The Lawsuit That Brought Evanescence’s Amy Lee Work With Bring Me The Horizon

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Bring Me The Horizon have revealed, in a new interview, that Evanescence once sued the band, which led to the collaboration with Amy Lee on the new Post Humans EP.

Speaking to NME, Oli Sykes told the publication “The weird thing about Evanescence is that we got sued by them on our last record,” going on to say “On ‘Nihilist Blues’ [from 2019 album ‘amo’], we ripped off one of their verses. It was subconscious, but when it happened we were like, ‘We’re not even going to argue’.”

This lead to the band to agree to share song writing credit with Amy Lee.

Evanescence’s management then reached out to Bring Me The Horizon, Oli continued “They were like, ‘Amy really likes your band and would love to work with you’. That was the silver lining.”

Talking about the collaboration song, called ‘One Day The Only Butterflies Left Will Be In Your Chest As You March To Your Death’, Sykes said “The idea of that song is that I’m mankind, Amy is Mother Nature and it felt like the perfect thing to have the mother of rock singing it.”

Adding “It’s saying, ‘This is the end of our world, so we need to try and find a new one’. [‘Survival Horror’] ends in a hopeful way. We hope that it will make people want to do something.”

Bring Me The Horizons new EP, Post Human: Survival Horror, is out today (30th October).

UPDATE:

The frontman has since clarified what happened, saying on twitter “And i have to clear something up! When i said Evanescence sued the band over nihilist blues, that wasn’t exactly true! Our managers just exchanged words and we offered them song writing credits, Amy Lee didn’t want a thing from the band in her words has nothing but love for us”

To which Evanescence’s frontwoman then jokingly replied “Yo don’t quote me or I’LL SUE! 😂”

“That whole story is actually really cool. Can’t believe it brought us HERE. You guys deserve every good thing that comes to you. Congrats 🥂”

Yo don’t quote me or I’LL SUE! 😂
That whole story is actually really cool. Can’t believe it brought us HERE. You guys deserve every good thing that comes to you. Congrats 🥂

— Amy Lee (@AmyLeeEV) October 30, 2020