Origin was the first full length demo CD released by Rock band Evanescence on the Big-Wig Enterprises label. Although some people consider this to be Evanescence's first album, the lead singer Amy Lee has explicitly said that she doesn't consider it to be an album but rather a "dressed up" demo CD. Released in 2000, Origin was only sold to audiences in their hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. Only 2500 albums were printed, but due to the band's recent popularity, the number of overpriced and pirated versions of Origin has sky-rocketed. Evanescence has been reported to say that they prefer their fans to copy/download the CD rather than buy it.[1]
Due to the limited amount of official copies, enterprising bootleggers have been selling fake copies of the album at inflated prices over many Internet shops, often with completely different tracks and cover art, and under the guise of a "Russian re-release." These CD's are in no way endorsed by the band.
Evanescence rerecorded three songs from this CD for their debut album Fallen. While "Whisper" and "My Immortal" are fundamentally the same on both disks, "Imaginary" exhibited a major change in structure between Origin and Fallen. In addition to these three songs, the band continued to play "Even in Death" in concert until late 2003.
