History & Biography This Liverpool, UK-based band was active as Will To Power for a year before becoming Withdrawn for five. The band went as Evanesce for six years before becoming Withdrawn again in 2005.
In the interim, Sower Of Sedition was issued in 2001. Nearly Live Experience was a mostly live album and compilation in 2002. Conquest Of Steel and Evanesce had a split album in 2003. The two had kicked off the year playing shows together. The band’s music was partly heard in prior releases and would end up on a subsequent release partly.
The band considered itself influenced by the Gothenburg sound.
Reviews EVANESCE - SECURE THE SHADOW - NO FACE 
This is a review for the British band Evanesce not the Christian yahoos of Evanescence. Five-year-old girls can stop reading now. Not that Metallian has many of those skimming its pages hopefully.
Secure The Shadow has an intriguing title and comes all clad in black, but the group’s music harkens back to little more than what bands like The Reign, Benediction or Cancer attempted to create excitement with and failed.
The problem with bands like Evanesce is that they just exist. They fail to add anything new, create a spark, elicit excitement or deliver a knockout punch of any sorts. With a semi-death metal growl and a so-so production, three-dozen albums eclipse Secure The Shadow in the same quarter as its release. The band’s lack of a sound caused probably by a lack of recording budget further manages to bury the band’s sound and so Evanesce is left with no chance whatsoever of meaning anything to anyone. It is too bad for the band tries, but to no avail. - Ali “The Metallian”
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