They were a big deal!
(midwest.social)
The Picard Maneuver
People TwitterEat my Kerala Dust!
Hell yes i've heard of Evanesence:
Is that how saltpeter forms?
I think that might be a regional nickname for it - it does indeed form salts which are loosened from the inside of the brick/concrete (both have salts in) by water, and then transported to the outside by the same water.
I can't find anything relating saltpeter to the term "evanescence" but I know it forms due to humidity + capillarity in stone/brick walls (I recently moved into a house that has some so I only recently started learning about this) so I guess it is the same thing. The scientific name for it is potassium nitrate
So close.
They just released a new album this year which is pretty good. Plus heaps of "the youth" around my way ate wearing limp bizkit, korn and deftones merch, so maybe?
Just like kids in the 2000s wore Nirvana shirts. Retro. Vintage.
I was a kid then, loved nirvana and would've worn a shirt if I could dead with being called a poser
No
Evanescence? Is that like a bottled water brand?
It's clearly a perfume.
Obsessively watched Dream Too Much with baby son. Years later tween son fills house with metal... Including Evanescence. Long con. In fact, if you have a metal newborn, check out Rockabye Baby - artists grownups love across genres in muzac versions for babies.
What?
Did you search Dream Too Much before replying?
No I just masturbate sometimes. Sometimes many times. But not in my window or outside. Anymore.
WAKE ME UP INSIDE!!!
I lived in England at that time and what my coworkers heard was
WANK ME OFF!
I CAN'T WANK OFF!
Hilarious to me, especially since it summed up my thoughts on the song.
(I can't wake up)
Mitch McConnell entered the chat
(SAave maeee!)
Save me from this nothing I've become!
If I could spell out in onomatopoeia form the guitar riff and background vocals to this part, I totally would, because I can hear it clearly in my mind
I want a doctor
To take your picture
So I can look at you
From inside as well.
"Turning Japanese" by The Vapors
My uni soundtrack!
Of course I have! Hybrid Theory is one of my favorite albums of all time.
I also like divorced dad rock
You bastard
Really just get a video on tiktok with one of their songs. The amount of older music gen alpha listens to because they saw it on tiktok is insane.
I went to a Within Temptation concert. Evanescence was their low profile opening act. They played their old stuff and some of us millennials got hyped. No one cared when they played new stuff.
The sad truth is that Goth metal is a very niche taste and Evanescence is old news.
Sounds like a crowd problem.
The crowd should check out Evanescence's new stuff, it's good.
Now imagine me, a fan of Lacuna Coil, seeing Evanescence and Within Temptation go quasi-mainstream while they stayed in the shadows... With hindsight I suppose it wasn't that bad since they are still touring and making new albums, but still.
That lacuna coil is not more popular is a tragedy
I enjoy liking obscure bands. Been to a Lacuna Coil concert for £20 and stood in almost touching distance of the stage.
Within Temptation is still around? I haven't really listened to them in ages, the last "new" album of theirs I remember was The Heart of Everything, so apparently since 2007.
Honestly maybe it's because I'm a horrid autistic Gen Z that didn't really like music until I play NV but even with my modern horrid niche tastes I still don't get why folks like/ liked Evanescence. Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go back to listening to Korpiklaani.
I'm pretty sure they are still an active band on radio rotation. It's not like asking "Ever heard of Hot Action Cop?
Active on radio? You mean that thing with all the knobs on my grandma’s book shelf?
They released a new album in June this year
Is the original joke that Evanescence is actually still popular in rock, so asking makes you look silly?
Evanescence literally had two #1 hits over the past two years.
People who listen to rock music have definitely heard of Evanescence.
I wouldn't say definitely based on hits charts: people can be pretty unaware of culturally significant bands quite easily by only using streaming services...
Oh never mind these Evanescence hits are on airplay! Ignore this
~~Billboard has counted streams for years. Sales, streams, and airplay.~~
News this year was that Billboard stopped counting YouTube streams because Google was trying to throw their weight around to affect the charts. Which I thought was interesting.
I literally only know them from the video game Burnout
They're on tour in the US right now. I see merch everywhere, and on the rare occasion that I listen to the radio, they still pop up.
That lady wants to steal a bunch of puppies.
Yes I have! The video clip where she hangs on the windows almost ready to fall, is something I will always remember. It was a big hit back then.
Maybe they've heard of Cryoshell
Wait they are this band for young mainstream people who think they are metalheads, no? ... [unintelligible zombie noises]
So, tunnel throat?
Where they really that big of a deal? They had that one song that was a tie into that forgettable Ben Affleck Daredevil movie.
They used to be really good!
They still are now, but they used to be too.
They Where.
Yes, yes they were.
They pushed their way into the Christian market but claimed not to be a Christian band, in the Bring me to life/ My Immortal release they managed to get a pretty wide audience. Bring me to life, was pretty unique and haunting at the time.
Coldplay studied this, learned from their mistakes and then mastered the art of claiming to be a christian band while simultaneously claiming to not be a christian band
Clearly you were never in the MidWest during the 2000's
Nah. Not really.
they were only relevant for a few years dude. they are not a cultural icon.
They were pretty big, saying they’re not a cultural icon … do you by any chance have a penis and align as male?
Cuz … strong powerful recording artist who also is a woman making it mainstream in a genre dominated by men was actually in fact cultural moment and she was an icon.
In fairness so too was Nickelback
do you by any chance have a penis and align as male?
Wow. What an amazingly sexist way to 'no true scot' someone. Like, it went from merely trivializing to simply offensive.
But you are cishet male?
