On June 10, former Evanescence guitarist Jen Majura shared the following message:
“Dear friends, I‘m gonna make this as brief as I can:
After careful consideration, observing what‘s going on in the music industry, AI related developments and change in society I‘ve come to the conclusion to step away.
Some of you have heard me talk about this quite a while ago. Instead of wasting another year of my life constantly hoping for new energy, drive and creativity, I‘ve reached a point in my life where I can confidentially lean back in peace. While time allowed me, I was able to collect an amazing amount of beautiful experiences, tours, shows, travels and moments! I am grateful for every bit of that, but the world has changed. I can confidently make up my mind to stop.
I am not saying that I will never create any music again, whether recorded or live – but for now I feel there are healthier and better things to fill my life with good vibes and not deal with the overwhelming amount of ridiculousness that comes with the music industry nowadays. I just can’t identify with today‘s attitude and values anymore.
I wholeheartedly want to wish all the ambitious and remaining ‘creators’, young and old, all the best. With time, the meaning will become clearer.
To you, the fans, I wanna give you a giant virtual hug and say THANK YOU for all your support, love and faith throughout these years of me being an active touring musician, I am grateful.
As a final musical endeavor I wanna share 4 tracks with you. Songs that were written over a decade ago together with the great guitarist, Dennis Hormes. I found these old demo recordings while cleaning out stuff from my computer and thought they are too good to not be shared. So if you made it this far and read the whole post, I assume you actually ARE someone that truly cares and these 4 singles are for you!”
For Jen Majura’s music and merch go to her Linktree page here. Check out the first of four demo tracks, “Walking Shit Magnet”, below.
Majura comments: “With an average income of 0,003€/per stream, it is obvious that these days most musicians are not being rewarded for their creative work. Dennis and I had been friends for a long time, about 11 years ago we created some great music together. These songs are too good to not be shared and we decided to ‘publish’ four of those tracks NOT using the traditional non-artist-friendly platforms like Spotify, Apple Music etc. It was fun re-mastering these tracks and giving them new life, so we hope you’ll enjoy them!”
In 2022, Evanescence announced they had parted ways with Jen Majura, who joined the band in 2015 to replace Terry Balsamo. The band issued the following statement via social media:
“It has been a very special chapter in the band with our dear friend Jen Majura, but we have decided it’s time to go our separate ways. We will always love her and support her, and can’t wait to see what she does next! We are so grateful for the good times and great music we made all around the world together.
We are hard at work rehearsing for our upcoming tour and will have some exciting news about the new lineup coming in the next few days, so stay tuned.”
Majura, meanwhile, issued a brief statement regarding her departure:
“I feel the need to address that none of this was my decision. I have no hard feelings against anybody and I wish Evanescence all the best. I am allowed to carry beautiful memories of these past years, I am grateful.”
Majura recorded two albums with Evanescence: Synthesis (2017) and The Bitter Truth (2021).
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“Dear friends, I‘m gonna make this as brief as I can:
After careful consideration, observing what‘s going on in the music industry, AI related developments and change in society I‘ve come to the conclusion to step away.
Some of you have heard me talk about this quite a while ago. Instead of wasting another year of my life constantly hoping for new energy, drive and creativity, I‘ve reached a point in my life where I can confidentially lean back in peace. While time allowed me, I was able to collect an amazing amount of beautiful experiences, tours, shows, travels and moments! I am grateful for every bit of that, but the world has changed. I can confidently make up my mind to stop.
I am not saying that I will never create any music again, whether recorded or live – but for now I feel there are healthier and better things to fill my life with good vibes and not deal with the overwhelming amount of ridiculousness that comes with the music industry nowadays. I just can’t identify with today‘s attitude and values anymore.
I wholeheartedly want to wish all the ambitious and remaining ‘creators’, young and old, all the best. With time, the meaning will become clearer.
To you, the fans, I wanna give you a giant virtual hug and say THANK YOU for all your support, love and faith throughout these years of me being an active touring musician, I am grateful.
As a final musical endeavor I wanna share 4 tracks with you. Songs that were written over a decade ago together with the great guitarist, Dennis Hormes. I found these old demo recordings while cleaning out stuff from my computer and thought they are too good to not be shared. So if you made it this far and read the whole post, I assume you actually ARE someone that truly cares and these 4 singles are for you!”
For Jen Majura’s music and merch go to her Linktree page here. Check out the first of four demo tracks, “Walking Shit Magnet”, below.
Majura comments: “With an average income of 0,003€/per stream, it is obvious that these days most musicians are not being rewarded for their creative work. Dennis and I had been friends for a long time, about 11 years ago we created some great music together. These songs are too good to not be shared and we decided to ‘publish’ four of those tracks NOT using the traditional non-artist-friendly platforms like Spotify, Apple Music etc. It was fun re-mastering these tracks and giving them new life, so we hope you’ll enjoy them!”
In 2022, Evanescence announced they had parted ways with Jen Majura, who joined the band in 2015 to replace Terry Balsamo. The band issued the following statement via social media:
“It has been a very special chapter in the band with our dear friend Jen Majura, but we have decided it’s time to go our separate ways. We will always love her and support her, and can’t wait to see what she does next! We are so grateful for the good times and great music we made all around the world together.
We are hard at work rehearsing for our upcoming tour and will have some exciting news about the new lineup coming in the next few days, so stay tuned.”
Majura, meanwhile, issued a brief statement regarding her departure:
“I feel the need to address that none of this was my decision. I have no hard feelings against anybody and I wish Evanescence all the best. I am allowed to carry beautiful memories of these past years, I am grateful.”
Majura recorded two albums with Evanescence: Synthesis (2017) and The Bitter Truth (2021).
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