I know I’m not usually one to be thankful for mainstream rock, but this one album changed my tastes in music forever. Before I heard them on the radio one day, all I ever listened to was mainstream radio style pop. But then when I was about 10 and heard ‘Bring Me To Life’ for the first time, I was inspired to find more good music like this. Up untill I was 12, Evanescence had been long forgotten, but in school one day, my friend’s sister sung ‘My Immortal’ on stage in a concert in front of the school. I loved the song as soon as I heard it, so I googled some of the lyrics that I remembered in hope of finding the song. Of course, as soon as the name ‘Evanescence’ showed up on my computer screen, I remembered ‘Bring Me To Life’ that I had heard a few years ago. I then became slightly obsessed with Evanescence for a while. Suddenly, it struck me that there might be similar bands that weren’t spoon fed to the public via mainstream radio. So I looked around on the internet for ‘similar’ bands. Of course, I got a lot of reccomendations, mostly for bands called Lacuna Coil and Nightwish. Up untill now, those two are my favourite bands. So yeah, I thank this album for showing me that there is more to music than mainstream radio, and I’m thankful that it introduced my to my current favourite bands.