In 2021, after going ten years without releasing a full studio album of original material, Evanescence returned with The Bitter Truth. It was a record that mixed the band's trademark goth rock melodrama with added stadium-sized stomp and some fiery, politicised calls-to-arms, but as Metal Hammer discovered when interviewing Amy Lee that spring, there was a deeply personal trauma lying under it all.
Like so many performers with a strong, specific public image, Amy Lee is not all she seems. Ostensibly her world is one of gothic melodrama and opulent metal. Basques and ball gowns. It’s what she’s been known for since 2003, when Evanescence’s mega-hit Bring Me To Life made her a superstar at 21.
