Interview with Mariskal Rock (December 2023)

[Thomas]

Amy was interviewed by Mariskal Rock and was asked new, interesting questions. These are the highlights, made by Reddit user OOMbit:

About solo career:

With what has cost me to put this band together... The current members make Evanescence better than ever. It has taken me a lot of time and effort to bring together such a creative force. Life is too short, why should I put this project on hold and embark on something new?

About upcoming solo/band (?) collaborations:

I've been working with two people lately and they've been positive encounters. We're still in creative mode, finalizing details, but I can't tell you anything more. We've been on tour and haven't been able to finalize these collaborations, but now that we've stopped, I have a few ideas and things recorded that I think will speed up the process and you will have news soon, I'm sure.

About Evanescence's next album:

We have no plans to release any albums in the upcoming months, but we are in the process of starting to write songs. In fact, most of 2023 we have been on tour, so now it's time to stop and start again. We like everything that our recent album 'The Bitter Truth' has brought.


After going through the pandemic and difficult times, we came out looking forward to playing live and it has been exciting but also exhausting. We finished the tour a few weeks ago in Brazil and it took me 27 hours to get home. [...] We have already closed the chapter for this fifth album, but we're looking forward to facing the next chapter of our band.

About unreleased songs:

With each album we want to make, I return to those files. These are not songs, they are unfinished ideas and musical pieces that I like. Ideas, failed attempts, lost riffs... There's a lot of things there, but with patience and perseverance great things can come out as a result.

They never reached the song status (meaning full, finished songs), but there are choices. I only want to release things that I'm proud of and really like. I'm not into releasing songs that I'm not 100% committed to, which is why there are these snippets that everyone on the internet is talking about.

About broken record, produced by Steve Lillywhite and Will B. Hunt in 2010 as Evanescence's third album:

All those ideas that were created in 2010 have already been used after more than a decade. At that time I remember I could not find the necessary vision to be able to release them. I was in a difficult creative moment. I could not translate what was in my head on something that was worth.

It ended up becoming the self-titled album of heavy music that we love to this day. There's a good stack of songs that are still intact, but a couple made it onto 'The Bitter Truth'. Sometimes you have to be self-critical and discard ideas that don't convince you because, years later, you can give them a new life and feel that they fit.

Translated from Spanish by Deepl and aforementioned Reddit user.

[JohnnyScott]

And it looks like we'll never hear the full version of Perfect Dream, and it's kind of sad because we have a snippet released in 2010 and I was curious about the rest.

They are already writing, I believe they will enter the studio in 2024. I am very happy that Emma gave Amy great excitement.

[lowasweare]

Dec 18, 2023 14:34:00 GMT -5 JohnnyScott said:

And it looks like we'll never hear the full version of Perfect Dream, and it's kind of sad because we have a snippet released in 2010 and I was curious about the rest.

I don't get why people say that, to me it reads like she's talking about 2011, when she had to put those songs aside, and then rediscovered them in new album process like Synthesis or TBT where they fits and find "their home". Also she says that she revisits all those songs and bits created every single time she start a new creative process. So to me it's more about, if it fits it will get released.