Dark Adrenaline Explained

Dark Adrenaline
Type:studio
Artist:Lacuna Coil
Cover:Dark Adrenaline.jpg
Border:yes
Released:January 23, 2012
Recorded:2010–2011
Genre:Gothic metal, alternative metal
Length:45:10
Label:Century Media
Producer:Don Gilmore
Prev Title:Shallow Life
Prev Year:2009
Next Title:Broken Crown Halo
Next Year:2014

Dark Adrenaline is the sixth studio album by Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil. The album was produced by Don Gilmore (Linkin Park, Bullet For My Valentine), and mixed by Marco Barusso (Cayne, Modà, Laura Pausini, Eros Ramazzotti). The album debuted at number fifteen on the Billboard 200 chart with initial sales of 20,000.[1] It also charted in the top five on four other Billboard charts including the Rock Albums, Alternative Albums, Hard Rock Albums and the Independent Albums charts. The album was also successful throughout Europe, charting in ten countries, six of which Lacuna Coil have achieved their highest chart positions in those countries to date. This album has charted in fifteen countries.[2]

The first single from the album, "Trip the Darkness", was released on October 17, 2011 before the album itself was released and is included as a remix on the soundtrack to Underworld: Awakening.[3] "Fire" was released as the second single on June 15, 2012.[4] The official music video was filmed on May 10, 2012.[5] [6]

The final track, "My Spirit", was made as a tribute to Peter Steele of Type O Negative.

Reception

Upon its release, the album has received positive reviews from professional music critics who generally praised the mix of both Cristina Scabbia's and Andrea Ferro's vocals together and the return to their more Gothic roots after their previous release, Shallow Life. Allmusic gave the album a 4 out of 5 star rating describing the album as, "Bigger and bolder" than their 2009 release Shallow Life and stating it is the band's, "most explosive work to date". About.com give a similar 4 star review, stating the album as, "darker vibed" and, "bombastic" also going on to say that it is an album that can please newer and long-term fans.[7] Loudwire gave a four out of five star review describing the tracks on the album as, "darker and rebellious", also describing vocals on the album as, "impeccable", despite saying that the album is not "out there".[8] About.com described the cover of R.E.M.'s song, "Losing My Religion" as, "riskier" saying that, "it turned out pretty well".[7]

Track listing

End of Time

End of Time was written by Lacuna Coil in collaboration with producer Don Gilmore, which received positive reviews from Music critics. Chad Bowar of About.com praised the harmony vocals, saying "[the song] is a very catchy power ballad that features some brief harmony vocals, which is something I wish Lacuna Coil would do more often.[9]

Video

Cristina Scabbia and Andrea Ferro began shooting the music video for "End of Time" on October 17, 2012 in Milan, Italy.[10] [11] It was directed by their regular collaborator Roberto Cinardi with the pseudonym of SaKu, who previously directed Lacuna Coil's music videos for Spellbound (2009), I Won't Tell You (2010) and the short movie Dark Passengers (2012).[12]

Dark Passengers

Dark Passengers is a DVD that was included with the Digipack, Box Set and Darkest Adrenaline Super Deluxe Box Set editions of the album. It contains six short films shot by Roberto Cinardi with the pseudonym of SaKu (who already worked with the band for the videos of Spellbound and I Won't Tell You). The shorts contain the instrumental version of six songs from the standard issue of Dark Adrenaline. Every short has a member of the band as the main character and they represent Cristina's visions of the other members of the band after the Injection of the mysterious drug called "Dark Adrenaline".[13] In the first video, based on "Give Me Something More", we see Cristina imprisoned by her evil twin. The second one, with "Intoxicated", shows Andrea as the protagonist of an adaptation of F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu. The third based on "Upsidedown" with Marco Biazzi as Jason Voorhees. The fourth with "Kill the Light" sees Cristiano Migliore playing the victim of a mad scientist. The fifth based on "Fire" with Marco Coti Zelati as a sushi chef. The last one with "Trip the Darkness" and Cristiano Mozzati as leads playing the role of a crazy akira.

Credits for Dark Passengers are adapted from album liner notes.[14]

Chart performance

On January 28, it was announced that the album had achieved number 15 on the Billboard 200 in its debut week, with first week sales of 20,000, therefore becoming Lacuna Coil's highest charting album in the United States with Shallow Life achieving 16 on the Billboard 200 in 2009.[2] The album also charted on four other US charts reaching number 2 on the Alternative Albums chart and the Hard Rock Albums Chart, number 3 on the Independent Albums chart and number 5 on the Rock Albums Chart in the same country.[16] Dark Adrenaline charted at number 48 on the UK Albums Chart despite being removed from this chart in its second week after release.[2] The album also charted at number 4 on the UK Rock Chart and in many other countries across Europe, including some of the band's highest chart positions such as number 34 in Finland on the Finnish Albums Chart.[17] The album became the 45th best selling Hard Rock album of 2012 in the United States.[18]

Chart (2012)Peak
position
Belgian Ultratop (Wallonia)[19] 59
Belgian Ultratop (Flanders)70
Canadian Albums Chart46
Canadian Hard Rock Albums[20] 3
Dutch Albums Chart[21] 79
Finnish Albums Chart[22] 34
French Albums Chart[23] 53
German Albums Chart[24] 36
Italian Albums Chart[25] 18
Japanese Albums Chart[26] 225
Norwegian Albums Chart82
Spanish Albums Chart[27] 77
Swiss Albums Chart[28] 53
UK Albums Chart[29] 48
UK Rock Chart[30] 4
US Billboard 20015
US Alternative Albums2
US Rock Albums5
US Hard Rock Albums2
US Independent Albums3

Year-end charts

Editions

Personnel

Credits for Dark Adrenaline adapted from Barnes & Noble.[32] and from allmusic[33]

Technical

Notes and References

  1. News: Lacuna Coil's 'Dark Adrenaline' Cracks U.S. Top 15 . https://archive.today/20130104214855/http://legacy.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=169055 . dead . 2013-01-04 . 2012-02-27 . .
  2. News: Lacuna Coil: More 'Dark Adrenaline' Chart Positions Revealed . https://archive.today/20130201163930/http://legacy.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=169196 . dead . 2013-02-01 . 2012-02-27 . .
  3. Evanescence, Linkin Park + Lacuna Coil Appear on 'Underworld: Awakening' Soundtrack . 2012-02-27 . Loudwire.
  4. http://legacy.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=174495{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  5. Web site: Cristina Scabbia on Twitter. 20 May 2017.
  6. Web site: Marco "Maki" Coti-Zelati(@maki) - Instagram photos and videos - WEBSTAGRAM. 20 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20131111150538/http://web.stagram.com/p/188469919281471855_21943. 11 November 2013. dead.
  7. Web site: Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline Review . 2012-02-27 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20120127213629/http://heavymetal.about.com/od/lacunacoil/fr/Lacuna-Coil-Dark-Adrenaline-Review.htm . 2012-01-27 . dead .
  8. Lacuna Coil 'Dark Adrenaline' - Album Review . 2012-02-27 . Loudwire.
  9. Web site: Bowar. Chad. Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline Review. About.com. About.com. January 24, 2012. November 13, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120127213629/http://heavymetal.about.com/od/lacunacoil/fr/Lacuna-Coil-Dark-Adrenaline-Review.htm. January 27, 2012. dead. mdy-all.
  10. Web site: Videoshoot day. Lunch time. . Twitter. Scabbia. Cristina. October 17, 2012. November 13, 2012.
  11. Web site: Instagram post by Cristina Scabbia • Oct 17, 2012 at 9:07am UTC. Instagram. 20 May 2017.
  12. Web site: LACUNA COIL Films New Video. Blabbermouth. 23 October 2012. BLABBERMOUTH.NET. 20 May 2017.
  13. Web site: Oregon Music News - Oregon's only all-genre, online music magazine covers music news and events in Portland and throughout the state.. 20 May 2017.
  14. Dark Adrenaline (Ltd. Edition: CD + DVD Box Set) . . 2012 . CD liner . Century Media.
  15. Web site: Alice Camandona LACUNA.... Alice Camandona. 20 May 2017.
  16. [{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=lacuna coil|chart=all}} Dark Adrenaline - Lacuna Coil ]. 2012-02-27 . Billboard.com.
  17. Lacuna Coil- More Dark Adrenaline Chart Positions Revealed . 2012-02-27 . Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles.
  18. Hard Rock Albums - Year-End 2012. . 20 May 2017.
  19. Web site: Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline . 2012-02-27 . Ultratop.
  20. Web site: Lacuna Coil - 'Dark Adrenaline' marks some of the band's highest album chart debuts ever . https://archive.today/20130130205808/http://www.onslaughtradio.com/article/122/lacuna-coil---'dark-adrenaline'-marks-some-of-the-band%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDs-highest-album-chart-debuts-ever/ . dead . 2013-01-30 . 2012-02-27 . Onslaught Radio .
  21. Web site: Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline . 2012-02-27 . MegaCharts.
  22. Web site: Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline . 2012-02-27 . The Official Finnish Charts.
  23. Web site: Le classement des Albums Nouveautés . 2012-02-27 . Disque en France . French . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100329083439/http://www.disqueenfrance.com/fr/page-256595.xml . 2010-03-29 .
  24. Web site: Lacuna Coil, Dark Adrenaline . 2012-02-27 . . German.
  25. Web site: Classifica settimanale dal 23/01/2012 al 29/01/2012 . 2012-02-27 . . Italian . https://web.archive.org/web/20131224103508/http://www.fimi.it/classifiche_result_artisti.php?anno=2012&mese=01&id=388 . 2013-12-24 . dead .
  26. Web site: Dark Adrenaline - Lacuna Coil. 2015-05-16. oricon ME inc.. Japanese.
  27. Web site: Top 100 Albumes Semana 04: del 23.01.2012 al 29.01.2012 . 2012-02-27 . . Spanish . https://web.archive.org/web/20131020053437/http://www.promusicae.es/files/listassemanales/albumes/historial/TOP%20100%20ALBUMES%2012_04.pdf . 2013-10-20 . dead .
  28. Web site: Lacuna Coil - Dark Adrenaline . 2012-02-27 . . German.
  29. Web site: Lacuna Coil UK Chart Positions . 2012-02-27 . Official Charts Company.
  30. Web site: 2012 Top 40 Rock & Metal Albums Archive 4 February 2012 . 2012-02-27 . Official Charts Company.
  31. Hard Rock Albums - Year-End 2012. . 20 May 2017.
  32. Web site: BDark Adrenaline, Lacuna Coil, Music CD - Barnes & Noble. Barnes & Noble. February 15, 2012.
  33. Web site: Dark Adrenaline - Lacuna Coil - Credits - AllMusic. AllMusic. 20 May 2017.

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