In 2025, Evanescence's Amy Lee, Poppy and Courtney LaPlante dropped a bombshell on the world of hard rock and metal with their collaborative single, "End of You." With the track's one-year anniversary approaching in September, Lee looks back at "End of You" while speaking with ABC Audio.
"[Producer] Jordan [Fish] reached out to me, Jordan and Poppy had been working on a song and they just had the idea, 'Wouldn't it be cool to make this an all-girl collab?'" Lee remembers. "Then we got Courtney, too, and everybody put in their spices and it turned into a song that blew up."
"End of You" didn't just blow up, it made history, becoming the first song led by three women to hit #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart since it began in 1981.
"It was really, really cool to see such a fantastic response," Lee says. "I'm not surprised, from the beginning I was like, 'People are gonna love this!'"
"People are gonna love to see us join forces, see strong women in heavy music join forces, because women are kinda ruling heavy music right now," the "Bring Me to Life" singer recalls thinking. "It deserves to have a little bit of light shined on that."
Evanescence recently wrapped a U.S. tour in support of their new album, Sanctuary, which featured Spiritbox on the bill. They'll launch a U.K. and European tour with support from Poppy in September.