AMY LEE

The superstar vocalist discusses Evanescence's new Devil May Cry song and classic games

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Capcom’s hit hack-and-slash series Devil May Cry has recently arrived on Netflix, and the show’s soundtrack is definitely evocative of the era in which the games arrived – you might have heard Limp Bizkit in the title sequence and Papa Roach in the trailer.

However, Evanescence went one better by recording the new song Afterlife for it, and we got the chance to chat to vocalist Amy Lee about the show, the song and the games she loves.

What kinds of games did you grow up playing? Do you have any particular favourites?

I'm very fortunate to have been a kid in the Eighties, so I kind of watched it all go down. We used to rent an Atari from the video store and play Atari games like Pong and Toobin'. I had an older cousin who had a NES, and it was just the coolest thing to go over there and play that. I think we finally got one when I was nine or ten - it was whenever Super Mario Bros 3 came out. But my true love in games is The Legend Of Zelda series, and I really fell in love with that, along with my younger siblings when Ocarina Of Time came out on the N64. So we played that game, we played Majora's Mask, and then fast forward to now, Breath Of The Wild made me so happy. It's so huge and so gorgeous, and then