LACUNA COIL - Karmacode

 

LACUNA COIL - Karmacode

Century Media Records

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I'm probably one of the ones that's giving this a positive review after careful examination.  The critics hold hard on giving their more recent album 'Delirium' which I too gave a positive rating for.  While Andre and Cristina don't give their best performance, I still think that they were better than average as their tradeoff vocals occur and the music going well alongside of the vocals.  Probably tied with a positive reviewer, I saw the good in the album, not the absolute worst.  I think that overall, the music quality is good though they don't do cover songs the greatest, at least not on here that is.  But I like the music on here.

Maybe I'm giving them too much credit on here and not being as critical as I should, but I'm still digging this release.  I didn't much care for 'Black Anima' because I thought it to be a sort of "wishy washy" follow-up from 'Delirium' with a lot less balls.  On here, they're experimenting.  Possibly in a different direction than was expected, I still dug the album.  Not their longest release, but definitely bearable.  I liked the whole release.  Even the half-soaked cover originally by Depeche Mode.  I've knocked on it, but like I said, it's still bearable.  I don't suffice to say that he's a total waste of an album.  I don't know how critics can be totally harsh.

I liked this release from start to finish. It's not as good as the newer material, but I still think that they have something here.  It's kind of a revelation that they go from this to later 'Dark Adrenaline', 'Broken Crown Halo' and 'Delirium'.  I'm not going to include their latest because (as I said) I didn't think that it was up to par.  I think those three releases that I mentioned were at their pinnacle even though they lost some of their lineup.  They're playing with low-end tuning guitar-work.  Now I believe that their bassist writes the music.  But I'm not sure if it was always the case, I just know that this is the case more recently.

Actually, I received this from the webmaster of Archaic Metallurgy.  What a gift it is, since it seems that almost all that I've heard from Lacuna Coil I've liked.  I'm not familiar with their really early work, but I will be.  Cristiana doesn't do the best that she's done before, but both her and Andre make good tradeoffs.  They've always been good at this though.  No real surprise.  And I like the music.  Blast everyone that dubs this album as ill-fated!  This is available on streaming and YouTube.  Don't listen to the critics, form your own opinion of it.  It's worth it's weight in gold.  Support the band, not fallacies!

Ryan “Death8699” Fanucchi