Evanescence Debut New Video for Their Rising Single “Afterlife”

For a song called “Afterlife,” it’s really bringing me to life… sorry, I couldn’t help myself. For real, though—Evanescence has just released a performance-focused music video for their track “Afterlife.” You can watch the Jason Lester-directed and Dreambear-produced video below.

Anime fans likely love the song for its feature in the Netflix anime Devil May Cry, based on a video game of the same name. Apparently, “Afterlife” is becoming one of the band’s fastest-growing and most popular singles to date, with more than six million streams and more than five million views on the lyric video in its first week of release.

The video was filmed in a historic and allegedly haunted house in Tennessee, and if you know Devil May Cry well, you’ll notice some easter eggs hidden throughout the video.

Evanescence frontwoman Amy Lee spoke about the birth of “Afterlife” in a somewhat 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.”

The band is working on new music as well as playing some shows later this year with My Chemical Romance and Halsey.