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Lacuna Coil: Visual Karma

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If you are a fan of Karmacode this DVD IS FOR YOU. If you hate Karmacode, don't even think about it. That would pretty much sum it up.

In my case I dislike Karmacode with a passion simply because in my ears it sounds like Korn with female vocals. I loathe Korn. But I went out and bought this DVD anyway knowing full well what I was getting.

On disk 1 you have two concerts. Wacken and Loud Park. Both concerts were in fact professionally recorded. The Camera angles are gorgeous. There are no quick flashing camera angles and Cristina is in top form and commanding of her presense. The audio and visuals are superb!

Also on disk 1 are all the music videos to the Karmacode era.

Disk 2 contains extras. This is where the band failed miserably. The extras per band are 3-6 mins longs. Cristina's is the shortest clip of them all. The best of the bands bios is Andrea's and Cristina's. You see them travel to Australia and Japan but at the same time you see nothing. Both tour clips are very short and you get no one on one real connection with any of the members of the band. It's just quick clips.

You also see the making of Closer and Our Truth. Those two clips were very cool to watch and entertaining.

Also the fans sections. Very pointless and waste of space on the disk. There are a few remixes of To The Edge which were okay but useless. Some horribly made fan videos. One containing some stupid chipmunks as Lacuna Coil. Another of some chick showing off her tattoo. I wanted to rip my hair out after seeing those.

It's a descent DVD. 3 stars are for the excellent recording of the lives concerts and for the making of's the music video. But I hope Lacuna Coil's next dvd set has better extras.

I'm a HUGE Lacuna Coil fan - HUGE. I was so excited at the prospect of a Lacuna Coil Dvd that I immediately bought it when it came out. Sadly this dvd completely disappoints. First of all the quality is pretty bad for a professional dvd - that in itself ruined the dvd for me. Second, there is not enough NON-concert footage...the footage from when they were in Japan SUCKED...they kept repeating the same boring images over and over. I've seen some pictures from Cristina's myspace about their time in Japan and it seemed more interesting then what this dvd portrayed. It would have been nice to see a "home video" of sorts with Lacuna Coil exploring Japan. Oh well. Honestly the only thing I did like about this dvd were the included music videos. There should be a "do-over" dvd made because this one failed. PS. Fans would have loved to see some older stuff too - especially older performances.

Standard practice for me with concert DVD's is to watch it about a billion times till it makes me sick. In other words, I obsess, cuz its that good. Now don't get me wrong I love Lacuna Coil, they're the first band I ever saw live, and they also put on a great show. The DVD is great too, good concerts, great set lists. I don't know why, but for some reason I haven't even been able to force myself to watch it a second time. I do strongly recommend it for all fans though, I did enjoy watching it a lot, but the experience was somewhat lacking. ehhh...

I am a die hard Lacuna Foil fan. This DVD does not disappoint. Lots of concert footage as well as some good behind the scenes stuff and interviews. I'd recommend it.

An amazing collection of concert material, two live shows! also some autobiographical background on the band and some videos. All in all well made and well produced. This band is amazing honestly! If you like Evanessence, In This Moment, Flyleaf or Within Temptation you will absolutely rave over LACUNA COIL. EPIC!!!!!!

and ps...
Cristina Scabbia is HOT! :)

Good dvd, the first one with 2 concerts is very good, dont understand why people dont like the sound here, both concerts sound great at least in my stereo, better then many, but also there are some better sounding.
Scabbia sounds great. but i hope on their next dvd they will have a concert were they are the headliners in some concert hall, rock and metall shows are always better in these surroundings rather then in daylight.the extras on dvd 2 are fine but nothing special but its good if you are fan.
and if you are a fan of Lacuna Coil you wont be dissapointed

I just have gotten my new lacuna coil VISUAL KARMA double DVD, and first, incredible fast delivery, even faster than my others, older, orders (I am just waiting for them), so, I am giving four because the sound in WACKEN 2007 FEST is awful. I have tried DTS, awful, 5.1, O.K. but bad. I never saw LACUNA COIL before, so, I was really excited for watching this DVD, I am kind of disappointed and I think this do not deliverer a good image of the band, for first-time-fans like my, they must pay more attention to this kind of details. In the first try, with DTS, the Cristina Scabia's voice almost disappeared; the sound of every single instrument is forgotten in some bad musical studio because I heard a bad massive-mix of all of them. It is sound like recorded live directly from the audience. I do not know, but it is O.K. I hope they eddit another DVD with better sound and images soon.
In the other hand, some day, somebody ask to my best friend Johnny (R.I.P.) why do you hear hard rock? And he's answer was the best answer I have heard "because of what I feel". Watching this band the feeling is great, and this female vocal with the strong hard rock background it is a very new and a very addictive sensation for me. In addition, Cristina Sacabia is hot, with a very good voice, attitude, and the band it is O.K. I do not want to say more because I do not know too much this band, I want to see more and then I will back to abound in my critics. Finally, I recommend to every fan to have this DVD in one's collection, principally because of the clips and the three different concerts, and of course, to enjoy watching the band.

I was in New York city for their live concert in 2007, Within Temptation opened the concert... Was a perfect musical night, but a small theater.

Wacken is known for the big crowd and immortal presentations.
Great Lacuna Coil concert, sound could be better, but if you love this italian band, you will love this concert too.

Cristina is amazing, like always, and the band is very energetic.

Why don't we have Festivals like this in the USA?
USA is lost into RAP and all that crap....

The second part of the DVD is a concert at LOUDPARK Japan, in this one the sound is better but the video is not as good... BUT a lot of close ups of Christina ..

Great addition to my collection...

Great band great concerts

I am a huge Lacuna Coil. I own all of their albums, so when I heard that they were making a DVD I was excited. I have never been let down by any of their work. So when i finally got it in the mail, I put it into my DVD player. I was shocked to see it was old footage of them playing (footage that can easily be found on youtube). I was hoping that they would put on a solo show specificly for the DVD, Lacuna Coil needs to take a page from the book of Within Temptation. The only thing that makes the DVD worth anything is the "behind the scenes footage" and the additional music videos for Karmacode. Otherwise Lacuna Coil needs more time working on their "art" than shameful self promoting

The video footage of the Wacken festival in this DVD is very good. The audio mix is very tight, the band sounds great together. I love everything about that portion. The extras, and the Japan show were not mixed too well in my opinion. By no means, does that make it not worth the money. If you are a die-hard Lacuna Coil fan, you will appreciate this for what it is. I'm not a die-hard fan, and I think it is very well put together overall.