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Rating: Who do I see at the Festivalbar? The Gemelli Diversi!!! Well, of course... them too.
But what caught my attention the most as an innocent metalhead are Evanescence. Sure, they've made a nice CD, they have a lead singer who's quite... well yeah... you get it, and mtv bombards our brains with their song.
But what made me angrier—and beware, because here comes the strong language, wrathful—is that they can be compared to Lacuna Coil, perhaps the best Italian "metal" band. Furthermore (I apologize once again for this unforgivable crude language) I cannot accept that they are considered by half of teenagers as a metal band and as a band better than Lacuna Coil.
Now after having seen Evanescence, whose singer couldn't hit a single note like the CD version, managing to get almost everything wrong (if she had greeted the audience she most likely would have been off-key), I have gone back to my Lacuna Coil CDs.
Refined metal, classy, technical, and fascinating at the same time; even from this debut In A Reverie.
Being a debut album, it obviously has some flaws, noticeable in the male singer’s (Andrea Ferro) performance, which is not very incisive in his growls and too anchored to the gothic metal style that requires an ethereal female voice and a male growl.
In some recent interviews, Lacuna Coil affirm they don’t have much to do with gothic, and indeed the base on which Cristina Scabbia's vocal evolutions "unfold" is a sort of very calm metal, almost on the edges of rock, with many clean parts and aggressive parts where anger is measured out, also due to a decidedly less powerful production. All elements that contribute to making the six from Milan easily recognizable.
However, listening to the SPLENDID voice of the SPLENDID Cristina Scabbia, I just can't understand how Evanescence is there and Lacuna Coil is not.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Stately Lover (04:51)
I just need you absolutely
all the tears in your mind
I just want you absolutely
to sail this ship of mine
I don't know what the hell you're saying
'cause you're going blind
using all the lies they taught you
to hurt your mind
And I can breathe now...
It's there, pretends to be a guide for you
like a candle in the dark
lies like a really cold breeze in, the air
step by step you'll lose your faith
I just need you miserably
broken man come to me
I just need you desperately
just want to change your mind
03 Honeymoon Suite (04:30)
Close your eyes
don't you feel the rejection, baby?
Does it hurt?
Come there now
I've got something to tell you, honey...
I don't want you back
Won't you take me back
won't you take me back with you
won't you take me back
won't you wrap me with your love again...
Get out of my life
I know I failed you, but I'll make it up
get out my life
I know I failed you, just let me try again
You're to blame
I'm no more your business
Can't you see I'm praying
for your forgiveness
Shut your mouth
I don't need your affection, darling
does it hurt?
Come here now
I've got something to tell you, honey...
I don't want you back
I will do anything you want
but hold me forever
be a nightmare in my sleep
scare me forever
like a bullet in my soul
kill me forever
all the lies I have sold to you
are soul thorns in my mouth
04 My Wings (03:45)
My Wings Lyrics
Slip out the door and fly
I'm lost in time, I hover
as an angel, I hover
Embracing all myself I reel
through the storm that is shaking me
I don't know where
I don't know why
I know I'm not going to fall
And butterflies are flying (fly away)
right beside me
as I ascend to the clouds
No, I won't delay
no, I won't delay
time is like a knife for me now
I just won't delay
Time is mine
I got the blade
change your mind
I'll make you stay
Butterflies are flying
and I just won't delay
08 Veins of Glass (05:13)
These ghosts I keep inside
shards of glass in my veins
release me from myself, release
from my duality
I face these as a soldier would
but useless is my war
the innocence that smiles today
tomorrow will be lying
Who is that really dies when all the people look at me ?
And I'm twisting my fingers in my hair
while a mirror reflects me
Now I'm digiing to the bone
all the apinting
scratching at flesh, drives me mad
to be alive and free
And the ghosts I keep inside myself
how do they see me ?
while again I'm drawning
with my soul
will you save me ?
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