Gothic rockers Evanescence [ tickets ], who just wrapped up a brief Canadian trek, have announced plans for a three-week US tour beginning in March as the band continues to back its platinum-selling album "The Open Door."

The Arkansas-bred group will kick off its 14-city slate March 16 in Fresno, CA. The trek will avoid huge metropolitan areas and concentrate on areas that the act hasn't hit recently, including a March 25 show on the band's home turf of Little Rock, AR.

"The Open Door," which hit stores last October, debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 album chart and has been certified platinum, signifying 1 million copies shipped. The album follows the band's multi-platinum, 2003 debut, "Fallen," which earned the group two Grammy nominations.

Last year, Evanescence broke in new bassist Tim McCord, formerly of Revolution Smile, on the North American tour circuit. He replaced William Boyd, who left the group over the summer.

McCord and the rest of the Evanescence--frontwoman Amy Lee, drummer Rocky Gray, and guitarists John LeCompt and Terry Balsamo--finished out 2006 by playing radio-station festivals and began the new year with a brief Canadian run that ended Thursday (1/18) in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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