Evanescence announce new album ‘The Bitter Truth’
EVANESCENCE have announced a new album!
Titled The Bitter Truth, the upcoming album from the band marks their first record of original music for nine years. The album will be released incrementally over the course of this year.
The upcoming album takes its foundation in the epic, signature sound that has earned EVANESCENCE two Grammy awards and more than 23 million album sales worldwide. Producer Nick Raskulinecz [FOO FIGHTERS, RUSH, DEFTONES] has been tracking with the band in Nashville since late January. In a break from the past, the band will be rolling out a series of songs from the album incrementally, culminating in the release of the full album.
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; titled Wasted On You. The new music video was shot by each band member – lead singer-songwriter and pianist Amy Lee, bassist Tim McCord, drummer Will Hunt, lead guitarist Troy McLawhorn, and guitarist Jen Majura – on their iPhones while currently in isolation. The intimately shot video (directed by P.R. Brown in collaboration with the band) breaks through the emotional stillness and numbness of the current time.
Speaking about the new music video, vocalist Amy Lee says, “we were recording this music right up until we couldn’t go into the studio anymore, and finished it remotely through file sharing and phone calls. We are still writing and have a lot more work to do on this album, but this time we wanted to release the songs individually, as we create, to live more in the moment with our fans and our music. Wasted On You wasn’t the song we were planning to release first, but when the whole world went into indefinite lockdown and everything changed, so did the feeling and meaning of what we wanted to say right now. I didn’t write these lyrics about what we’re all now going through, but somehow that’s exactly what they are. As far as business is concerned, this is considered a terrible time to release. But we believe that people need music now more than ever. We do, and we’re not going to wait to share it because who knows what tomorrow brings. Who knows if it even comes?”
Director P.R. Brown adds, “after we started looking at the footage it was clear that the band members were each going through similar things. I started building an edit seeing those scenarios play out over and over again and linked them together to tell their stories.”
Watch the official music video for Wasted On You here:
The Bitter Truth will be released incrementally over the course of this year. EVANESCENCE will tour mainland Europe and the UK in a co-headline run with WITHIN TEMPTATION in September and October.
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