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Shallow Life Image
Metascore
68

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews What's this?

User Score
6.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 15 Ratings

  • Summary: The fifth album for the Italian metal band was produced by Don Gilmore.

Top Track

Spellbound
Burning here in the room Feeling that the walls are moving closer Silent scene, the dark takes me Leads me to the ending of another day I'm... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Q Magazine
    80
    Shallow Life finds them adding substance, specifically Evanescence-esque mass-appeal anthems tailor-made for radio. [Jun 2009, p.119]
  2. At the end of the day, this album might not be what the change-resistant fans wanted to hear but it was necessary and more importantly, they pull it off quite well.
  3. Alternative Press
    60
    It's a shame that in those rare moments Lacuna Coil do stick out their necks, the results are the uninspired, tepid radio rock of Shalow Life's 'Unchained' and 'The Pain.' [Jun 2009, p.104]
  4. Those incessant choruses this band is so good at continue to dominate, and yet again, it’s what ultimately compels us to think of the album as decent instead of merely middling.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. [Anonymous]
    Jul 7, 2009
    9
    I found it fantastic.