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Album: Evanescence - 'Evanescence'
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New song titles, well confirmed titles "Swimming Home" & "A New Way to Bleed"
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Where has Amy Lee been? Enjoying life, her husband, friends, cooking, learning the harp and taking time for herself. The Evanescence leader didn't care if she ever returned to the spotlight. Her rock band had sold 15 million copies of its 2003 debut, "Fallen," and 5 million of the follow-up, 2007's "The Open Door." When that tour cycle was over, she said sayonara for a bit. So the fact that a new album will be out October 11 means she is ready, willing and happy.
"It's awesome to be back here now because it took me running away and going, 'Okay, I'm willing to throw it all away at this point...,' Lee told MSN. "Having that letting-go feeling and that disconnect, I guess, the freedom to be able to let it go, made me love it again... It made me remember Evanescence, the records we've made, the way that we sounded. It wasn't a character that I created. It's really me. But after a while, it starts to feel like this character. [I'm not always] singing about the deepest darkest pit of my soul, you know what I mean? It's all so dramatic, which is real but after a while, I'm like, 'Man, I'm sick of it.'
"This is about the band. I love them. They're great," Lee continues. "And this is the exact same lineup that we had when we finished up on tour before but, in general, when everybody around you all the time is revolving around me, I'm not into the fame. It's cool. It's just not real. It's not quite reality. It's all completely self-centered [and] I'm not that way. I like to do for other people.
Lee is chatty, friendly, down-to-earth and very open, sitting in a private screening room in the lower level of a posh Yorkville hotel in Toronto. She's in town well in advance of the release of "Evanescence," the band's self-titled third album. The band -- Lee, drummer Will Hunt, bassist Tim McCord and guitarists Troy McLawhorn and Terry Balsamo -- had just played Winnipeg's The Rock On The Range concert and has return visits to Canada scheduled for Toronto's The Sound Academy on October 25 and Montreal's Metropolis on the 26. Lee can't wait.
Evanescence -- produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Rush) and mixed by Canadian Randy Staub (Metallica, Nickelback, Bon Jovi) -- is a big-sounding album ranging from the introductory first single, "What You Want" to the intense ballad "Lost In Paradise." Lee, a classically trained pianist with an outstanding, crystalline rock voice, also plays harp on "Swimming Home" and "A New Way To Bleed."
Lee always wanted to learn a new instrument, but didn't have time after the band became successful. So when Evanescence came off the road in 2007, her husband bought her one that Christmas. "I got hooked up with a really great instructor and she came over once a week and I was practicing like an hour a day and just doing that," she says.
She eventually got back to the piano and writing songs on her own, as well as collaborating with McCord, Balsamo and a programmer friend of hers, also named Will Hunt (not to be confused with Evanescence's drummer). "It was this really cool experimental journey, but it was really like solo music that I was working on," Lee realizes now. At the time, however, she thought it was for Evanescence.
"I didn't give us enough time to really create together to make it an Evanescence album," Lee explains. "So I jumped the gun. That was part of it. Steve [Lillywhite] wasn't the right producer [she originally hired Lillywhite, a veteran producer for U2, Peter Gabriel and 30 Seconds to Mars]. We just weren't ready. At the end of the day, I was like, 'Okay, for whatever reason this isn't working. It's not sounding like I meant for it to sound and I can't put out something I'm not happy with it.' I'm never gonna do that."
By the time Raskulinecz came into the picture, Lee had a clear vision of the direction.
"After going in the studio the first time and not being ready, we just crammed. We spent months at a time together -- Tim, Terry and I -- from last summer on," says Lee. "We'd shack up at my house for a month; we went to a remote place in California for a month; we went and worked with our drummer in Florida for a while and were constantly hammering out sessions and we finally got it.
"I really believe each person in the band brings something unique to the table," adds Lee, who has seen a handful of bandmates leave the lineup since Evanescence formed in 1995, including co-founder Ben Moody.
"It's subtle, but, honestly, I think the biggest difference is with every other album it's just been like one or two people writing the songs and then everybody else kind of comes in last minute, plays their instruments, which is totally normal; there's nothing wrong with that. It doesn't mean we're not a band," she says mockingly, obviously recalling hearing that kind of comment in the past. "A lot of bands do that. There are principal writers. But this time there's invested writing, real spins and created parts by everybody and a lot of the songs were created with us sitting around at our instruments in a live setting just jamming. That's totally new for me. It gives it like this live band, rhythmic energy."
That type of enthusiasm is contagious and rubs off on everyone, making it the perfect timing for Evanescence's return to the marketplace -- break over, well rested and reinvigorated. "Well they're invested," says Lee. "We're a team. It feels more like a team. I am the director, but we're all onboard and invested and if something doesn't work out, we'll all be sad; if things go well, we're all gonna be celebrating. It's more like that."
source: MSN Canada
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album cover is epic and that pics and new songtitles are aswell <3
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Member Since: 11/18/2010
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40 more days. 
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Member Since: 11/2/2010
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The cover is growing on me now.
I was expecting Amy to be on it.
Liking the new song titles!
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So confirmed tracks, we have these...
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What You Want
The Other Side
Lost In Paradise
Oceans
Never Go Back
Secret Door
Swimming Home
A New Way To Bleed
My Heart Is Broken
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Any others?
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Originally posted by Michael
So confirmed tracks, we have these...
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Made of Stone
Erase This
Disappear
The Change
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Member Since: 11/2/2010
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Originally posted by ChildofSilence
Made of Stone
Erase This
Disappear
The Change
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Oh yeah, forgot about those. Thanks!
So that's 13 tracks, only 3 left!
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Member Since: 8/27/2006
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From Amy
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YES! “@Louise_Ev: Evanescence Deluxe: CD+DVD. Please tell me if it's TRUE!”
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So there will be 16 tracks?
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OMFG!! I can't wait for the album + DVD! 
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Originally posted by ChildofSilence
From Amy
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Originally posted by loghen
So there will be 16 tracks?
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The Deluxe edition will contain all 16 recorded tracks + DVD but the standard edition will only have 12 tracks.
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Do you guys remember the post that Derek made on Evthreads with all of the titles? ANWTB and SH were on it...
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Do you guys remember the post that Derek made on Evthreads with all of the titles? ANWTB and SH were on it... |
Yup, so there's only 3 titles that needs confirmation Say You Will, The End of the Dream & Sick. They could working be titles though just like Kraken & Orange. He didn't get The Change though...
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From Amy again, revealing the DVD contents 
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Comes w the deluxe. Making of album and video, WYW video and a little more. “@jk_rz2011:what's gonna be on the dvd? Whens it coming out?”
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i think i'll go for the DVD that has the deluxe :P
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any news about the video???
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Billboard WYW stats for this week  yayyyy!!
Rock Songs:
#22 (LW #29)
Alternative Songs:
#23 (LW #27)
and this is kind of relevant but The Muppets "The Green Album" debuted on the Top 200 @ #8.
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Been waiting for this! <3 Love this band!
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