| Product Summary | | Label: Wind-Up Records | | UPC: 00601501312021 | | Release Date: 10/3/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 202990286 | | Item#: M36C2G | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 2010 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Sweet Sacrifice ~ Evanescence |  | | 2. Call Me When You're Sober ~ Evanescence | | | 3. Weight Of The World ~ Evanescence | | | 4. Lithium ~ Evanescence | | | 5. Cloud Nine ~ Evanescence | | | 6. Snow White Queen ~ Evanescence | | | 7. Lacrymosa ~ Evanescence | | | 8. Like You ~ Evanescence | | | 9. Lose Control ~ Evanescence | | | 10. Only One, The ~ Evanescence | | | 11. Your Star ~ Evanescence | | | 12. All That I'm Living For ~ Evanescence | | | 13. Good Enough ~ Evanescence | |
| On the band's highly anticipated 2006 album, The Open Door, Evanescence presents the full-length studio debut of its new line-up, after the departure of founding guitarist Ben Moody and the addition of six-stringer Terry Balsamo. While this outing isn't a radical sonic departure for the goth-leaning heavy-rock band, the change clearly allowed vocalist Amy Lee to take the creative reins, and indulge even more in her flair for the ornate and dramatic, as evidenced by Door'sfairy tale-like artwork and urgent first single, "Call Me When You're Sober," which finds the singer cutting loose with her powerfully expressive voice. Fans worried about major stylistic shifts from Evanescence will be relieved by this confident release, which logically furthers previous album Fallen's brooding alternative-metal sound.
"When the pain takes over [Lee's] corseted soul, as in practically every song on The Open Door, she just overdubs her big bodice-ripping voice into a choir. Her vocals are over the top, in the mode of Eighties shoulder-pad belters like Pat Benatar or Heart's Ann Wilson, which suits breakup songs like "Sweet Sacrifice" and "Call Me When You're Sober." " Rolling Stone
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Evanescence: Amy Lee (vocals); Terry Balsamo, John LaCompt (guitar); Will Boyd (bass guitar); Rocky Gray (drums). | | Personnel: Amy Lee (vocals, piano, programming); John LeCompt (guitar, programming); Terry Balsamo (guitar); Rocky Gray (drums); Bon Harris (programming); Carrie Lee (background vocals). | | Audio Mixer: Dave Fortman . | | Recording information: Record Plant Studios, Los Angeles, CA. | | Photographer: Frank Ockenfels. | | On the band's highly anticipated 2006 album, THE OPEN DOOR, Evanescence presents the full-length studio debut of its new line-up, after the departure of founding guitarist Ben Moody and the addition of six-stringer Terry Balsamo. While this outing isn't a radical sonic departure for the goth-leaning heavy-rock band, the change clearly allowed vocalist Amy Lee to take the creative reins, and indulge even more in her flair for the ornate and dramatic, as evidenced by DOOR's fairy tale-like artwork and urgent first single, "Call Me When You're Sober," which finds the singer cutting loose with her powerfully expressive voice. Fans worried about major stylistic shifts from Evanescence will be relieved by this confident release, which logically furthers previous album FALLEN's brooding alternative-metal sound. | | It seems like a minor miracle that Evanescence released their second album at all, given the behind-the-scenes toil and trouble that surrounded the aftermath of their 2003 debut, Fallen, turning into an unexpected blockbuster. Actually, so much drama followed Evanescence that it's hardly the same band anymore. Certainly, pivotal songwriter/guitarist Ben Moody is no longer with the band, leaving not long after Fallen had become an international success, and sometime after that, they lost their bassist -- leaving behind Amy Lee as the indisputable leader of the band. She always was the face, voice, and spirit of the band anyway -- dominating so that it often seemed that she was named Evanescence and not fronting a band called that -- but by the time the group finally released their long-awaited second album, The Open Door, in October 2006, there was no question that it was her band, and she has learned well from the success of Fallen. Pushed to the background are the Tori-isms that constituted a good chunk of the debut -- they're saved for the brooding affirmation of a closer, "Good Enough," and the churning "Lithium," which most certainly is not a cover of Nirvana's classic (that song never mentioned its title, this repeats it incessantly) -- and in their place is the epic gothic rock (not quite the same thing as goth rock, mind you) that made Lee rock's leading witchy woman of the new millennium. And she doesn't hesitate to dig into the turmoil surrounding the band, since this truly is all about her -- she may artfully avoid the ugliness surrounding the lawsuit against her manager, whom she's alleged of sexual harassment, but she takes a few swipes against Moody, while hitting her semi-famous ex, Shaun Morgan of Seether, directly with "Call Me When You're Sober," as blunt a dismissal as they come. To hear her tell it, she not only doesn't need anybody, she's better on her own. Yet artists aren't always the best judge of their own work, and Lee could use somebody to help sculpt her sound into songs, the way she did when Moody was around. Not that she's flailing about necessarily -- "Call Me When You're Sober" not only has structure, it has hooks and momentum -- but far too often, The Open Door is a muddle of affections. Sonically, however, it captures the Evanescence mythos better and more consistently than the first album -- after all, Lee now has no apologies of being the thinking man's nu-metal chick, now that she's a star. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine |
Producer: Dave Fortman; Dave Fortman |
Engineer: Jeremy Parker |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Evanescence - The Open Door - CD Cinema Blend CD Reviews Published on: 10/3/2006 | | To sum up the band's biggest problem, think back to when you last ordered from a fusion restaurant (Indian-Chinese, for example) and the food was almost good, except for one little element that made the whole thing unsavory. In certain instances it could be the overbearing sauce or an undercooked shrimp, but in the case of Evanescence, the tainted ingredient is Amy Lee's voice.
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/03/2006 | | Original Release Date : 2006 | | Catalog ID : 13120 | | Label : Wind-Up Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00601501312021 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.126)
- 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It definitely says something that the best songs on THE OPEN DOOR are the creepiest....Lee has got a touch of the magnetic and destructive..."Kerrang (Magazine)
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- "[E]pic, exciting and musically compelling....Amy Lee's vocals are immense..." |
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| | Bio | | Coming from the heartland of America (Little Rock, AR), Evanescence mixes the heavy guitar crunch of nu-metal with the moody atmosphere and electronic flavoring of goth rock. Singer/keyboardist Amy Lee also bears the influence of singer/songwriters like Tori Amos and Alanis Morissette. The band built up a following with a couple of independent releases before their first widely distributed album, 2003's FALLEN, made them a coast-to-coast smash.
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Production |  3.5 | | Performance |  4 | | Composition | 3.5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 4 |
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4 of 5 Solid sophmore release. Tuesday, October 24, 2006
A Listener from seattle, wa
The Open Door is a good follow-up to Fallen. I've enjoyed the album the last week with approximately 10 hours of listening. If you like Fallen, this is a worthy pick. Was this review helpful?  
5 of 5 The Open Door Rocks! Wednesday, October 18, 2006
JMC from Gravel Switch, KY
I love this CD!!! Sure, "Fallen" was one of my favorite albums of all time, but "The Open Door" is a very close 2nd. It's the only music I've listened to since I bought it. Call Me When You're Sober is my favorite, Lithuim falls right in behind it. I listen to the whole CD over and over without skipping any of them though. I'm not dissapointed!!! Was this review helpful?
3 of 5 Not bad, but not Fallen Monday, October 16, 2006
A Listener from Mountain Lakes, NJ
Their first album was just about perfect and that's a tough act for any band to follow, so I'm not surprised this one falls short. It starts well and I like the first 4 songs or so, but from that point on the music just gets flat and monotonous. For those of you expecting the first album's hard-hitting energy and emotion, you'll find a lot less of that here. I can't tell if Amy Lee is trying too hard to sound like Annie Lennox, or the producers got carried away. Overall it's still a decent album but it doesn't hold a candle to Fallen. Was this review helpful?
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4 of 5 Not As Good As The First Thursday, October 12, 2006
Tom from Buffalo, NY
I really like this band, and have been waiting for this album to be released. Now that I have it, I wish I had heard it first as I wouldn't have bought it. As it is OK, it doesn't have the excitement or drive their first album had. Not a good follow-up. Very disappointed! Was this review helpful?
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