Evanescence: “I’m so grateful for Fallen. It is something bigger than me”

You could never accuse Amy Lee of being unprepared for this interview.  “It’s old times right now!” Evanescence​’s singer grins as she produces a binder bearing her band’s logo on its cover.  “I have all the old submissions that we ever sent to our label,” Amy says, opening it up to reveal a series of plastic sleeves containing numerous CDs and assorted artwork designs. “My sweet friend – and the lady who discovered and signed me – Diana Meltzer made me an entire copy of her binder for fun.” The binder in question even has Diana’s original notes in, featuring proclamations like, ​‘This one’s a hit!’ and, ​‘This one’s not!’ or even, ​‘This one needs work!’ Presumably not many tracks bore the latter two critiques considering the end product w...

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