History Trivia / Evanescence

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: In a 2003 radio interview, Amy and Moody basically gave fans free reign to do so for their pre-"Fallen" material, in response to a question regarding the insane prices physical copies of the older records were fetching on eBay. They made it clear that they didn't see a dime of any of that money, since the records were no longer being sold officially, and so it wasn't worth the hassle for fans to buy them if they could just be downloaded for free. Some of these older records were later re-released for limited-edition vinyl boxsets, though fansites continue to allow for download links to be posted.

** Chunked up to eleven with the third album, with the label basically scapping the whole project an having the bend rewrite the album from scratch; see DevelopmentHell above.

** "Lacrymosa" was original written to be a part of the movie soundtrack of ''[[Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,]]'' but Creator/{{Disney}} rejected the song on the basis that it was "too dark". "Together Again" was also reportedly written for the movie, and was for some time even nicknamed "The Narnia Song" by the band and fans.

* BlackSheepHit: "Bring Me to Life" is their most famous song by far, yet it's different from all their other songs as it's the only one to feature male vocals. (Unless we count "Lies" from their Origin era, or the unreleased track "Before the Dawn".)

** Chunked UpToEleven with the third album, with the label basically scapping the whole project an having the bend rewrite the album from scratch; see DevelopmentHell above.

* CreatorBreakdown: "Hello" and "Like You" were inspired by the death of Amy Lee's little sister, whose name is not provided out of respect, when she was just a child and have never been performed live for her fans.

** Evanescence suffered a truly massive one shortly after ''Fallen'' came out. Aside from the self-released ''Evanescence'' EP, ''Sound Aleep'' EP, and ''Origin'' being shared on the internet (which Ben eventually encouraged to combat the insanely-priced bidding for physical copies, authentic or otherwise), a massive amount of unreleased demos, old outtakes and pre-master versions was also leaked onto the web. These include outtakes from the [=EPs=] and ''Origin'', several demo versions of songs that ended up on ''Fallen'', and even completely unreleased ones written and pre-produced during the same session, between 2001 and 2002.

** "The Bitter Truth" was actually planned at a decent pace after the promotion for Synthesis, but then got hit with a 6 month delay anyway because the CoViD pandemic hit early on in production scuppering plans to work with a lot of producers, and Jen Majura was stuck in Germany so she had to record her parts remotely.

*** When she no longer had to pay lip service to Wind-Up, she downrigh said she had hated them with a passion all along, though she does '''not''' project this onto Paul himself, as she holds nothing against him.

*** When she no longer had to pay lip service to Wind-Up, she downrigh said she had hated them with a passion all along.

** The band intended for "Going Under" to be their debut single, but the label pushed it back to release "Bring Me To Life" first. In insight, it proved a ''very'' good move.

** Before "Fallen" was even recorded, they were almost dropped by the label when Wind-Up tried to force them to include a permanent male rapper to make them a DistaffCounterpart to Music/LinkinPark, and they refused. A compromise was eventually reached with the inclusion of a guest rapper on "Bring Me To Life". Unsurprisingly, Amy Lee decided to drop the rap altogether in live performances starting in 2011, and the re-recorded version from "Synthesis" doesn't include it either. The so-called "Bliss Mix", a version of the "Fallen" version minus the rap, was released as a b-side on the "Bring Me To Life" single.

** [[To a lesser extent DownplayedTrope]], from the interviews you get this impression of whatever the current latest album is as soon as Amy is working on, or about to release new material. Until she warms up to it again, that is.

* CreatorBacklash: Amy Lee is not fond of doing "My Immortal" live.

** To a lesser extent she wasn't happy about the male vocals for "Bring Me To Life" at first, but has since become used to it. It's worth noting that after 2007 when John Lecompt left, none of the guitarists sing Paul's lines anymore. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5QFLV_lzeQ The reworked version]] also leaves his lines out.

** In 2006, rumours surfaced that "Together Again", aka "The Narnia Song", had been hacked and repurposed as the lengthy piano intro for "Good Enough". Amy Lee later set the record straight: she wrote the intro indipendendly from "Together Again" and, in hindsight, she decided "Good Enough" was a better fit for it. "Together Again" was eventually released as a charity single, still perfectly intact.

* The intro for "Even in Death" uses a sample from White Zombie's "Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls". This was recycled for "Snow White Queen", but slower and with a lower pitch.

* RecycledScript: The intro for Even in Death uses a sample from White Zombie's Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls. This was recycled for Snow White Queen, but slower and with a lower pitch.

** "Lacrymosa" was original written to be a part of the movie soundtrack of ''[[Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,]]'' but Creator/{{Disney}} rejected the song on the basis that it was "too dark".

* ExecutiveMeddling: "Bring Me to Life", at least the released version, was due to this. It was originally titled "Wake Me Up Inside" and only had Amy singing. Paul [=Mc=]Coy of 12 Stones was only added to the song at the very last minute; Evanescence and 12 Stones were labelmates at the time, and the label wanted to cash in on the NuMetal phenomenon and avoid the GirlShowGhetto - earlier, the label had even pressured the band to add a full-time rap-metal style male [[VocalTagTeam co-vocalist]] to the lineup. In 2017, Evanescence released a [[https://youtu.be/HWFnlfDpnLE version]] without [=McCoy=]'s vocals.

* ExecutiveMeddling: "Bring Me to Life", at least the released version, was due to this. It was originally titled "Wake Me Up Inside" and only had Amy singing. Paul [=Mc=]Coy of 12 Stones was only added to the song at the very last minute; Evanescence and 12 Stones were labelmates at the time, and the label wanted to cash in on the NuMetal phenomenon and avoid the GirlShowGhetto - earlier, the label had even pressured the band to add a full-time rap-metal style male co-vocalist to the lineup. In 2017, Evanescence released a [[https://youtu.be/HWFnlfDpnLE version]] without [=McCoy=]'s vocals.

* ExecutiveMeddling: "Bring Me to Life", at least the released version, was due to this. It was originally titled "Wake Me Up Inside" and only had Amy singing. Paul [=Mc=]Coy of 12 Stones was only added to the song at the very last minute; Evanescence and 12 Stones were labelmates at the time, and the label wanted to cash in on the NuMetal phenomenon and avoid the GirlShowGhetto. In 2017, Evanescence released a [[https://youtu.be/HWFnlfDpnLE version]] without [=McCoy=]'s vocals.

** Or the music video for "Everybody's Fool."

* CreatorBreakdown: "Hello" and "Like You" were inspired by the death of Amy Lee's little sister, who's name is not provided out of respect, when she was just a child and have never been performed live for her fans.
* DevelopmentHell: The band's 3rd album was supposed to be released Autumn 2010. Due to genuine creativity problems with what it was going to sound like the original Electronic / Folk influences were erased to a point and recording company issues.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ThatVideoMakingKid/videos ThatVideoMakingKid's Youtube account]] features lyric videos for nearly every version of nearly all of Evanescence's songs, including the original demo versions of many of the band's older songs, such as "Haunted" and "Imaginary."
** "Lacrymosa" was original written to be a part of the movie soundtrack of ''[[Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,]]'' but Creator/{{Disney}} rejected the song on the basis that it was "too dark."