Evanescence marked the 20th anniversary of The Open Door today, November 6, with a remastered and expanded deluxe edition on Craft Recordings that adds four recordings from the album’s 2006 era. The Evanescence Open Door anniversary edition is an honest anniversary frame: the original album was released on September 25, 2006, and this set returns to it two decades on.
The original record had a hard act to follow and cleared it commercially. The Open Door debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 after selling more than 447,000 copies in its first week, succeeding Fallen while pushing the band toward choirs, layered piano and heavier, stranger arrangements.
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Four bonus recordings open the vault
The anniversary edition pairs the original 13 tracks with four additional recordings, as detailed in the Craft Recordings release announcement. Three are era rarities: If You Don’t Mind, Together Again, and The Last Song I’m Wasting On You. The fourth is the prize for longtime listeners, a previously unreleased demo of Good Enough, the piano ballad that closed the original album. On the two-LP vinyl edition, the album spreads across three sides and the four bonus tracks take the fourth.
The Open Door anniversary formats go wide
Craft Recordings issues the set on two-LP vinyl, CD and digital. The vinyl programme includes limited colour pressings split across retailers, among them Midnight Nebula through the Evanescence store, Metallic Blue through Craft Recordings, Sea Glass at Barnes and Noble, Ghost Blend at Books-A-Million, Mercury Blend at Revolver, and Opaque Ivory through independent record stores. That spread is standard practice for anniversary rock reissues now, and it suits an album whose audience bought it the first time in physical formats.
Why The Open Door holds up at twenty
Call Me When You’re Sober and Lithium remain the record’s calling cards, but the album’s reputation has grown on its ambition. Amy Lee wrote most of it through a period of upheaval, and the arrangements show it: choral stacks, strings and downtuned guitars pushed forward around her piano. Twenty years on, the anniversary edition gives that writing the remaster it has earned and gives the era’s left-behind songs a first official home.
The Open Door (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) is out now on Craft Recordings in 2-LP, CD and digital formats.
