Evanescence Are Going Into The Studio Early Next Year

According to Amy Lee, Evanescence are going to hit the studio in early 2020 to work on at least some of their new album.

Material from the follow-up to 2017's Synthesis album will hopefully be able to be heard by fans "pretty soon", according to the singer, who told Summa Inferno backstage at Mexico City's Knotfest Meets Forcefest (which unfortunately saw both Evanescence and Slipknot have to cancel their sets) that the band have been working on new music – and things have been going well.

"[We're] working on our new album – yay! – for the first time in a long time," Amy enthused. "We've been just getting together for a little – we call it band camp – little writing camps for a few days and we just work on new music. We've got a good handful of really cool songs going right now.

"So I'm excited, I think it sounds awesome," she continued. "We're going in the studio sometime in the beginning of next year to start some of it. We're not going to do it all at once; we're going to just, like, go as we go kind of thing. So, yeah, there should be new music to hear pretty soon."

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In a recent Reddit AMA, Amy also spoke of album number five, revealing: “Well, I listen to our new music every day. I’m absolutely living in it. This is always the case for me, really, but I’m in the center of the zone right now, watching the picture take shape and swimming inside every new piece as it appears. I can’t wait for you to hear it. It’s dark and heavy. Its also got moments of weird and sparse. Little bit of everything. Definitely some Open Door vibes but not the same.”

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Catch Evanescence and Within Temptation on the Worlds Collide tour at the following dates next year:

April 2020

4 Belgium, Brussels Palais 12
5 France, Paris Accor Hotel Arena
7 UK, London The O2
9 Germany, Berlin Velodrome
11 Germany, Frankfurt Festhalle
12 Switzerland, Zurich Hallenstadion
14 Italy, Milan Mediolanum Forum
15 Germany, Munich Zenith
17 Germany, Hamburg Sporthalle
18 Germany, Leipzig Arena
20 Germany, Dusseldorf Mitsubishi Hall
21 Netherlands, Amsterdam Ziggodome
22 Netherlands, Amsterdam Ziggodome
24 Belgium, Brussels Palais 12
26 Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Rockhall Mainhall
28 UK, Glasgow The SSE Hydro
30 UK, Leeds First Direct Arena

May 2020

1 UK, Birmingham Arena

Pick up your tickets right here.

Amy Lee and Within Temptation’s Sharon den Adel excitedly revealed all to Kerrang! about the Worlds Collide tour, agreeing that both bands complement each other extremely well.

“We feel like we have our two separate worlds, separate lives across the ocean, but in a lot of ways there are some major similarities,” considered Amy. “And to be able to bring these two worlds together for the first time just seems like a perfect match for both of us. Obviously there are differences, but you want that. You want contrast in the show but it’s cool to be able to see the similarities and embrace those, too.”

Sharon added that fans have been requesting both bands to tour together for quite some time.

“Of course, but that often happens with bands who have that overlap in fans,” she said. “They always ask to do something together but maybe they don’t think it would ever come true. It’s a special one. In the past I remember a lot of my friends getting very excited when Megadeth and Metallica did that tour together many years ago. I remember everyone was very hyped up to see two of their favourite bands together, and it’s a similar sort of thing.”

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