I saw a few Lacuna Coil albums in K-Mart the other day. In A Reverie and Half Life were on sale for $7 each, but I didn't feel like picking them up. I should though, my iPod needs to have 2 post-blone-black-haired lead singers.

Anyways, I've heard a couple of their songs, none of them really stand out like some of Evanescence's songs. Maybe I just need to listen to them more, since a lot of times I tend to find some gems after listening to them for a while (like Creed's Hide). A lot of their songs sound the same, probably due to those guitars that kind of drown out Christina Scabbia's voice. CS's voice isn't that great IMO, but female's often have a higher standard when it comes to singing...so for the sake of being in a rock band, her voice was perfect. For R&B, her voice would not cut it.

BTW, anyone who thinks Evanescence ripped off Lacuna Coil hasn't done their homework. Evanescence and Lacuna Coil were both doing EPs in 1997. If anything, Lacuna Coil sounds more like a Christian Rock Band than Evanescence. I think it's actually nice that Andrea "co-vocals" with Christina in some of the songs...but LC doesn't really have that lasting appeal to them. Evanescence has some lasting appeal, but I don't think they'll match the success of 10,000 Maniacs (who also had a female lead singer for the rock band). However 10kM were more about "hippie" stuff like politics than goth or life...so maybe that's a poor comparison, but female lead singers of bands generally don't have nearly as much success as male lead singer-based bands. The effect of Natalie Merchant leaving 10,000 Maniacs was that 10kM was never popular again...but NM had a decent solo careers(putting up hits on the Billboards). I don't think Gwen Stefani will survive without No Doubt, though ND was more like rock/pop, GS is mostly pop. Neither Amy Lee, Christina Scabbia, or Gwen Stefani really have that lyrical talent that will put them in success over the long haul like Natalie Merchant.

I don't think anyone in the US would've heard of them if it wasn't for RE:A. Despite RE:A being a better(still bad) movie than DD, it didn't really boost LC into that "modern" band status. But I guess it hurts that they're a foreign band rather than a domestic one.

With that also being said, I might go back to K-Mart and pick up a copy of their albums. I can recover that in like an half an hour of work anyways. :-D