I used to write for Metal Hammer. I’m aware that the band Evanescence continue to be inexplicably popular, and are reverered by a certain demographic of people who were just young enough when Bring Me To Life came out to think it properly slammed, and not old enough to realise that they were just an even shitter Nightwish rip-off.
Those people are now e.g. magazine editors, content curators, DJs and Evanescence are considered An Important Band. I humour this revisionism. But my friends, a line has been crossed.
Read an interesting piece about how the bald dude who did all the rapping in that famous song was properly forced into the band. The execs were all like you’re pretty good and all but having just a woman singing isn’t going to cut it so have this guy also.
