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Lacuna Coil

Италия

Alternative Rock
Gothic Metal
Alternative Metal
Acoustic

http://www.lacunacoil.it
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/lacunacoil
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17 дек 2025 :	LACUNA COIL's CRISTINA SCABBIA: 'I Hate Music Made With A.I.'
16 дек 2025 :	LACUNA COIL Announces Spring 2026 U.S. Tour With ESCAPE THE FATE
30 ноя 2025 :	CRISTINA SCABBIA Explains Why LACUNA COIL Doesn't Preach About Religion Or Politics In Band's Lyrics
29 окт 2025 :	LACUNA COIL's ANDREA FERRO Rules Out Retirement: 'I Don't See Us Stopping Anytime Soon'
17 окт 2025 :	Watch: LACUNA COIL Performs In Toulouse, France During Fall 2025 European Tour
5 окт 2025 :	Watch: LAMB OF GOD's RANDY BLYTHE Joins LACUNA COIL On Stage At AFTERSHOCK Festival
10 сен 2025 :
29 авг 2025 :	LACUNA COIL's ANDREA FERRO On Artificial Intelligence In Music: 'There's Times To Use It, There's Time Not To Use It'
8 авг 2025 :	LACUNA COIL's ANDREA FERRO: 'We Always Consider OZZY OSBOURNE Like Our Godfather'
9 июн 2025 :	Watch: LACUNA COIL's CRISTINA SCABBIA Celebrates 53rd Birthday Onstage With SHARON DEN ADEL, SIMONE SIMONS
23 мар 2025 :	LACUNA COIL's ANDREA FERRO Says There Are No Plans For Him Or CRISTINA SCABBIA To Release Solo Albums
21 мар 2025 :
17 мар 2025 :	ANDREA FERRO On LACUNA COIL's Visual Presentation: 'It's Very Important To Have These Theatrical Kind Of Images'
8 мар 2025 :	LACUNA COIL's CRISTINA SCABBIA: If You Attack Me Online, 'I Will Stand Up And Reply And Tell You That You're A F*ing Ahole'
4 мар 2025 :	LACUNA COIL's ANDREA FERRO: 'It's An Excuse For Laziness' To Use A.I. Instead Of A Real Artist For Album Artwork
22 фев 2025 :	LACUNA COIL's CRISTINA SCABBIA 'Never Saw The Malice' In Being Highlighted As One Of 'Hottest Chicks In Metal'
14 фев 2025 :
11 фев 2025 :	ANDREA FERRO On How Modern Technology Has Affected LACUNA COIL: 'I Think We've Done Pretty Well Adapting To The Changes'
3 фев 2025 :	LACUNA COIL's CRISTINA SCABBIA Says She Was 'Almost Afraid' To Meet DAVE MUSTAINE, But 'He Was A Sweetheart'
28 янв 2025 :	LACUNA COIL's CRISTINA SCABBIA On Split With DIEGO CAVALLOTTI: 'The Things That We Weren't Agreeing On Weren't Changing'
21 янв 2025 :	LACUNA COIL's ANDREA FERRO On Heavier Musical Direction Of 'Sleepless Empire' Album: 'We Just Follow The Inspiration'
19 янв 2025 :	CRISTINA SCABBIA Explains How LACUNA COIL Found New Touring Guitarist DANIELE SALOMONE
10 янв 2025 :	LACUNA COIL Shares New Single 'Gravity' From Upcoming 'Sleepless Empire' Album
9 янв 2025 :	LACUNA COIL's CRISTINA SCABBIA Explains 'Sleepless Empire' Album Title
24 ноя 2024 :	ANDREA FERRO Explains Why It's Important For LACUNA COIL To Still Release Full-Length Albums
12 окт 2024 :	LACUNA COIL Recruits INVERNO Guitarist DANIELE SALOMONE

11 фев 2025

ANDREA FERRO On How Modern Technology Has Affected LACUNA COIL: 'I Think We've Done Pretty Well Adapting To The Changes'

In a new interview with The Razor's Edge, LACUNA COIL co-vocalist Andrea Ferro was asked how modern technology has changed the way he and his bandmates approach album releases and interact with their fans. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Yeah, obviously, that's something that we had to learn as well. It's a new world completely for everybody, I guess. And everybody had to deal with the switch from analog life to digital life. And that's also why we had the title [of the new LACUNA COIL album] 'Sleepless Empire', because it's a sort of an observation of how the society has changed, how things are different, how much we have this huge empire with all these possibilities offered by the connectivity, the Internet, the availability of 24 hours online and blah, blah, blah. And on the other hand, the fact that we're sleepless, that we're always with this screen in our face, even at night. But that's not only for the new generation — also for us, it's the same. So it's not a critique to the kids; it's just the way it is nowadays, and we all had to deal with this. Maybe we are a little bit more fortunate that we had experienced the life before the Internet, and so we know what it is to really live even with more simpler things, and we enjoy even the life without having to be connected all the time. But other than that, that's the main observation and the way that life has changed. But I think we've been pretty good and shifting and following the path of how music has changed, how the music business has changed as well. Before, obviously, when you were selling physical records, a lot of physical records, it was way more income from that source, while nowadays, although we do still sell a lot of physical records because metal is one of the few genres where people still want to have the record — either vinyls, even cassettes or special-edition CDs — so we're lucky we still sell pretty good numbers of that. But we have found new ways of making income for the band. There are some things that before [were] completely unthinkable, like sponsorship or somebody wants to put an ad on your Facebook page or Instagram page, obviously, we try to always do it with brands that we actually belong to us, to our culture, to our background, not something that doesn't — you're not gonna put an iron board or something like that, or a soda — it's gonna be something that we use or we belong or we share, we like. And so there's new ways of making the band financially work, and also the touring, more merchandise. There's different ways. But I think we've done pretty well adapting to the changes."

"Sleepless Empire" is set to be released February 14, 2025 via Century Media Records.

In a recent interview with Luke Morton of Kerrang! In Conversation, LACUNA COIL co-vocalist Cristina Scabbia spoke about the "Sleepless Empire" title. She said: "We chose that title because it was representing the times that we are living today. We're always awake, constantly trying to be productive, super connected with the rest of the world, but at the same time, we've never been so disconnected and anxious and feeling that we need to prove something, that we need to be present all the time, because if not, we are forgotten by the rest of the world.

"I am putting myself in the sleepless empire as well, so it's not a criticism," she explained. "It's just a realization, because I am part of that generation that saw it all and saw it coming and saw how fast the technology developed and how big the changes were, so I am trying to take the best out of the past to bring it in the future and the present, because I think that we should take advantage of technology. I mean, the fact that we are talking right now through a screen, it's one of the most beautiful things of technology, because if not, you would have to come to my place or me at yours, or we would have to travel somewhere to meet in person, which would be amazing. But this way, you save time, you can save four hours so you can go spend time with your family and I can go to watch [Italian professionally football club] AC Milan tonight with Andrea [Ferro, LACUNA COIL co-vocalist] at the stadium instead of traveling. So technology is good if used wisely. And I love progress — I love technology and I love to evolve with times — but I think it's cool to remember what the important things really are, because at the end of the day, all the time that we waste in stuff that doesn't really enrich us as persons, it's going to be wasted. So sometimes I try to think about this, even if realistically the first thing that I do when I wake up in the morning is to grab the phone and see the messages and watch the messages and maybe scroll through stories of other people."

Cristina added: "We just need to pay attention. I think that especially with the new generations that never saw it coming and never saw how it was before, they tend to compare to each other. They see beautiful lives in other people's social medias, and they think that that's reality. So sometimes they feel less than they are and they feel depressed and frustrated because they don't feel enough. So at least, just like the fact that I was born earlier kind of gave me a sort of a shelter that it's a sort of a filter that it's, like, okay, I don't need to compare myself to another person because, of course, this is my life. That's their life. And maybe not everything they're showing [is] true. Most probably not everything they're showing [is] 100 percent true. Maybe it is, but who cares? I should look at my life. I should look at what I'm building. I should look at what I'm living. I should look at the people, the real people around me and real life around me. It should be a balance. As everything, you just have to keep the right balance."

Asked if she is guilty of waking up in the morning and picking up her phone immediately and then wasting hours and hours every day just scrolling through social media, Cristina said: "Oh, totally. Totally. I'm guilty, especially in the morning. Not just wasting time, just looking at socials because I also do it as a sort of a study 'cause I wanna see what happens. I'm curious — I'm genuinely curious — so maybe that's not a complete waste of time, 'cause it's still entertaining. What I'm guilty of is that I feel guilty when I want to take time for myself. Now, when [I] get a message, I have the tendency of wanting to reply immediately or I feel guilty. And maybe I should wait. Maybe I shouldn't have so much anxiety if I answer 10 minutes after and I don't reply as soon as I open my eyes. Maybe I should just open my eyes, go in the kitchen, prepare myself a breakfast and then start my day and dedicate it to the work and my mails and everything. Instead, I just grab my phone. I'm just, like, 'Okay, I got a mail. Okay, I've gotta answer. My eyes are still closed, but I'm gonna answer.'

"There is this weird cycle for all of us that we're working hard because we have so many inputs," she continued. "Then we try to detach ourselves and relax watching other stuff on other social medias, thinking that they're entertaining. And they create even more anxiety. So it's a cycle that could be dangerous… But it's not all bad. So the sleepless empire, it's basically an empire with people that never sleep, that [are] always doing stuff, which could be good and could be bad as well."

Inspiration to create "Sleepless Empire" came during the sessions for "Comalies XX" (2022),the acclaimed remake of LACUNA COIL's breakthrough third record "Comalies". Writing and recording took place in northern Italy between Milano (the band's hometown) and Como, where SPVN Studios are located. As with their previous albums, production was done in house with Marco "Maki" Coti Zelati at the helm, and artwork was hand curated by the talented Italian artist Roberto Toderico. Two other very special talents enrich the album, namely the guest vocalists: LAMB OF GOD's Randy Blythe on the song "Hosting The Shadow" and NEW YEARS DAY's Ash Costello on "In The Mean Time".

As a token of the band's love for the gaming world (which we've seen in past endeavors such as their card game "Horns Up" and their collaboration with Zombicide for which they wrote the track "Never Dawn"),the band have created an oracle "game" to be played with custom made dice available only in the box set version of "Sleepless Empire".

The new album is comprised of 11 tracks; each one is a richly textured soundtrack to a specific time and place. With "Sleepless Empire", that place is dark, cinematic, and unmistakably true to the unique characteristics that have given LACUNA COIL such a celebrated entry in the annals of heavy music.

The band previously shared: "'Sleepless Empire' captures, through our eyes, the chaos of a generation trapped in a digital world that never stops, where social media consumes identity and every day pushes us one step closer to becoming soulless zombies. We find ourselves in between, having witnessed a full analogic world and the modern one, confronting the evolution and searching for a true meaning of it all. Throughout every song, the journey is an undercurrent of rebellion, a desperate cry to reclaim oneself in an era that seems to have lost its sense of time and reality."

This past October, Italian guitarist/producer Daniele Salomone confirmed that he has joined LACUNA COIL as the replacement for the band's longtime guitarist Diego Cavallotti.

Salomone made his live debut with LACUNA COIL on August 4, 2024 at the Rockstadt Extreme Fest in Râșnov, Romania.

In June 2024, LACUNA COIL announced Cavallotti's departure. Diego, who joined LACUNA COIL in 2016, initially as a fill-in guitarist following the exit of Marco "Maus" Biazzi, later said in a social media post that "this decision is not the result of my dissatisfaction or desire to explore new opportunities."

Cavallotti and Salomone played together in the Italian metal band INVERNO, which released its debut album, "Stasis", in December 2023.

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