Maybe Evanescense was a bad name for a band....

[ShonenSenshiDave]

Well, it's been confirmed as of this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly. The newest hard rock sensation Evanescence has lived up to their name.

Ben Moody, the music behind Evanescence, mysteriously disappeared during their European tour earlier this year, and singer Amy Lee has been searching for new musical talent to back her up in concert. Additionally, thanks to a contorversial interview published in EW in April, where Ben stated that "we are not a Christian rock band", their album has fallen off the Christian charts and sales from Christian music stores have plummeted. On the plus side, the album has sold almost 3 million copies as of this week.

Evanescence was recently nominated for 5 Grammies:
Album of the Year ("Fallen"), Best New Artist, Best Hard Rock Performance ("Bring Me to Life", the hit popularized thanks to the major motion picture "Daredevil"), Best Rock Album ("Fallen"), and Best Rock Song ("Bring Me to Life").

The moral of the story? Perhaps a better name would have been more appropriate:

evanescence

\Ev`a*nes"cence\, n. The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes. --Rambler.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.


evanescence

n : the property of lasting for a very short time [syn: ephemerality, ephemeralness, fleetingness]

The really sad thing... watch them win Best New Artist, the death of a musical career!

[LadyWinterWolf]

The sad part is that the band members were content having their songs covered by other bands, they didn't want to deal with the problems of fame that plague lots of singers and/or bands.

But just because one member leaves, doesn't mean that their music will stop.....they have the muse within them.

And what's in a name anyway?

[ShonenSenshiDave]

actually, I would have to disagree. chemistry is very important in a band, and sometimes it just canot be replaced.

can you imagine the Beatles w/o John Lennon? GnR has sucked with the new lineup, Judas Priest was terrible w/o Rob Halford, and don't even get me started on that ingrate Jason Newstead; why Metallica replaced Cliff Burton with that hack was beyond me. It usually seems that when a founding member with a vision leaves, so does the vision, and the quality.

so yeah, Amy may find a few studio musicians to help her put together a new album; chances are that it won't be anywhere near the same quality as "Fallen", and it probably won't have the Evanescence vibe...

[AtlanteanAscendant]

because, and i may be wrong here so feel free to correct me, Cliff Burton came up with a horrid and unrecoverable case of "dead" when the tour bus rolled and ended up killing him.

and there are a couple of bands that have survived various members heading off or ditching the band for supposedly greener pastures.

still, i actually liked evanescence's album... ah well. wouldnt be the first band to go south.

[ShonenSenshiDave]

see, as a Metallica fan from waaaaaaaaaay back, I thought that Jason Newstead was a terrible addition to the band, and the music never felt quite "right" to me, to be honest.

Evanescence managed to take home 2 grammies, by the way, Best New Artist, and Best Hard Rock Song, IIRC. They've replaced Ben Moody, who has now moved on to collaborating with Avcril Levigne (groan). Be interesting to see what happens next...

[khyron1144]

ShonenSenshiDave said:

They've replaced Ben Moody, who has now moved on to collaborating with Avcril Levigne (groan).

Don't knock Avril too much. I actually kind of like her.

Okay so she tries to dress punk while singing very mainstream pop/rock stuff. That's not a crime.

So her songs aren't all that deep. For the most part they're fun, and that is a good deal of what counts.



As for Evanescense, I liked the song on the Dare Devil soundtrack (or at least liked it better than the one from Spider Man that got all that radio air play and time on MTV), but it didn't seem amazing or revolutionary, although what does these days?

[Chahiero]

Evanescence's moment of glory probably went completely under the radar - their first record Origin probably has some of the best goth rock stuff I've heard. My favourite is probably Lies. The version of Imaginary on Origin is probably better as well.

As to Evanescence, they have a new guitarist and seem quite happy with him, so it's not over ... yet.