12 Stones

It's even darker, and it really stood out.

Interesting factoid, the male vocal you hear, the wake me up part, was performed by Paul McCoy from the band 12 Stones.

that was not a reason the band's creative choice the label pushed for a male vocal presence to make the song more radio friendly i do not understand that amy lee has said publicly that she didn't think it needed it but the song became their most recognized song and um i actually love that part where he's in there kind of rapping with it but nonetheless Another interesting factoid, this song won a Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2004.

The album itself has gone on to celebrate 10 million copies, as previously mentioned.

All right, so the song was originally written by Lee when she was just 19 years old.

The new metal-ish male vocals, which are so prominently featured on the final recorded version and were sung by Paul McCoy of the band 12 Stones, were something that the label forced on Evanescence against the express wishes of Amy Lee.

Now, how about them apples?

So the original song didn't kind of have that call and response thing?

It's like, it's literally just to put the best foot forward, do the best possible job we can.

And we aim to be you know, enter like thought provoking, but before anything like entertaining and we really like, like Paul McCoy from 12 stones when we did the show with 12 stones of power man, 5,000 sold out fucking amazing.

Like he thanked us on stage for like, and like, you know, gave me a little high five before that.

Like, thanks for watching.

Like we want to hang out.

We want to support.

So like we got to talking to him after that, after that show, like Paul McCoy from 12 stones, total sweetheart.

Yeah.

It's not his fault.

The rapper, the quasi-rapper and co-vocalist here is, I imagine, a perfectly lovely gentleman named Paul McCoy, front man for 12 Stones, the Mandeville, Louisiana rock band 12 Stones, also signed at the time to Wind-up Records.

Based on the Bring Me to Life video, Amy and Paul do not have especially explosive personal chemistry, but Paul keeps Amy from falling off a window ledge, so that's nice of him at least.

Contrary to the presumptions I made based solely on Paul's guest appearance on Bring Me to Life, the band 12 Stones are not nearly as rappity-rappy or as screamy as I'd anticipated.

Here is their modest 2007 mainstream rock hit, Anthem for the Underdog.

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Wind-up Records pushed many of their bands to Christian radio.

Evanescence themselves are briefly perceived as and occasionally marketed as a Christian rock band, though this makes Amy and Ben uncomfortable to varying degrees.