Netflix’s Devil May Cry Anime Brought Evanescence Back to Life With a New Song

In the lead up to the premiere of the newest anime adaptation for Capcom’s hack-and-slash action series, Devil May Cry, Netflix released a music video featuring a new song from famed goth alternative metal band, Evanescence. The song, “Afterlife” was teased ahead of its official release with a cryptic video tease of frontwoman Amy Lee posting a video of herself on X/Twitter doing a countdown before throwing up demon head hand signs. Folks quickly sussed out it had something to do with Devil May Cry the moment the Netflix series executive producer Adi Shankar quote retweeted it with a shocked face emoji. Which brings us to today the release of the lyric video with exclusive clips from the series that plays like a mid-aught YouTube AMV. Fair warning: The music video shows off a lot of footage from the series, so if your need to get your fix for 2000s-era metal band anime music videos trumps your aversion to spoilers, by all means, indulge. If the above music video has you feeling nost ... Read full article.