ROCK LEGENDS EVANESCENCE ANNOUNCE
CANADA-WIDE TOUR
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS HALESTORM AND THE WARNING
Grammy award-winning rock band Evanescence announced they are hitting the road on their first headline tour across Canada in 15 years! Produced by Live Nation Canada, the tour kicks off on October 15 in Vancouver, BC hitting cities nationwide before wrapping on October 29 in London, ON. Evanescence will be joined by special guests, post grunge/metal rockers Halestorm across all stops. Alternative sister-trio, The Warning, will open all shows.
Delivering a number of dynamic rock hits over the last two decades, the band recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of their landmark debut album, Fallen, originally released in 2003. They recognized the milestone with a special anniversary edition of the smash album, which spawned gigantic rock hits like “Bring Me to Life,” “Going Under” and “My Immortal,” kickstarting a thriving career they’re still carrying out today.
About Evanescence:
To date, Evanescence has released a total of five studio albums, including the multi-platinum The Open Door (2004)and Evanescence (2011), both of which topped the Billboard 200. In 2021, the band thrilled fans with their first albumof new material in a decade, The Bitter Truth. Now 20 years on, Evanescence continues to scale new heights.Featuring a line-up of Amy Lee (vocals, keyboards), Tim McCord (guitar/bass), Will Hunt (drums), TroyMcLawhorn (guitars), and Emma Anzai (bass, backing vocals), the band continues to travel the globe, staging someof the most successful shows of their career, having just wrapped a run of sold out shows in Latin America, includingAllianz Parque, a soccer stadium in Sāo Paulo, Brasil, which was the biggest headline show of Evanescence’s careerto date, drawing 40,000 fans.The 20th Anniversary Edition of Fallen builds upon the original album, adding additional context through rare B-sides(“Breathe No More,” “Farther Away,” and “Missing”) and six previously-unreleased selections. Among themare live renditions of “Bring Me To Life” (including a 2020 acoustic rendition), as well as “My Immortal” and“Going Under,” while fans will enjoy a 2022 live recording of “My Immortal” from London’s 02 Arena, and a 2002demo of “Bring Me To Life.” “20 years later, this album has never meant more,” writes Lee in her foreword. “Fallenhas been the soundtrack to first loves, epic heartbreak, self-realization, wedding days, last goodbyes, friendships,and countless other moments in so many lives…not to mention my own. I am forever humbled and grateful to be apart of it.”
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About Halestorm:
Halestorm have elicited an emotional, physical, and spiritual reaction from audiences worldwide since it began as achildhood dream of sister and brother Lzzy and Arejay Hale. Having amassed over 2.5 Billion streams globally, theGrammy-Award winning band has grown from a childhood dream of siblings Lzzy and Arejay Hale into one of themost celebrated rock bands of the last two decades. On their most recent full-length album Back From The Dead[Atlantic Records], the Pennsylvania-bred and Nashville-based GRAMMY® Award-winning RIAA Platinum quartet—Lzzy Hale (vocals, guitar), Arejay Hale (drums), Joe Hottinger (guitar), and Josh Smith (bass)—turn up the volumeacross the board. The musicianship hits harder. The songwriting cuts deeper. The spirit shines brighter. The albumhas gone on to tally over 100 Million streams worldwide. Rolling Stone called the title track “a biting but cathartichowler about overcoming all obstacles,” and that song as well as “The Steeple” marked their fifth and sixth numberones at rock radio, respectively. Associated Press said the album “will definitely be in the running for best hardrock/metal album of the year.” Their previous album, Vicious, earned the band their second Grammy nomination, forBest Hard Rock Performance for the song “Uncomfortable,” the band’s fourth #1 at rock radio, and led Loudwire toname Halestorm “Rock Artist of the Decade” in 2019. Fronted by the incomparable Lzzy Hale with drummer ArejayHale, guitarist Joe Hottinger, and bass player Josh Smith, Halestorm’s music has earned multiple Platinum and GoldCertifications from the RIAA, and the band has earned a reputation as a powerful live music force, headlining sold-outshows and topping festival bills around the world, and sharing the stage with icons including Heaven & Hell, AliceCooper, Joan Jett, and Judas Priest. Additionally, Lzzy was named the first female brand ambassador for Gibson andserved as host of AXS TV’s “A Year in Music.”
About The Warning:
THE WARNING infuse rock music with a much-needed shot of adrenaline. The Monterrey, Mexico trio of sisters –Daniela “Dany” [guitar, lead vocals], Paulina “Pau” [drums, vocals, piano], and Alejandra “Ale” Villarreal [bass, piano,backing vocals] – charge forward with head-spinning riffs, unpredictable rhythms, stadium-size beats, andskyscraping vocals. They stand out as the rare presence equally at home on network television and on stage atHeaven &Hell Festival. If anybody can usher rock’s comeback along, it’s these three ladies. After exploding onlinewith one viral moment after another, THE WARNING parlayed this momentum into a series of independent releases,including Escape the Mind EP [2015], XXI Century Blood [2017], and Queen of the Murder Scene [2019]. Theygraced a stacked bill at Mother of All Rock Festival as the only Mexican band and opened up two sold out Monterreyshows for The Killers and for Def Leppard in Mexico City and Guadalajara. After quietly amassing over 120 millionYouTube views and 10 million streams, they surge to the forefront of hard rock on their LAVA Records single debut,“CHOKE”, out spring 2021
