Evanescence’s upcoming album will be released in 2026

Less than three months after Evanescence‘s “Afterlife” single from the Netflix series “Devil May Cry” was released, singer Amy Lee discussed the band’s future intentions in a recent interview with Terrie Carr of WDHA-FM 105.5 FM, the rock station licensed to Dover and Morristown, New Jersey.

We had just gone into the studio for the first little bit right before recording ‘Afterlife’. So it was in between the end of… We sort of finished our main tour last year, at the end of the year. So we went in between with Nick and did a few songs, went back on the road. And then ‘Afterlife’ was happening. So we came back and did that really fast and went back on the road. It’s been just a lot, but really invigorating and really fun, and I’m just having a ‘YOLO’ moment. I have no time to waste. Let’s do this. Ever since last time, we started thinking about things differently in terms of, like, you have to make a whole album, put it all out at once. The pandemic hit and we had four songs recorded and we weren’t finished making songs for our album. And so we just started putting them out, ’cause at that time it was, like, ‘Well, who knows when this is ever gonna end, if it ever does? So let’s put out our music.’ And that felt so good, to be able to have the satisfaction of the engagement and the release of songs when they’re still fresh and we’re still working on the album and it’s happening in real time that I want this year to feel like that. I wanna be just releasing things, whether it’s for our album or some kind of cool side project thing. Just doing that throughout the year and then probably full release will be early next year.

But they have also some quite busy schedule with shows.

We’ve got a show with My Chemical Romance in September. A random one-off. Super cool. And we’ve got a stadium tour with Metallica in Australia in October. Several radio shows. Fun, just cool. Poppy, who I love and am friends with as well. So, just fun things only this year. Tons of creation stuff going on — that’s the main gig — but in between really fun, worthy, little one-off shows.