EvanescenceRemember Evanescence? You know, the one with that goth female lead singer with the haunting voice? Well, they’re back, and with a bang.

Wednesday night the band performed a secret show at the Manhattan Center Grand Ballroom in New York, reports rollingstone.com. A little after 9 p.m., the crowd started growing impatient, chanting, “EVAN-ES-SCENTS, EVAN-ES-SCENTS.” And even though the band hasn’t been heard from in years, you wouldn’t know it from their performance.

And as their front woman Amy Lee explained, last night’s intimate show was quite necessary, considering Evanescence will be performing for 40,000 people at the Maquinaria Festival in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Nov. 8. So, Lee said, they needed a little warming up before heading south.

“Thanks for being our guinea pigs,” Lee joked to the predominantly female crowd.

Evanescence hasn’t put out a record since 2006’s The Open Door, but they’re currently hard at work on a follow-up album. Still, it’ll be another year before the band is back performing in New York, making last night’s concert a special treat for their dedicated fans, who sold out the show in just five minutes.

Lee sported clunky black boots and a multi-coloured dress at the show, commanding the stage and showing off her operatic and smoky pipes. The band, featuring substitute guitarist James Black from the band Finger Eleven, soared through hits like, “Going Under,” “Missing,” Haunted,” “Good Enough,” “Call Me When You’re Sober,” “Bring Me To Life,” and “My Immortal.”

Fans head banged and fist pumped along with Lee, singing along with her and recording every minute with their cell phones and digital cameras. After one song, a fan tossed a teddy bear up at Lee, but it instead ended up in the grasp of a stage hand.

Before leaving the stage, Lee thanked all her fans for being so supportive after so long, and promised that new music was on the way.






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