EVANESCENCE HAVEN’T RELEASED A ‘PROPER’ ALBUM FOR 10 YERS …
Like so many performers with a strong, specific public image, Amy Lee is not all she seems. Ostensibly her world is one of gothic melodrama and opulent metal. Basques and ball gowns. It’s what she’s been known for since 2003, when Evanescence’s mega-hit Bring Me To Life made her a superstar at 21.
Her next ambition, though? It might surprise you…
“Y’know what would be really cool?” she says over our Zoom audio call, in chipper tones. “I’ve always thought it would be fun to be a part of creating the score to a great nature documentary, like Planet Earth, one of those amazing David Attenborough ones, underwater particularly. Every time I watch something like that I think, ‘God, it’d be fun to work on the score for that!’”
Now 39, Amy is a woman of many sides. The oddball child of the grunge era and poster girl for nu metal, who owes as much to Nine Inch Nails and Björk as her
