LACUNA COIL
Karma Code
Century Media
· Italy crosses Evanescence with Korn for a heavy polenta powder-keg.
The North American music industry press is gearing up for Italy’s Lacuna Coil, one of the most anticipated heavy metal albums of 2006. An odd event, since Italian rock’n’roll often runs more Fiat than Ferrari in a country better known for tenors than thrashers. However, Italy is the most American of European countries – egocentric and self-confident. Its relationship with American popular culture is complicated. Italians look back on more than 2,000 years of history and deride American culture, while significant numbers still see it as the land of opportunity. For a lot of Italian bands, America is still the measure of success.
Which is where Lacuna Coil comes in – their website bios list their interests as typically North American – playing Tekken or watching The Matrix, and it manifests in a wholly un-Italian muscular sound. Granted there is a certain irony in the fact that Lacuna Coil, whose name means "empty spiral," ask the same angst-ridden existential questions as many others, but artistic innovation is not the goal of most Italian rock bands – it’s holding their own against the Americans. Lacuna Coil proved themselves more than capable of that last year with their track on the Underworld: Evolution soundtrack. Sonically, Karmacode’s bleak depiction of a post-industrial consumerist world matches up against anything coming out of the States right now. With front woman Christina Scabbia, recently nominated "Hottest Girl in Metal" by Revolver magazine, this heavy metal sextet is certainly going to garner attention across the Atlantic.
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