Thursday, 29 May 2008
Evanescence
Artist: Evanescence
Genre(s):
Rock
ROck: Alternative
Metal
Metal: Alternative
Alternative
Discography:
Let Us Give Demos
Year: 2007
Tracks: 37
The Open Door
Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
Lithium
Year: 2006
Tracks: 3
Call Me When You're Sober
Year: 2006
Tracks: 1
Fallen (Brazilian Edition) (CD 2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Fallen (Brazilian Edition) (CD 1)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 13
Everybody's Fool
Year: 2004
Tracks: 4
Anywhere But Home
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Ultra Rare Trax Vol.1
Year: 2003
Tracks: 18
The Elliot Show Appearance
Year: 2003
Tracks: 5
Show (Mixing)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 20
Mystery Promo Cd
Year: 2003
Tracks: 6
Mystery (Promo)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 6
My Immortal
Year: 2003
Tracks: 3
Live in Cologne, Germany (10-17-2003)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Going Under
Year: 2003
Tracks: 3
Bring Me To Life
Year: 2003
Tracks: 3
Not For Your Ears
Year: 2002
Tracks: 18
Origin
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Sound Asleep (Ep)
Year: 1999
Tracks: 6
Sound Asleep
Year: 1999
Tracks: 6
Evanescence
Year: 1998
Tracks: 7
The goth-inspired Arkansas rock isthmus Evanescence, with its Linkin Park-meets-Tori Amos wakeless backed by chugging guitars, easy made it to the top of the charts in 2003 with its Wind-Up Entertainment debut album, Fallen. Singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist/songwriter Ben Moody formed the isthmus at the end of the '90s after meeting in their early teens during a "youth summer camp," Moody said in a statement. "I heard Amy playing Meat Loaf's 'I'd Do Anything for Love' at the pianissimo. So I went over to meet her, and she started vocalizing for me. I was pretty much blown aside, so I suckered her into connexion a isthmus with me."
As a twosome, Evanescence didn't perform live, alternatively opting to spillage EPs and the uncut Lineage. Lee told the BBC that Evanescence was mastering demos in Memphis, TN, when she and the dance orchestra were ascertained by producer Pete Matthews. He shopped the songs to track record companies in New York, and Evanescence -- rounded stunned by bassist Will Boyd, guitar player John LeCompt, and drummer Rocky Gray -- eventually landed a condense with Wind-Up, the home of Creed. The soundtrack to the 2003 Ben Affleck activeness moving-picture show Swashbuckler brought success to Evanescence; the mendicancy "Institute Me to Life," which appeared on the soundtrack along with the lay "My Immortal," became a hit. (Paul the Apostle McCoy, of labelmates 12 Stones, rapped on "Bring Me to Life," which originated as a pianissimo ballad.) The songs proven to be a head set off to Evanescence's future hit record album Fallen, produced by Dave Fortman (Boy Sets Fire, Superjoint Ritual) and released in March 2003.
Evanescence ran head number one into contention promoting Fallen. Originally, it was released in the Christian and temporal markets; however, the band's use of profanity during an interview with Rolling Stone prompted its mark, Wind-Up Records, to recall Fallen from Christian stores. Ironically, 12 Stones ar as well labeled Christian. Fallen surpassed double-platinum condition, reach the Top Ten in the United States, including the Top Contemporary Christian Albums chart, the Top Five in Canada, and identification number unmatchable in the United Kingdom. It worn out more than 100 weeks on Billboard's Top cc; Evanescence likewise managed to nibble up 2 Grammys (Topper New Artist and Best Hard Rock Performance) for the 2003 awards.
During a European turn former that same year, however, Moody dead left the grouping over manifest creative differences. Ex-Cold guitar player Terry Balsamo before long replaced him in the isthmus; he clicked with Lee and the two became cohesive songwriting partners wHO worked to farther delineate Evanescence's classically influenced hard john Rock identity. The dance orchestra continued to circuit day-and-night for the following class, and they issued the live album Anyplace But Home (recorded at a show in Paris) in November 2004 to hold back all over fans hungry for their followup. It likewise went platinum. More intragroup isthmus drama ensued -- including Balsamo recovering from a stroke suffered in diminish 2005 and Boyd's going the undermentioned summertime -- before that album, The Open Door, last appeared in early October 2006. Tim McCord (ex-the Revolution Smile) joined up in Boyd's place that August, switch from his usual guitar to basso. Spearheaded by the individual "Call Me When You're Sober," the album displayed a broader emotional reach amid the band's evolving sound. Evanescence played several intimate theater of operations dates immediately following the record's waiver before moving on to bigger arena shows.