(rock music)
- You guys have a new song coming out this week,
Lose My Voice.
It's a great song, I've listened to it about 10 times today
before talking to you and I just wanted to talk
a little bit about the inspiration behind it
and where it comes from.
- That song has been bubbling in the background
for me for a couple of years.
As life went on and as
the state of our country and world went on,
over that course of time,
just every once in a while I'd have another line
and something else that I needed to say
and it just kept being a place where I would pour that into
and then finally when we got it all wrapped up
and we got to come together as a band,
right before everything shut down
it just became this beautifully empowering
and seemingly important moment
for me personally and for all of us as a band.
I've never, I've never really, at all,
in any small form really,
spoken politically or made
any real statement
about what I believe and what's going on there
because I don't like to divide the fans,
I want the music to be our free place where we can
all have something in common
but sometimes
things are just right and wrong
and you have feelings that can't be held back
and if I'm gonna be true to myself and my music,
like I always have been, then I have to say
what's heavy on my heart.
We need to empower people to use
their voices literally and vote.
That's the amazing privilege that we have, living here,
the fact that our voices matter
and that can guide
and should guide and will guide what comes next
and this year more than ever, I think we're all just asking
over and over the question, just what is next?
And we can be a part of that
and we need to be a part of that,
so I feel very grateful.
The people at Headcount are awesome,
they are totally non-partisan
and all about empowering the voice of the people.
- I'm curious as to,
I'm more curious as to the music industry environment
that you guys are slowly returning into,
obviously you've done different projects
in the streaming era but do you ever think about that
and how much has shifted within the way we consume music
since the last proper Evanescence album?
- Yeah and I feel like that gives us so much freedom.
We had the idea that we were gonna make
the album in these chunks
as we wrote
and I'm so grateful now that that was the plan
because
we had four songs
that we were sure about in February
and we went in with Nick Raskulinecz, our producer,
and did the four
and just barely got them done in time,
almost not, like I had to take the microphone home
and finish the stuff,
right before all the total shutdown.
So I've been so grateful that we had those four to work from
but the way that it's been since then has been
continuing the rest of the music in a remote way at first
and then now we're into more of the detail
where we actually went
to great lengths
to all get COVID tested,
to get buses to bring the guys together,
to get together for a few weeks,
we all got negative tests, we all wore masks sometimes
and just locked down in a completely independent bubble,
saw no one during the whole time we were together
and were able to get some recording going on the next stuff.
You know, we're moving forward, making process,
it's different, it's harder, there are new complications
but I am embracing the challenges
and the limitations we have this year
and using them for inspiration, we all are
because it's forcing us to think in new ways
and find a way around a problem and something about that,
I don't know, it's almost like a little bit of a map.
Like you know what you have, you know what the tools are
you have to work with but you want something else,
you have to think of it, you have to be inventive.
So that, from the get go about this whole process has
been really cool and unique and special.
We're hungrier than ever to do what we do
and very grateful to be able to do what we do,
so we're just gonna do the best that we can
and make something great out of something rotten.
(rock music)