Ultimate-Guitar.com recently caught up with LACUNA COIL guitarist Cristiano Migliore to discuss the band's new album, Dark Adrenaline. An excerpt is available below:

UG: Cristina (Scabbia/vocals) had said she thought Lacuna Coil were getting heavier but other metal bands getting, in her words, “mellower.” Would you agree?

Migliore: "Yeah (laughs). I do agree. I don’t know if it’s something intentional of if it’s just the way we feel when we write the new songs and stuff. Although we like to experiment a little bit, we just like to stay true to our origins. We all grew up listening a certain type of music and we still like it. Although we like a lot of stuff, a lot of different genres, we like to play heavy stuff and I guess that’s what we are gonna do for the rest of our career."

UG: Don Gilmore produced Dark Adrenaline and Shallow Life. You said that Shallow Life was kind of a change in direction for the band—was Gilmore in any way responsible for that?

Migliore: "When Don came in on Shallow Life most of the songs were already written. So he actually didn’t really change the band or the way we sounded. That’s exactly what we wanted to do at that time. He just came in and he helped us shape those songs and polish ‘em off a little bit. At that time when we wrote those songs that was the kind of stuff we wanted to play. Shallow Life was experimental not because of Don coming in and trying to have us doing something that we were not but it was really like us wanting to do that kind of stuff. He just tried to make it sound as good as it could."

UG: With Dark Adrenaline you knew where you wanted the band to go?

Migliore: "That’s exactly the same thing that’s happened with Dark Adrenaline. We always sit down and we don’t know exactly what’s gonna come out. We just start playing and record a few guitar riffs and keyboard parts and blah blah blah and we just try to mix them all together and then we see what happens. If we like it we just keep going and try to follow that same kind of direction and that’ll be pretty much how the album will sound like."

UG: Part of Dark Adrenaline was recorded back in Milan at the band’s studio and a portion of it was done at Can Am Studios in Los Angeles. Did any of the American and the European studio vibes get transferred to the record?

Migliore: The thing is it’s utterly different when you have to go somewhere and you’ll be recording in L.A. for example as opposed to being in Milan. But to be totally fair, since you have to spend so much time in the studio it doesn’t really matter where you are because you’re not gonna be like looking outside of the window and seeing, I don’t know, Sunset Boulevard for example. It doesn’t really make that much difference."

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Dark Adrenaline, has secured some of the band's highest album chart debuts, which now include:

US - #15 (#2 Current Alternative Album, Top Hard Music Album, Current Hard Music album charts)

Italy - #18

Finland - #34

Germany - #36

Canada - #46 (#3 Hard Albums Chart)

UK - #48 (#23 Midweek; UK Rock Charts: #4)

France - #53

Switzerland - #53

Belgium - Wallonia - #59

Belgium - Flanders - #70

Spain - #77

Netherlands - #79

Norway - #82

The Deluxe Edition of Dark Adrenaline features the exclusive song 'Soul Inmate', five bonus tracks, the official video for 'Trip The Darkness' and a digital booklet. The tracklisting is as follows:

'Trip The Darkness'

'Against You'

'Kill The Light'

'Give Me Something More'

'Upsidedown'

'End Of Time'

'I Don't Believe In Tomorrow'

'Intoxicated'

'The Army Inside'

'Losing My Religion'

'Fire'

'My Spirit'

Special Edition iTunes bonus material:

'Soul Inmate' (bonus track)

'Closer' (live on WCC)

'Heavens A Lie' (live on WCC)

'Within Me' (live on WCC)

'I Won’t Tell You' (live on KXFX)

'Spellbound' (on WBYR Second Visit)

'Trip The Darkness' (video)

The band recently released their video for 'Trip The Darkness'. The song is the first single from Dark Adrenaline. Directed by the Sitcom Soldiers (FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND, THE BLACKOUT), the visually stunning performance video invites viewers to step into a world of alternate reality. Check out the video below.

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