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Lacuna Coil
Dark Adrenaline

Merging a woman with a pretty face, with smooth silky voice, who wears tight black leather pants with raging, distorted guitars and heavy percussion doesn’t really equate to “metal,” yet this ongoing trend has manifested itself into this: Another formulated subgenre of metal. Using the term “metal” loosely, a majority of these bands performing within this subgenre find their compositions to be watered down in “heavy” doses of production that literally take the metallic right out of the music. You then combine that with a pop-rock vocalist, and well, come on, at what point is it metal? Evanescence, Nightwish, Within Temptation, Flyleaf, Epica, etc., all style their music to this format. In this game, originality was lost a long time ago. And yes, even Lacuna Coil falls into these convoluted pool of alleged “metal” bands.

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Primal Fear
Unbreakable

Easily one of the most highly anticipated power metal releases of 2011 (or 2012, depending on the release schedule in your part of the world), Unbreakable is the ninth studio album from German power metal veterans Primal Fear. In the past few years – specifically since the release of their amazing 2007 album New Religion – Primal Fear has vaulted into the top tier of active power metal bands, and where we used to know exactly what to expect from the band, it was starting to seem like the sky is the limit. Adding to the already high expectations is the fact that both Alex Beyrodt and Magnus Karlsson are now on guitars, and Eric Martenssen (Eclipse) and Oliver Hartmann (ex-At Vance) lend a hand on backing vocals.

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