band toured with a full orchestra for the first time, and every ticket included a digital copy of the album.
The Bitter Truth took longer. In September 2019, Evanescence and Within Temptation announced a joint European tour, Worlds Collide, for April 2020. The pandemic pushed it back repeatedly. It did not begin until the 9th of November 2022. In the meantime the band released a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" after it appeared in a trailer for the video game Gears 5, and it reached number one on the Billboard Rock Digital Song Sales chart.
The album was announced on the 17th of April 2020, and its single "Use My Voice" had backing vocals from Lzzy Hale, Lindsey Stirling, Taylor Momsen, Deena Jakoub and Sharon den Adel. It was used in a HeadCount campaign encouraging Americans to vote. The Bitter Truth came out on the 26th of March 2021 with 12 tracks. Lee considers it the band's fourth album, not Synthesis, though it is the fifth overall. Revolver readers voted the band one of the top five live bands of 2021.
The lineup changed once more in May 2022. Majura left, McCord moved back to guitar, and Emma Anzai of Sick Puppies joined on bass. In February 2022, the video for "Bring Me to Life" passed one billion views on YouTube. At Download Festival in 2023, the band drew what was deemed the biggest crowd ever for the festival's second stage. In São Paulo, they played their biggest solo show ever at Allianz Parque.
A sixth album is now arriving. The band began recording in November 2024, and on the 27th of March 2025 released "Afterlife" for the Netflix anime Devil May Cry. On the 10th of April 2026, the single "Who Will You Follow" appeared with the news that the album would be called Sanctuary, due on the 5th of June.
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Who founded Evanescence and where?
Singer and keyboardist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody founded Evanescence in 1994 in Little Rock, Arkansas. They met at a Christian youth camp when they were 13 and 14 years old.
What does the name Evanescence mean?
Evanescence means disappearance or fading away. Lee and Moody chose it after trying other names, including Childish Intentions and Stricken, because they wanted a name that was "out of nowhere".
Which songs made Evanescence famous?
The singles "Bring Me to Life" and "My Immortal" from the 2003 debut album Fallen drove the band's success. Both first appeared on the soundtrack of the film Daredevil. "Bring Me to Life" reached number five on the US Billboard Hot 100 and topped the UK singles chart.
Why did Ben Moody leave the band?
Moody left on the 22nd of October 2003, during the European tour for Fallen, reportedly because of creative differences. Lee described tensions that had brought the band to a breaking point. Moody later said he and Lee had different approaches and that he believed leaving was the right choice.
Is Evanescence a Christian band?
No. In April 2003 Lee and Moody said publicly that they were not a Christian band, and Wind-up Records asked Christian retailers and radio stations to return Fallen. Lee has said Evanescence has never been a Christian band and never had a religious affiliation in its lyrics.
How many albums has Evanescence released?
The band has released Fallen (2003), The Open Door (2006), Evanescence (2011), Synthesis (2017) and The Bitter Truth (2021). A sixth album, Sanctuary, was announced for the 5th of June 2026.
What was special about the album Synthesis?
Synthesis rebuilt selected older songs as orchestral and electronic arrangements and added two new songs, "Hi-Lo" and "Imperfection". The Synthesis tour was the first time the band performed with live orchestras.
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- 160MagazineAmy Lee Talks Evanescence Reunion, New Music PlansBrittany Spanos — October 30, 2015
- 161MagazineEvanescence End Three-Year Hiatus With November TourJuly 20, 2015
- 162ShowsEvanescence
- 163Leave your questions below!Amy Lee — February 29, 2016
- 164Evanescence to Release 'The Ultimate Collection' Vinyl Box Set in DecemberChad Bowar — October 11, 2016
- 166New Song Premiere: EVANESCENCE's 'Even In Death (2016)'February 16, 2017
- 167Lost WhispersJanuary 2016
- 168Lost WhispersJanuary 2016
- 169Lost WhispersJanuary 2016
- 170MagazineEvanescence Announce Fall TourDaniel Kreps — August 22, 2016
- 171NewsEvanescence Book Late Fall 2016 U.S. TourChad Childers — August 22, 2016
- 172NewsVeridia Announced as Support for Evanescence TourBrandon J. — October 22, 2016
- 173Evanescence inspired by reaction to new song Take CoverNovember 16, 2016
- 174Amy Lee Discusses Her Single, "Speak To Me"March 20, 2017
- 175Amy Lee: 'There Is Evanescence in the Future'Graham Hartmann — October 3, 2016
- 176Evanescence Working On New MusicFebruary 14, 2017
- 177Evanescence's Amy Lee hints at "unique" new projectMarch 23, 2017
- 178VideoAmy Lee Discusses Her Single, "Speak to Me"AOL Build — March 20, 2017
- 179NewsEvanescence's Amy Lee hints at "unique" new projectScott Munro — March 23, 2017
- 180Evanescence - Bring Me To Life (Synthesis)Evanescence — August 18, 2017
- 181First day recording the orchestra...May 23, 2017
- 182Synthesis album and tour!Evanescence
- 183MagazineEvanescence to Blend Orchestration With Electronica on New Album 'Synthesis'Colin Stutz — May 10, 2017
- 184NewsAmy Lee Unveils Plans for Evanescence's 'Synthesis' Album + Orchestral TourChad Childers — May 10, 2017
- 185NewsNew Album Synthesis Out This Fall and Synthesis Live Tour!Evanescence — August 14, 2017
- 186"We're excited to announce our very special tour across the US later this year! ..."Amy Lee — Evanescence
- 187Evanescence release electronic-infused single, "Imperfection"Jordan Toney — September 15, 2017
- 188MagazineEvanescence & Lindsey Stirling Launching Joint Summer Tour With Full OrchestraGil Kaufman — March 7, 2018
- 189NewsEvanescence's Amy Lee: 'The Plan Is For Us To Work On A New Album Next'July 11, 2018
- 190MagazineEvanescence Return to Rock-Band Configuration for TourKory Grow — February 4, 2019
- 192NewsAmy Lee: Evanescence Will 'Hopefully' Release New Album In 2020May 11, 2019
- 193News9 Things We Learned From Evanescence's Amy Lee's Reddit AMANovember 22, 2019
- 194NewsEvanescence And Within Temptation Announce 2020 UK And European TourSeptember 17, 2019
- 195NewsEvanescence and Within Temptation announce co-headline European tourScott Munro — September 17, 2019
- 196NewsEvanescence and Within Temptation announce rescheduled Worlds Collide tourApril 3, 2020
- 197NewsEvanescence And Within Temptation Postpone Worlds Collide Tour To 2021June 22, 2020
- 198Evanescence Tour With Within Temptation Postponed Until 2022April 13, 2021
- 200Evanescence and Within Temptation reschedule their 2022 UK and European tourFebruary 16, 2022
- 201Gears 5 - Official Launch Trailer - The ChainSeptember 5, 2019
- 202Evanescence - The Chain (from Gears 5) Official AudioSeptember 22, 2019
- 203NewsEvanescence Unleash String-Filled Cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain'Chad Childers — November 22, 2019
- 204MagazineHear Evanescence Cover Fleetwood Mac's 'The Chain'Claire Shaffer — November 22, 2019
- 205Amy Lee on 'The Chain' Cover and Next Evanescence Album: 'We're Definitely in the Mood to Rock'Christa Titus — December 16, 2019
- 206Kyle Meredith with... EvanescenceJanuary 22, 2020
- 207Amy Lee: Evanescence Is Taking Risks2020-02-28
- 208MagazineEvanescence Filmed Their 'Wasted on You' Video in IsolationClaire Schaffer — April 24, 2020
- 209THE GAME IS OVER 7.01.20June 26, 2020
- 211MagazineEvanescence Announce 'The Bitter Truth' Release DateClaire Shaffer — 2020-12-04
- 213Evanescence's New Song 'Yeah Right' Takes a Jab at the Music IndustryJoe DiVita — 2020-12-04
- 214EVANESCENCE To Release 'Better Without You' Single On FridayBlabbermouth — 2021-03-01
- 215"I needed to face the abyss head on": Evanescence's Bitter Truth laid bareGeorge Garner — 2021-03-10
- 216Evanescence And Halestorm Us Arena TourMay 10, 2021
- 217Evanescence and Halestorm Add Dates to Fall TourShore Fire Media — September 7, 2021
- 219Fan Poll: 5 Best Live Bands Of 2021December 21, 2021
- 221Evanescence Part Ways With Guitarist Jen MajuraMay 21, 2022
- 222FacebookMay 23, 2022
- 224KORN & EVANESCENCE Reveal Openers For Their Summer TourApril 5, 2022
- 227Amy Lee is on dazzling form in this majestic show from EvanescenceNovember 15, 2022
- 229Muse Announce Winter 2023 Tour With EvanescenceSeptember 29, 2022
- 230System Of A Down, Korn, Deftones, Evanescence To Play 2023 Nu-metal Fest: Sick New WorldEli Enis — November 7, 2022
- 231Welcome To Rockville announces its stacked 2023 lineupDecember 14, 2022
- 233The big review: Download Festival 2023June 8, 2023
- 234MagazineLive ReviewsJuly 20, 2023
- 235The 20 greatest Download festival sets everNovember 7, 2023
- 238Evanescence Crosses The Pond For Australia Tour In AugustEvanescence — June 21, 2023
- 240Evanescence Announces Their Latin America TourEvanescence — June 21, 2023
- 241Evanescence, Hall Of Fame Rock Sound Awards 2023November 17, 2023
- 242Evanescence will return to the studio to work on new material this autumnBenedetta Baldin — Chaoszine — September 19, 2024
- 243Evanescence To Hit The Studio This Fallwookubus — ThePRP — September 18, 2024
- 244Listen to Evanescence's dramatic new single 'Afterlife' from Netflix's 'Devil May Cry'Tom Skinner — March 27, 2025
- 246Amy Lee says Afterlife is "the first of many" new Evanescence songsEmily Garner — March 25, 2025
- 247Halsey Is 'Freaking Out' After Announcing New Song 'Hand That Feeds' With Amy Lee of EvanescenceHannah Dailey — May 6, 2025
- 248MagazineHalsey, Evanescence's Amy Lee Join Forces for 'Hand That Feeds'Emily Zemler — May 9, 2025
- 249Watch Evanescence's Amy Lee Join Halsey For Live Debut Of "Hand That Feeds"Tom Breihan — May 15, 2025
- 251Evanescence announce new single, Fight Like A Girl, featuring K.FlayEmily Garner — June 2, 2025
- 253MagazineEvanescence Reveal New Album By Showcasing The Lead Single 'Who Will You Follow'April 10, 2026
- 254NewsAmy Lee reveals 'Bitter Truth' behind new Evanescence LPApril 17, 2021
- 255MagazineHow Evanescence Came Back From The BrinkRaziq Rauf — October 4, 2016
- 25610 Great Heavy Bands With Only 1 Original Member LeftJeff Terich — February 27, 2023
- 257Louder Than Life: Day One RecapSeptember 24, 2022
- 258Evanescence to put on second Auckland showJanuary 24, 2007
- 260Watch Evanescence's fiery new video for 'Better Without You'April 18, 2021
- 261BookThe Rough Guide to Heavy MetalEssi Berelian — Rough Guides — 2005
- 262NewsA Night Out With: Amy Lee; The Goth CandidateJulia Chaplin — February 8, 2008
- 263MagazineEvanescence: The Open DoorRob Sheffield — October 5, 2006
- 264MagazineEvanescence Live Q&AOctober 11, 2011
- 265NewsExtra: Evanescence rocks Pan AmMarch 19, 2007
- 266MagazineThe Open Door (2006)Jon Dolan — October 9, 2006
- 267MagazineReviews: SpotlightsOctober 7, 2006
- 269NewsAmy Lee gets it off her chestOctober 16, 2006
- 270How 15 Nu-Metal Musicians Felt About Being Called 'Nu-Metal'June 23, 2022
- 271NewsEvanescence – Evanescence Review (Wind-up/EMI)Rob Williams — October 15, 2011
- 272MagazineStairway to Heaven: Amy Lee Hits an Unexpected Stride of ExcellenceNick Ruskell — September 20, 2006
- 273NewsEvanescence Find Orchestral Bliss With 'Synthesis' – Album ReviewChad Bowar — November 10, 2017
- 274MagazineReview: Evanescence Flourishes With the Classical Makeover of 'Synthesis'Suzy Exposito — November 14, 2017
- 275Evanescence - Synthesis album reviewStephen Dalton — November 28, 2017
- 276Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New SongsC. Bottomley — VH1 — October 8, 2006
- 277NewsAnother 'Door' Opens for Amy LeeRichard Harrington — October 6, 2006
- 278Alt-Metal Goes OrchestralJim Fusilli — November 7, 2017
- 279Evanescence mixes beauty, bombast in Peabody concertDaniel Durchholz — December 4, 2017
- 280Concert Review: Evanescence Amp Up the Drama With 28-Piece Orchestra at L.A.'s Greek TheatreRoy Trakin — October 17, 2017
- 281Evanescence's Amy Lee on The Bitter Truth, Billie Eilish, and MoreMarch 23, 2021
- 284InterviewInterview Amy Lee Of Evanescence 5-19-2021Reno's Rock Station — May 19, 2021
- 286Q & A; With Evanescence's Amy LeeNovember 21, 2007
- 287Evanescence's Amy Lee Is Still Unearthing Things About 'Fallen'November 16, 2023
- 288Evanescence: the world according to Amy LeeNovember 22, 2016
- 291The Oral History of Evanescence ft. Amy LeeMarch 29, 2021
- 293MagazineAmy Lee on Evanescence Early Days and Everything Hard Rock – The RS InterviewMay 20, 2021
- 294MagazineEvanescence Recording New Album, Plots Summer TourMarch 26, 2010
- 295NewsEvanescence's Amy Lee Releases Cover Version of Portishead's 'It's A Fire' (Audio)October 27, 2015
- 296NewsEvanescence: 'Our new album was inspired by MGMT, Portishead'July 20, 2011
- 297VideoMTV Unplugged (Korn album)March 5, 2007
- 298NewsNirvana in the Afterlife: A Look at Some of the Top Bands Inspired by NirvanaLeah Rosenzweig — February 18, 2016
- 299MagazineEvanescence's Amy Lee Gets Back to LifeNovember 16, 2020
- 300Evanescence's Amy Lee: 10 albums that changed my lifeFebruary 3, 2019
- 301Through the Open DoorOctober 18, 2007
- 303MagazineEverywhere But HomePaul Gargano — March 2005
- 304Beyond the Boys' Club: Amy Lee of EvanescenceMay 23, 2019
- 305NewsEvanescence: Rock's New Dynamic DuoSeptember 12, 2003
- 307Top 50 Nu-Metal Albums of All-TimeJanuary 8, 2019
- 308Jonathan Davis and Amy Lee on Juggling Rock Stardom and ParenthoodAugust 12, 2022
- 309Evanescence: Why Amy Lee is done being silentSeptember 9, 2020
- 310Heroes: Amy LeeMarch 23, 2021
- 311MagazineThe 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All TimeJune 21, 2017
- 312Aquaria as Amy LeeMay 10, 2021
- 313Evanescence's Amy Lee finds a new voice in 'The Bitter Truth'April 5, 2021
- 314The 20 greatest Evanescence songs – rankedAugust 21, 2020