Evanescence Unveils "My Heart is Broken"

Evanescence have just released the new video for their uptempo rock ballad "My Heart Is Broken," is the official second single from American hard rock band's eponymous self-titled third album. It is the standard romantic rock bluster from Evanescence. Really, when your heart is broken, you want a song that's as idea driven as "My Heart is Broken" to carry you through and that's what the frontwoman Amy Lee delivers.
Lee's vocals accompanied by piano, guitars and drums was powerful and flexible as ever, as heard in her piercing wails on hit-in-waiting "My Heart Is Broken." Lee said that the song sounded better with the piano part because it was a stronger and more prominent instrument which made the song "one of the most passionate songs on the whole album." With a gorgeous piano intro rises alongside Lee's high energy, vibrant and undeniably fierce vocal delivery, and the "gut-wrenching" ballad develops into a searching, soulful hook, ranging high among the best material this band has ever recorded.
Lee revealed that the song was written after seeing victims of sex trafficking. Despite brokenness being one of several themes that run through Evanescence's new album, this song is not about romantic heartbreak. Lee explained: "A good friend of mine heads up an organization in New York that rescues victims of sex trafficking. My husband and I got involved and were really moved and horrified. As I was writing the song I was putting myself in that place - what would it be like to be trapped? Threatened? Alone? Unable to tell anyone what was happening because you're afraid of what would happen?"
The video, Lee says, takes inspiration from the 1988 British dark fantasy horror film "Paperhouse." Distinguished director Dean Karr for short film, and Lee promises the video will recall "both dreams and nightmares." In a recent interview with MTV, Lee also describes the video as a "surreal dream world, and the band's performance is the dream within the dream, in an abyss of darkness." Lee continues "we're playing with fiber optics, so basically I'm drawing the world around me from nothingness, and when I draw things with my hands they actually come to life."

Evanescence Returns With "What You Want"

Evanescence are officially back, with a roaring new single called "What You Want," the first single from American rock band's upcoming, self-titled third studio, which recorded in Nashville and will be released on October 11. It's been nearly four years since Evanescence have released a single, and during that time, it appeared very likely they'd never release another.
The freedom-themed song was penned by frontwoman Amy Lee at her house in New York with bassist Tim McCord and guitarist Terry Balsamo. Lee had previously described the song as being "really different" from anything in the band's back catalog, and, as you can tell, she wasn't kidding. "What You Want" is most definitely a departure, quite possibly the heaviest song Evanescence have ever made. The guitars buzz like a hornet's nest, the drums are pounding and primal, and the strings swell and stab. Throw in a positively massive chorus and Lee's vocal pyrotechnics, and you've got a song that's powerful enough to shake rock radio to its very foundation. And that's pretty amazing, considering its simple roots.
As Lee said, it's not just the band's comeback single, it's also the beginning of a mission - one Evanescence are taking very seriously. Though it came from humble origins, "What You Want" deals with heady concepts, a trait that's readily apparent throughout Evanescence's new album. "It's about freedom - that's definitely a constant theme on the record - but, it's like Evanescence, and me, and my relationship with the music and the fans, and coming to that [realization] of 'This is what I'm supposed to do ... I want to do this,'" Lee said. "And when it says, 'Remember who you really are,' that's exactly everything you could assume it means."
They rock and make the crowd go crazy with an insane warehouse performance in Meiert Avis-directed new visual, filmed in Brooklyn, New York and is a biographical clip of the band from their early days to their reconvening after their hiatus. "This is more a personal video. We've done a lot in the past that were very 'fantasy,' and this is sort of the real us," Lee told MTV News. The heavy goth-rock head-banger video continually cuts Lee running through New York in a dark dress and makeup. The shot represented the band coming back in the world and heading into the unknown, coming into a new world.

Evanescence | "My Immortal" (Video)

Evanescence is an American alternative rock metal band founded in Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. "My Immortal" is the 3rd single from Evanescence's the 1st full-length major label debut album, "Fallen". The song was selling over 500,000 copies.

The music video was shot in Barcelona and played in black-and-white. In an interview with Rock Sound magazine, Amy commented on the video's concept: "You know what? When you see the video it's really amazing irony, how much it makes sense. We're all separated and wandering the streets looking like it's the day after a funeral, with Ben in a suit and bare feet, and I'm never touching the ground. I'm sitting on a phone booth or lying on a car, to hint that I'm dead, that I'm singing from the dead. It's all about separation. It's almost like the director knew what was going to happen, but he can't have known. It's just one of those fate things."

Other favorite singles from Evanescence:"Bring Me To Life", and "Hello".