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Making of Fallen, The - Filmed by Amy Lee and Ben Moody, an unreleased 50+ minute video on how David, Amy, Ben, and Josh Freese dealt with recording Fallen in Los Angeles, California. They work on many songs including Missing, Imaginary, Farther Away, Going Under, Bring Me to Life Everybody's Fool and Imaginary, which Josh Freese plays drums throughout.
Malice in Wonderland Dress, The - Infamous dress designed by Amy Lee featuring the words "I Will End You", "Psycho", "Rude", and "Bitch". The inspiration for the dress came from Evanescence's first New York performance at Webster Hall on April 17th, 2003. The first time it was worn was at Evanescence's second New York appearance at Webster Hall on September 16th, 2003.
Ben Moody describes the incident that occured in a Digital Noise interview with Patrick Douglas:
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Patrick: We have a DJ here who always refers to Amy as “hot” before he plays one of your songs. Do you find it difficult as a band to gain respect with these kinds of insulting stereotypes?
Ben: Yeah. It is difficult because, you know, most of those guys just think with their dicks and not with their brains and that’s because that’s all they got to think with. It’s just like K-Rock New York, this one asshole came out to introduce us at Webster Hall and basically said he was going to masturbate eight times to Amy’s picture later that night. It’s basically like, you know, that’s great, I hope you have a good time, pray to God I don’t meet you in an alley because what you’re doing is not only disrespecting Amy, but disrespecting me and my band. We find it difficult, but at the same time those people are beneath us. Just fucking lowlifes. It’s all they are. If that’s all you get out of a band is how hot the lead singer is, then get a fucking life. Cause we got way more to offer than Amy’s face, let me tell you.
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The dress, according to Lee, is supposed to represent someone innocent who's been tainted.
Matthews, Pete - Producer discovered Evanescence during the recordings of the 2001-2002 demos and shopped the songs to many labels including Wind-up who eventually signed the band.
McCoy, Paul - See 12 Stones
Memphis, Tennessee - Ardent Studios in Memphis was the location of the Origin recordings. The recordings of the 2001-2002 demos took place in Los Angeles, California.
Millenium Choir, The - Choir who did the background vocals on Fallen songs such as Whisper.
Mindrage - John LeCompt’s band from 1999-2001. An album and an EP were released during that time.
Missing
Moody, Ben Jr. - The former lead guitarist/co-founder of Evanescence. Responsible for discovering Amy Lee’s voice. Wrote many of the most popular Evanescence songs including My Immortal. His father is a prominent photographer in the Little Rock area. Left the band in October 2003 after creative differences. Currently has worked or is working on many different projects. The End Has Come on the Punisher Soundtrack, Nobody’s Home on Avril Lavigne’s Under My Skin, Kelly Clarkson’s next album, the Blank Theory’s next album (supposedly had been working with Dave Fortman), and a project with David Hodges that’s rumored to be on the new Passion of the Christ soundtrack featuring Wind-up artists. Ben Moody's favorite drink happens to be Dr. Pepper. Moody plans to release an album in the Summer of 2005.
Morning Madhouse at the Edge Interview, The - Amy spoke candidly about her (at the time) recent perks as a celebrity. It was at that interview where Amy performed an acapella performance of the Sir Mix A Lot classic Baby Got Back.
Morgan, Shaun - Lead singer of Seether and Amy Lee's ex-boyfriend.
Mourningside - Band that features 2 current members of Evanescence (drummer Rocky Gray and guitarist John LeCompt). Also features Jack Wiese on vocals, Jeff Bowie on bass and guitarist Devin Castle. They hope to get an album released by the end of 2005. Songs from them include "My Apology", "Burden of Truth", "Tied Down", and "Hypocrisy".
My Immortal
My Last Breath
Mystary - The name of a promo EP released in January 2003 before Fallen was released in early March. Features the version of My Immortal originally intended to be on Fallen before Wind-up decided that the Origin version of My Immortal belongs on the album
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Nightwish - Band formed by Tuomas Holopainen, Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen and Tarja Turinen in 1996. Band often mentioned in similar sounding bands to Evanescence. Their latest release is Once, which was released earlier this year.
The current lineup features: Tarja Turunen (vocals), Tuomas Holopainen (keyboards), Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen (guitar), Jukka Nevalainen (drums/percussion), and Marco Hietala (bass/vocals)
Non-Evanescence songs - So you don't get screwed into thinking that they are, let's kill off some rumored songs right now.
Blue-Artist Unknown
Numb-Jamelia (cover of a Linkin Park song)
Restless-Within Temptation
Stars-Lacuna Coil
Silver Rain Fell-Scorn
Night Tide-Scorn
Dreamspace-Scorn
Angels fall first - Nightwish
Automata -Scorn
Days Past - Scorn
Falling - Scorn
Gatekeeper - Within Temptation
Light trap - Scorn
Not gonna get us - t.A.t.U
Slumber - Scorn
Wish you were here - Rednex / Blackmore's Night
Within Temptation (referring to Restless by Within Temptation)
Not For Your Ears - Unofficial and fake compilation of Evanescence songs. A collection of the 2001-2002 demos and Amy Lee's You. Not For Your Ears can be heard from in numerous ways. Ultra Rare Trax Vol. 1, 2, and 3 are one of the many different ways in which it is labeled.
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O-Board - See Official Evanescence Board, The
October
Official Evanescence Board, The - The unmoderated board that Wind-up made for Evanescence's website. Blown up in May 2003 after too many idiots flooded the board with constant questions about the band's religious affiliation.
Only Human, Only God - A track produced by David Hodges and Ben Moody originally intended for the Passion of the Christ soundtrack. Apparently, the project will never see the light of day even after 2 soundtracks for the movie had been released.
Open Door, The - Second official Evanescence album (some call it the third depending on definition of Origin as an album) due for release on October 3, 2006. First single released to radio will be called "Call Me When You're Sober". Album also features "Good Enough" and "Weight of the World".
Origin - 1. Album released on November 4th, 2000 in Little Rock. Many different Origins exist, but there’s only one true tracklisting
1) Origin
2) Whisper
3) Imaginary
4) My Immortal
5) Where Will You Go
6) Field of Innocence
7) Even in Death
8) Anywhere
9) Lies
10) Away From Me
11) Eternal
Only 2500 real copies were made. Origin sold out in February 2003. Real and fake copies are bought on EBay for upwards of $300. Amy Lee does not consider this an album, but rather a collection of demos that they "dressed up" to send to different major labels.
2. The first track of the album, features old film clips.
Orestes - A Perfect Circle Mer De Noms track (recorded in 2000). Revamped as an Evanescence acoustic cover. Rumor has it that Maynard James Keenan was impressed with the cover of this song. Recorded by a local (dev on the Evboard).
Outlaw, Matt - Plays drums on Solitude and So Close. Wrote So Close along with Ben Moody and Will Boyd.
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Performances - There are many live performances since early 2003 that have had Evanescence as one of the top musical acts in the world. Among them: Rock in Rio, Rock Am Ring 2003 and 2004, Hard Rock Live, Two Tonight Show with Jay Leno performances, The Late Show with David Letterman, Pepsi Smash, the American Music Awards, the Muchmusic Video Music Awards, The Billboard Music Awards, and Live in Cologne.
Pierce, Stephanie - Backup female vocalist on Lies.
Pinch Harmonic, The - The famous sound used in Bring Me to Life by guitarist Ben Moody. A guitar trick perfected by one of Moody's guitar idols Zakk Wylde.
Priest, The - Battled Efanar for Ben Moody's soul throughout 2003. Lost to Efanar when Efanar returned from the dead. He will be missed. Also see Efanar.
Princess Corpse Dress, The - Amy Lee designed the dress that she wore at the Grammies and H. Naoto, a well known Japanese designer, made the dress. The pink and black outfit also includes twigs dipped in metal. Victory never looked so good
Punisher Soundtrack, The - Released March 23rd, 2004. Features 19 tracks including Ben Moody's The End Has Come and the re-recorded version of Seether's Broken featuring Evanescence lead singer Amy Lee. The album has sold over 270,000 copies to date.
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Resident Evil 2 Soundtrack, The - Album was to feature 1-2 projects from Ben Moody.
One was to feature punk-metal group Body Count according to Blabbermouth.net
The May 5th, 2004 article reads:
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BODY COUNT, the metal/punk band fronted by legendary rapper Ice T, are slated to contribute a new song to the upcoming "Resident Evil 2" soundtrack. The as-yet-untitled track will apparently be a collaboration between the group and a seemingly unlikely writing partner — former EVANESCENCE guitarist Ben Moody. "We're going to do a song on the new 'Resident Evil 2', and Ben Moody is going to co-produce the song with me," BODY COUNT guitarist Ernie C revealed in an interview with 411Mania.com. "He's going to write a song with BODY COUNT. It sounds weird, but it's a great hard rock record, so he's writing us on [the] 'Resident Evil' [soundtrack]. I met him, he's a really cool guy, he wants to work with us, so we're going to do 'Resident Evil', and that'll be the first song. And I know that's a big achievement — that'll be a big deal."
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Seether - See Broken
Self Esteem - Offspring song originally recorded for 1994’s Smash and covered during a Nitelife Rocks (Little Rock nightclub) New Year’s Eve concert
Sex Type Thing - Stone Temple Pilots song originally recorded for 1992’s Core covered during a Nightlife Rocks New Year’s Eve concert.
Shamy - Our version of Bennifer
Snow White - She is "the fairest of them all" and queen of all rodents. Has a fascination with squirrels. Reluctant to eat apples, Snow is still very much a healthy eater.
Spears, Britney - Multiplatinum artist and musical rival of Amy Lee. See Everybody's Fool.
So Close
Solitude
Soul Embraced - Band that both Rocky Gray and John LeCompt have performed for. Rocky Gray was a full-time guitarist and John LeCompt was a featured vocalist in one of their songs.
Sound Asleep - Name of the EP (also referred to as the Whisper EP) released in August 1999. Features an early version of Whisper and 2 versions of Understanding.
Stolzl, Philip - Has directed Evanescence videos for "Bring Me to Life", "Going Under", and "Everybody's Fool". His repertoire includes Madonna's "American Pie" and Garbage's "The World is Not Enough".
Stricken - See Childish Intentions
Surrender
Swart, Josh - Production manager and roadie for Evanescence.
Syd - Many people on the Evboard know her as a moderator, but only a select few actually know how instrumental she was in helping Evanescence. As a music director and disc jockey at the pop station in Little Rock (KLAL-FM), Syd heard Bring Me to Life in the summer of 2002 and saw hit potential well before many had even heard of the song.
Syd started playing the song on the station and by the start of the next year stations in many other formats (Alternative, Christian, Hot Adult Contemporary and other pop stations) followed suit.
Bring Me to Life, as mentioned in its entry, became the #1 pop song in the country in major part thanks to her.
She was also influential in getting Going Under and My Immortal added early for the station to support the local band who has now become a worldwide phenomenon. She was also a bassist for the Little Rock based band known as Dean Heathen.
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Taking Over Me
Tait, Michael - Member of
dc Talk and responsible for producing Evanescence's first EP.
The End
Thoughtless - Korn song originally recorded on 2002’s Untouchables that Evanescence started to cover in spring 2004.
ToB (The Other Ben; Tacos or Burritos) - Ninja Admin Extraordinare. You piss him off and you die.
Tourniquet
Trading Yesterday - Band that David Hodges formed after leaving Evanescence. The band released The Beauty and The Tragedy in mid-June 2004. Signed to Epic Records in the summer of 2004. Will release a mainstream album in February 2006 entitled More Than This with the first single to be One Day which is featured on the Stealth soundtrack. The album will be produced by Dave Fortman (who also produced Fallen). Band members include Mark Colbert at drums and Steven McMorran at bass. According to Hodges, Colbert was originally considered to become the full time drummer for Evanescence.
Tributes - Currently there are 5 tributes. One is the String Tribute, two others are made by the band Static Heaven, one made by jazz saxophonist Joey "G-Clef" Casavano, and one made by pianist Ark Sano. One of them is a completely acoustic record. The titles of the CD's are "Eclipse: A Piano Tribute to Evanescence", "The String Quartet Tribute to Evanescence", "Tribute to Evanescence", "G-Clef Tribute to Evanescence" and "Gothic Acoustic Tribute to Evanescence".
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Unauthorized - Refers to any Evanescence memorabilia that is not given the OK from Wind-up to release. Examples of this include Maximum Evanescence and After Midnight.
Understanding
Underworld - Amy Lee is credited to have worked on the movie’s soundtrack (her name even appears on the credits). However, her voice had not been used in the soundtrack. According to a KNAC article, there were 4 songs that Amy worked on. The titles of three of them are "Now I Know", "Down in the Lab", "Death Dealer's Descent". She may have also worked on "Falling Through the Sky". All of those tracks made the album without her vocals.
Used, The - Utah-based emocore band. Released self-titled debut in June 2002.
Bert McCracken, lead singer, went on an offensive on Evanescence after they couldn't play the KROQ (Los Angeles) Weenie Roast in the summer of 2003 because of a Ben Moody illness. Evanescence pulled out of the Weenie Roast and the Used took Evanescence's place.
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"Evan-offense, what is the band called? Sucka-essence," McCracken joked. "Anyways, that sh--ty band that was supposed to [perform] canceled, so we got their spot and it went beautifully."
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Van Helsing - movie inspiring Evanescence's darker mood for their second album
The story can be read here.
The Visitors - The other band that Will Boyd had joined before playing in Evanescence
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Weight of the World
Where Will You Go
Wind-up Records - Home to Evanescence. Wind-up signed Evanescence in 2002 after hearing songs from Origin and assorted demos. Home to other bands such as 12 Stones, Seether and the now-defunct Creed.
Within Temptation - Formed in 1996 with Robert Westerholt and Sharon den Adel. Band often brought up in conversations about bands similar to Evanescence. Last album released: The Silent Force in 2004.
Band lineup: Robert Westerholt (guitar), Sharon den Adel (singer), Jeroen van Veen (bass guitar), Martijn Spierenburg (keyboards), Stephen van Haestregt (drums) and Ruud Jolie (guitar).
Whisper
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You - Amy Lee's personal song dedicated to her family and friends. The pre-Fallen song that the band encourages fans not to download.
Ben Moody described the situation with the song on the Original Exodus Evanescence Board called the "We're not Goth" board when it was still running.
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Since Origin, he has taken the liberty of connecting himself with everything we've ever done. He even has gone to a studio that we recorded at (the owner of which was a friend of his) and made cd's of songs he was never supposed to have. One song in particular, was VERY private. He was FORBIDDEN to show it to anyone, since there was no way I could actually be sure I had every copy. COUNTLESS times people have commented on that song and how he showed it to them. When confronted, he just denies it or says that they heard it on accident or some bullshit. there's a very good chance some of you have it on your computer RIGHT NOW.
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Talking about this song on evboard is the fastest way to become
persona non grata.
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Zero - 1. Smashing Pumpkins song originally released on 1995’s Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness regularly covered by Evanescence ever since they started touring in early 2003.
2. The name of the cat that Amy Lee purchased. What? Evanescence can't have a mascot?