Monday, April 27, 2009

Lacuna Coil introduces us to the "Shallow Life"

Shallow Life
Artist: Lacuna Coil
Genre: Hard Rock, Metal
Label: Century Media
Tracks: 12
Amazon's rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars
My rating: 3 stars

Lyric quote: "The struggle within/Now I understand/Freedom begins/When you get out of the cage/You've built." from "Wide Awake."

Thoughts: Where has all the good music gone? Down into the trenches of this ongoing battle for radio time, that's where. Lacuna Coil returns to the scene with an explosion so loud that it'll leave pussies like Gerard Way clenching onto their mother's teat while emo fans run in fear. Shallow Life reminds me that there is hope out there for the real music.

As always, Cristina Scabbia's vocals wail over heavy riffs, evoking pain, hate, anger and love in a single lump. Along with Andrea Ferro's male vocals, the music comes alive with edgy glory.This twelve-track album is worth cash dished out, if only to celebrate the return something as powerful and meaningful.

While Scabbia has announced on Rock Sound that "It's different, but it's our style. We haven't done anything absolutely different from our style, because that wouldn't be natural, that would be weird - it wouldn't be us. The songs are definitely more powerful, more complete, more intense, more straight-to-the-point," one will notice that they have taken it up a notch.




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