Amy Lee

Architect, known for her genre-defying cinematic music that blends dream pop, alt-rock, heavy blues, and alt-metal.

Backed by her powerful layered and soaring vocals, her sonic landscapes have drawn comparisons to iconic artists like Annie Lennox, Kate Bush, and Amy Lee.

Tommy, that's Tommy Hatz, at 10 total monthly listeners as a professional songwriter, producer, mixer, and multi-instrumentalist musician based out of LA.

That's in California.

We don't try though, but it's good if that's the association, right? It's not a bad one to have.

But the more I personally get compared to Amy Lee from Evanescence, the more I try to like steer away from the way I write so that it's not, it doesn't remind people as much of Evanescence anymore.

And I'm trying to develop my own style, but of course Evanescence, I'm heavily influenced by Evanescence with Intimidation because as I was growing up as a musician, I was listening to a lot of simple metal.

So inevitably that also affected me and how I sound and how I write.

Yeah, Adele comes up here on the Metal Queens podcast a bunch of times.

I usually get a bunch of Britney Spears, Adele, you know, obviously Amy Lee.

I'll get a lot big influences on here.

How did the four members of OffSpec come together? And when did you realize there was something special happening musically with you guys?

In 2003, co-founder and lead guitarist Ben Moody abruptly quit the band Evanescence during the European leg of their world tour.

Following an intense escalation of creative differences, as they always say, plus interpersonal conflict with lead vocalist Amy Lee, Moody walked away from the group in Stockholm on the night of the scheduled Berlin show.

In 2013, the South Korean hip-hop and pop boy band Top Dog officially formed and held their debut showcase under Stardom Entertainment.

The 13-member group launched their career with the release of their debut music video for the single Follow Me.

We have songs called Now I Know performed by Danny Lorner.

Additional vocals by Amy Lee of Evanescence.

uh, also down in the lab by Danny and Amy Lee death dealers descent also by Danny and Amy Lee.

And then they had bring me the disco King performed by David Bowie, which was just a weird thing to have, but there is a tie to that later on.

I'll bring up, uh, Judith performed by perfect circle, uh, I guess it's Pacifier.