Evanescence singer Amy Lee has hinted that the band's long-awaited new album, The Bitter Truth, is “more raw” than the music the band has delivered in the past.
Lee told Music Week that a handful of songs are completed and mixed, and while they're “all different,” she added, “I think so far the one thing that ties them together is it’s going to a place that’s even more raw.”
The singer has told us in the past that film has always been an inspiration for her music: “The biggest thing that's inspired our music, honestly, is film, and that's kind of what gives it that epic feel and that's just, it's very much movie-inspired. You're inspired by the drama. You know, it's like life isn't dramatic enough to completely fulfill the sound of my lyrics, I guess.”
Lee also told Music Week that Evanescence wanted to get “back to rocking” following 2017’s Synthesis, an album that featured orchestral and electronic reworkings of old material plus two new tracks.
She explained, “I don’t want to say our new album is stripped back, because it’s not — it’s big, powerful and luscious. But we haven’t done any orchestra parts on any of the new songs, and that’s not because we couldn’t get together with one because of the pandemic!”
“Wasted On You” came out last month and is the first in a series of songs that the band will release from The Bitter Truth incrementally, culminating in the release of the full album.