Lacuna Coil

Lacuna Coil is one of the few Italian alternative metal bands of Gothic obedience to be active on the international scene. Hailing from Milan, where it took root in 1994 with multi-instrumentalist Marco Coti Zelati (guitar, bass, keyboards), singer and bassist Andrea Ferro, the following year, the original quartet recruited singer Cristina Scabbia and replaced their previous guitarists and drummers with Cristiano Migliore and Cristiano Mozzati for the recording of their debut album In a Reverie (1999), followed two years later by Unleashed Memories, with a third guitarist, Marco Emanuele Biazzi. The line-up then remained stable for the albums Comalies (a debut released in 2002), Karmacode (2006) and Shallow Life (2009), which imposed a gothic, alternative style tinged with melodic, introspective metal. In 2012, the sixth studio album Dark Adrenaline was produced by Don Gilmore and released in seven different editions. Two years later, Broken Crown Halo is the last album to feature Cristiano Migliore and Cristiano Mozzati, who announced their departure earlier this year. The following album Delirium (2016) was intended to demonstrate renewed stability, but Marco Biazzi, the band's guitarist since 1999, hung up before recording. The band overcame this difficulty and hired Diego Cavalotti to complete this eighth album. Between 2017 and 2018, the band celebrates twenty years of existence on stage and publishes a book, Nothing Stand in Our Way. The return to the studio was not long in coming, with the release in 2019 of Black Anima, which also marked a major personnel change with the departure of drummer Ryan Blake Folden, replaced by Richard Meiz. The album Comalies XX followed in 2022, and the quartet was again renewed in 2024 with the replacement of Diego Cavalotti by Daniele Salomone for Sleepless Empire, released in 2025.