Evanescence shall always been known and remembered for their songs Bring Me To Life and My Immortal. Having said that, I thought the band broke up just before receiving their Best Newcomer Award at some MTV show? Then Ben Moody left and members of this band just keep vanishing and getting replaced. Taking notes from Duran Duran perhaps?
The Open Door, I wonder what they're referring to, perhaps their rejuvenated band that might just open the door to more movie soundtrack opportunities? This album was number 1 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart the first week it was released, big deal. It was attributed to the success of their first (and best) album Fallen and the long wait to get another album out, fans must have been hungry for more Evanescence music. What? They couldn't turn to other groups? You would think that listening to Fallen and now The Open Door, that there would be some evolution in their music, a new direction perhaps, especially after they had so many band member replacements, more new ideas would come into the picture.
Song after song after song just sounds similar! From Sweet Sacrifice to Call Me When You're Sober. The guitarist just strums the same few chords and rhythm over and over again in all the song tracks, almost like a machine gun firing in moderate staccato, utterly no imagination at all. Snow White Queen started to see some new direction in the rhythm of the music, but then it started going back to square one with The Only One. The same guitarist strumming the same rhythm in the chords again. Sigh. Listening to the whole album, I really didn't have any idea if I'd moved onto track 2 or 3, especially with such similar rhythms. Perhaps they were just recycling the rhythms from Bring Me To Live in their Fallen album, which fans seem to love so much.
The only saving grace in this entire album is Amy Lee's beautiful voice, but she needs a new lyric writer, the same screaming, yelling and moaning just doesn't do her voice justice. I strongly believe she should leave the band and start doing her own solo CDs, which I'm sure there are tons of fans out there who want her to do just that! I also believe she should try trip hop!
I know Gothic/Alternative/Rock/Pop/Whatever should sound almost like that, but with some form of imagination, it wouldn't be so tiresome to listen to! 1 star for effort, 1 star for Amy Lee's voice, the rest was just ear vomit!
[Nicole] I've already used my CD as a frisbee and surprisingly it sails rather well through the air and oh, hey, look, a dog caught it between its jaws.
Crunch!
2 out of 10 stars
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