Lacuna Coil

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Lacuna Coil

Lacuna Coil is and Italian band formed in 1996 and led by Cristina Scabbia and Andrea Ferro. This band is often mentioned, among a number of others, as sharing a similar sound with Evanescence; actually the band played Gothic Metal since the beginnings, turning to Alternative Metal/Rock with their most recent releases. Their first, self-titled EP was released in 1998. Cristina was rumored to be a member on EvBoard.

In an interview with MTV on August 26, 2004, Cristina said that she doesn't mind Lacuna Coil being compared to Evanescence;

They're a good band and people like them, so why should I be upset? It's funny, because in Europe we've been known for a while, so people say the opposite thing. They hear Evanescence and say, 'Oh, is this the new single from Lacuna Coil?'. It's strange to me that Americans are getting into [Comalies] two years after it came out. People are maybe like, 'Hey, they sound kind of like Evanescence, I like this.' And they don't know that the album is two years old. So, we have all this new material we've written on tour, but we would have to stop to record it, and we're never at home, we're always on tour.

This is what Cristina Scabbia had to say about Evanescence:

Interviewer: Last time I went on your website and on your forum, I saw terrible fights between your fans and Evanescence's. How do you manage this problem? Cristina Scabbia: (Really laughing) I laugh about it! I think it's totally stupid. Sometimes people's life is so empty that they have to fill it with this bullshit. I mean, I don't want even think about it, to lose some minutes of my day to write stupid stuff. I think it's really funny to look at it because first of all, I don't see the reason. We belong to 2 different worlds; they are under a major, we are under an independent. We have 2 singers, they have only one singer. The approach is totally different. The music is totally different. I don't know why they just started this. If you go to America, of course they know better Evanescence, so they say that we are cloning them. In Europe it's the opposite. I actually read some interviews of Amy Lee in Europe and she was really pissed off. She was saying a lot of bullshit about us, probably because she's been answered so many times. But what about Lacuna Coil? Because people noticed similarities but we've been doing music since 1996!! So nobody can say that we copy them at all! Interviewer:Amy Lee said bad things about Lacuna Coil? Cristina Scabbia:Yes, really bad things. This is something I totally don't understand. She's in the position that she sold millions of copies, so she doesn't really need to care about a small band compared to hers.

Band Members

Current

• Cristina Scabbia — female vocals (clean) (1996–present)
• Andrea Ferro — male vocals (clean/unclean) (1994–present)
• Marco Coti Zelati — bass, keyboards, guitars (1994–present)
• Ryan Blake Folden — drums (2014–present; live member - 2012-2013)
• Diego Cavallotti — guitars (2016–present)

Former

• Michaelangelo Algardi — drums, percussion (1994)
• Raffaele Zagaria — guitars (1994–1998)
• Claudio Leo — guitars (1994–1998; died 2013)
• Leonardo Forti — drums, percussion (1994—1998)
• Cristiano "Pizza" Migliore — rhythm guitar (1998–2014)
• Cristiano 'CriZ' Mozzati — drums, percussion (1998–2014)
• Marco "Maus" Biazzi — lead guitar (1999–2015), rhythm guitar (2014–2015)

Discography

• In A Reverie (1999)
• Unleashed Memories (2001)
• Comalies (2002)
• Karmacode (2006)
• Shallow Life (2009)
• Dark Adrenaline (2012)
• Broken Crown Halo (2014)
• Delirium (2016)

External links

• Official Website
• Official Facebook
• Official Twitter
• Official Instagram
• Official VEVO
• Empty Spiral - Lacuna Coil Community Forum