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The Italian six-piece Lacuna Coil is
back again with their second full-length studio album called "Unleashed
Memories". If you´re a hardcore black metal fan you can stop reading right
now because this is not for you (and not much is...). Lacuna Coil features the
beautiful voice of Cristina Scabbia, one of the best female vocalists in the
whole world of metal, and also some male vocals from Andrea Ferro which are
not that prominent. However they complement each other very nicely in a couple
of songs but mostly Cristina´s voice is dominating. Both female and male
vocals are clean and strong, thus far from the growling/soprano vocals of many
of the new gothic bands. Most of the songs could be described as metal ballads
and the music is not really that impressive but the often beautiful and
atmospheric vocals make up for this very nicely. Unfortunately some songs tend
to be a little boring and I would say that Lacuna Coil is dancing on a
dangerously thin thread. Falling from this they could find themselves in the
same situation Moonspell got into after their Wolfheart album with plain and
mellow music that touches only a few. Lacuna Coil has still not fallen into
this trap and hopefully they will not in the future either. The band lives
very much off the the voice of Cristina but, believe me, it is still enough to
make their music highly listenable. Variation is very important in life and if
you don´t mind some mellow, emotionally enchanting metal this is a good
choice. "Unleashed Memories" was recorded at the famous Woodhouse Studios in
Germany with producer Waldemar Sorychta (Therion, Moonspell,
Tiamat...).
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1. Heir Of A |
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Dying Day 2. To Live Is To Hide 3. Purify 4. Senzafine |
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5. When A Dead Man Walks 6. 1:19 7. Cold Heritage 8. |
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Distant Sun 9. A Current Obsession 10. Wave Of Anguish |
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