Metal Reviews

that does seem to happen.... at least they can still cook when they're old!

Ahm, racist?

Fuck YOU!! Don't fucking call me that again, you douchebag! You need to educate your ignorant ass on what the term "racist" means before you starting pointing that finger at me.

That pic's most likely edited, but she is definately pleasing to look at anyways.

Eat shit.

Calm down you fucking idiot I wasn't serious.

Then you say "you guys hate me anyway" :roll: Take your head outta your ass for once.

Sorry, dude. Anyone even remotely implying I am racist pisses me right the fuck off. And explain to me how the hell I'm supposed to know you're joking??? How many times have I listened to people here tell me I need to use smileys? I'm sure you were one of them. Maybe you should take some of that advice to heart before "joking" about something like that again?

I WILL be a complete asshole if someone uses that word in conjunction with my name! Now take your head out of YOUR ass. This is your doing, bud.

Look, if you're talking about hot Italian chicks and somebody calls you racist there's a high chance they might be joking. And if I am saying something that sounds serious then its %100 that I'm joking because this is the internet. (see pic: above)

Relax a little bit dude, you're getting into flamewars daily, I'm beginning to think you enjoy them.

Methinks the man doth protest too much. 8) :? :o

what's racist about saying italian women don't seem to age to well? they do usually end up hunchbacked and sweeping sidewalks. I've seen 'em.

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"Racist" is a SERIOUSLY loaded word. Don't pretend like I should have known you were joking. You indicated in no way that you were joking. I've grown up in an area with a diverse demographic and I've been called a racist a million times and I do not like it one fucking bit. I will react the same way every time.

As for flamewars, I call bullshit. I get into discussions, they occasionally get heated, they're not flamewars. If you're talking about my recent discussion with Eternal Idol and Stefan you should have paid attention to those conversations.

Helheim wins another retarded thread previously about gothic metal and now in the form of an argument.

Yea what the fuck is this doing in my precious helium forum?

Nothing like giving it more exposure.

Just in case anyone forgot, Eyesore is a HUGE racist.

Old Italian women are ugly = racist?! Come on, Ken, you're getting very defensive. Everything alright over there?

OK, I've given this album a lot of spins over the last 2 weeks or whenever i posted last in this thread. In a hope to bring this thread back to the gothic metal section, i will try to get this thread back on topic.

Again, i am still disappointed. This, i feel is a double edged sword for Lacuna Coil. Bad, that they are heading towards a nu-metal sound and will be loosing their original fans who have been with them from the start. On the flipside, this is an obvious double-handed cash grab at the American audience, and they will succeed in that venture. It will no doubt take LC to the big-time in the States. Like i said, a double edged sword.

Only 2 songs on the album grabbed me, and yet still they are not real killer tracks (To The Edge, Within Me). They are, however, the 2 best tracks on the album, IMO.
About half of the album all sounds the same, especially with the korn sounding guitars. Now, i dont mind that downtuned guitar sound, but not with Lacuna Coil.
To me, LC now sounds like a cross between Korn and Evanesance.

I think i have found a review of the album, which is really the most accurate descrbing this album:

These six Italians got their big break with their previous record Comalies, especially in America, which gave them a prominent position at the Ozzfest tour two years ago. Karmacode develops on Comalies' sound; the recipe is still gothic metal, adornmented with Oriental influences.
One reason why I don't enjoy Karmacode as much as I should is the production. Very professional surely, but also rather muddy which doesn't help the nuances to shine through. Comalies hinted that the band was moving steady towards nu metal-territory, and this release is another step closer to the goal. Songs like To The Edge and What I See is almost Korn-ish, and I'm not entirely sure that this is the right path for Lacuna Coil to take. That a band member expressed himself in an interview that this is the sound they have always strived for makes it even more depressing.

The biggest disappointment is that the material is so indifferent. It all starts very well with Fragile, a perfect opener with a very strong melody. Even better is the ballad Within Me, which ironically is the track that Ferro does the most singing on. But generally most of the songs are just okay, hardly anything outstanding. Even the single Our Truth is merely so-so, and definitly not a match against for example Heaven Is A Lie.

Most of the songs are on the same mediocre level, and two of them (In Visible Light and The Game) are downright lousy. But fortunatly Lacuna Coil manages to salvage the overall impression in the 11th hour, partly thanks to Without Fear which is sung entirely in Italian and is a return to the band's older sound. Then we have the cover song of Depeche Mode's timeless classic Enjoy The Silence, which works really well with Scabbias voice. Their interpretation is hardly spectacular, but still strong enough to kick the rest of the material's ass. And besides, if this means that one or two metal-kidz will discover a fantastic group like Depeche Mode, the cover has my full approval.

Now that the band have reached stardom after a few years of working in the shadows, it seems that the mysticism that once made them unique have got lost on the way. Karmacode is a solid album, but you'd be wiser to pick up their 2001-release Unleashed Memories instead, from the time that Lacuna Coil really mattered something to the scene.