Comments on: Lacuna Coil – Dark Adrenaline

By: elguerosinfe

elguerosinfe — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:34:58 +0000

REM cover…..pretty much says it all

By: Fred Phillips

Fred Phillips — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 06:30:02 +0000

Thanks, guys. You make a crotchety old bastard feel a little better — well, some of you, anyway. ;) I’ll admit that I might like “Losing My Religion” a little better if I hadn’t been a teen when it was a hit for R.E.M. Honestly, I liked the original at first, but it was just one of those songs that got so overplayed that I couldn’t stand to hear it anymore.

By: gabaghoul

gabaghoul — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:52:27 +0000

don’t feed the troll

By: Clauricaune

Clauricaune — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:55:08 +0000

I digress. Fred’s a power/thrash/traditional metal and hard rock expert, and his reviews are all pretty much spot-on.

Metal puritanism is bad for your health, mate. There’s no need to take anything that seriously.

By: GW

GW — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:31:14 +0000

“Dark Adrenaline is a winner, and it’s easily Lacuna Coil’s best work since Comalies.”

This single statement makes me remove, as credible, any reviews by you on a metal site.

Even the album title screams Warning!! Warning!!

By: GW

GW — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:07:44 +0000

This is, without a doubt in my mind, one of the most cliched cheesy releases ever. The lyrics are like a giant collection of pathetic hackneyed phrases.
There are TWO fricking 7-string players doing nothing at all but some boring worn out Groovy/Nu-Metal riffing.
The album sounds slick, commercial, and over produced.

It barely even qualifies as metal.

By: Clauricaune

Clauricaune — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:47:19 +0000

I’m surprised I actually liked this.

By: DK777

DK777 — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:58:48 +0000

I totally agree on what should be the band’s trump card all the time: Cristina’s voice. With all due respect to the rest of the band, she is their not-so-secret weapon. And with all due respect to folks like Simone Simons (the second best female voice in metal?), Cristina has a great blend of technical skill and emotion that lifts every song she sings.

And I like the album a lot. I hear fewer weak spots than you do, and I actually like “Losing My Religion” a lot… despite feeling nauseous when I saw it in the track listing! Some of the harmonic changes LC adds make it, in many ways, a new song.

Good review, summing up the very hit-or-miss nature of LC albums…

By: Shawn Pelata

Shawn Pelata — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:23:55 +0000

What I have heard is the best from them in a long time…certainly tops that last dismal effort.

By: LongDeadGod

LongDeadGod — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:02:06 +0000

Glat to see a review of this on this site. I know Lacuna Coil has lost alot of favor in the metal scene, and have noticed their stuff getting covered less and less on the sites I respect.
I know I can go out and listen for myself because the whole album is uploaded to youtube or somewhere equally accessible, but this is the reason I go to review sites, helps me filter what I’m going to actually waste my time on.
Lastly, this is a well written review, and definately tells me everything I need to know. Thanks.