The gates have been opened at the official site for The Fallen, the band featuring former American Idol Carly Smithson and a smattering of dudes who were booted from Evanescence. And the site’s even giving away a free MP3–although you have to sign up with an e-mail address and a mobile number, and then wait to see if you were one of the first 100,000 people to sign up and qualify for one of the free downloads. Dum de dum.


The site launched 20 minutes ago, so I figure I’m in pretty good shape. (No offense, Carly/Ben/everyone else–it’s just that I see music-related traffic numbers a lot, and 300,000 pageviews in an hour is a pretty high bar to leap over when you’re just cobbling together an opt-in list.) I will admit, I’m kind of intrigued by what will come out of this! Sure, it’ll probably be somewhat sludgy neo-grunge, but it’ll definitely beat the Linkin Parky search results for the term “The Fallen” that YouTube is bringing up at present.


Fallen [Official site]