Evanescence - The Open Door
 

Well the new Evanescence album will be out on October 3rd with the debut single being aired next month titled "Call Me When You're Sober". After Ben Moody left the band the new album should be less commercial sounding and more experimental. The track list is:

1. Sweet Sacrifice
2. Call Me When You're Sober
3. Weight Of The World
4. Lithium
5. Cloud Nine
6. Snow White Queen
7. Lacrymosa
8. Like You
9. Lose Control
10. The Only One
11. Your Star
12. All That I'm Living For
13. Good Enough

I'm expecting an barrage of "evanescence are shit", which is fair enough if you don't like them, but is anyone else excited for the new album?

I hope they kept the the same poetic angst with their songs. I haven't heard of many bands that have the same feel as Evanescence. There's been a large space of time between the first CD and this one. However, I am afraid that this CD may be even more commercial than the last one since that's the normal trend of music. However, I'm waiting until I hear the single to see whether or not I'll consider buying the album.

It's been 3 years since the release of Fallen, the new songs will still have Amy Lee's poetic lyrics since she was the main lyricist on Fallen. Some of the lyrics that have been published are:
- from "Call me when you're sober" - "You never call me when you're sober, you only want it because it's over"
- from "Snow White Queen" -"You belong to me, my Snow White Queen"
- from "Good Enough" - "Am I good enough for you to love me"

The reviews that are coming from previews of the album are positive, it's heavier due to there actually being a full band recording the album and Terry Balsamo's songwriting on board, more dark and epic and it looks like there's a lot more of a piano performance from Amy throughout it all instead of every now and again in songs.

Yay. I loved Fallen. Amy Lee has a beautiful voice. I'm anxiously anticipating the release of this album (more like, waiting for it to be leaked online).

Where are you reading these reviews Sian?

If it's anything like Origin I'll definitely pick it up. Fallen was decent, but way too much Ben Moody need to make lots of money influence on it. Download a few of the following songs to see what I mean:

Where Will You Go
Lies
Before the Dawn

They're basically from magazines from all over the place, there's a French magazine that's done a full preview explanation of all the songs but obviously I can't read French and the translations are pretty poor.

Here's the translation that's been up, some of it doesn't make sense though

Someone explain this to me? I know a lot of people think she has a terrific voice - but it has no pitch or range. It's like she had her vocal chords tuned by Phillip Glass.

I'll avoid stating my incredible dislike for the band - but can someone tell me why they think she's a good singer? She's flatter than one of VG's fantasies.

Personally I do think she has quite a good vocal range, but I think what people like the most about her voice is because she puts a lot of emotion into her singing. I guess you can either view her voice as beautiful and emotional, or whiney and flat. I think on the Anywhere But Home recording her voice did sound flat, but I have bootlegs where she sounds amazing.

I wouldn't call her singing whiney - the lyrics, yes, but not her intonations. But it's like she keeps the same notes through out - and just raises or lowers how loud she's singing. It's like AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAaaaaaaaaaa AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Theres no change, theres no variation, theres no counterpoint.

I've heard bootlegs of her as well and she sounded even worse - though I can't discredit her because in this day and age, you only need to make it in the studio, not live. (Nelly anyone?)

I think her range is awesome. And her voice sounds like water, it's so clear.

Maybe it's her music you don't like, not her voice.

I can see your point, but I agree with Alice that she sounds crystal clear and does have a good range although you may not be able to pick it out. But it would be good to see if she experiments with her voice on the new album if she can pull it off. I find Evanescence bootlegs hard to come by and the quality is usually shite, but her acoustic performances seem to be the best since she's sitting still and not jumping around like she would be on stage.

Does Nelly even play live? I didn't realise that type of music could make it onto a stage...

The only person in the band that knew anything about music or writing songs left. Must be interesting stuff in the make now! Not that they were that great to begin with.

Or they might dig out some external talent to make songs for them... but that's unlikely.

Are you talking about her sustaining notes? I guess on an album you can say it leaves room for variation live, but if she doesn't do it for you live I can see where you are coming from. I don't understand when you say she has no pitch or range. Are you saying she only sings one note?

I like to listen to Amy Lee but I have only the Fallen album. I wouldn't say it was mindblowing, she's no Mariah Carey but she can't be THAT bad.

Mariah Carey was a lot better before she started singing in falsetto all the time.

You can't actually back that up without hearing the new album, because for all you know it could be stronger than Fallen with Amy and Terry Balsamo as the core songwriters

She sings in one key, stretches notes out to where my glassware starts to shake and basically just runs that same idea into the ground over and over and over. For lack of a better word, it's monotone. It's like typing everything in caps lock or listening to nothing but 80s power chords.

It's dull, uninteresting and unentertaining. At least fire alarms have that little squak to get your attention over the buzzing.

I didn't like how Ben Moody left. Seriously, was this guy not annoyed by his lack of recognition in comparison to Amy? Whether he had more input or not, he should have foresaw it was going to be more difficult to be more recognised when you look like another guitarist, and that Amy was the singer who played piano and is hardly as ugly as sin.

Sian, you wouldn't happen to have the original French that was translated from would you?

Alice - I dunno. Mariah Carey still sounds spectacular. She only bothers me in the odd track where she sings so high that she sounds like a bell...

That's called a "whistle voice," and my sister-in-law (who is a voice coach and has a master's degree in music, so she's pretty reliable) told me that there aren't many people in the entire world who can do it.

So respect the bell!

Nothing wrong with going high (I heard her delivery live can be off) but I can see what you mean now. It sounds like you have listened to a lot more Evanescence than me anyway, though I can somewhat agree with the lack in variation on Fallen at least.

It could be, but why didn't they write songs before this then, if they could do better than the basist?

You mean guitarist don't you?

I don't listen enough E to care which.

Yet I still post in this topic, imagine that!

You might not listen to much Evanescence, but you obviously know a few things about the band.

It's called knowledge. I don't listen to Pink Floyd either, but I know who Roger Waters is and basically what he has done.