WE ARE THE FALLEN Covers U2 For BILLBOARD's 'Mashup Monday'; Video Available

May 24, 2010

In this week's "Mashup Monday" at Billboard.com, WE ARE THE FALLEN — the group formed by EVANESCENCE co-founder Ben Moody (guitar) and other former members (John LeCompt on guitar and Rocky Gray on drums) along with "American Idol" powerhouse vocalist Carly Smithson and bassist Marty O'Brien (DISTURBED, KELLY CLARKSON, STATIC-X, METHODS OF MAYHEM,TOMMY LEE) — played an acoustic version of U2's classic "With Our Without You". Watch the peformance below.

"Growing up for me, U2 is massive where I'm from," says Dublin-born frontwoman Smithson. "I'm very proud to be Irish and it's a cool thing to [cover U2]... This is the first time I ever sang U2 song in public."

"Tear The World Down", the debut album from WE ARE THE FALLEN, sold 13,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 33 on The Billboard 200 chart.

"Tear The World Down" was made available on May 11 via Universal Republic Records.

WE ARE THE FALLEN made its live debut on March 23 at Kings College in London, England. A 28-city U.S. tour as the support act for HIM launched on March 26 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and wrapped on May 9 in New York City.

In a recent interview with Billboard.com, Moody said, "We had initially intended to go at this alone because we didn't feel like a major label was up to the challenge. I've had mixed experiences in the past, and major labels can fuck things up faster than anybody. But the entire Universal Republic team got what we wanted to do, and it was worth changing our plans and worth the risk to partner with them because we thought the outcome would be greater than something we'd do on our own."

Moody told Billboard.com that WE ARE THE FALLEN was most pleased that, along with co-producer Dan Certa, they could approach "Tear the World Down" as a piece of work rather than a compilation. "We definitely hunkered down and decided to write specifically for a cohesive record after we signed with Universal," he said. "We don't want albums to just be a collection of songs. We wanted to have a beginning, a middle and an end. So we sort of re-planned our attack at writing after we signed the deal."

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