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12 Stones - Lead singer Paul McCoy is featured in the Grammy winning song for Best Hard Rock Performance in Bring Me to Life. Wind-up Artists who released second album Potter's Field in August 2004.


50 Cent (real name: Curtis Jackson) - Interrupted Evanescence’s victory speech at the 2004 Grammy Awards by walking and posing on the stage as they won Best New Artist. Amy Lee calls what 50 Cent did a “Zoolander moment”. Not an Evanescence member. It should be noted that Ben Moody and Amy Lee played “PIMP” during their Reality Radio show on Z100. It should also be noted that they performed a date together after the MTV Video Music Awards in Morrison, Colorado.


A

After Midnight - Unauthorized DVD scheduled for release fall 2004. The DVD is rumored to have outdated interviews with Amy and Ben.


Aguilera, Christina - Multiplatinum artist and a guilty pleasure for Amy Lee. Amy Lee does not appreciate her image, but on occasion sings along to Stripped to warm up for concerts.

Alone - A track rumored to have been recorded for the Resident Evil 2 soundtrack turned out to be a hoax report. According to the hoax report, Avril Lavigne, Dido, and Evanescence were to have songs on the soundtrack and either Dido or Evanescence would have the lead single for the soundtrack. The soundtrack features Lacuna Coil, Killswitch Engage and The Used.

Anything For You

Anywhere


Anywhere But Home - The title of the official Evanescence DVD. To be released worldwide on November 22nd and in the US on November 23rd. The DVD is supposed to feature footage from Paris and Ev's show at the Zenith on May 25, 2004.

From Billboard.com
Appearances - There have been plenty of appearances of Ev-related music on many different television shows and some movies.

Here is a list of most of their appearances:

Bring Me to Life - 2003 WWE No Way Out, Without A Trace (CBS), CSI:Miami (CBS), Tru Calling trailers (FOX), Mitsubishi commercial, Triple Crown Horse Racing, Daredevil
My Immortal - Friends promos leading up to the series finale, WWE Tribute to Fallen Superstars 2003, Daredevil, Smallville (WB)
Going Under - NBA Basketball (ABC), Chinese men’s gymnastics montage (NBC), The Grid (TNT), LAX (NBC), Enter the Matrix video game.
Hello - All My Children (ABC)
Taking Over Me - Making the Band (MTV)
Imaginary - The Village trailer
Everybody’s Fool - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC)
Whisper - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC)
Broken - The Punisher

Ascension of the Spirit


Awards - Evanescence is no stranger to winning. Here is a semi complete list of every award Evanescence has won to date (includes nominations)

Away From Me

B


Balsamo, Terry - Full-time Evanescence member as of December 2003. Previously a member of Cold and Limp Bizkit. Credited with writing songs on Cold’s Year of the Spider.

Before the Dawn


Big Dismal - Collaborated with Amy Lee on Missing You on Big Dismal’s debut album “Believe”. Missing You is Track #6 on Believe and had not been released as a single.

Big Wig Enterprises - Mostly a label featuring punk bands, Evanescence’s label before they signed to Wind-up Records.

Bleed


Boyd Esquire III, William James - The bass guitarist of Evanescence. Became full time member in June 2003. Known for writing a part of October and So Close. Spent stints with local Little Rock punk bands such as the Visitors and Lucky Father Brown. Also happens to be a champion beer bottle opener.

Breathe - One of two collaborations between David Hodges and Amy Lee. Breathe is actually a very well known inspirational song. Recorded in 2000 for The Summit Church’s Summit Worship CD now out of print.

Breathe No More

Bring Me to Life

Broken - Collaboration between Seether and lead singer Amy Lee. Amy Lee co-produced the string arrangement with Double G. Broken was written years before Shaun Morgan met Amy Lee. When Seether was making Disclaimer in 2002, the band wanted Amy Lee to collaborate before the world ever knew about Evanescence. The label balked at the idea until two years later when the Punisher’s soundtrack was compiled.

The video for the song is a live performance video filmed in an abandoned area of the Lancaster Desert in California. The video was filmed in mid-March 2004. The director was Nigel Dick, who is also known for directing the MTV Video Music Award winner “Hero”. There used to be a crystal meth lab there, before it blew up twice. They filmed the video on the scene as it was. This is the second single off of the Punisher soundtrack (Drowning Pool’s Step Up was the first) and the first single off of Seether’s remixed Disclaimer II.

Commercial Release: July 20, 2004

C

Call Me When You're Sober

Catherine - Recorded, but unreleased to the public. One of the only joint writing efforts ever put together by Amy Lee, Ben Moody, and David Hodges. Originally intended to be put on Origin and performed live a few known times in Little Rock, the song never saw the light of day.

Cartoon Network Song, The - See the thread for more info. Amy Lee recorded the song live marking the first time Amy played with an acoustic guitar.

Chapen, Chad - According to a Ben Moody interview in 1998, he co-produced what became the first Evanescence EP.

Childish Intentions - OMG, they suck! In all honesty it was one of the first names that the band decided to choose before they looked in a dictionary. They have never recorded anything under this name or their other name, Stricken.

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe - Lead singer Amy Lee had been asked to work on the second soundtrack released by the movie, however, had been turned down when asked to change the style of music on the record. Her work had been replaced with the work that Alanis Morrissette did for the album.


Cold - Former band of current Evanescence guitarist Terry Balsamo. Amy Lee formally apologized to the band and their fans on the Cold message board and the Evboard in January after making comments referring to Scooter Ward’s health and the band’s future. The band (along with Revis, Cauterize, and Finger Eleven) toured with Evanescence during the Nintendo Fusion Tour.

Cologne, Live in - A live set that the commercial singles for My Immortal and Everybody’s Fool have been used for.
Three performances from Live in Cologne (My Immortal, Imaginary, and Whisper) can be found here:
Modem:
http://www.sonymusiceurope.com/cgi-b...0000009121.wmv

ISDN:
http://www.sonymusiceurope.com/cgi-b...0000009122.wmv

Cable:
http://www.sonymusiceurope.com/cgi-b...0000009123.wmv

Covers - Original songs recorded by other artists, but performed by a different artist.

In the case of Evanescence, here is a list of covers that they have performed:
Blue Oyster Cult-Don't Fear the Reaper
Live-The Dolphin's Cry
Nirvana-Heart Shaped Box
Metallica-One and Enter Sandman
A Perfect Circle-Orestes
Stone Temple Pilots-Sex Type Thing
The Offspring-Self Esteem
Korn-Thoughtless
Smashing Pumpkins-Zero
Soundgarden-Fourth of July
Garbage-Only Happy When it Rains
Soul Embraced-My Tourniquet (yes, it counts)

D

Demise - See Eternal

DiCosmo, Francisco - Played the bass guitar on Fallen.

Dolphins Cry, The - Cover of the Live song from 1999's The Distance to Here album. Performed at a Little Rock show on February 3rd, 2001. There is a minute and a half videoclip that features a part of the song being played. The importance of the clip is that it is the first publically displayed videoclip to ever feature a performance with David Hodges in it.

E

Efanar - One of the most memorable posters on the Evboard ever. The highlight of his Evboard stay was the "How Big Are Your Boobs?" Thread. Won the admiration of all of the best looking ladies on the Evboard. He lurks occasionally, but will be missed by all who remembers his posts.

End Has Come, The - Track provided by former Evanescence guitarist Ben Moody on the Punisher Soundtrack. Ben Moody plays guitar, Lance Garvin, former drummer of Living Sacrifice plays the drums, and Jason Miller (lead singer of Godhead) and Jason “Gong” Jones (lead singer of Drowning Pool) provide the vocals.

Equipment - Evanescence uses various types of instruments and such live.

Ben used Jackson guitars. John LeCompt uses Esp. Ltd. guitars. Terry uses Ibanez guitars. John, Ben, and Terrry use Line 6 guitar amps. In addition, Wah pedals have a heavy presence on most of Fallen's songs.

Eternal


Evanescence -
1. Disappearance like a vapor.
2. The name that Amy and Ben decided to call themselves after looking in a dictionary and finding the original definition of evanescence. Evanescence has become a household name.
3. The name of the EP of the very first collection of Evanescence songs officially released in 1998. Features early versions of Where Will You Go, Imaginary, and Understanding. Also features the first song ever written for the band, Solitude. 100 copies of the EP were sold and sold out after an early performance by the band.
4. The name of a lesser-known album by a band called Scorn. Many confuse the Scorn album, with Evanescence’s works. Among the works of Scorn: Silver Rain Fell, Exodus, Night Tide and Falling.

Evboard, The - You're on it. There have been a couple of versions of the board that date back as early as 1999. Now features about 14,000 members. In July 2003, this site featured just a little over 3,500.

Even in Death

Everybody’s Fool

Exodus

F

Fake - Meant to describe something that doesn't actually exist. Generally refers to Evanescence music compilations released by independent companies. Examples of fakes include Not For Your Ears, Le Nouveau Gothique, Ultra Rare Trax Volumes 1, 2, & 3, etc.

Fall Into You - The first vocal collaboration between David Hodges and Amy Lee. Recorded in 2000 for Musical Demonstrations Pt. 1 now out of print.


Fallen - Amy Lee is quoted to have said, “We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.” This is one of the reasons that Fallen is called what it is. Ben Moody in an interview said that Fallen was made to let people know that they aren’t alone when they feel alone or feel pain. Fallen has sold well over 12 million copies worldwide and about 5 and a half million in the US alone. The album debuted at #7 and has not fallen below #39 to date on the Billboard Album Chart. The album stayed in the top 10 for 43 non-consecutive weeks. Released March 4th, 2003. The CD was re-released in January 2004 with the band version of My Immortal. Fallen was Grammy nominated for Album of the Year in 2004.

Farther Away

Field of Innocence

Fight the Power - A project that was apparently made between Ben Moody and an unnamed rapper that was supposed to appear on Resident Evil 2's soundtrack.

Fitzhugh, Bruce - Lead singer of Living Sacrifice who did the male vocals on Origin’s Lies.

Forever Gone, Forever You

Forgive Me

Fortman, Dave - Known for producing Fallen. Has also produced albums for 12 Stones, Atomship, Boysetsfire, Superjoint Ritual, and Ugly Kid Joe.

Fourth of July - Originally recorded by Soundgarden for the classic grunge album Superunknown, released in March 1994 became revived as a cover at Evanescence’s live shows during the winter of 2003/04.

Freese, Josh - Played the drums on Fallen. Full-time member of A Perfect Circle and the Vandals. Has played the drums for albums from Clay Aiken, Anastacia, Tracy Bonham, Meredith Brooks, The Calling, Kelly Clarkson, Chris Cornell, Good Charlotte, Indigo Girls, Avril Lavigne, O-Town, The Offspring, Puddle of Mudd, Seether, Suicidal Tendencies, 3 Doors Down, Ween, Rob Zombie, and countless soundtracks.

G

Give Unto Me

Going Under

Good Enough

Goodnight



Gray, Rocky - The current drummer of Evanescence. Former lead guitarist of Soul Embraced and Killsystem. Worked with John LeCompt when LeCompt was a lead singer in Killsystem. Also worked with LeCompt when LeCompt laid vocals on “Seems Like Forever” for Soul Embraced’s Immune album. Credited for writing the original version of Tourniquet for Soul Embraced and revamping Tourniquet on Fallen.

H

Haunted

Heart Shaped Box - Classic grunge-era song recorded originally by Nirvana on In Utero in 1993, covered by Evanescence at live shows early in 2003 and an acoustic performance of which shows up on the Going Under single. The acoustic performance of this song was recorded at WXDX, an alternative station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which occasionally still plays the acoustic performance.

Hello

Hodges, David - Former keyboarder/piano player of Evanescence. Joined in 2000 and left in December 2002, just 4 months before Fallen was released. Responsible for most of the string arrangements on Fallen. Collaborated with Amy Lee on Breathe and Fall Into You. Currently in the band Trading Yesterday. Trading Yesterday released The Beauty and The Tragedy in June 2004. Trading Yesterday was signed to Epic Records in the summer of 2004 ready to release their debut major label album in 2005. Hodges is currently dating the original American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson. It is rumored that Hodges co-wrote 3 songs on Clarkson's new album which is scheduled for release on Nov. 30th, 2004.

the honest thief - Power abuser. Has an appearance in Playboy magazine. One of the coolest posters on the Evboard.

I

Imaginary

J

Juanita’s Restaurant - Mexican restaurant/club that featured Evanescence for their Fallen party on January 13th, 2003. It was there were they performed a breathtaking rendition of A Perfect Circle’s Orestes to finish their acoustic set.

Jones, Jason - Managed, developed and co-produced Evanescence’s early work for 2 years. Co-Procucer of both of Ev's EPs, the first one is noted, the second one is not. It also was recorded and paid for by Jason Jones and Ben and recorded on Jason's equipment. He is also the one that came up with the name "Origin". Long time friend of Ben Moody. He is responsible for introducing Ben & David to eachother. He is currently with Hap Hazard, PR/Promotion Manager
www.haphazardmusic.com

K

Kidz Bop Kidz, The - Have released 7 compilations featuring kids singing contemporary and oldies tunes. Bring Me to Life was covered for Kidz Bop 4 and most recently My Immortal was covered in Kidz Bop 6.

Killsystem - John LeCompt and Rocky Gray’s band released a self-titled album in 2002. Chad Moore (lead vocalist of Soul Embraced) was a bassist and Lance Garvin was the drummer.

KLEC-FM - First station in the Little Rock market and the country to play Evanescence songs. Format switched to oldies in late May 2004.

L


Lacuna Coil - Italian band formed in 1996 and led by Cristina Scabbia and Andrea Ferro. Evanescence is constantly compared to this band. Their first EP was released in 1998. Their most recent release came on April 4, 2006 with Karmacode. The album features the singles "Our Truth" and "Closer" and features a cover of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence." Ms. Scabbia is rumored to be a member on the Evboard.
More info can be found on:
www.emptyspiral.net

Last Song I'm Wasting On You, The - A song that Amy mentioned in an interview. Refuses to say who it's dedicated to. No word on whether this title would be used. No word on whether it will be on the next album.


LeCompt, John - Evanescence guitarist since 2002. Credited for writing Forever Gone, Forever You and Taking Over Me. Performs Paul McCoy’s part in Bring Me to Life during live shows. Provided vocals and guitar for Mindrage from 1998-2001. Killsystem vocalist/guitarist in 2002. Featured vocalist in Soul Embraced’s “Feels Like Forever” in early 2003. Collaborated with his brother Jimmy in a project called Burnt Offerings. The song they are known for doing together is called “Free But Hollow”. Voted by Evboarders as the sexiest male member past or present.

LeCompt, Jimmy - Brother of John. See LeCompt, John.

Lee, Amy Lynn - Co-founder and lead singer of Evanescence. Born in California on December 13, 1981, moved to West Palm Beach, Florida, Rockford, Illinois and finally stopped in Little Rock, Arkansas. Responsible for many of Evanescence’s hard hitting lyrics.

Collaborator on many projects, such as the Underworld project with Maynard James Keenan, lead singer of Tool and A Perfect Circle (scrapped) The Punisher Soundtrack’s Broken with Seether (where she also co-produced the string arrangement), Big Dismal’s Missing You, and David Hodges’ Breathe and Fall Into You.

John Lee, her father, is a well-known radio DJ on "The River" in Little Rock.
Amy provides the image for the band and does most of the interviews. Ben Moody discovered Amy Lee’s voice in summer camp in 1994 when she performed Meatloaf’s I Would Do Anything For Love. After that, the rest is history. She is currently one of the most popular and sought after voices in music today. It is rumored that she can dance quite well in a monkey suit.

Lies

Linkin Park - Multiplatinum band who Evanescence has been compared to in terms of sound especially for Evanescence’s first hit single “Bring Me to Life”.

Listen to the Rain

Little Rock, Arkansas - The birthplace of Evanescence and the location of a thriving hardcore scene which featured Mindrage and Kill System and now features bands such as Dean Heathen and Between the Second.

Living Sacrifice - Rocky Gray joined the band in the summer of 1998 playing the guitar according to Living Sacrifice's website. He joined the band for The Hammering Process (released in 2000) and Conceived in Fire (released in 2002)

Lucky Father Brown - Band that Will Boyd was in before joining Evanescence.

M

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:

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

N


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.

O

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.

P

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.

R

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:S

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.

T

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".

U

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.
V

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

W

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

Y

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.
Talking about this song on evboard is the fastest way to become persona non grata.

Z

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?

I've decided to change this thread around a bit. This thread is going to be locked and will stay locked. Once again, if you have any inquiries and you'd like to help out, please PM me.

Thank You: b00bles, blackvulture, MutantQuasar, ToB, the_gabe, blimptor, notachristianband.com, Going Under 87, Starah, mindyj, KeyStone, cruithne, Miles D, Onyrika, remembering_always, Syd, _Snowboarder_, h2a, love_vapor, Katya, lady_ikx, lemon, Scarlett_Rayne, Turvik, Surrender2Me, Lauren, Eleanor, Evolving Soul, Ater Raven, Ammer, Naeryn, Eugenia, Broken Whisper, Candy cloud, Ghetto Fabalus, Vallarri, Stanzi1791, hyatt[x]core, Enclave Online, MTV.com, exodusevanescence.com, evboard.com, allmusic.com, digital-noise.net, livingsacrifice.com, knac.com, us.imdb.com, tradingyesterday.com and all the sites upon which the images are hosted.

I'm pretty sure there are some mistakes, but I've gathered all of this info from the evboard and all sorts of other places.

This will be edited as it goes along.

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