If you hate Evanescence,you might fit one of these catagories:

:Tone deaf

:Over the age of 50[as if their isn't anything they don't hate]

:Got scared listening to the album[these are the same people that faint when reading scary poems.]

:Hate girls that sing.

:you haven't actually heard the album,you just like to shoot your mouth off.

:scared of your own shadow.

:Or you are a liar.

If you haven't heard the album yet,if you don't fit anywhere in the catogories,or your looking for some dramatic,Beautiful,dark,and awsome music, look for FALLEN.

This band blows chunks like a drunken dog owner.My brother and sister love this band, not me,I on the other hand think the girl,whatever her name is,sucks.The band can't play nothing.If you want a band with captivating female vocals,buy Lacuna Coil and compare.Then you will see that this band is to overrated. P.S skip Seether because that guy is going out with her.

It's a great album, I love it. There are comparisons to Lacuna Coil, Nightwish, Linkin Park and The Gathering, among others and those comparisons are all more or less right, considering the tone or the status of the music. If you like those above, there's a big possibility that you like Evanescence and you'll like this album. I was a big Linkin Park fan, but always felt soomething was missing, when I heard Bring Me To Life, I knew I'd found it. When I'd listened to Ev for a while, I discovered the rest of the bands mentioned above and now love them too. So don't be freaked out about the storm raging over who's original and who's not, they're all lovely bands and simply compliment each other.

This is the version that includes Farther Away, and the worse version of it, there's a much better demo version out there. This album compared to other Ev works has the slight sense of being over-produced and some of the songs during first few times you hear them don't really stand out. All seem to have the same guitar riff, the same tone, the same chorus. There are "immediate" gems, as Bring Me To Life, with the duality of Paul McCoy's lyrics and the angst never found so sad and desperate in any of their other songs, Going Under that has to have time to grow on you, but is probably the best vocal work of Amy Lee with too many colors to count. My Immortal, even if it might be a bit overplayed now, is still haunting and beautiful and extremely unique among love songs. There's also Haunted, deep and dark, much more goth than the rest of the album, Imaginary with it's poetic lyrics, and Hello, the dangerously quiet and downplayed chiller of a song.

So just listen to it, forget the hype. The only thing you should be sorry about buying this is that you didn't buy if earlier and have the chance to discover Evanescence on your own before it was "the next big thing".