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''Evanescence'' is the self-titled third studio album by American rock band Evanescence released on October 7, 2011, through Wind-up Records. The band started the writing process for the album in June 2009. The release of the album was changed several times; on February 22, 2010, the band entered the studio with producer Steve Lillywhite, but later they stopped recording the album with him because he "wasn't the right fit". During that time the album was scheduled for an August or September 2010 release, but Lee later announced that Evanescence had left the studio to write more material. On April 11, 2011, the band went back into the studio with a new producer, Nick Raskulinecz. According to Lee, the band drew influences from Björk, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, MGMT and Portishead in the album. The songs on ''Evanescence'' contain elements of gothic rock, nu metal, and hard rock, as well as new electro elements. Upon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics who praised the new musical elements in the sound of the songs and Lee's vocals. However, some of them criticized it for being similar to the band's older material. The album debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart with 127,000 copies sold in its first week and it also topped four different ''Billboard'' charts; the Rock Albums, Digital Albums, Alternative Albums and Hard Rock Albums. The album was also successful worldwide appearing on the charts of over twenty countries. The band promoted ''Evanescence'' by premiering some of the songs online on various websites and appearing on several televised shows. The first single from the album, "What You Want", was released on August 9, 2011. "My Heart Is Broken", the second single of the album, was released on November 11, 2011. "Lost in Paradise" was released internationally on May 25, 2012. "The Other Side" impacted U.S. Alternative and Modern rock radio on June 11, 2012, as a promotional single. In 2011, the band embarked their third worldwide tour, the Evanescence Tour in support of the album along with The Pretty Reckless and Fair to Midland. ==Background and writing== After finishing touring in promotion of the previous album ''The Open Door'', Amy Lee stated she "just sort of took off and didn't know what I was going to do next." She stated she was unsure at the time when or if Evanescence would continue.〔 She took a break from music for 18 months, and in the end she decided she wanted to work with the band members, and it "became more of a group project".〔 Lee also admitted that she had an identity crisis saying, "(success with ) ''Fallen'' happened really fast, and it was just go, go, go for a couple years, and we went right into writing and wrote the next record. By the time we finished touring with ''The Open Door'', I just needed to go, 'Who am I as an adult?'"〔 During that time, she began painting and appreciating other people's works, going to concerts and museums, and listening to folk and indie music.〔 In a news posting to the Evanescence website during June 2009, Amy Lee wrote that the band was in the process of writing material for a new album proposed for release in 2010. She stated that the music would be an evolution of previous works and be "better, stronger, and more interesting".〔 Lee further described the music on ''Evanescence'' as epic, dark, big, beautiful and desperate.〔 During an interview with ''Spin'', Lee called the record "fun", which according to her was a "totally new thing" for the band. Lee revealed, "When I listen to our old music I see that's where I was in my life at that time. This has been a long trip and parts have been hard. But it's about not taking everything so seriously this time."〔 The writing process for the album started in 2009 when Lee wrote a song for the album, which was an electronic-driven song, a different direction from her usual style.〔 Lee said, "I remember listening to it over and over, just obsessing over it the way I used to obsess over Evanescence music. That was the spark for me – and the spark to go in the electronic direction and bring some of that into what Evanescence is doing."〔 Unlike the band's two previous albums, where the writing was primarily done by Lee, every band member helped in the writing process.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Evanescence (Evanescence album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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