Middle Easternish—no, goth rock—no…
Yeah, "Our Truth" is one of those style-mixing songs. But such genre-mixing suits the Underworld movies, which get a lot of bad rep from not being what they're not: run-of-the-mill movies with a straightforward genre. Now, this is a song review and not a movie one, so if you want my input on the movies, check out the post script.
With lyrics that are oddly understandable for me, considering my difficulty in comprehending Lacuna Coil, time's passing by and the song narrator is "trying to forget" what's happened, "stop the cycle, set free, run away". (I think.) No crude language appears in this song (nor any of Lacuna Coil's songs that I've heard).
However, with Italian Lacuna Coil's emphasis on "Lying to forget—telling more lies—we're raising our truth", it's humanistic with man defining truth. Christians might want to exercise caution and consider what they're singing. We are to trust in God's strength and Truth, not our own.
The music is… hard for me to describe, since I'm not the best at identifying instruments by ear, particularly with the resonating "wet" sound. It's mostly drum and electric guitar, but it's extraordinarily well melded. Even with the oddness of some of the combinations, how od they are may not hit you until later—rather like Nightwish's "Eva". Since this song also appears on Lacuna Coil's recent album Karmacode, it makes me want to check out more songs from that album.
Male singer Andrea Ferro's part in this song is limited; Cristina Scabbia sings this song, including the rather interesting opening and ending portion without words. (I'd call them "haunting", but that's the wrong word. It just… fits.) I have heard the complaint, before, that her voice is annoying; not that I agree. But it did take me some getting used to so I could vaguely follow what was being said, unaided by the non-intuitive lyrics.
I know I'm missing a major symbolic element of the music video. What I have gotten is that some children have shaken one of those little decorative snowing things and are presumably watching the band sing the song inside. What I don't get is what's up with the other, oddly-dressed and painted woman.
If you like metal and a "wet" sound to music, you might want to check this out.
***P.S. I would not advise seeing Underworld: Evolution, but that's because of nudity, sexual content, and horrible plotting. Oh, and even the first—rated—one has enough language and violence that it that younger children should avoid it, but it's seriously cleaner than, say, Titanic if you find the mostly inaudible 5 f-words that pop in Underworld less offensive than Titanic's… painting. As I do.
The first (rated) Underworld is a action/adventure movie with a dual Romeo and Juliet theme and somewhat-redefined vampires and werewolves as the dueling families that, if you don't mind a little gore, (comparatively) mild language (for the R rating), and a heroine in a catsuit, you might enjoy watching. Particularly if you like complicated storylines that you have to think through.
Now, I'm going to criticize some common complaints about this film: the term lycan is a form of lycanthrope, werewolf in human form, so yeah it's going to be used a lot by the vampires to refer to werewolves in human form. Also, some characters use archaic language—hey, they're 500+. Fancy that. Last time I checked, my great-grandmother used some "out of date" language, too, hm…
Music: 5/5
Vocal(s): 4/5
Overall: 8/10
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