Evanescence - Sweet Sacrifice Video

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"Sweet Sacrifice" Video Review

"Sweet Sacrifice" is the third single from Evanescence's sophomore album The Open Door. While originally announced at concerts and online that the third single would be "All That I'm Living For", requests from the band and fan reaction prompted the label to reconsider plans.

"It's the one song on The Open Door that's about the same abusive relationship which was the source of all the songs on Fallen. It was appropriate to put this song at the beginning, but it comes from a much stronger standpoint than Fallen. It's not saying, "I'm trapped in fear and somebody save me." It's saying, "Fear is only in our minds ... I'm not afraid anymore." —Amy Lee

The video for Sweet Sacrifice was filmed in Burbank, California on March 9 and March 10, 2007, and was directed by Paul Brown, who had previously directed videos for Audioslave and Matisyahu. The video leaked onto the web on April 4 after briefly being made available on the USA iTunes Store. It then premiered on Yahoo! Music on April 5, 2007.

In an interview with MTV, Lee said the following about the video:

“ It's mostly live performance. It's not so much fluff and flying and tricks and wolves and stuff. It's more really just about the song, and that is unique for us. We usually do crazy stuff. It's gonna be sort of like a video within the video. Since the song is our heaviest single, we really wanted to focus on mostly performance but still have something about it that's really unique. And I think [Paul] really hit the nail on the head. ” —Amy Lee, MTV News

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