FALLEN ANGEL

Haunted

Going Under

Taking Over Me

Everybody’s Fool

My Last Breath

Farther Away

Even In Death

Be The One

My Immortal

Bring Me To Lie

Tourniquet

Imaginary

Whisper

(audience recording from Hugenottenhalle, Neu-Isenburg, Germany 10/28/2003)

Heart Shaped Box

(live acoustic Nirvana cover, no date/venue listed)

Zero

Bring Me To Life

Tourniquet

Imaginary

(broadcast from Rock am Ring Festival, Nurburgring, Germany 6/7/2003)

Grammy nu-goth/post-metal hotshots Evanescence check in with yet another bootleg bearing the title Fallen Angel. I sense a trend developing. At any rate, here you get a very good audience recording that captures the ever-emotional Amy Lee and company amid their rise to stardom in front of a German crowd that already seems pretty sold on ‘em. While no doubt a mainstream band from a bootlegging standpoint and therefore destined to instant used bin status once the 15 minutes are up – let’s face it, do YOU still have any of those Alanis Morissette or Soundgarden bootlegs you collected during the alterna-bubble of the ‘90s? – I still have to hand it to Godfather (curiously, employing a different name, the aptly-chosen Gothic Records, for this release) for tapping the still-thriving youth market with this and a number of other recent sets it has issued.

Bonus tracks include a genuinely moving reading of the Nirvana song (unsourced, but super sound) and four Rock am Ring fest broadcast cuts that include a Smashing Pumpkins (urk!) cover, “Zero.”

The packaging is outstanding: full-color tri-fold digi with a gorgeous blue theme similar to the official Fallen album, making this all the more desirable if you are a fan of the band. --OSWALD