edgeofthorns said:
I think I try to compare them to Nightwish and Within Temptation, which isn't fair to Lucauna Coil.
I agree, since Lacuna Coil is more akin to The Gathering than either of those two bands. Yeah, female vocals are prominent in LC, but Christina Scabbia isn't trying to do opera vocals. She has a relatively straightforward approach that personally, I prefer. Heck, I really only got into Nightwish when Tarja started scaling back on the opera, and Within Temptation only really hit me with their last album.
I like Karmacode a lot, actually - it's my least favorite album they've put out to date but I've warmed up to it...kinda like Queensryche's Promised Land, though I hate to compare this album to that as that could signal that the next album is going to be...well, I hope they avoid that.
Also, I've picked up...
Atreyu - A Death Grip On Yesterday. The best of the metalcore bands, but I've still only played this once.
The Birthday Massacre - Nothing and Nowhere. One of the best synthpop/darkwave bands to appear in years; incredible pop melodies, lush atmosphere, and to top it off, industrial thunder-riff guitars.
Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison. Sounds almost exactly like Atreyu on disc, and they weren't completely horrible opening for Lacuna Coil and Rob Zombie.
Fields of the Nephilim - Mourning Sun. People keep calling bands like Epica, Within Temptation, et al. "gothic rock." Those bands are not gothic rock...THIS is gothic rock.
Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium. A classic album by one of the greatest goth bands in the history of the genre.
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance. One of the only goth metal bands that really is goth metal, this is a great album and may very well be my "album of the year"...though bear in mind I am a Katatonia fanboy.
Rob Zombie - Educated Horses. I like it, and it shows that Zombie is trying to have a longterm musical career by scaling back a bit with the cheesiness.
I had no idea that the new Moonspell and Scar Symmetry albums were out. I thought the last Moonspell album was a good return to form after a string of increasingly watered down albums, so if this continues in the right direction...good. Also, until Scar Symmetry sells out, a new album by them is cause for celebration.
