7. Evanescence
You'd be forgiven for not knowing it, but Evanescence the American rock band fronted by singer Amy Lee have sold a staggering number of albums over their career, and even bagged two Grammy Awards. Which makes it all the stranger, then, that they've seemingly disappeared from the face of the earth. The band's debut studio album Fallen was released in 2003, and spawned some of the band's best known songs, including Going Under, My Immortal, Everybody's Fool and Bring Me To Life. All in all the record has sold over seventeen million copies worldwide. Evanescence followed Fallen up in 2006 with The Open Door, another commercially successful release. But there are several reasons why the band has largely been forgotten. For a start, there was five years between their second and third album, the latter of which was released in 2011. During this time the band went through a line-up change, and the record was followed by the announcement of a hiatus. Despite the fact the band began touring again 2015, no new music has surfaced. Which is a shame, because Evanescence offered something quite different from many female-fronted rock projects. Lee's gorgeous and frequently haunting vocals carried the band's music in a darker, moodier direction that many try and fail to evoke with any real genuineness.
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