Finally is out... many good songs and Far From Heaven is excellent.!

One of those albums that draws you in to listen all the way through. Each track is well written and thought provoking. Amy Lees vocals are superb

A triumph.

Wow. Just wow. They’ve just come back even better

So so good ! Love it

This album showcases Amy’s haunting vocals, feeling more powerful than all of their previous albums combined. Highly recommend listen to this masterpiece.

First album of original rock music in 10 years and it has been worth the wait!! Welcome back Evanescence. Superb album! The intro into Broken Pieces Shine with the countdown from 3-0 is just pure genius. And we have Part Of Me where Amy sings about how Evanescence will always be a part of her. It is soooo good

Pure magic

So glad they back and love this album

Good songs

Awesome

There are some songs on this album that could’ve been Evanescence at its best (Broken Pieces, Part of Me, Far from Heaven, Blind Belief, Game is Over) but the album suffers from two major issues that makes it a serious letdown.

1. By the time of its release 5 songs were released as “singles” - two would’ve done the job but this means on the day of release there’s basically only 5 new songs (Take Cover is only new as studio version and the first track is more of an intro as collection of sounds and dabbles it’s definitely not a song.) after a decade, the album gives 5 songs. It’s short, it has no bonus tracks even, it’s only 5 more songs. They should’ve recorded more if they release half of it in the year before. The album release is basically at the end of the album’s run, gives so little, and yet knowing Evanescence its the most fans will get for at least five more years... it’s not near enough to keep a band going.

2. Production and mixing. This doesn’t sound like an album, polished and bringing out the strengths of the songs / the band. It sounds like a bunch of demos!!! Their producer did the mixing and clearly can’t mix a song for his life. Amy Lee’s voice got distorted (listen to when the chorus comes on in Far from Heaven — ruins an amazing song completely!) and she gets muddled into the background (second verse of Blind Belief - you can’t even hear what she’s singing! And you have the same issue on almost every song!) The music itself too often is mixed so badly it sounds like noise (halfway in the bridge of Feeding the Dark is the best example of this). The vocals should be CLEAR sitting on top of the music. Take note from the mixing of SYNTHESIS or even EVANESCENCE (the album) that had the same producer. Now he ruined the whole listening experience because to understand the lyrics, you need extreme volume to just hear it, and it gets annoying with the music mixed to be noise instead. It’s like a collection of unfinished raw demos. It’s a band in a garage with the singer trying to out-scream two guitars and heavy drums using a drainpipe standing at the other end of the street.

Seriously, get it remixed ASAP, go back to the studio, the band cannot tour anyways, nobody can, and write songs to add to this that do NOT get randomly dropped as “singles”, and do a re-release, to save this. And please, scrap and lock away in the closet the one track that introduced the year of anxiety of what a mess this could become (and foreshadowed it truthfully), Wasted on You. It should’ve never been a single, not while it’s arranged like a sarcastic take on a children’s song with muddled vocals and a band desperately trying to chip in to make it appear like a rock song which it will never be. Neither is it single material, it never was, not with this musical arrangement at the least. There’s need for at least 5 more NEW songs and a complete re-mix of the WHOLE album, get it re-mastered and re-released. Take it from a fan since 2003 - this was the biggest musical letdown by a band I followed since my teenage years, and there’s been plenty (and plenty of bands), but this is just AMATEUR. And sadly, the signs of quality and greatness are shown clearly throughout making it that much worse that it’s let down by awful promotion approach and a terrible, clueless mixing and mastering of the whole album, besides the lack of material to actually release a complete album.

Love it.

Perfect in every way!!

Heavier, bolder, mightier - But still Evanescence.

I’ve already had the pleasure of listening to the full album as my copy arrived early and it’s great. My favourite songs are Far From Heaven, Broken Pieces Shine, Feeding the Dark, Take Cover and Use My Voice but they’re all honestly brilliant. This was definitely worth the wait. Amy Lee’s voice just ages like a fine fine.

Smoking 👌👌

The tracks so far are absolutely brilliant! A lot of thought is put into both the lyrics and music. Looking forward to listening to the rest of the album!

The songs so far are epic!! Can’t wait for this to drop 🤘🏻

Lost their way and still not back to former greatness

We’ve been waiting so long for a new album, the tracks released so far are great.

Too much SCREAMING...got headache

All songs sound amazing!!!

This women’s voice is like an angel 👼

Can’t wait for the rest of this to come out. I’m loving every track so far, I’m so excited love it