Evanescence comes back strong while keeping Jesus (mostly) out of it
Published: October 12, 2011
Suuuure… It was all “a misunderstanding,” as Evanescence singer/main force Amy Lee says of the band’s Christian identity of yesteryear. Never mind that she met former boyfriend and bandmate Ben Moody at a Christian summer camp, and that the band’s 2003 debut, Fallen, was heavily worked in the Christian rock circuit, or that the stunning sounding and looking Lee’s haunted lyrics could apply to both boys and God. But a month after Fallen came out, all hell broke loose.
“There are people that are hell-bent on the idea that we’re a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message,” Lee told Entertainment Weekly in April 2003. “We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It’s simply about life experience … I guarantee that if the Christian bookstore owners listened to some of those songs, they wouldn’t sell the CD.”
Moody went even further".
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