COLD SAYS EVANESCENCE SHOWED EX-BANDMATE THE MONEY

Cold have released their new album A Different Kind Of Pain, in light of being dropped and/or passed around twice since the release of their last album, Year Of The Spider. The band also lost guitarist Terry Balsamo to Evanescence, with the guitarist filling in for the departed Ben Moody. Cold is at peace with their former bandmate’s decsion, and hold no ill will.

Vocalist Scooter Ward and drummer Sam McCandless said that Balsamo only started contributing on the last album after being a late addition and missing the songwriting process on Year Of The Spider’s predecessor 13 Ways To Bleed On Stage.

[Ward] “Yeah he came in on the very end of that, right before we went into the studio, so he didn’t really even right on that. Terry contributed on Year Of The Spider, but… I think fans and people outside of Cold were probably like, ‘Oh god, a guitarist left. It’s probably going to be different,’ or whatever, but we were like, ‘Nah, not at all.’ We’re still friends with him and everything is cool, and I understand the we understand the decision he made because as we were switching labels it made sense for him. He had a steady job. It made sense for him to go there because you don’t know what’s going to happen when you’re making a big move like that.” [McCandless] He was a really big van o

While Cold has released their new effort, Evanescence continues to work on its next album. Evanescence’s debut, Fallen, has sold six million copies in the U.S. and 12 million worldwide.