★★★★★
Tweet Broken Circles On Lacuna Coil's seventh studio album Broken Crown Halo, we find them sticking to the formulas that got them through the late nineties nu-metal explosion. The band's core members, Cristina Scabbia on lead vocals and Andrea Ferro backing vocals, have remained after over 15 years. Even now they continue to put out music that has been giving fans exactly what they want every time...
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2014-04-23
★★★★★
"'Dark Adrenaline' kicked off the new era of songwriting maturity in which all prior musical elements are honored and blended; 'Broken Crown Halo' only ups the ante." Since the career-summarizing success that was "Dark Adrenaline" [2012], Lacuna Coil's next artistic step was uncertain to many. Some satisfied fans hoped the Italian masters (and mistress) of ethereal melody would repeat their previous triumph; tentative and former fans, disgruntled and disillusioned since "Karmacode" [2006],...
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2014-04-19
★★★★★
Lacuna Coil is one of the many bands to begin with a consistently evolving sound only to succumb to the perils of mainstream rock. The return of the band's middle-eastern tinge sprinkled throughout their previous radio metal album , however, bolstered the notion that Lacuna Coil have no intention of completely selling themselves out to the blood-sucking mainstream industry just yet...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-04-05
★★★★★
In a decade or so, it's possible we'll look back on this seventh album from Italy's Lacuna Coil and realize the band were really at the height of their powers. Sure, the disc isn't holding much in the way of surprises: you get the electronic flourishes, the male/female trade-off vocals and the ready-for-radio groove-goth angst (see "Zombies" for an unbearably catchy example)...
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2014-04-02
★★★★★
With the rise of gothic rock and metal to worldwide popularity in the late '90s and early 2000s, many gothic metal bands began to receive heavy criticism for stylistic changes as their careers progressed. The two bands that received the brunt of such criticism were HIM and Lacuna Coil, for the supposed "American-ization" of their styles...
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2012-05-03
★★★★★
Sound: For nearly 20 years, Italian metalheads Lacuna Coil have contracted the ability to take the substance of generic alternative rock and douse it in their own vindictive style. Producer Don Gilmore (Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne) could be credited to the approach but in a way, it's a European thing...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: Alright... Of all the Lacuna Coil albums, I have this one, Comalies, Karmacode, Lacuna Coil EP and Halflife EP, so all I'm missing is In a Reverie, and the first thing I have to say about this band that I'm really glad about is that they change for each album, although that change isn't always for the better Karmacode. However, I'm not here to talk about the band, I'm here to talk about the album...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Sound: Good guitars, plenty of good rhythm and a couple of good leads like in Comalies, Swamped, and Heaven's A Lie. Aeon is a good interlude with catchy acoustic guitar. There's a lot of electronic keyboards which fit in quite well, and a sample here and there. The drums are pretty good and the bassist has quite a bit of talent too. Overall this album has a pretty good sound...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Summary: Lacuna Coil aren't breaking down any barriers, but they have returned with another album that emphasizes their best qualities while fixing a few previous mistakes. Since the release of their very first EP, it was obvious that Lacuna Coil were going to eventually break into the mainstream. Early in their career it seemed that everything went right for them...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-04-12