My apologies for being unable to write the “Biggest Albums of March 2021” round up. I’ve spent lockdown changing career paths and my law exams made that column an impossibility. Not to worry, rather than simple rolling on to April, 411 is back with a bumper round-up of the biggest name and most intriguing releases from March and April.
Lana Del Rey – Chemtrails Over The Country Club (Pop)
Norman Fucking Rockwell could not be topped. The bad-boy, West Coast, American Dream overdosing on excess mythology that Lana Del Rey had been sculpting since her debut came to a glorious head on that one façade shattering album. Lana was recast as Slyvia Path roaming around in her fucking night gown writing on the walls in her own blood – where on earth can you go from there? The answer, it seems, is to go back to the very beginning.
Despite
COVID-19 restrictions, Evanescence were able to create a dark, theatrical performance topped with bright red LED lights and fog covering the stage. Joining Lee onstage was guitarist Troy McLawhorn, bassist Tim McCord and drummer Will Hunt. The group’s guitarist Jen Majura joined the performance from a remote location in Germany.
You can watch Evanescence’s
The Kelly Clarkson Show performance below.
After delivering several singles in waves beginning in 2020, leading up to the release of
The Bitter Truth on March 26, 2021, Evanescence released the official video for “Better Without You” in April 2021. Evanescence’s performance on
The Kelly Clarkson Show isn’t the group’s only talk show appearance in promotion of the album, though. Earlier this year, Evanescence appeared on the
Dark New Day
Taking Me Alive
Follow The Sun Down
Dark New Day is the light at the end of the tunnel. On its debut album, Twelve Year Silence, Clint Lowery s guitar contributions to Sevendust, Troy McLawhorn s inspired guitar play that marked Doubledrive, the effervescent.
more » vocals of Creed touring bassist Brett Hestla, Corey Lowery s Stereomud experience and Will Hunt s work in Skrape combine to create an alternative rock supergroup. With irresistible hooks and penetrating grooves, metallic muscle and warm embraces, Twelve Year Silence, produced by Ben GRosse (Filter, Fuel, Sevendust), marks the dawning of a Dark New Day.
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Evanescence’s Amy Lee finds a new voice in ‘The Bitter Truth’
Amy Lee of Evanescence performs as the band kicked off its 2017 tour in support of the album “Synthesis.” (Ethan Miller/Getty Images/TNS)
Published April 18. 2021 12:01AM
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Not long ago, it almost seemed like curtains for Evanescence. The Grammy-winning gothic rock band fronted by Amy Lee had seen several members cycle in and out, citing personal and creative differences. And there were a spate of lawsuits between the band, its manager and label Wind-Up Records. Then, after Lee made a jailbreak of sorts, and with a new lineup rerecorded the band’s greatest hits in a 2017 symphonic album titled “Synthesis,” came the 2018 death of Lee’s brother Robby, who had suffered from severe epilepsy.