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EVANESCENCE - Fallen
The youthful, but strong female vocals of Amy
Lee is backed up by three guys with frequent
Static X-style
one chord guitar chunks and the occasional spiraling electronic keys &
loops to add an ethereal taste. You first encounter with Evanescence
was most probably with the daredevil soundtrack. Guests include members
from fellow Wind-Up cohorts 12
Stones (who both share studio drummer
Josh Freese). The guitars get shelved on tracks like My Immortal,
which retains the overall passionate sense. The thing with bands like
this, Linkin Park and
others is the fact that it sanitizes the levels and facets of hard rock
and its more extreme derivatives by making it far too acceptable. Their
songs are well written, produced, performed and is fine & dandy, it's
just that Rock still needs a sense of danger, a dirty edge that separates
it from the mainstream. I'm not saying you should take a marginal approach
to your music taste (heck, if I have to list my diverse preferences!).
The problem is just that slowly but surely the lines are becoming blurry,
the crap gets diluted with the good stuff - if the ignorant get educated,
great, but when the Bump Vol.66 listeners hum a Slayer
tune, you know there's something wrong. But, if Evanescence
become the kind of hard rock your girlfriend could easily get into if
she never considered it - then it's just one small step to Type
O Negative, then Rammstein
and finally once she's into Slipknot
it's pretty much wide open…
4 / B
- PB
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