Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline
I read somewhere that this is the darkest Lacuna Coil album yet. Realistically, that’s like saying that “Baby” was the heaviest Justin Bieber song ever written. Suicidal/Depressive Black Metal Lacuna Coil is not. I imagine that compared to their back catalog, Dark Adrenaline is probably the darkest Lacuna Coil album yet. I got the distinct impression that these folks were listening to Evanescence a whole lot while writing this because they have a similar vibe, that pseudo-Goth Rock & Roll sound, but Evanescence is still both darker and better at what they do. In terms of the music on Dark Adrenaline, this is very commercial sounding. Hot Topics all over the country are going to be playing this every time you walk by one at the mall. This is guaranteed. It’s very radio friendly and slick, but I was waiting and hoping that things would get darker and heavier. The last track is probably the closest I got to what I wanted. Even the REM cover (“Losing My Religion”) didn’t measure up to the original in terms of darkness. When REM sounds darker than you do, you’ve got a ways to go before you can be considered “dark.” Lacuna Coil just sounds too candy-coated and commercial to really go down into the depths of darkness and depression their image might suggest. They’re darker and heavier than Nightwish, but that’s about it. If I seriously wanted to listen to something in this vein, I’d probably listen to Evanescence instead. Dark Adrenaline doesn’t go as far as I’d like them to go in terms of atmosphere and heaviness.
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