Lacuna Coil
In A Reverie

THE REVIEW

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.