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Lullacry: Crucify My Heart Heavy Metal, Gothic Metal Century Media Records, Spinefarm Records January 31st, 2003
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Review
Crucify My Heart is the first album to feature the band's more well known vocalist, Tanja Lainio, who isn't really like the other female vocalists that appear to be popping up in the gothic metal scene today. Lullacry's music is a more mainstream sounding heavy metal style, with some hard rock moments strewn in for good measure, but more of a gothic rock and metal feel to make it sound metal enough to keep it from the current hits radio stations, which is sad, as this material is so much better then anything those stations would ever dream to play, and have more talent then, say, Backstreet Boys or even Coldplay. Yes, Crucify My Heart is a more more mainstream album then the previous two albums, and that is largly in part to the band's new vocalist's singing ability, being louder and somewhat less emotionally driven, accompanied with simple guitar riffs and drum kicks. While this sounds awful, it isn't, as everything works out to create some rather catchy, and different, love songs. The only real issue with this is that, after a while, it all starts to sound very repetative. The first three tracks on this album are great and will seriously give you a good kick, but it's about "Every Single Day" that the album starts to go downhill. There really isn't anything all that distinctive between the tracks until you reach "Heart Of Darkness", which is a very well written track that sounds like a harder version of a power ballad. Once "Heart Of Darkness" starts to break up the monotony, you find the track "This Time", which is another repetative song, but just sounds much better in comparison to the aforementioned repetative tracks, and is very catchy. "Over Me" is a nice change of pace like "Heart Of Darkness" was, but it really just sounds like the band's single off this album, "Crucify My Heart", but toned down, and "Better Days" just sounds like a rahashed version of "Don't Touch The Flame" with a very similar song structure. Crucify My Heart is a great album if you walk into it fresh, but after your first listen, you'll start to see a lot of patterns in the music, and just realize that much of the album is based off of the few good tracks on here. "Alright Tonight", "Crucify My heart" and "Don't Touch The Flame" really show some great potential from the band, and "Heart Of Darkness" is a well done track that stands out like the first three, but aside that, many of the songs are essentially the same as these four, just with different chords and a slightly altered structure, or even, like in "Better Days", an orchestral element. For now, it's worth checking out if you can find a used copy cheap, but other then that, it's an album with plenty of potential that simply wasn't realized.
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