Amy Lee feels “grounded and lifted” in a spiritual sense after the new Evanescence album.
The 44-year-old singer, best known for her band’s hits like Bring Me To Life, Going Under and My Immortal, has recently turned her focus to getting her 12-year-old son ready for school in September after she wrapped up the first leg of her North American tour promoting the group’s latest LP Sanctuary.
She told Billboard: “It’s a lot to sum up, but it’s been emotional in a very beautiful, connected way.
“I feel grounded and lifted, spiritually, through my band, my team, the fans, the music, the tour. It’s been a really special thing so far.”
She described 2026 so far as a “really good year, and an emotional one” in the best way.
She explained: “This album and this moment, and all of the support that has come together at the same time just feels like something bigger than myself, and that I wasn’t expecting at this phase in my life.
“It just feels like it’s that good moment. Life is full of so many ups and downs and mediums, and this is definitely an up, and it means more than anything could have in my first couple years coming out, when I still a kid and hadn’t seen so much and felt so much.”
The rock band’s sixth studio album debuted in the top 10 of Billboard’s Top Rock Albums, while Evanescence landed their first two chart topping Mainstream Rock Airplay tracks with Afterlife and Who Will You Follow.
Although Amy is the only remaining member of the group’s original lineup in 1994, she feels like the success of Sanctuary is a testament to the past two decades.
She said: “I think that it gets deeper the longer that you survive together, us and the fans.
“I think now that we’re past the 20-year mark I feel this incredible new depth that has to do with that, with the time.
“It’s not just about the new music and proving this next thing is great; there’s also this nostalgia power, a life we already have in the past, together.”