Evanescence by Evanescence

Evanescence, the band's self-titled third album, came out on Wind-up in 2011 after a long, stop-start birth. Writing began in June 2009; sessions with Steve Lillywhite in 2010 went nowhere because he wasn't the right fit, and Amy Lee pushed the record back to write more songs before the band regrouped with Nick Raskulinecz in April 2011. For the first time the music was written as a band, Lee sharing credits with guitarists Terry Balsamo and Troy McLawhorn, bassist Tim McCord and drummer Will Hunt.

Lee pointed to Björk, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, MGMT and Portishead as touchstones, and there's electronic shimmer threaded through the familiar mix of nu metal crunch, hard rock and symphonic sweep. "What You Want" led the way, followed by "My Heart Is Broken" and "Lost in Paradise". It opened at the top of the Billboard 200, moving 127,000 copies in week one, and it was their last album for Wind-up.

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