New version celebrates 20 years since the release of the band’s debut album, Fallen
O Evanescence released this Tuesday (3) the demo version of “Bring Me To Life”the band’s first single, without the special participation of Paul McCoyvocalist of 12 Stones, who raps. This is the song that put the band on the path to international success – but having a male rap part was not the band’s initial idea.
The vocalist Amy Lee revealed to Alternative Pressin 2020 that the record label Wind UP threatened not to release the group’s debut album, Fallen (2003), if a male voice was not added, asking the Evanescence tried to be a ‘feminine’ version of LinkinPark.
We had just signed [com a gravadora], I had left school, moved to Los Angeles… but I knew it was the right alternative. And then a few weeks later, we got a call, and they kind of came to an agreement and decided, “Hey, we have this cool thing in a movie.”
Initially, the song “Bring Me To Life”with the participation of Paul McCoyhad been chosen to appear on the film’s soundtrack Daredevil – The Man Without Fear (2003), but the band decided to go back. The disk Fallen – which in March this year celebrated 20 years of its launch – sold 17 million copies and won two Grammys, including “Best Rock Performance for the single.
Check out the lyric video below for the version of “Bring Me To Life”, recorded in 2002, without the rap verses, and which will be available in the album’s commemoration edition Fallenwhich comes out on November 17th.
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Source: Rollingstone
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