Halflife - Lacuna Coil

'Halflife' is Lacuna Coil's second E.P., an average collection of a few listenable songs that nevertheless fail to live up to the high quality of the previous E.P. Christina Scabbia is her usual reliable, if unexciting self opposite the far less talented male singer Andre, who is used a lot more here than in the previous album 'In a Reverie' but without the death metal grunts. Nevertheless, a few interesting vocal deviations are made, as the opening title track favours an Eastern vibe and 'Senzafine' is performed entirely in the band's native Italian, complete with spoken word sections. Needless to say for such a predominantly slow band, 'Hyperfast' fails to ...  Read the complete review