Something clicked into place at London’s O2 Arena on September 13. Amy Lee, Poppy, and Courtney LaPlante stood on the same stage and performed “End Of You” together for the first time — completing a live version of their 2025 collaborative single that had spent months existing only in fragments. Evanescence’s Sanctuary world tour, celebrating their first full-length since 2021’s The Bitter Truth, provided the frame. This moment was the payoff to a longer story. Nobody accidentally assembles three headliners on the same stage at the same arena on the same night.
How It Actually Happened
The performance unfolded in three distinct arrivals — each one raising the stakes.
Amy Lee opened “End Of You” alone. Then Poppy ran onto the stage mid-song, taking her verse at the front. Moments later, Courtney LaPlante emerged from the back to help close the track. LaPlante wasn’t on the bill. Spiritbox was running its own parallel European and UK headline tour. Her appearance was unannounced, and fan-shot video circulating widely after the show captured exactly the kind of arena-wide reaction that scheduling luck and genuine chemistry produce together — not something you can manufacture.
A few things worth knowing about the night:
- “End Of You” landed near the end of a 21-song set, positioned as a late-show centrepiece
- K.Flay also joined for “Fight Like a Girl” — the O2 crowd got two significant guest appearances in one evening
- The setlist ran deep: “Going Under,” “Bring Me to Life,” and “My Immortal” anchored the back half alongside new Sanctuary material
- The song’s live rock performances debut came five days earlier at Leeds’ First Direct Arena on September 8 — Amy and Poppy only, LaPlante absent
- Setlist.fm’s entry for the O2 date flags it explicitly: “with Poppy (also with Courtney LaPlante; first time played live with all three of them)“
What This Collaboration Is Actually Building Toward
“End Of You” was never meant to be a one-and-done studio flex — and London proved it.
Before the Sanctuary tour launched, “End Of You” was described in interviews as “the start of something” — a signal that the three artists weren’t treating this as a novelty. Released on Sumerian Records, the track moves across alt-metal, metalcore, and experimental pop-metal with a fluency that usually takes years to negotiate between scenes. The risk of staking a career on one bad album looms large in heavy music, which makes the care behind this collaboration all the more deliberate.
London was the first time touring schedules, geography, and logistics aligned for all three. Three vocalists from three distinct corners of heavy music converged for a few minutes at an arena in southeast London. If “End Of You” really is just the beginning, the rest of this story has a long way to run.
