Lacuna Coil Albums Ranked

Lacuna Coil is an Italian gothic metal band from Milan. Since their formation in 1994, the group has had two name changes, being previously known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, and they have recorded nine studio albums, two extended plays, two live albums, two compilation albums, one video album, and sixteen singles and music videos. They have toured internationally and were nominated in 2006 for an MTV Europe Music Award. They won the 2012 Metal Female Voices Fest Award for the Best Album, the 2016 Metal Hammer Award for the Best International Band, and the 2018 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Award for Best Live Act. The band’s 2012 release, Dark Adrenaline, peaked at number 15 on the Billboard 200. As of March 2012, Lacuna Coil has sold over two million albums worldwide. Here are all of Lacuna Coil’s albums ranked.

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10. Lacuna Coil (1998)

“The very first thing that grabbed me about this album was the team of Cristina Scabbia and Andrea Ferro. They share the vocals equally and better still, he doesn’t grunt and growl. Instead he sings masterfully, showing off his handsome voice. Cristina has a beautiful voice herself, and sings marvelous”

9. In A Reverie (1999)

“Lacuna Coil’s debut offers what Lacuna Coil has been offering all along – “beauty and the beast” style gothic metal with excellent clean vocals from Cristina Scabbia and somewhat forgettable growls from Andrea Ferro. This time around the musical backing is pretty decent, which makes all the difference with this sort of deal, and whilst despite the title it doesn’t quite put me in a reverie it’s still a fun enough example of the style of gothic metal it represents, and a cut above the general standard of this particular subgenre at that. Unless you adamantly despise gothic metal, you’ll probably enjoy this.”

8. Broken Crown Halo (2014)

“This album is a ‘grower’. At first I thought it was one of the weakest Lacuna Coil albums. However, in about a year’s time (about 5 or 6 listens) … I discovered that this album truly is quite good. It’s not fair … the bad reviews this album has. It really is a strong and solid Alternative Metal release. There are even glimpses of Gothic Metal, as Lacuna Coil reaches back into it’s own past and drags some of that treasured sound into the light of this platter.”

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7. Unleashed Memories (2001)

“An outstanding album that includes the Half Life EP at the end. There are really no bad tracks on here; the tracks are either good or great and that’s that. Cristina has such a wonderful voice that powers through the songs. Andrea shows to be just as good, “Senzafine” will prove that, he’s incredible on that track. Standouts are “To Live is to Hide”, “Purify”, “Senzafine”, “1:19”, and “Wave of Anguish”. “Stars” is also worth a listen … but they all are. They also put on a fantastic live show – give this a spin if you haven’t heard of them yet.”

6. Dark Adrenaline (2012)

“This album is awesome. I’d pop this one on anytime. This album is highly melodic, the vocals are great and even the guy’s singing is good I feel. It adds an edge most bands of this genre lack. Each song is unique and stands out as an individual. It’s a feel good piece of alternative metal. It’s the type of music you fall asleep at night listening to or longboarding down a peaceful road or when you’re in the mood to feel!”

5. Black Anima (2019)

“This is a truly remarkable release that deserves to have many more people talking about it. It’s criminal this isn’t on the forefront of every metalhead’s radar this year. I’m going to have to check out everything else these guys have done that’s supposedly even better than this, though I fear I’ll end up liking this more than anything else because I’m just so in love with it.”

4. Delirium (2016)

“The music here is mostly rather simple, but powerful and to the point. There’s a sense of grandiosity here without any slant of pretentiousness to dirty the whole affair. Cristina has a spectacular voice and has been itching to lend it to some great music which she so very rarely has the chance to be apart of, and Andrea I can say the same of, though changing spectacular to pretty good.”

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3. Shallow Life (2009)

“Just not at the level they used to be, but it’s still very listenable. This is what everyone else has been saying, a very commercial approach to the Lacuna Coil sound. It’s just to bad for them they are going to miss out on the benefits of being more commercial as this stuff doesn’t have a chance of air play with today’s radio market. 5 years ago going commercial might have made a difference but instead they stuck to their guns and made Comalies. Then with Karmacode came a cleaner sound but it was still Lacuna Coil. This release is similar to Karmacode in that it has further cleaned up their sound (no more screaming) but it’s still Lacuna Coil. It’s just a much less interesting version.”

2. Comalies (2002)

“Cristina’s vocals are definitely the main attraction with this group. Her expressive vocals often rival Anneke van Giersbergen’s and suit the more layered side of the instrumentation available here. Her soaring cries on songs where she is constantly the main singer raise the question why Andrea appears as often as he does on occasion.”

1. Karmacode (2006)

“Listening to “Karmacode”, you can tell that Lacuna Coil are trying to get a slice of the success Evanescence had, and while it wasn’t a big a hit as that band, it was still big enough. Some fans were disappointed however, as they felt the band had changed their sound too much to fit in with other bands. Their following albums didn’t help matter much, and basically saw them becoming what “Karmacode” somewhat threatens-that they were now Evanescence lite instead of a band with an original voice.”