Fallen

No, but yeah, they really are just like a solid band.

And it feels like when they put out that Fallen album, is that when they were on that soundtrack for that movie? Was it a werewolf movie? Werewolf vampire movie?

No.

No? Okay.

Whoa.

And so she used it as they were like B-sides on one of the albums.

I don't think it was Fallen.

I think it was a different one.

... why...

Because, because that famous album Fallen, that is the, the one, the, the album that everybody knows by them-

Yeah

... that was apparently their compromise album where there was a lot of Christian imagery, but it wasn't explicitly a Christian album.

It is a great song.

Okay, so why don't you tell us just a bit about Evanescence and their Diamond-certified debut album, Fallen.

Fallen.

Fallen.

Singer-pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody, the band's only two actual members as of the release of their debut, met at a Christian summer camp in 1994 when they were respectively 13 and 14 years old.

Aw,

They began their musical collaboration nearly immediately after meeting and worked at the idea of combining elements of filmic and classical music with heavy metal.

They were discovered while having a demo recording mastered and were signed to Wind Up Records in 2001.

I think they just played out.

They had one album that really hit and that was, you know, was really popular, was really good.

I still have that album Fallen.

Like Fallen is a really good album.

Yeah, I think that they were kind of a flash

in the pan at the end of the day.

Because, again, they did do a couple albums, I think, just with Amy Lee without the original guy.

I forget the guy's name.

My name is Rob Harvilla.

This is the 49th episode of 60 Songs That Explain the '90s, colon, the 2000s, and this week we are discussing "Bring Me To Life" by the Little Rock, Arkansas rock band Evanescence from their 2003 debut album Fallen.

The label made them add the rapper guy who goes, "Can't wake up," and it arguably makes the song.

Arguably.

Evanescence signed to Wind-up Records in 2001.

Wind-up Records, also home to the mega popular and universally beloved rock band Creed.

And in 2003, Evanescence released their debut album called Fallen.

That was the full band version of My Immortal, which the band really likes, but Wind-up Records doesn't like it, and the label insists on putting a demo, mostly solo piano version of My Immortal on the record instead.