Soot and Stars
I AM SOOT!
...and as far as my comment goes Sooty, keep in mind (cause you know I like them alot)...but they...let's say out of the three mentioned here...Nightwish, Within Temptation and them...they play it the most safe and are the most repetitive.
Not saying that this makes them bad...but they are more pop orientated than the other two...aside from WT's last album of course.
EV's third album they were trying to play to a more European audience and adapting a bit more of that style and mixing it in to what they already do well.
I'm only a moderate fan of Evanescence Metal to tell the truth. I only really liked the first album and thought the followups were fair. It looks like we actually had the same answer to Lynch's question though! I would say that genre as a whole is not one I choose to listen to extensively as in general it becomes a little samey after a while. The vocals in general in all three bands are a real highlight though!