With extensive album anniversary celebrations becoming the norm, Amy Lee of Evanescence has some thoughts on how she wants to commemorate 20 years of Fallen in 2023.
Released in 2003, the nu metal outfit's debut album birthed smash single "Bring Me to Life," which launched them into mainstream success. In a new interview with Rock Sound, Lee — the only founding member still in the band — revealed she has "an idea" for Fallen's 20th birthday.
Lee said [via Blabbermouth transcription]:
I do have an idea. It's gonna take a little bit of work. But I think it probably won't be what everybody expects. I think everybody just is, "Oh, why don't you do a show that's, like, [playing] the album front to back?" We've been playing so many shows, I would rather do something that, to me … I don't know. I don't wanna give it away, in case it doesn't work out. Maybe I'll do nothing. Expect nothing, and then if I do something, you'll be really, really grateful.
Lee also spoke about the renewed popularity of "Bring Me to Life" — and while Korn's Jonathan Davis may have made his mixed feelings on "nu metal" known recently, there's still a fair amount of nostalgia for the sub-genre; "There is an element to a song like 'Bring Me to Life' that didn't exist before, which is this nostalgia," Lee explained. "The song has grown live. It's something that we've added to. But part of how it's grown is with its history and with what it means to everybody in the room."
She continued, "It's not something new; it's just something that you already have known for so long that has a place in your heart. It's just able to be more than it would have been then. So I, in a lot of ways, love it more than I did."
Whatever it is that Lee's planning for Fallen's 20th anniversary, it will have to be worked around Evanescene's tour with Muse next year.
Released in 2003, the nu metal outfit's debut album birthed smash single "Bring Me to Life," which launched them into mainstream success. In a new interview with Rock Sound, Lee — the only founding member still in the band — revealed she has "an idea" for Fallen's 20th birthday.
Lee said [via Blabbermouth transcription]:
I do have an idea. It's gonna take a little bit of work. But I think it probably won't be what everybody expects. I think everybody just is, "Oh, why don't you do a show that's, like, [playing] the album front to back?" We've been playing so many shows, I would rather do something that, to me … I don't know. I don't wanna give it away, in case it doesn't work out. Maybe I'll do nothing. Expect nothing, and then if I do something, you'll be really, really grateful.
Lee also spoke about the renewed popularity of "Bring Me to Life" — and while Korn's Jonathan Davis may have made his mixed feelings on "nu metal" known recently, there's still a fair amount of nostalgia for the sub-genre; "There is an element to a song like 'Bring Me to Life' that didn't exist before, which is this nostalgia," Lee explained. "The song has grown live. It's something that we've added to. But part of how it's grown is with its history and with what it means to everybody in the room."
She continued, "It's not something new; it's just something that you already have known for so long that has a place in your heart. It's just able to be more than it would have been then. So I, in a lot of ways, love it more than I did."
Whatever it is that Lee's planning for Fallen's 20th anniversary, it will have to be worked around Evanescene's tour with Muse next year.