Their self-titled 1998 EP showed the Evanescence aesthetic in its infancy. But after you’ve heard Fallen, these demos generally come across as underdeveloped tracks from the band’s gestation period – especially the early versions of songs which eventually turned up on the album.
These aspiring young Goth-rockers from Middle America seemed to know what they wanted to achieve, and they were clearly working hard to reach their goals. However, singer Amy Lee has classified these early recordings as mere demos, and has recommended downloading them instead of paying high prices for CD copies.īefore 2003, these demos probably sounded impressive to anyone who heard them. For obvious reasons, these rarities became much-sought-after collector’s items after the band’s big 2003 breakthrough. Although that multiplatinum album was officially their debut release, Lee and Moody did make earlier indie recordings which only received very limited (read: personal) distribution: the self-titled Evanescence EP in 1998, the Sound Asleep EP in 1999, and one full-length CD titled Origin in 2000.
The Goth-metal band Evanescence (whose name is a synonym for “disappearance”) were originally formed in Little Rock, Arkansas by the duo of Amy Lee and Ben Moody in the mid-‘90’s, several years before the release of their smash 2003 debut album Fallen.
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