Amy Lee on EVANESCENCE’s Next Album: “I Wanna Be Just Releasing Things…Then Probably Full Release Will Be Early Next Year”

Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee recently caught up with Terrie Carr of WDHA-FM 105.5, where she opened up about the band’s current writing phase, touring schedule, and how their creative process has evolved since the pandemic. The conversation comes just months after the release of the band’s latest single “Afterlife”, featured in Netflix’s Devil May Cry series.

Amy Lee offered:

“We had just gone into the studio for the first little bit right before recording ‘Afterlife’. So it was in between the end of… We sort of finished our main tour last year, at the end of the year. So we went in between with [producer] Nick [Raskulinecz] and did a few songs, went back on the road. And then ‘Afterlife’ was happening. So we came back and did that really fast and went back on the road. It’s been just a lot, but really invigorating and really fun, and I’m just having a ‘YOLO’ moment. I have no time to waste. Let’s do this.”

She went on to describe how Evanescence plans to approach music releases moving forward:

“Ever since last time, we started thinking about things differently in terms of, like, you have to make a whole album, put it all out at once. The pandemic hit and we had four songs recorded and we weren’t finished making songs for our album. And so we just started putting them out, ’cause at that time it was, like, ‘Well, who knows when this is ever gonna end, if it ever does? So let’s put out our music.’ And that felt so good, to be able to have the satisfaction of the engagement and the release of songs when they’re still fresh and we’re still working on the album and it’s happening in real time that I want this year to feel like that. I wanna be just releasing things, whether it’s for our album or some kind of cool side project thing. Just doing that throughout the year and then probably full release will be early next year.”

On the touring front, Amy confirmed a handful of high-profile appearances this fall:

“We’ve got a show with My Chemical Romance in September. A random one-off. Super cool. And we’ve got a stadium tour with Metallica in Australia in October. Several radio shows. Fun, just cool [events]. [We’re playing with] Poppy, who I love and am friends with as well. So, just fun things only this year. Tons of creation stuff going on — that’s the main gig — but in between really fun, worthy, little one-off shows.”

“Afterlife”, co-written by Alex Seaver (Mako) and Amy Lee, was co-produced by Nick Raskulinecz and Seaver, and features prominently in Devil May Cry, a Netflix animated series that debuted in the platform’s Top 5. The music video was filmed in a reportedly haunted mansion in Tennessee and is packed with references for fans of the show.

Earlier this month, Evanescence also dropped their collaborative single “Fight Like A Girl” with K.Flay, which serves as the first end-credit track in the action film Ballerina, set in the John Wick universe. The song was co-written by Lee, K.Flay, Dylan Eiland, and composer Tyler Bates, who also produced it. This followed the May release of “Hand That Feeds”, a track by Halsey and Lee, also created for the Ballerina soundtrack.

[Via Blabbermouth]

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