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EVANESCENCE’s AMY LEE Joins HALESTORM For ‘Break In’ Performance At Canadian Tour Kick-Off

EVANESCENCE’s AMY LEE Joins HALESTORM For ‘Break In’ Performance At Canadian Tour Kick-Off

EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee joined HALESTORM on stage last night (Tuesday, October 15) at the Vancouver stop of the two bands’ joint Canadian tour to perform the HALESTORM song “Break In”. Fan-filmed video of the performance can be seen below.

In August 2020, HALESTORM released the official music video for a reimagined version of “Break In”, featuring a guest appearance by Lee. The new version of the track, which originally appeared on HALESTORM’s second album, 2012’s “The Strange Case Of…” , was recorded in October 2019 at a Nashville studio with producer Nick Raskulinecz, who had previously worked with both bands. The clip captured Hale and Lee delivering an impassioned studio performance of the track.

The updated “Break In” appeared on “Halestorm Reimagined”, a collection of reworked HALESTORM original songs as well as a cover of “I Will Always Love You”, the love ballad made famous by Whitney Houston and Dolly Parton.

Lzzy and Amy performed a quarantine rendition of “Break In” in May 2020 on Hale’s Internet show “Raise Your Horns With Lzzy Hale”.

Speaking about the collaboration, Lzzy told Amy: “What I love about dueting on that song with you is that it started out as as love song that I wrote for my significant other” — referring to HALESTORM guitarist Joe Hottinger — “but when we sing it together, it’s this act of unity, especially with the two of us being women and being women musicians. It’s like we have each other’s backs. And the lyrics mean something completely different when I sing it [with you].”

Regarding the way the new version of “Break In” was recorded, Lzzy said: “We did it performance-style, literally next to each other in the same room — from beginning of song to end of song, singing with each other.

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Upcoming Evanescence and Halestorm 2024 Canadian Tour

Upcoming Evanescence and Halestorm 2024 Canadian Tour

Evanescence and Halestorm are joining forces for a Fall 2024 Canadian tour, featuring support from The Warning.

The outing kicks off October 15th in Vancouver, and runs through an October 29th show in London, Ontario. Along the way, the tour will hit such cities as Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Ottawa, among others.

Evanescence’s most recent album is 2021’s The Bitter Truth, while Halestorm’s latest effort is 2022’s Back From the Dead. Both bands have been working on new music, with Lzzy reporting recently that Halestorm’s next album is almost finished.

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Evanescence and Halestorm 2024 Canadian Tour Dates:
10/15 — Vancouver, BC @ Rogers Arena *
10/16 — Kelowna, BC @ Prospera Place *
10/18 — Calgary, AB @ Scotiabank Saddledome *
10/20 — Edmonton, AB @ Rogers Place *
10/22 — Winnipeg, MB @ Canada Life Centre *
10/25 — Laval, QC @ Place Bell *
10/26 — Quebec City, QC @ Videotron Centre *
10/28 — Ottawa, ON @ Canadian Tire Centre *
10/29 — London, ON @ Budweiser Gardens *

* = w/ The Warning

Halestorm and I Prevail 2024 North American Tour Dates:
07/09 — Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park ^
07/11 — Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center ^
07/13 — Clarkston, MI @ Pine Knob Music Theatre ^
07/15 — Gilford, NH @ BankNH Pavilion ^
07/16 — Boston, MA @ Leader Bank Pavilion ^
07/18 — Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage ^
07/21 — Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre ^
07/23 — Bridgeport, CT @ Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater ^
07/24 — Scranton, PA @ Pavilion @ Montage Mountain ^
07/26 — Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center ^
07/27 — York, PA @ York Fair ^
07/30 — Mansfield, OH @ Inkcarceration
07/31 — Alpharetta, GA @ Ameris Bank Amphitheatre ^
08/01 — Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre ^
08/03 — Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion ^
08/04 — Franklin, TN @ FirstBank Amphitheater ^
08/07 — St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre ^
08/08 — Rogers, AR @ Walmart AMP ^
08/10 — Woodlands, TX @ The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion ^
08/11 — Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory ^
08/13 — Denver, CO @ Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre ^
08/14 — Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheater ^
08/16 — Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Financial Theater ^
08/17 — Las Vegas, NV @ Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood Casino & Resort ^

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Unearthed Footage Shows Amy Lee From Evanescence’s Powerful Voice At Just 17-Years-Old

Unearthed Footage Shows Amy Lee From Evanescence’s Powerful Voice At Just 17-Years-Old

The rare video was filmed at Vino’s Bar in Little Rock, Arkansas back in 1999, and shows Amy Lee on vocals, former Evanescence bandmate Ben Moody on guitar, Stephanie Pierce on back up vocals, and an unnamed violinist.

The clip pre-dates any official Evanescence releases, with the band’s demo album ‘Origin’ coming out in 2000, followed by their debut studio album ‘Fallen’ in 2003. Some songs from those albums are performed in the clip, including ‘Imaginary’ and ‘Whisper’.

Amy Lee and co’s full one-hour-set is captured in the video, and while the sound and quality isn’t great – it’s pretty epic seeing Evanescence before they were what we know them as now.

John Furman, the uploader of the video, has even timestamped each individual song, so if you wanna skip to something in particular, you can. Check out the timestamps below, and have a watch of the 1999 video up top.

 

6:55 – Whisper
13:00 – Imaginary
17:00 – Where Will You Go
20:51 – Catherine
26:20 – Exodus
31:30 – Give Unto Me
37:10 – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper – Blue Öyster Cult cover
42:40 – Understanding (Wash It All Away)
48:00 – Lies
55:05 – Solitude

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THE MOST TRAGIC LOSSES THAT CHANGED AMY LEE

THE MOST TRAGIC LOSSES THAT CHANGED AMY LEE

Amy Lee didn’t dream of being a rock star as a young girl. Her earliest musical influences came from the classical world. She was fascinated by her grandmother’s piano playing and the film “Amadeus,” and she dreamed of one day being either a classical composer or scoring films, as she told Kerrang!. Even when she discovered grunge and heavy metal as a teenager and started down the path to becoming the leader of Evanescence, Lee made connections between heavy metal and the classical writers she knew.

Still, she made the transition into rock and grunge, though she didn’t at first think of herself as a singer. Vocal performance was initially only an outlet for her poetry. For her poems, Lee drew on a darker muse than a classic film or her grandmother’s talents. When she was only 6 years old, Lee’s younger sister Bonnie died of an illness that left her physicians baffled. Lee was close to her sister and was devastated by losing her, but she didn’t want to compound her parents’ grief by showing her feelings. Poetry, and later music, became her outlet.

Lee carried that early sense of loss into her career with Evanescence. She’s identified two songs, “Hello” from the album “Fallen” and “Like You” from “The Open Door” as being about her sister. She’s also come close to tears discussing her sister in interviews and long declined to share her name, out of concern it would upset her parents or lead overcurious fans to encroach on her sister’s grave.

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Evanescence Announce Spring 2023 Tour w/ Muse

Evanescence Announce Spring 2023 Tour w/ Muse

Evanescence have confirmed that they will be touring with Muse in Spring 2023 in North America. The shows will be 20 dates from February 25th to April 20th.

Pre-sale begins October 4th and general sale begins October 7th. Visit evanescence.com for more details.

NEW DATES

02/25 United Center – Chicago, IL, USA

02/26 Target Center – Minneapolis, MN, USA

02/28 Moody Center – Austin, TX, USA

03/02 Toyota Center – Houston, TX, USA

03/03 Dickies Arena – Fort Worth, TX, USA

03/07 Nationwide Arena – Columbus, OH, USA

03/09 Scotiabank Arena – Toronto, ON, Canada

03/11 Centre Vidéotron – Quebec City, QC, Canada

03/14 Bell Centre – Montreal, QC, Canada

03/17 Madison Square Garden – New York, NY, USA

03/19 Wells Fargo Center – Philadelphia, PA, USA

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Echoes From the Void Issue #2

Echoes From the Void Issue #2
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Worlds Collide Tour Postponed to Spring 2022

Worlds Collide Tour Postponed to Spring 2022

The Worlds Collide Tour has been postponed to Spring 2022. Check out the new dates below!

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How Amy Lee brought her powerful vocals to life

How Amy Lee brought her powerful vocals to life

Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee has one of the most powerful voices in music. But it took a long time for her to feel comfortable using it.

“I’ve got to be honest, that came after I’d been doing it for a while,” she tells EW. “I was pretty insecure in the beginning; I always felt like I wasn’t that good. I started playing music with people in what eventually turned into a band when I was 13, and I was singing only because it was the vehicle for the poetry I used to write.”

Lee laughs as she reflects on being a “wannabe dramatic 11-, 12-, 13-year-old” who poured all of her emotions into those poems — along with her original dream of becoming the next Mozart. “I wanted to write genius symphonic opuses and impress everyone with my skills that I didn’t have,” she says. “I was kind of halfway down the path of realizing that that would be an extreme challenge when grunge hit and I started playing with boys in bands.”

Yet she credits joining choir in junior high as a major factor in her becoming a singer, a role she initially saw as “blending in” rather than standing out. It wasn’t until she realized how much people liked her voice that she gained the necessary confidence to bare her soul on her own. “The more I did it, the more positive attention I received,” she says, adding with a chuckle, “Ugh that feels so weird and insecure to say it that way! I don’t feel that way now.” [READ MORE]

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Celebrating International Women’s Day

Celebrating International Women’s Day
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18 years of Fallen: The album that made Evanescence superstars

18 years of Fallen: The album that made Evanescence superstars

It sold 17 million copies and scooped two GRAMMY awards, but it was the personal impact that Fallen made on the band’s fans that positioned Evanescence above the alt.rock pack, elevating the Arkansas gang to superstardom. On the 18th anniversary of the record’s release, we’ve handed the keys of Kerrang! over to The Noise Cartel publicist Donnay Clancy, to tell just one of those 17 million stories and explain what made Fallen so special… [READ MORE]

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100 Greatest Songs of the Century

100 Greatest Songs of the Century

The 100 greatest songs of the century so far, and the stories behind them. The new issue of Metal Hammer is on sale tomorrow – starring Evanescence, Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Korn, Babymetal, Ghost, System Of A Down, Nightwish, Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park, Within Temptation and many more. Get your copy online tomorrow from tinyurl.com/GetHammer

 

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New Single Drops This Friday!

New Single Drops This Friday!

EVANESCENCE’S NEW SINGLE Better Without You drops this Friday. They were going to post a :30 second clip but then decided it would be more fun to make you work for it! Solve the puzzle at the LINK IN BIO to hear the clip. Everyone who solves it gets a free ringtone and you’ll be entered into a random drawing to be the first fan in the world to hear the entire new song + a private Q&A with Amy Lee for you and a guest. Winner to be chosen on Tuesday @ 6pm ET. https://puzzle.evanescence.com

Everyone who solves it gets a free ringtone and you’ll be entered into a random drawing to be the first fan in the world to hear the entire new song + a private Q&A with Amy Lee for you and a guest. Winner to be chosen on Tuesday @ 6pm ET.

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The Bitter Truth Limited Edition!

The Bitter Truth Limited Edition!

New #TheBitterTruth Limited Edition.

This exclusive REVOLVER Magazine bundle includes The Bitter Truth box set (which includes a special double CD, cassette, journal and print), single Black VINYL LP and an autographed hand-numbed print by Amy Lee herself!

https://bit.ly/3uzz1im

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10 Albums From the 2000’s

10 Albums From the 2000’s

Evanescence adds a level of interest to their songs that seems downright impossible to beat. Fallen is the ultimate showcase of their ability, ranging significantly in both tone and technical style. While each track is a haunting triumph in itself, the overall collection is a paragon of cohesiveness and eclecticism. [READ MORE]

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Watch Wasted On You on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Watch Wasted On You on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Check out the full performance of Wasted on you @ Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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10 Unforgettable Amy Lee Moments

10 Unforgettable Amy Lee Moments

Evanescence will release their newest album, The Bitter Truth, on March 26. To celebrate the band’s massive career, we put together these unforgettable moments from Evanescence legend Amy Lee.

It was only a matter of time before everyone’s childhood was captured on camera, and a high school recital tape of Amy Lee made it all the way to YouTube. The duet of Christina Aguilera’s “Reflection” was actually posted by the guy who sings alongside Lee and was filmed on an ancient Hi-8 camera in Little Rock, Ark. From the very beginning of the performance, it’s plain to see how talented even a young Amy was. [READ MORE]

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Evanescence to perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Evanescence to perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Make sure to check out Evanescence preforming on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Friday, Feb. 19 Which features Kate Hudson, Dominique Fishback , Musical Guest Evanescence!

Check out some of their past live performances here!

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