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in their songs goes above and beyond that of any band I've ever heard of,

Man, possibly, you haven't heard many good bands if you say that. I have no particular problem with evanescence besides the fact that they've actually got like, 2 riffs in the whole album and that all the songs are thusly based on the vocal melodies, which aren't always very catchy or interesting, but you need to stop being so loud about your ignorance.

Evanescence have shown the extent of their compositional skills by putting a bridge that changes the key of their song somwhere on their hit song just before the chick goes frooozeeen whatever, and that's it.

I'm not saying don't like them, hell you could like stuff that's a lot worse, but in my oppinion they're definately not any sort of above average band.