Earlier this year, Evanescence announced they were splitting with guitarist Jen Majura. “It has been a very special chapter in the band with our dear friend Jen Majura, but we have decided it’s time to go our separate ways,” the band said in a statement. “We will always love her and support her, and can’t wait to see what she does next! We are so grateful for the good times and great music we made all around the world together.”
Majura later appeared on the YouTube show of The Haunted guitarist Ola Englund, and she spoke in depth about her split with the band revealing she is “hurt” by the move. “I believe, honestly, it’s three weeks now since I got the news, and I’m still in this blurry, oblivious momentum,” she said. “I guess I’m still in shock, kind of, because after being married six years, all of a sudden you’re divorced. You know me, I always try to find the positive in a situation, so every day, step by step — I’m not doing great yet — but every day I find little tiny things that I’m, like, ‘Oh, actually, this is good.’”
Evanescence singer Amy Lee addressed the split in a new interview with Revolver. Talking about the band’s new lineup, Lee said: “I am so happy, we are all so, so grateful. Emma Anzai is from the band Sick Puppies and we are old friends. We toured together in 2007 and she’s just an excellent musician. We’re all fans of her and just fits us on a personal level really well.”
“We did a little European run in June and then we did a few shows here and had our first photo shoot with the new lineup just two weeks ago,” she continued. “Some things are just meant to be. Something I’m getting better at as I get older is not trying to control everything so much. Sometimes you just sort of have to listen to the universe and what’s going on and go, ‘You know what? Okay, I need to live in the reality of what’s happening now and make something great out of it instead of constantly trying to pull things the way I think they ought to go.’”
Lee elaborated further on the decision saying: “It’s hard to explain what I’m saying without being specific. And we all love Jen; we had a great time with Jen. [I] don’t want to make it like it’s anything negative there. But sometimes that chapter just ends, and when you feel that and you know that as a band, that’s how you keep things going. That’s how you keep your team, your band, and everything healthy and moving the way it’s supposed to move. It’s complicated but at the same time you just need to follow your heart. At the end of the day, when you follow your heart and trust each other, you can move forward into a better place than you could’ve imagined for.”
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