Evanescence’s New Single “Afterlife” Gets a Stylish Video Set to the ‘Devil May Cry’ Anime
It’s 2025 and Evanescence has a new song out for an anime based on a video game series that started back in 2001. Time is a flat circle and everything old is new again.
The song, titled “Afterlife”, was released earlier today in support of the forthcoming Netflix anime adaptation of Devil May Cry. For all my fellow gaming nerds out there, yes the main character Dante can be seen fucking up a buncha demons with his guns akimbo in the accompanying music video.
Speaking of the video, it’s a pretty stylish lyric video that probably cost a lot to put together, so your ridiculously high monthly subscription helped pay for this. Nice!
The song was co-written by producer, songwriter and musician Alex Seaver, also known as Mako, and Evanescence vocalist Amy Lee. An alternative version of the track will apparently be featured pretty heavily in the anime series that will be released on Netflix on April 3.
Lee explained how this track came about in a recent interview with Audacy Music:
“Netflix, via Mako, who is a guy that did score work on this series, Devil May Cry, had this song started and reached out to me and was, like, ‘Hey, we’d worked together once before on a Lindsey Stirling track during the pandemic.’ So, I made vocals to it, and we were kind of just communicating via e-mail. I still haven’t met the guy in person. But he was, like, ‘Hey, check it out. Would this be cool? Would you sing on this?’ And that just snowballed into finishing the song together and then getting it, like, ‘This is an Evanescence song. Let’s get the band in here. And let’s just take this all the way.’ And us getting to go into the studio with [producer] Nick Raskulinecz, who we did our last two albums with and love working with him. He is right here in Nashville, so it’s fun and easy for me and I could just keep going over there and annoying him. And it kind of just happened, kind of fast.”
With Evanescence working on a new album, this is really your first chance to hear the band that had that one hit single that one theater girl in high school belted out at karaoke nights. You know the one.
