List of songs recorded by Evanescence

Further information: Evanescence discography
Evanescence, 2007—2012 lineup. From left to right, top row: Terry Balsamo, Amy Lee, Tim McCord. From left to right, bottom row: Will Hunt, Troy McLawhorn.

American rock band Evanescence has recorded for three studio albums, three extended plays, a demo album and four soundtrack albums.

Lead vocalist Amy Lee and former-lead guitarist Ben Moody founded the band in 1995 and was accompanied by David Hodges (keyboards) from 1999 until 2002.[1] Evanescence signed with Wind-up Records and released their debut album, Fallen, in 2003, officially formed by Will Boyd (bass), Rocky Gray (drums), John LeCompt (rhythm guitar), Lee (vocals and piano) and Moody (lead guitar). Lee, Moody and Hodges are credited to have written the entire album together, while LeCompt and Gray each have writing credits for two separate songs. The album sold over 17 million copies worldwide and produced four singles, including "Bring Me to Life".[2]

Moody left the band mid-tour in October 2003 and was replaced with Terry Balsamo. Shortly after recording their second studio album, Boyd left the band and was replaced with Tim McCord. In 2006, Evanescence released their second studio album, The Open Door, which debuted at number one on Billboard 200. Lee and Balsamo wrote most of the album together, while LeCompt had a writing credit for one song. The Open Door sold over five million copies worldwide.[2] During promotion of the album, in May 2007, LeCompt announced that he was fired from Evanescence and also confirmed Gray's decision to quit. They were replaced with Troy McLawhorn and Will Hunt (respectively) on a temporary basis, however they officially joined the band during the recording of their third studio album.

Evanescence released their eponymous third studio album in 2011, which also debuted at number one on Billboard 200. Three singles were released to promote the album. Lee, Balsamo, McCord, McLawhorn and Hunt wrote most of the album together, while Will B. Hunt had writing credits for five songs and Zach Williams for one.

A few months prior to their first live performance since their hiatus, Evanescence announced in August 2015 that Balsamo had left the band and had been replaced with Jen Majura.[3]

Released songs

Amy Lee (pictured) is credited to have co-written every Evanescence song (bar two) and has sole writing credits for ten songs.
Terry Balsamo (pictured) co-wrote most songs on The Open Door and Evanescence.
Ben Moody (pictured) co-wrote every song on Fallen.
Tim McCord (pictured) co-wrote most songs on Evanescence.
Will Hunt (pictured) co-wrote six songs on Evanescence.
Troy McLawhorn (pictured) co-wrote four songs on Evanescence.
Evanescence covered "Thoughtless" by Korn (pictured) in 2004.
John LeCompt (pictured) co-wrote three songs during his time in Evanescence.
Paul McCoy (pictured) provided guest vocals on "Bring Me to Life".
Key
Song released as a single Indicates single release
Indicates songs written solely by Amy Lee Indicates song written solely by Amy Lee
Song released as a promotional single Indicates promotional single release
Song Artist(s) Writer(s) Release(s) Year Ref.
"All That I'm Living For" Evanescence Amy Lee
John LeCompt
The Open Door 2006 [4]
"Anywhere" Evanescence Lee
Ben Moody
David Hodges
Origin 2000 [5]
"Ascension of the Spirit"
[note 1]
Evanescence Unknown Sound Asleep / Whisper 1999 [6]
"Away From Me" Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Origin 2000 [5]
"Breathe No More" Evanescence Lee double-dagger Elektra: The Album 2005 [7]
"Bring Me to Life" dagger
[note 2]
Evanescence featuring Paul McCoy Lee
Moody
Hodges
Fallen 2003 [8]
Daredevil: The Album [9]
"Call Me When You're Sober" dagger Evanescence Lee
Terry Balsamo
The Open Door 2006 [4]
"Cloud Nine" Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
The Open Door 2006 [4]
"Disappear" Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
Tim McCord
Troy McLawhorn
Will Hunt
Evanescence
[note 3]
2011 [10]
"End of the Dream" Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
McCord
Hunt
Will B. Hunt
Evanescence 2011 [10]
"Erase This" Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
McCord
McLawhorn
Hunt
Evanescence 2011 [10]
"Eternal"
[note 1][note 4]
Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Origin 2000 [5]
"Even in Death"
[note 5]
Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Origin 2000 [5]
"Everybody's Fool" dagger
[note 2]
Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Mystary 2003 [11]
Fallen [8]
"Exodus" Evanescence Lee
Moody
Evanescence (EP) 1998 [12]
"Farther Away" Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Mystary 2003 [11]
"Bring Me to Life" single [13]
Fallen
(Japanese edition) [note 3]
[8]
"Field of Innocence"
[note 6]
Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Origin 2000 [5]
"Forgive Me" Evanescence Lee
Moody
Sound Asleep / Whisper 1999 [6]
"Give Unto Me"
[note 1]
Evanescence Lee double-dagger Sound Asleep / Whisper 1999 [6]
"Going Under" dagger Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Fallen 2003 [8]
"Good Enough" dagger Evanescence Lee double-dagger The Open Door 2006 [4]
"Heart-Shaped Box"
[note 7]
Evanescence Kurt Cobain "Going Under" single 2003 [14]
"Haunted" Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Fallen 2003 [8]
"Hello" Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Fallen 2003 [8]
"Imaginary" Hash-tag
[note 8]
Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Evanescence (EP) 1998 [12]
Origin 2000 [5]
Mystary 2003 [11]
Fallen [8]
"Lacrymosa"
[note 9]
Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
The Open Door 2006 [4]
"Lies"
[note 10]
Evanescence featuring Bruce Fitzhugh Lee
Moody
Origin 2000 [5]
"Like You" Evanescence Lee double-dagger The Open Door 2006 [4]
"Lithium" dagger Evanescence Lee double-dagger The Open Door 2006 [4]
"Lose Control" Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
The Open Door 2006 [4]
"Lost in Paradise" dagger Evanescence Lee double-dagger Evanescence 2011 [10]
"Made of Stone" Hash-tag
[note 11]
Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
McCord
McLawhorn
Hunt
B. Hunt
Evanescence 2011 [10]
Underworld: Awakening (soundtrack)
[note 12]
2012 [15]
"Missing" Hash-tag
[note 13]
Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
"Bring Me to Life" single
(Australian edition)
2003 [13]
Anywhere but Home 2004 [16]
"My Heart Is Broken" dagger Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
McCord
Zach Williams
Evanescence 2011 [10]
"My Immortal" dagger
[note 2]
Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Origin 2000 [5]
Mystary 2003 [11]
Fallen
[note 14]
[8]
Daredevil: The Album [9]
"My Last Breath" Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Mystary 2003 [11]
Fallen [8]
"Never Go Back" Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
McCord
Hunt
Evanescence 2011 [10]
"New Way to Bleed"
Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
Evanescence
[note 3]
2011 [10]
Avengers Assemble (soundtrack)
[note 15]
2012 [17]
"Oceans" Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
McCord
Evanescence 2011 [10]
"Origin"
[note 1]
Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Origin 2000 [5]
"Say You Will" Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
McCord
Evanescence
[note 3]
2011 [10]
"Secret Door" Evanescence Lee
B. Hunt
Evanescence
[note 3]
2011 [10]
"Sick" Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
McCord
Hunt
B. Hunt
Evanescence 2011 [10]
"Snow White Queen"
[note 5]
Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
The Open Door 2006 [4]
"So Close"
[note 16]
Evanescence Moody
Will Boyd
Matt Outlaw
Evanescence (EP) 1998 [12]
"Solitude" Evanescence Lee
Moody
Evanescence (EP) 1998 [12]
"Sweet Sacrifice" dagger Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
The Open Door 2006 [4]
"Swimming Home" Evanescence Lee
B. Hunt
Evanescence 2011 [10]
"Taking Over Me" Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
LeCompt
Fallen 2003 [8]
"The Change" Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
McCord
McLawhorn
Hunt
Evanescence 2011 [10]
"The End"
[note 1]
Evanescence Lee
Moody
Evanescence (EP) 1998 [12]
"The Last Song I'm Wasting On You" Evanescence Lee double-dagger "Lithium" single 2006 [18]
Evanescence
(Japanese edition)
2011 [10]
"The Only One"
[note 17]
Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
The Open Door 2006 [4]
"The Other Side" Hash-tag Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
McCord
Evanescence 2011 [10]
"Thoughtless"
[note 18]
Evanescence Reginald Arvizu
Jonathan Davis
James Shaffer
David Silveria
Brian Welch
Anywhere but Home 2004 [16]
"Together Again" Hash-tag Evanescence Lee double-dagger Non-album single 2010 [19]
"Tourniquet"
[note 19]
Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Rocky Gray
Fallen 2003 [8]
"Understanding" Evanescence Moody Evanescence (EP) 1998 [12]
Sound Asleep / Whisper [note 20] 1999 [6]
"Weight of the World" Hash-tag Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
The Open Door 2006 [4]
"What You Want" dagger Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
McCord
Evanescence 2011 [10]
"Where Will You Go?" Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Evanescence (EP) 1998 [12]
Origin 2000 [5]
"Whisper" Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
Sound Asleep / Whisper 1999 [6]
Origin 2000 [5]
Fallen 2003 [8]
"Your Star" Evanescence Lee
Balsamo
The Open Door 2006 [4]

Unreleased songs

Song Artist(s) Writer(s) Originating album Year Ref.
"Anything for You"
[note 9] [note 21]
Evanescence Amy Lee
Ben Moody
David Hodges
N/A 2001/2002 [20]
"Before the Dawn" Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
N/A 2001/2002 [21]
"Bleed" Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
N/A 2001/2002 [22]
"Forever You" Evanescence Lee
Moody
John LeCompt
N/A 2001/2002
"Give Unto Me" Evanescence Lee double-dagger Evanescence (EP) 1998
"If You Don't Mind" Evanescence Lee
Terry Balsamo
Will Boyd
The Open Door 2006 [23]
"Lies"
[note 10]
Evanescence Lee
Moody
Hodges
N/A 2001/2002
"Listen to the Rain"
[note 4]
Evanescence Lee double-dagger Origin 1999
"October" Evanescence Lee
Moody
Boyd
Evanescence (EP) 1998
"Surrender" Evanescence Unknown N/A 2001/2002

Bootleg covers

The following includes bootleg recordings of live cover songs from Evanescence concerts, which were not officially released by the band or under any other legal authority.

Song Year recorded Original artist Notes
"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" 1999 Blue Öyster Cult Performed at Vino's in Little Rock, Arkansas; featured on the bootleg recording Live at Vino's 1999
"The Dolphin's Cry" 2001 Live Performed at a concert in Little Rock, Arkansas
"Self Esteem" 2002 The Offspring New Year's Eve concert at NiteLife Rocks in Little Rock, Arkansas
"Sex Type Thing" 2002 Stone Temple Pilots
"Orestes" 2003 A Perfect Circle Fallen party at Juanita’s in Little Rock, Arkansas
"Zero" 2003–2004 The Smashing Pumpkins Performed at select concerts on the Fallen Tour
"Fourth of July" Soundgarden
"People Are Strange" 2007 The Doors Performed throughout the Family Values Tour 2007
"Going to California" 2015 Led Zeppelin Performed during the Winter Tour 2015
"Purple Rain" 2016 Prince Tribute performed during the band's Floridian tour

Writing credits summary

Writer
[note 22]
Pre-Fallen
[note 23]
Fallen
(2003)
The Open Door
(2006)
Evanescence
(2011)
Unreleased Misc.
[note 24]
Total
Terry Balsamo N/A N/A 9 13 1 2 25
Will Boyd 1 0 0 N/A 2 0 3
Rocky Gray N/A 1 0 N/A 0 0 1
David Hodges 18 12 N/A N/A 4 5 39
Will B. Hunt* N/A N/A N/A 5 0 1 6
Will Hunt N/A N/A N/A 6 0 1 7
John LeCompt N/A 1 1 N/A 1 0 3
Amy Lee 24 12 13 16 9 9 83
Tim McCord N/A N/A 0 12 0 1 13
Troy McLawhorn N/A N/A N/A 4 0 1 5
Ben Moody 25 12 N/A N/A 6 5 48
Matt Outlaw* 1 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 1
Zach Williams* N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 1

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Song is an instrumental track and/or contains no lyrics.
  2. 1 2 3 Single spawned from Fallen.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Song appears on the album as a bonus track.
  4. 1 2 "Eternal" consists of two songs: "Eternal" and "Demise". "Listen to the Rain" was originally intended to be included in-between the two songs but was eventually scrapped.
  5. 1 2 Song samples White Zombie's 1998 song "Ratfinks, Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls".
  6. "Field of Innocence" samples "Morning Hymn" from the Preludium of the Broadway musical version of The Sound of Music.
  7. Evanescence covered an acoustic version of Nirvana's 1993 song "Heart-Shaped Box" at some shows in early 2003. The version that appears on the "Going Under" single was recorded during a performance at WXDX-FM.
  8. "Imaginary" was released as a promotional single for Fallen.
  9. 1 2 Song samples the Lacrimosa sequence from Mozart's Requiem (1791).
  10. 1 2 Two songs share the name "Lies". The unreleased version is sometimes known as "Lies" (Post-Origin).
  11. "Made of Stone" was released as a promotional single for Evanescence.
  12. "Made of Stone" was remixed by Renholdër for Underworld: Awakening (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
  13. "Missing" was released as a promotional single for Anywhere but Home.
  14. The band version of "My Immortal" was also added onto later pressings of Fallen.
  15. "New Way to Bleed" was remixed by Photek for Avengers Assemble: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture and known as "A New Way to Bleed".
  16. Evanescence covered So Close's self-titled song in 1998. So Close was a band formed by Ben Moody, Will Boyd and Matt Outlaw prior to Evanescence.
  17. The introduction to "The Only One", which features three distinctive duck quacks, is a sample of an unreleased song called "Tuna Afternoon". The song was written by Amy Lee and Terry Balsamo during the making of The Open Door for fun but was eventually added to the beginning of "The Only One".
  18. Evanescence covered Korn's 2002 song "Thoughtless" on their Fallen tour in 2004. The version that appears on Anywhere but Home was recorded at a concert at Le Zénith in Paris.
  19. "Tourniquet" is a reworked version of Soul Embraced's 2000 song, "My Tourniquet".
  20. Two versions of "Understanding" appear on Sound Asleep / Whisper.
  21. "Anything for You" samples "Bringin It Up" from Sonic Foundry's Futurist Drum 'N' Bass loop series.
  22. An asterisk beside a name denotes that the writer has never been a member of Evanescence.
  23. Pre-Fallen includes songs from Evanescence (EP), Sounds Asleep / Whisper, Origin and Mystary.
  24. Miscellaneous includes non-album singles, b-sides and songs featured on live albums and soundtracks.

References

General
Specific
  1. "Amy's Story". OutoftheShadows.com. Archived from the original on November 8, 2006. Retrieved July 4, 2008.
  2. 1 2 "News: Heading Into the Studio". Evanescence.com. April 4, 2011. Archived from the original on May 18, 2011.
  3. Childers, Chad (August 9, 2015). "Evanescence Guitarist Terry Balsamo Exits, Jen Majura Joins Band". Loudwire. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 The Open Door (inlay cover). Evanescence. Wind-Up Records. 2006.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Origin (inlay cover). Evanescence. Bigwig Enterprises. 2000.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 Sound Asleep / Whisper (Media notes). Evanescence. Bigwig Enterprises. 1999.
  7. Elektra: The Album (inlay cover). Various Artists. Wind-Up Records. 2005.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Fallen (inlay cover). Evanescence. Wind-Up Records. 2003.
  9. 1 2 Daredevil: The Album (inlay cover). Various Artists. Wind-Up Records. 2003.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Evanescence (inlay cover). Evanescence. Wind-Up Records. 2011.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 Mystary (Media notes). Evanescence. Wind-Up Records. 2003.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Evanescence (EP) (Media notes). Evanescence. Bigwig Enterprises. 1998.
  13. 1 2 Bring Me to Life (inlay cover). Evanescence. Wind-Up Records. 2003.
  14. Going Under (inlay cover). Evanescence. Wind-Up Records. 2003.
  15. Underworld: Awakening (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (inlay cover). Various Artists. Lakeshore Entertainment. 2012.
  16. 1 2 Anywhere but Home (inlay cover). Evanescence. Wind-Up Records. 2004.
  17. Avengers Assemble: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture (inlay cover). Various Artists. Hollywood Records. 2012.
  18. Lithium (inlay cover). Evanescence. Wind-Up Records. 2006.
  19. "Together Again by Evanescence". Broadcast Music, Inc. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  20. "Anything For You by Evanescence". Broadcast Music, Inc. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  21. "Before the Dawn by Evanescence". Broadcast Music, Inc. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  22. "Bleed by Evanescence". Broadcast Music, Inc. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
  23. "If You Don't Mind by Evanescence". Broadcast Music, Inc. Retrieved April 27, 2015.

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