In a brand new interview with Australia’s “At present”, EVANESCENCE frontwoman Amy Lee was requested the way it feels to see the band’s debut album, 2003’s “Fallen”, nonetheless resonating with so many individuals world wide and being found by new generations of followers. She responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Oh, nice. It is a large yr. It is an anniversary yr, so 20 years since ‘Fallen’ this yr. So there was extra give attention to it once more in a cool method. We have been by means of a lot collectively. I feel the largest factor that I really feel about all of that’s actually in regards to the journey for us, for me and thru the band, but additionally with our followers. We have all lived a number of life in that point and it makes the songs extra significant. It is probably not nearly just like the preliminary that means a lot anymore. It is turn out to be one thing simply a lot larger, as a result of we have had a lot time collectively. And new followers? You all the time need new followers. Come on.”

Lee additionally talked in regards to the music video for “Fallen”‘s first single, “Carry Me To Life”, not too long ago surpassing a billion views on YouTube. She mentioned: “It is superior. I imply, it is loopy. There’s a number of milestones which were taking place currently with the primary report. I by no means thought again then — I could not have imagined how far we have come and that we’re right here now nonetheless making music we love and incomes new followers. Man, 20 years — it is a lovely factor. I am so grateful.”

EVANESCENCE is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of “Fallen” on an Australian tour, which kicked off final Thursday night time (August 24) in Brisbane. The five-date trek marks the band’s first Australian tour since their elegant run with native symphony orchestras in 2018.

Beginning life when Lee and EVANESCENCE co-founder/guitarist Ben Moody started writing and recording songs within the mid-Nineties, 2003’s “Fallen” would go on to attain 5 nominations on the 2004 Grammy Awards, successful “Finest Laborious Rock Efficiency” and “Finest New Artist”, with the album’s symphonic and delicate ballad “My Immortal” additionally scoring a further nomination on the Grammy Awards the next yr.

Hitting the highest 10 charts in a number of nations upon its launch, together with Australia and a No. 1 within the U.Ok., “Fallen” offered 10 million copies within the U.S. alone, with over 17 million copies offered worldwide and formally reaching diamond certification in late 2022.

“Fallen”‘s lush and gloomy magnificence memorably blended symphonic components with goth, rock, metallic and hooks aplenty, whereas additionally garnering important consideration for lead singles “Carry Me To Life”, “Going Below”, “My Immortal” and “All people’s Idiot”. And whereas the album has gone on to be included within the likes of Rolling Stone‘s “The 100 Best Steel Albums Of All Time” and reward lauded for Lee’s macabre tinge that set the band other than their nu metallic contemporaries on the time, “Fallen” additionally finally set the scene for a long-term legacy from the Arkansas-hailing group, who at the moment are answerable for 5 studio albums together with 2021’s highly effective and intimate outing “The Bitter Fact” which debuted at No. 3 on the ARIA chart, which marked the band’s highest debut in 15 years.

Following a number of worldwide excursions, “The Open Door” adopted “Fallen”‘s footsteps, happening to promote greater than 5 million copies, earlier than the self-titled “Evanescence” in 2011 debuted at No. 1 on the ARIA album chart and Billboard chart. EVANESCENCE went down each very new and acquainted paths for his or her fourth and most formidable launch to this point, “Synthesis”, in 2017 alongside a worldwide “Synthesis Dwell” tour combining their intense reside performances and timeless songwriting with a strong reside orchestra, earlier than unveiling “The Bitter Fact” in 2021, hitting the highest 10 of a number of worldwide album charts and marking itself on a number of “Finest Of 2021” launch lists worldwide.

The success of “Fallen” led to turmoil inside the group, as Moody left in late 2003, leaving Lee as the one authentic member of the band.

Lee continued with new members, and EVANESCENCE issued “The Open Door” in 2006. Whereas successful, it didn’t equal the gross sales of “Fallen”.

In February 2022, EVANESCENCE‘s music video for “Carry Me To Life” — which featured visitor vocals from Paul McCoy of 12 STONES — surpassed one billion views on YouTube. The Philipp Stölzl-directed clip, which was uploaded to YouTube in December of 2009, was filmed in Romania in January 2003. It options Lee in an evening robe and barefoot, in her room, inside a tall constructing within the metropolis at night time. The remainder of the band is enjoying on the next flooring of the constructing.

In March 2021, Lee informed Different Press that EVANESCENCE‘s authentic report label Wind Up threatened to not launch “Fallen” if she and her bandmates did not add a male voice to steer single “Carry Me To Life” to make it extra palatable for radio.