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    BITTERSWEET SYMPHONY

    Mar 15, 2021 4 minutes

    For their first record of entirely new material in a full decade, Evanescence have cranked the volume well past 11. As its title implies, The Bitter Truth is an absolutely ferocious dose of the band’s signature goth-rock grandeur. It’s dark, stormy and authentically impassioned, condensing not only ten years of pent-up musical ire, but the genuine frustrations of the fivesome being forced to create it in less-than-ideal conditions – thanks, of course, to 2020’s whole “modern-day plague outbreak” situation.

    The environment that fostered was shrouded in vexation – for starters, border closures meant guitarist Jen Majura was stuck in Germany while the band recorded in the US; meanwhile, constant setbacks to meeting dates and release plans meant

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