It also features uncredited guest vocals from Paul McCoy of the band 12 Stones. The track was written by group members Amy Lee, Ben Moody, and David Hodges and produced by Dave Fortman. Wind-up released it as the lead single from the album on April 22, 2003. You won't be disappointed."Bring Me to Life" is a song by American rock band Evanescence recorded for their debut studio album Fallen (2003). To steal a line from Rush Limbaugh.Amy Lee's voice and music is "Talent on loan from God". This CD - "Fallen" - is one of those that will be referred for years as a Classic, a Must Own item, and definitely one of the best ensembles o f songs ever put together. The Talent performed by Amy Lee and the rest of the Band is unsurpassed by anything I've heard in a long long time. Most groups don't perform and record this well until they have years under their belt. Never have I seen a group or individual pull off a CD so well done.
I bought this CD because it was their first and was blown away by it. I was immediately drawn to the richness of Amy Lee's voice and the power and the range she performed with. Like many of us, I had been listening to Country to Top 40 stations for a long time and was very bored. I recently came across a video of this group while I was in a search mode for new music to listen to. Honestly, I shouldn't criticize anybody for such things because in a strange celebrity stalker kind of way, I feel as if Fallen and Amy in particular, belong to me. In this sense, I foresee many groups jockeying for position, to claim ownership in some way. There very rarely has been anything spectacular coming from Christian pop/rock and rap (cringe) and this is an opportunity to grab hold of something intense and moving. For whatever reason, fans of Christian music feel Fallen belongs to them. Moody and lead singer Amy Lee met at church camp as youths. I can hear plenty of female singers smile when they sing, but I never hear that from Amy Lee, not once. Amy Lee’s vocal assault on your emotions never ends, it absolutely never takes a breath, it's unrelenting, and emotionally exhausting on some level. Without rest Fallen is constantly twisting, turning, writhing, struggling to escape an emotional straitjacket. You can "hear" her smokey eyes, black hair and tattooed tears even without ever seeing Amy. Amy Lee's pain seems to move from love and relationships lost, to betrayal on Everybody’s Fool. Amy Lee's torment is always in plain sight, yet the source is not always clear. The sound of constantly yearning, reaching out, and sadness are always present. I like the music and lyrics of Tourniquet until Amy Lee sings “ my God, my tourniquet return me to salvation.” I know LP is all the rage, but I loathe the band, and I don’t want any Linkin in my Evanescence sandwich. Like Paul McCoy of 12 Stones, he comes off like Linkin Park on his vocal contribution to Bring Me to Life. There are however little things that bother me. Opening with the sound of a string in the midst of a painful sigh, Hello begins to reminisce with longing piano work. Hello is one of the best piano ballads to come since anything by Tori Amos, or Fisher's I will love you. In between this, Amy sings as if in a fetal position, only to unfurl and fire up her vocal cords to match the pulsing and grinding of her band. Only a high quality sound system or robust headphones could reproduce the very lowest octave of this sound. Even though Lee can be forceful vocally, she can calm her torrid emotions on My Immortal and Taking Over Me and let slip tranquil yet incredibly wounded ballads.īring me back to life opens with a tinkling music box piano, followed by the deep bellyache of a whale. Lee puts so much behind her warbling, and aching, that I swear she could lift herself off the ground with those pipes. Time after time, on tracks like Going Under and Everybody’s Fool Lee’s vocals rip through the landscape created by her bandm ates like a ten ton sickle. Fallen as an album is powered, even rattled by the stout and emotionally drenched vocals of lead singer Amy Lee. Like planets, all the musicians revolve around, and are effected by Amy Lee's every movement. However good these parts are (and they are good) not one is the core of this album. Strangely enough, the official band line-up, and album credits don't quite agree, but these folks seem to head the studio effort. On Bass Francesco DiCosmo, and when things turn sad and reflective, on piano and keyboards, David Hodges. Amy Lee Breathe into me and make me real: short versionįallen rests on a foundation of metal-esque crunchy guitars supplied by Ben Moody, matching speed changes on drums is Josh Freese.