[Im Not Dead]

Going to the backyard, blasting Pink Floyed and jumping in the pool. Your such a Rockstar Amy lee... *gags*

[JDM]

Originally posted by Lt. Smash

I agree with the consensus that Lacuna Coil is a bad band. I've tried listening to the whole disc, but it's just weak. I realize this is opening the door to some crying and sissy name calling, but so be it.

Speaking of trying too hard...

con·sen·sus
n.
1. An opinion or position reached by a group as a whole.

2 people is not a group. It's a duo. Don't mean to sound like a smartass, but you should be used to that.
Karmacode is weak? Don't you like Godsmack?

[Kworb]

Lacuna Coil is good, but there are many other bands similar to them that I prefer

[JDM]

Originally posted by Lt. Smash

I've never noticed similarities between Godsmack and Lacuna Coil. But the best analogy I can offer is if you wear a Godsmack t-shirt to a Lacuna Coil show, the patrons will offer praise. If you wear a Lacuna Coil t-shirt to a Godsmack concert, you walk out without your teeth. I'll let you decide which one is weaker.

You're not making any sense. Are you trying to say that Godsmack's fans are dumb violent bastards who pick fights over a band t-shirt? Not even I would generalize a band's fanbase, no matter how ****** their music is. There are some of those at almost every concert, and they're usually nutcases like yourself. Boo hoo, you're wearing a t-shirt of a band that is nothing like the one playing tonight. Luckily I haven't had to deal with any ignorant f‘cks like that, who can't handle the fact that SOME PEOPLE are open minded to all types of music. I wore a Korn shirt to a Thursday show, and no one told me anything.

But I will generalize Godsmack. Godsmack are a bunch of witchcraft obsessed rednecks who write the same **** over & over again. That alone is weak, but I'm not done. Their vocalist, Sully Erna, only wishes he was James Hetfield of Metallica. Honestly, what a f‘cking blatant ripoff. ****, their entire band wishes they could be as respected and famous as Metallica, or maybe even Alice in Chains, since they kiss their asses all the time. I saw that "Speak" video the other day, and the song sounds exactly like "I Stand Alone", "Awake", "Greed", etc. not to mention the video itself is horrible. The drummer looks like a dumbass, and so do all the omglolkfc hXc motorcyclists.

You can like them all you want, but remember: no one cares what you think. Seriously, nobody f‘cking likes your know-it-all persona. I'm done with you. Go brag about hearing some other upcoming single before anybody else because we ALL know that Sirius is the best place to world premiere a new song.

Now let's see what GoldenDick has to say.

[dianasguy]

This summer's going to be an impossible one for Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee.

If she ruled the world (or at least ran her band's label, Wind-Up Records), The Open Door would be on shelves by week's end. But instead, fans will have to wait until October 3 for the follow-up to Evanescence's 2003 breakthrough, Fallen.

"I'm just totally dying to get it out," she said. "It seems like it's been forever since Fallen," which has sold about 6.5 million copies in the United States. Plus, Lee's just flat-out psyched about The Open Door.

"I feel like with Fallen, a lot of those songs sound like I was trying to prove myself and establish what we were and our sound," she explained. "I was trapped having to feel a certain way. But with the new record, I sort of went with everything. I am not afraid to feel happy sometimes, and I think there's moments on the album with sensuality, which is really fun and beautiful, instead of the last time, where I felt like I was only getting out part of me. This record embraces the whole me."

It's been a hell of a three years for Evanescence. The forthcoming disc — which will feature 13 tracks including "Good Enough," "Weight of the World" and the first single, "Call Me When You're Sober" — will be the Arkansas band's first since the departure of lead guitarist and principal songwriter Ben Moody, who jumped ship in 2003, in the middle of Evanescence's European tour.

Moody, who was Lee's longtime writing partner, was immediately replaced on the road by former Cold guitarist Terry Balsamo, who suffered a stroke caused by a torn neck artery just five months ago. Balsamo was made a permanent band fixture more than two years ago.

And then there have been Lee's recent legal travails with former manager Dennis Rider. In December, Lee sued Rider, accusing him of "breach of fiduciary duty," sexual assault and battery and professional misconduct, among other claims. That matter, she said, is still pending.

But Lee didn't let the ups and downs of the last few years disrupt the creative process.

"The big amazing thing is I went through this spectrum of emotions," she said. "We started off feeling really free and amazing and good, because I felt like I'd been liberated as an artist. [After Moody's departure], I didn't have somebody — I don't want to be mean — holding me back. Instead, I had [Balsamo] lifting me up. Terry is just an amazing instigator. He'll push me to do something I wouldn't have done maybe, because I'd be afraid to or something. He's a great writer, and it was just like we were just having fun with it for a change. It was like, 'Let's stop taking everything so seriously and have fun,' and we wrote a lot of songs that I'm just totally in love with.

"Life happens," Lee continued. "We were writing for more than a year, and even during the recording process, there were all kinds of stuff like relationship problems, and then there were all kinds of drama with [Rider], which was really stressful and straining. Terry's stroke was the most difficult part. All the things that happened were really inspiring, because it was frustrating. But for me at least, every time we get really frustrated and you're hitting a wall and everything is chaos, it just makes the music that much better, because you have passion — even if it's negative. That's sometimes better, actually. At the end of it, we all felt like we could take a new breath and start anew. We wrote great songs, and I love them. But at the same time, you need the trials to really be able to put something out there that's genuine and real."

Lee started writing material for the forthcoming LP more than a year ago with Balsamo, who she called "the perfect writing partner." The effort was recorded at the Record Plant in Los Angeles earlier this year with producer and former Ugly Kid Joe guitarist Dave Fortman (Mudvayne, Superjoint Ritual), who also produced Fallen.

Lee said she forged a strong connection with Balsamo right off the bat.

"I was finally creating in the same room with someone," she said. "When Ben was in the band, we never wrote together. I would write my music, and I'd go as far as I could with it, and we'd come together and he'd write guitars and stuff. More commonly, he'd write stuff and bring it to me and I'd do lyrics and melodies and pianos and vocals. We could never really sit in the same room and create. I always felt my writing was too personal and too hard to share. But it was also that we didn't jell perfectly as writing partners. With Terry, I knew I liked his writing style, but I didn't know what the process would be like. But what we've come up with as a team is definitely better than what we could have done on our own."

Source: MTVNews.com

[kellyc2005]

can someone remind me again WHY this album is being released in October, if it already is completed and has a first single chosen and everything? It doesn't make sense to me....

[Mugshot]

Sensuality? How original.

[I Got Soul]

Dear god they better not dissapoint.

[Ay ya ya]

"Call me when you're Sober"

lol

CANT WAIT!

[Galang!]

Originally posted by I Got Soul.

Dear god they better not dissapoint.

..

[CyborG]

i hope this is better than Fallen.

[Nick]

Originally posted by kellyc2005

can someone remind me again WHY this album is being released in October, if it already is completed and has a first single chosen and everything? It doesn't make sense to me....

The label probably wants to go for 4th quarter sales

[Matto]

Arghhh first it was late 2005, then March 2006, then August, now October.

[JDM]

She didn't mention how the album is "sexy"...
Thankfully. I can wait much longer than October for this.

And yes, I think Lacuna Coil are a hell of a lot better. I don't care if I'm a "sissy" for liking them, so take your Godsmack trash and shove it. [You know who you are, dickhead.]

[vtzero]

I'm not excited!

[Ay ya ya]

^Then don't post you idiot!

:spam:

[Zeo]

Originally posted by vtzero

I'm not excited!

But people should always be excited over good music...

But uh, "Call Me When Your Sober"? ... Doesn't sound like an Evanescene title really.

[Ay ya ya]

^Yeah I know

I'm scared Amy Lee's gonna go a bit too far off from "Fallen" because Ben Moody isn't there anymore......

[Departure]

I liked all thier singles, but never got thier album. Is it good? If I like thier singles would I like Fallen. I should go preview it. One thing. I absolutely hate the cover and back cover of Fallen. It's the worst cd design ever!!!! Lol, just kidding, but I was thinking about getting it. I hope their next album is good.

Itunes doesn't have it, so sad. I guess I can't preview it.

[Ay ya ya]

^I think they picked the best singles possible, because those four are the best tracks in my opinion.

But try preview it somewhere or download it (not like its hampering them, 6x US Platimum)

You may like some of the tracks. I like 'em (but I'm sick of them now, its been too long)