The truth will out: Evanescence’s Amy Lee – the group release The Bitter Truth via Columbia on March 26
Amy Lee tells Music Week why her multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning rock group Evanescence are hoping to change perceptions with The Bitter Truth, their first all-new studio album in 10 years…
What does it mean to you to finally have The Bitter Truth coming out? “It’s so satisfying to listen to the finished album. A lot of these songs were written last year, but some of them are 10 years in the making – pieces of things that have just been waiting for the right home. It feels really good to listen to some of these songs that were once broken pieces and have them turn into something beautiful.”
In 2017, you told Music Week that some people still view you as “the girl falling off the building” in the Bring Me To Life video. Do you think this might change the minds of people?
“I hope so. I’m so proud of our work. I wish I could shove our new music in the faces of everybody that’s only ever heard Bring Me To Life. I really wanted to show a lot of different sides of myself, and what we can do as a group. I have an incredible group of musicians around me, and I always want to let us take it all the way and show what we can do, because I always want to feel like we’re growing. I’m very proud of the album. I wanted to show who we are now, and what we’ve been through, and what that sounds like. And I think we accomplished that.”
“I wish I could shove our new music in the faces of everybody that’s only
heard Bring Me To Life” Amy Lee
You’ve got numerous physical editions of this record coming out. What made you want to include the making-of snippets as a bonus cassette? “It’s my favourite, I love the cassette! Over the course of all this time, I had recorded little ideas into my voice notes, and I have ProTools so I do a lot of home recording when I’m writing and just creating – some of that turns into Evanescence stuff and some of it doesn’t. It’s this whole world of stuff that nobody hears. We also did some writing together as a band and had the mics going all the time in the studio, and there’s some really funny and good and interesting moments that we had on tape. There was just all this audio so I just started putting clips together and marrying it together. I love listening to it. You’re hearing real moments when ideas were hatched and pieces were written, plus songs that didn’t make the album that we were jamming on, and putting them away for another day. It’s cool to give people a little bit of that window.”
Clive Cawley, managing director, EMI Records, on Greta Van Fleet’s The Battle At Garden’s Gate…
“Nearly three years since we first saw them at The Black Heart in Camden – proving themselves as one of the most compelling live acts we’ve had the pleasure to work with – Greta Van Fleet release their second full album proper, The Battle At Garden’s Gate, this April. They have over 75,000 albums and 240,00 singles sold here in the UK (which is no mean feat for a warts’n’all rock band these days), and a million concert tickets worldwide. A tireless amount of
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work across every department has gone in over the past few years to cross them over into the public consciousness. Alongside a plethora of online and press coverage, they’ve garnered radio support across Kerrang!, Planet Rock, BBC Radio 2 and Radio 1, where they played a Maida Vale session for Jack Saunders. All of that is what we need, and plan to build on with this record this year. We hope that they’ll be back playing live in the UK before the end of the year.”
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WORDS: Eleanor Goodman PHOTO: Nick Fancher
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