This week’s Record Club sees us celebrating a band and a record that remain among the most successful in all of popular metal, and yet still haven’t received the proper critical reappraisal they deserve: Evanescence, guided by the stirring vocals and lyricism of the inimitable Amy Lee, altered the face of alternative metal, and presented a potent counterpoint to the hypermasculine dominance of the nu-metal wave in the early 2000s, though success did not come without costs…

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