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This album can be summed up in one word. BRILLIANT! This is by far one of the best albums released in years. Evanescence really delivers a high caliber performance. There are very few singers that sound as good as Amy Lee. There is very little I didn’t like about this album. . I give it an overall rating of 4 out of 5. Song Ratings: Sweet Sacrifice - 4 out of 5. A great way to start an album. Simply a great performance. The music isn’t the most complex, but it matches the mood of the lyrics. Call me When Your Sober - 5 out of 5. A brilliant mix of complex guitar lines with the sweet melodies that only Amy Lee can deliver. Weight of the World - 4 out of 5 A great musical effort as well as a very technically sound recording. Listening to this song, one can almost feel the lyrics. Lithium - 4 out of 5 - Once again a perfect match between lyrics and music. Cloud Nine - 3 out of 5. A little overboard on the vocal effects. I think it took away from the lyrical content and clouded the beauty of Amy Lees voice. The music is very well crafted. Snow White Queen 3 out of 5. I really didn’t get this song. It does provide a very haunting melody. Other then that, it seems to erratic musically. Lacrymosa - 4 out of 5 Very reminiscent of something you might here in a rock version of Phantom of the Opera. A brilliant mix haunting melody, heavy guitars and tight harmonies. Like You - 2 out of 5. This song could have been a great song except that the heavy distorted guitar in the background of the verses didn’t really work. They may have worked better if there wasn’t so much distortion on them. Maybe even if they would have been accoustic Loose Control - 1 out of 5 This song is a real mess. Very little worked. Way over produced. The music isn’t all that good. The vocal line once again has way too many effects. The Only One - 4 out of 5. This is a very dark with dark music and very dark melodies. The music definitely matches the lyrics. Your Star - 5 out of 5. This song definitely allows the beauty of Amy Lees Piano playing and vocals to shine. All that I’m Living For - 4 out of 5. A very haunting Slow Power jam. Good Enough - 5 out of 5. Again the Beauty of Amy Lee’s Piano playing and singing is allowed to shine.Read full review
I have nearly all of evanescence's albums, and when i got this one i realized immeditly it sounded different. The pros of the cd is: 1. the theme is pretty much the same as the other ones. It involves lost love, hate, and sorrow. 2. most of the album has a metal feel to it.(previous album had whisper) 3. Amy puts her voice to the test. 4. all around great lyrics. the cons are: 1. the album goes from loud to soft, and vise versa quite often. 2. Amy tries to hit too many high notes. 3. too metal, not enough piano, and could use an acustic song!! 4. album ends without a bang. didn't realize album ended until i noticed 5 minutes later no music was playing. In conclusion if you like evanescence you should get the album its not that bad, but its not amazing like fallen,but fallen was made over a longer period of time so its no comparison.Read full review
I think this is a pretty good album, though it just dosen't really seem like Evanescence. Their sound did change quite a bit, and they do have more of a darker sound now, but it's just a bit too soft to level up to Fallen. I particularly like the track "Snow White Queen", but if you expect most of the album to sound like the single "Call Me When Your Sober" you will be disappointed because it sounds almost nothing like it. But I love the fact that the CD has more of an eerie and dark feel to it. The thing I don't like about the album is that sometimes the guitars just don't sound right with certain parts of the song that they're in. I also don't like that it isn't as unique as Fallen. I definately think this album could have been better, but at least Evanescence isn't a one hit wonder. :-)Read full review
I fell in love with Evanescence when I bought "Fallen" in 2003. I listened to all of the songs and could relate to most of the lyrics. The words were poetic, the music was good, and I just liked it. So, of course, I was excited for The Open Door. I heard "Call Me When You're Sober" on iTunes and I thought it sounded OK, and couldn't wait to hear some of the other stuff on the new album. When it arrived in the mail, I immediately opened it and put it into the CD drive of my computer. iTunes recognized it and started playing the first song, "Sweet Sacrifice". I "skimmed" through the album, listening to around the first minute of each song. I noticed a bunch of songs started of similarly. I came to the conclusion that first part of the album sounded pretty good, and that I didn't really like the other half; most of the songs in the second half sound the same and get boring. However, I was very impressed by Amy Lee's vocal range. She hits extremely low notes in "Snow White Queen", and very high notes in "Lithium". I was hoping for some more of that classic Evanescence dark-hard-rock feel, and it feels like there were some in a few of the songs ("Sweet Sacrifice" and "Weight of The World"). The band does include a choir in some songs, like Fallen did. I'm not sure if it's because Ben Moody left, or that Evanescence just took an artistic turn- but I still like Fallen better than this album. Maybe in time I will appreciate the music a bit more, but I'm not listening to it nonstop like I did "Fallen". Overall, an ok follow-up to Fallen, but I'm giving it a good rating because Evanescence does have musical talent. =]Read full review
With Evanescence's second album, we learn that singer & pianist Amy Lee was as much a part of the six-times-platinum sound of 2003's "Fallen" as now-departed guitarist and songwriting partner Ben Moody. We also learn that Lee is no woman to scorn. "The Open Door" is full of blistering attacks on those who have betrayed her, a list that starts with Moody but doubtlessly includes ex-boyfriend Shaun Morgan of Seether, the impetus for first single "Call Me When You're Sober." Fortunately, Lee and company—including former Cold guitarist Terry Balsamo, who suffered a stroke while making the album—have translated her heartache into another successful set of melodramatic goth/industrial anthems with touches of prog and even classical (Mozart's "Requiem") in "Lacrymosa." Those who embraced "Fallen" will doubtlessly fall even harder into "The Open Door."Read full review
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