![]() ![]() I wanted the guitars to be angry and heavy and… Y’know, big, dumb rock ’n’ roll guitars. I never start with the lyrics when I’m writing a song – it always starts with the guitar, because that’s my main instrument. It doesn’t matter if you’re rich, poor, black, white – every human being is in the same boat, and that is completely what I feel is reflected in the vibe of this album.ĭo you see the guitar as a tool you can use to convey emotions of its own, independent from Amy’s lyrics? Nobody knows where this whole pandemic is going to throw us. It’s not like we’re complaining, going, “Oh my God, there’s a pandemic, everything is so bad, we’re all gonna die!” It’s more about the questioning, the insecurity, the uncertainty… And I don’t think that’s necessarily down to the fact we’re musicians, y’know? Everybody is feeling the same way right now. ![]() But for me personally, it’s one of the most beautiful ways an album can turn out. It’s very reflective of how we felt in 2020 – we were stuck in something we didn’t know anything about, and we still don’t know where the journey is going – and you can hear all of that in the songs. If you listen to the lyrics and you really pay attention to the core of all the songs, there’s a lot of pain and a lot of headiness. ![]() ![]() Jen: I think it turned out way heavier than we first expected. Was it cathartic for you to pour a lot of the heaviness and angst you were feeling into this record? I hate when I see a band keep writing the same songs over and over again.Ī title like The Bitter Truth is a pretty bold statement in itself. I’ve always been a fan of bands that aren’t afraid to branch out. We head in a lot of different directions on this one, I think. But the tone of the album, and the lyrical content, and the overall themes… I just wanted it to be heavy as shit, y’know? I was like, “Man, I can’t wait to play some really crazy stuff!” And Amy was totally onboard with that! I feel like a lot of things have already been done – it’s really hard to be super original these days, as far as riffs and things like that go. I wasn’t thinking so far ahead as to how we were going to change our sound, or anything like that. We were all gelling really closely in the studio, so there was a lot of excitement in that. But I was also excited because I felt comfortable enough to bring in ideas and share in the songwriting. For starters, it was the first rock album – like, full-on electric album – that we’ve done since the self-titled one. So now that I’d been in the band for almost 14 years, I was really excited to do this album. And when we went in to do that record, we’d been apart for a really long time, so I still felt like a new member I didn’t really have a lot of input on the songwriting. Even though I’d been with the band since 2007, our third album was the first one that I actually played on. Troy: I was just excited to make another record. How did you want The Bitter Truth to build on what you’d established creatively with the first four Evanescence albums? I think it’s a very beautiful, very meaningful, very real album. I just miss Amy and the guys so much! When you spend so many years together, and then all of a sudden you’re disconnected because of something like a pandemic, it’s like, “…Woah.” So you can really hear the heaviness of 2020 in the songwriting, y’know? All the songs are very… They’re real. But they were all able to meet up in the States, so they started writing again and sent me everything via email, and I would record some DI stuff and send it over to Nick. That was the last time I saw Amy and the guys. We met up at Nick’s studio in Nashville last February to record the first four songs, and when we all went to the airport to fly home, we were like, “Okay, goodbye, see you next month!” And then the next month never came. When we started writing the album, we didn’t even know the world ‘pandemic’. The sound of these songs, and the meaning behind them, really mirrors what was going on in 2020. How does it feel now that you’re finally in the home stretch with The Bitter Truth ? ![]()
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