Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Audacy Music, Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee offered an update on the band’s new album. According to her, the group already have “a lot of songs” in the works for the effort.

Lee said the following while discussing the band’s new single “Afterlife” (out March 28):

“Netflix, via Mako [Alexander Seaver], who is a guy that did score work on this series, ‘Devil May Cry’, had this song started and reached out to me and was, like, ‘Hey, we’d worked together once before on a Lindsey Stirling track during the pandemic.’ So, I made vocals to it, and we were kind of just communicating via e-mail. I still haven’t met the guy in person. But he was, like, ‘Hey, check it out. Would this be cool? Would you sing on this?’ And that just snowballed into finishing the song together and then getting it, like, ‘This is an Evanescence song. Let’s get the band in here. And let’s just take this all the way.’ And us getting to go into the studio with [producer] Nick Raskulinecz, who we did our last two albums with and love working with him. He is right here in Nashville, so it’s fun and easy for me and I could just keep going over there and annoying him. And it kind of just happened, kind of fast.”

She continued:

“[The band is] very excited to have new music. This is the first of many [new tracks]. We are working on a lot of songs right now for the new album, but this came up through Netflix, and we were just really excited to have an excuse to get in there right away.”

She also added the following about the new record:

“I don’t have a date for you. We are just working. We got off the road in November or something, and we’ve been just creative. When we book shows and we happen to have time in between that makes sense, like we have a show on a Saturday and we have another show, but it’s not till the next Thursday ’cause it’s festivals or whatever, it’s, like, ‘Hey, let’s stick around, get an Airbnb and get some instruments together and see who’s got an idea.’ So we were doing some of that, and that can be fun and productive. We got some cool locations out of it. We did one in Italy. But really spending the time in the studio, me just focusing and us taking the time to turn some of those ideas into real songs has been happening since. So, we’ve got a lot cooking, lot cooking. I don’t have a date for you, but there’ll be more and more and more music coming out.”

[via Blabbermouth]