List of songs recorded by Evanescence
American rock band Evanescence has recorded for four studio albums, three extended plays, a demo album and four soundtrack albums.
Lead vocalist Amy Lee and former-lead guitarist Ben Moody founded the band in 1995 and was accompanied by David Hodges (keyboards) from 1999 until 2002.[1] Evanescence signed with Wind-up Records and released their debut album, Fallen, in 2003, officially formed by Will Boyd (bass), Rocky Gray (drums), John LeCompt (rhythm guitar), Lee (vocals and piano) and Moody (lead guitar). Lee, Moody and Hodges are credited to have written the entire album together, while LeCompt and Gray each have writing credits for two separate songs. The album sold over 17 million copies worldwide and produced four singles, including "Bring Me to Life".[2]
Moody left the band mid-tour in October 2003 and was replaced with Terry Balsamo. Shortly after recording their second studio album, Boyd left the band and was replaced with Tim McCord. In 2006, Evanescence released their second studio album, The Open Door, which debuted at number one on Billboard 200. Lee and Balsamo wrote most of the album together, while LeCompt had a writing credit for one song. The Open Door sold over five million copies worldwide.[2] During promotion of the album, in May 2007, LeCompt announced that he was fired from Evanescence and also confirmed Gray's decision to quit. They were replaced with Troy McLawhorn and Will Hunt (respectively) on a temporary basis, however they officially joined the band during the recording of their third studio album.
Evanescence released their eponymous third studio album in 2011, which also debuted at number one on Billboard 200. Three singles were released to promote the album. Lee, Balsamo, McCord, McLawhorn and Hunt wrote most of the album together, while Will B. Hunt had writing credits for five songs and Zach Williams for one.
A few months prior to their first live performance since their hiatus, Evanescence announced in August 2015 that Balsamo had left the band and had been replaced with Jen Majura.[3] In 2016, the band released a vinyl boxset called The Ultimate Collection, which included a B-side compilation album, Lost Whispers.
Evanescence released their fourth studio album, Synthesis, in November 2017. The album has been described as Lee's "passion project", which includes orchestral and electronic renditions of past Evanescence songs accompanied by two new songs.[4] The album has produced two singles, "Imperfection" and "Hi-Lo".
Released songs
† | Indicates single release |
‡ | Indicates song written solely by Amy Lee |
# | Indicates promotional single release |
Song | Artist(s) | Writer(s) | Release(s) | Year | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
"All That I'm Living For" | Evanescence | Amy Lee John LeCompt |
The Open Door | 2006 | [5] |
"Anywhere" | Evanescence | Lee Ben Moody David Hodges |
Origin | 2000 | [6] |
"Ascension of the Spirit" [note 1] |
Evanescence | Unknown | Sound Asleep / Whisper | 1999 | [7] |
"Away From Me" | Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
Origin | 2000 | [6] |
"Breathe No More" | Evanescence | Lee ‡ | Elektra: The Album | 2005 | [8] |
Lost Whispers | 2016 | [9] | |||
"Bring Me to Life" † # [note 2][note 3] |
Evanescence featuring Paul McCoy | Lee Moody Hodges |
Fallen | 2003 | [10] |
Daredevil: The Album | [11] | ||||
Evanescence | Synthesis | 2017 | [12] | ||
"Call Me When You're Sober" † | Evanescence | Lee Terry Balsamo |
The Open Door | 2006 | [5] |
"Cloud Nine" | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo |
The Open Door | 2006 | [5] |
"Disappear" | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo Tim McCord Troy McLawhorn Will Hunt |
Evanescence [note 4] |
2011 | [13] |
Lost Whispers | 2016 | [9] | |||
"End of the Dream" | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo McCord Hunt Will B. Hunt |
Evanescence | 2011 | [13] |
Synthesis [note 5] |
2017 | [12] | |||
"Erase This" | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo McCord McLawhorn Hunt |
Evanescence | 2011 | [13] |
"Eternal" [note 1][note 6] |
Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
Origin | 2000 | [6] |
"Even in Death" [note 7] |
Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
Origin | 2000 | [6] |
Lost Whispers | 2016 | [9] | |||
"Everybody's Fool" † [note 2] |
Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
Mystary | 2003 | [14] |
Fallen | [10] | ||||
"Exodus" | Evanescence | Lee Moody |
Evanescence (EP) | 1998 | [15] |
"Farther Away" | Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
Mystary | 2003 | [14] |
"Bring Me to Life" single | [16] | ||||
Fallen (Japanese edition) [note 4] |
[10] | ||||
Lost Whispers | 2016 | [9] | |||
"Field of Innocence" [note 8] |
Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
Origin | 2000 | [6] |
"Forgive Me" | Evanescence | Lee Moody |
Sound Asleep / Whisper | 1999 | [7] |
"Give Unto Me" [note 1] |
Evanescence | Lee ‡ | Sound Asleep / Whisper | 1999 | [7] |
"Going Under" † | Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
Fallen | 2003 | [10] |
"Good Enough" † | Evanescence | Lee ‡ | The Open Door | 2006 | [5] |
"Heart-Shaped Box" [note 9] |
Evanescence | Kurt Cobain | "Going Under" single | 2003 | [17] |
"Haunted" | Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
Fallen | 2003 | [10] |
"Hello" | Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
Fallen | 2003 | [10] |
"Hi-Lo" † | Evanescence featuring Lindsey Stirling | Lee Will B. Hunt |
Synthesis | 2017 | [12] |
"If You Don't Mind | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo Boyd |
Lost Whispers | 2016 | [9] |
"Imaginary" # [note 10] |
Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
Evanescence (EP) | 1998 | [15] |
Origin | 2000 | [6] | |||
Mystary | 2003 | [14] | |||
Fallen | [10] | ||||
Synthesis | 2017 | [12] | |||
"Imperfection" † | Evanescence | Lee McCord McLawhorn Hunt Jen Majura B. Hunt |
Synthesis | 2017 | [12] |
"Lacrymosa" # [note 11][note 3] |
Evanescence | Lee Balsamo |
The Open Door | 2006 | [5] |
Synthesis | 2017 | [12] | |||
"Lies" [note 12] |
Evanescence featuring Bruce Fitzhugh | Lee Moody |
Origin | 2000 | [6] |
"Like You" | Evanescence | Lee ‡ | The Open Door | 2006 | [5] |
"Lithium" † | Evanescence | Lee ‡ | The Open Door | 2006 | [5] |
Synthesis | 2017 | [12] | |||
"Lose Control" | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo |
The Open Door | 2006 | [5] |
"Lost in Paradise" † | Evanescence | Lee ‡ | Evanescence | 2011 | [13] |
Synthesis | 2017 | [12] | |||
"Lost Whispers" | Evanescence | Lee ‡ | Lost Whispers | 2016 | [9] |
"Made of Stone" # [note 13] |
Evanescence | Lee Balsamo McCord McLawhorn Hunt B. Hunt |
Evanescence | 2011 | [13] |
Underworld: Awakening (soundtrack) [note 14] |
2012 | [18] | |||
"Missing" # [note 15] |
Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
"Bring Me to Life" single (Australian edition) |
2003 | [16] |
Anywhere but Home | 2004 | [19] | |||
Lost Whispers | 2016 | [9] | |||
"My Heart Is Broken" † | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo McCord Zach Williams |
Evanescence | 2011 | [13] |
Synthesis | 2017 | [12] | |||
"My Immortal" † [note 2] |
Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
Origin | 2000 | [6] |
Mystary | 2003 | [14] | |||
Fallen [note 16] |
[10] | ||||
Daredevil: The Album | [11] | ||||
Synthesis | 2017 | [12] | |||
"My Last Breath" | Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
Mystary | 2003 | [14] |
Fallen | [10] | ||||
"Never Go Back" | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo McCord Hunt |
Evanescence | 2011 | [13] |
Synthesis | 2017 | [12] | |||
"New Way to Bleed" |
Evanescence | Lee Balsamo |
Evanescence [note 4] |
2011 | [13] |
Avengers Assemble (soundtrack) [note 17] |
2012 | [20] | |||
Lost Whispers | 2016 | [9] | |||
"Oceans" | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo McCord |
Evanescence | 2011 | [13] |
"Origin" [note 1] |
Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
Origin | 2000 | [6] |
"Overture" [note 1] |
Evanescence | Lee ‡ | Synthesis | 2017 | [12] |
"Say You Will" | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo McCord |
Evanescence [note 4] |
2011 | [13] |
Lost Whispers | 2016 | [9] | |||
"Secret Door" | Evanescence | Lee B. Hunt |
Evanescence [note 4] |
2011 | [13] |
Lost Whispers | 2016 | [9] | |||
Synthesis | 2017 | [12] | |||
"Sick" | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo McCord Hunt B. Hunt |
Evanescence | 2011 | [13] |
"Snow White Queen" [note 7] |
Evanescence | Lee Balsamo |
The Open Door | 2006 | [5] |
"So Close" [note 18] |
Evanescence | Moody Will Boyd Matt Outlaw |
Evanescence (EP) | 1998 | [15] |
"Solitude" | Evanescence | Lee Moody |
Evanescence (EP) | 1998 | [15] |
"Sweet Sacrifice" † | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo |
The Open Door | 2006 | [5] |
"Swimming Home" | Evanescence | Lee B. Hunt |
Evanescence | 2011 | [13] |
"Taking Over Me" | Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges LeCompt |
Fallen | 2003 | [10] |
"The Chain" † [note 19] |
Evanescence | Lindsey Buckingham Mick Fleetwood Christine McVie John McVie Stevie Nicks |
Non-album single | 2019 | [21] |
"The Change" | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo McCord McLawhorn Hunt |
Evanescence | 2011 | [13] |
"The End" [note 1] |
Evanescence | Lee Moody |
Evanescence (EP) | 1998 | [15] |
"The In-Between" (piano solo) [note 1] |
Evanescence | Lee ‡ | Synthesis | 2017 | [12] |
"The Last Song I'm Wasting On You" | Evanescence | Lee ‡ | "Lithium" single | 2006 | [22] |
Evanescence (Japanese edition) |
2011 | [13] | |||
Lost Whispers | 2016 | [9] | |||
"The Only One" [note 21] |
Evanescence | Lee Balsamo |
The Open Door | 2006 | [5] |
"The Other Side" # | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo McCord |
Evanescence | 2011 | [13] |
"Thoughtless" [note 22] |
Evanescence | Reginald Arvizu Jonathan Davis James Shaffer David Silveria Brian Welch |
Anywhere but Home | 2004 | [19] |
"Together Again" # | Evanescence | Lee ‡ | Non-album single | 2010 | [23] |
Lost Whispers | 2016 | [9] | |||
"Tourniquet" [note 24] |
Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges Rocky Gray |
Fallen | 2003 | [10] |
"Understanding" | Evanescence | Moody | Evanescence (EP) | 1998 | [15] |
Sound Asleep / Whisper [note 25] | 1999 | [7] | |||
"Unraveling" (Interlude) [note 1] |
Evanescence | Lee ‡ | Synthesis | 2017 | [12] |
"Weight of the World" # | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo |
The Open Door | 2006 | [5] |
"What You Want" † | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo McCord |
Evanescence | 2011 | [13] |
"Where Will You Go?" | Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
Evanescence (EP) | 1998 | [15] |
Origin | 2000 | [6] | |||
"Whisper" | Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
Sound Asleep / Whisper | 1999 | [7] |
Origin | 2000 | [6] | |||
Fallen | 2003 | [10] | |||
"Your Star" | Evanescence | Lee Balsamo |
The Open Door | 2006 | [5] |
Synthesis | 2017 | [12] |
Unreleased songs
Song | Artist(s) | Writer(s) | Originating album | Year | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
"Anything for You" [note 11] [note 26] |
Evanescence | Amy Lee Ben Moody David Hodges |
— | 2001/2002 | [24] |
"Before the Dawn" | Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
— | 2001/2002 | [25] |
"Bleed" | Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
— | 2001/2002 | [26] |
"Forever You" | Evanescence | Lee Moody John LeCompt |
— | 2001/2002 | |
"Give Unto Me" | Evanescence | Lee ‡ | Evanescence (EP) | 1998 | |
"Lies" [note 12] |
Evanescence | Lee Moody Hodges |
— | 2001/2002 | |
"Listen to the Rain" [note 6] |
Evanescence | Lee ‡ | Origin | 1999 | |
"October" | Evanescence | Lee Moody Will Boyd |
Evanescence (EP) | 1998 | |
"Perfect Dream" [note 27] |
Evanescence | Unknown | — | 2010 | |
"Surrender" | Evanescence | Unknown | — | 2001/2002 | |
"Take Cover" [note 27] |
Evanescence | Unknown | — | 2016 | |
"You Got a Lot to Learn" [note 27] |
Evanescence | Unknown | — | 2010 | [27] |
Writing credits summary
Writer [note 28] |
Pre-Fallen [note 29] |
Fallen (2003) |
The Open Door (2006) |
Evanescence (2011) |
Lost Whispers (2016) |
Unreleased | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Terry Balsamo | — | 9 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 26 | |
Will Boyd | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Rocky Gray | — | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 |
David Hodges | 18 | 12 | — | 3 | 4 | 37 | |
Will B. Hunt* | — | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 | ||
Will Hunt | — | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||
John LeCompt | — | 1 | 1 | — | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Amy Lee | 24 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 85 |
Tim McCord | — | 0 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 14 | |
Troy McLawhorn | — | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 | ||
Ben Moody | 25 | 12 | — | 3 | 6 | 46 | |
Matt Outlaw* | 1 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
Zach Williams* | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h Song is an instrumental track and/or contains no lyrics.
- ^ a b c Single spawned from Fallen.
- ^ a b Song was released as a promotional single for Synthesis.
- ^ a b c d e Song appears on the album as a bonus track.
- ^ The Synthesis version of "End of the Dream" is known as "The End of the Dream".
- ^ a b "Eternal" consists of two songs: "Eternal" and "Demise". "Listen to the Rain" was originally intended to be included in-between the two songs but was eventually scrapped.
- ^ a b Song samples White Zombie's 1998 song "Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls".
- ^ "Field of Innocence" samples "Morning Hymn" from the Preludium of the Broadway musical version of The Sound of Music.
- ^ Evanescence covered an acoustic version of Nirvana's 1993 song "Heart-Shaped Box" at some shows in early 2003. The version that appears on the "Going Under" single was recorded during a performance at WXDX-FM.
- ^ "Imaginary" was released as a promotional single for Fallen.
- ^ a b Song samples the Lacrimosa sequence from Mozart's Requiem (1791).
- ^ a b Two songs share the name "Lies". The unreleased version is sometimes known as "Lies" (Post-Origin).
- ^ "Made of Stone" was released as a promotional single for Evanescence.
- ^ "Made of Stone" was remixed by Renholdër for Underworld: Awakening (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
- ^ "Missing" was released as a promotional single for Anywhere but Home.
- ^ The band version of "My Immortal" was also added onto later pressings of Fallen.
- ^ "New Way to Bleed" was remixed by Photek for Avengers Assemble: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture and known as "A New Way to Bleed".
- ^ Evanescence covered So Close's self-titled song in 1998. So Close was a band formed by Ben Moody, Will Boyd and Matt Outlaw prior to Evanescence.
- ^ "The Chain" is a 1977 song originally performed by Fleetwood Mac.
- ^ "The Chain" was released to promote the 2019 video game Gears 5.
- ^ The introduction to "The Only One", which features three distinctive duck quacks, is a sample of an unreleased song called "Tuna Afternoon". The song was written by Amy Lee and Terry Balsamo during the making of The Open Door for fun but was eventually added to the beginning of "The Only One".
- ^ Evanescence covered Korn's 2002 song "Thoughtless" on their Fallen tour in 2004. The version that appears on Anywhere but Home was recorded at a concert at Le Zénith in Paris.
- ^ "Together Again" was released as a charity single in 2010 to help raise money for the United Nations Foundation after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
- ^ "Tourniquet" is a reworked version of Soul Embraced's 2000 song, "My Tourniquet".
- ^ Two versions of "Understanding" appear on Sound Asleep / Whisper.
- ^ "Anything for You" samples "Bringin It Up" from Sonic Foundry's Futurist Drum 'N' Bass loop series.
- ^ a b c The song was recorded in the initial sessions for Evanescence with Steve Lillywhite in 2010, but were scrapped by their record label.
- ^ An asterisk beside a name denotes that the writer has never been a member of Evanescence.
- ^ Pre-Fallen includes songs from Evanescence (EP), Sounds Asleep / Whisper, Origin and Mystary.
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: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ The Chain (inlay cover). Evanescence. Sony Music. 2011.
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