Lacuna Coil
Explore the band's historical lineups, musicians, and studio albums.
Active8 formations10 studio albums
Formation chronology
Newest first
Formation 8 of 8
Jun 18, 2024 – Present
Members
- Cristina ScabbiaVocals
- Andrea FerroVocals
- Marco Coti ZelatiBass
- Richard MeizDrums
Formation facts
- Diego Cavallotti left on 17 June 2024, as the next album was being written. Scabbia later said the split was not mutual. They had talked. The things they were not agreeing on were not changing. She wanted people who would contribute to the songs and to the life of the band, not only show up, tour, and have fun. Cavallotti said the decision did not come from his dissatisfaction.
- Sleepless Empire is the first Lacuna Coil album with guest vocalists. They asked Randy Blythe because they had been friends since Ozzfest 2004; when he finishes a European tour he still comes to Milan. They asked Ash Costello for a dirtier rock voice, not an operatic one, and she sent back American-style harmonies they said they would not have written themselves.
- In January 2025 Scabbia said Daniele Salomone was not an official new member. They were still testing him on the road. In May 2026, asked why he had first appeared masked, she said they had needed to see whether he could survive a tour; it had gone well, and she said he is in the band now. Despite that endorsement, the band's published Sleepless Empire lineup still lists four musicians, with Salomone credited for guitar engineering.
Studio albums
- Sleepless Empire (Feb 2025)
Formation 7 of 8
May 2019 – Jun 17, 2024
Members
- Cristina ScabbiaVocals
- Andrea FerroVocals
- Diego CavallottiGuitar
- Marco Coti ZelatiBass
- Richard MeizDrums
Formation facts
- Richard Meiz was on tour with Genus Ordinis Dei when Lacuna Coil asked him to record Black Anima. He worked on pre-production from the bus, then had a week to learn the songs before tracking drums at BRX in Milan. Those parts were already finished in May 2019, before Folden told the public he had stepped down.
- On 15 July 2019 Folden told fans he had not played the forthcoming album and would not tour outside the United States. He said he had decided a few months back to step down as full-time drummer. Those drums were already finished. He still called the others family, and he played the US dates that followed.
- Ferro said that between Delirium and Black Anima he and Scabbia had both lost people close to them, and that they still felt those people in their lives. He was reading The Physics of Angels, in which a scientist and a priest argue about spirits. They took the title from the Italian word anima, soul, set against black.
- In early March 2020, home from South America, they found temperature checks at the airport and, within a week, a national lockdown. On 2 March they cancelled Dubai, Bangkok, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, Osaka, Singapore, and Jakarta, and took anger from fans who did not yet see what was coming. Scabbia refused to write lockdown songs. She did not want to attach the band to something she experienced as purely negative.
- For the twentieth anniversary they refused a simple remaster. Comalies had been recorded analog, and they did not have separate files for the keyboard parts, so they sat with the old album and listened until they could rebuild it as the 2022 band. With no separate digital tracks for the original keyboard arrangements, Marco Coti Zelati had to listen back, reconstruct the parts, and effectively rediscover music the band had recorded twenty years earlier.
Studio albums
- Black Anima (Oct 2019)
Formation 6 of 8
Apr 11, 2016 – May 2019
Members
- Cristina ScabbiaVocals
- Andrea FerroVocals
- Diego CavallottiGuitar
- Marco Coti ZelatiBass
- Ryan FoldenDrums
Formation facts
- Diego Cavallotti's first Lacuna Coil show was 30 April 2016 at Pulp Summer Slam in Quezon City, a stadium festival and the band's first night in the Philippines. Ferro later said it was a jump from local dates to something like twenty-five thousand people, and that Cavallotti made fewer mistakes that night than the rest of the band. Philippine coverage of the same festival put the crowd in the tens of thousands.
Formation 5 of 8
Jan 15, 2016 – Apr 10, 2016
Members
- Cristina ScabbiaVocals
- Andrea FerroVocals
- Marco Coti ZelatiBass
- Ryan FoldenDrums
Formation facts
- Marco Biazzi left on 14 January 2016, before Delirium was finished. Ferro called it the record without their own guitar player, because Coti Zelati produced it and played the rhythm guitars. They then asked friends for leads, including Myles Kennedy, Mark Vollelunga, and Diego Cavallotti, and ended up with more guitar solos than on any earlier Lacuna Coil album.
- They had already visited an abandoned hospital near Milan out of curiosity, walking empty corridors and thinking about the people who had been there. When they landed on the word delirium for a chorus, that visit became the record's image: a fictional sanatorium, each song a different room. They did not name the building, and they were not writing a medical report.
Studio albums
- Delirium (May 2016)
Formation 4 of 8
Feb 15, 2014 – Jan 14, 2016
Members
- Cristina ScabbiaVocals
- Andrea FerroVocals
- Marco BiazziGuitar
- Marco Coti ZelatiBass
- Ryan FoldenDrums
Formation facts
- After the retirements Scabbia said they wanted to stay four. They were not auditioning. Maus covered both guitar parts on his own, and she liked the extra punch of hearing one guitar instead of two hiding each other.
- Folden continued performing with the band after the 2014 retirements because he already knew the songs from the 2012 and 2013 tours. In April 2014 Scabbia still described him as not a stable member. In December 2015, while Delirium was being recorded, Century Media called him the new American drummer and noted that he had been touring with the band since 2012. No public join day sits between those two statements.
Formation 3 of 8
Jan 1999 – Feb 14, 2014
Members
- Cristina ScabbiaVocals
- Andrea FerroVocals
- Cristiano MiglioreGuitar
- Marco BiazziGuitar
- Marco Coti ZelatiBass
- Cristiano MozzatiDrums
Formation facts
- Boston's WAAF added Heaven's a Lie in July 2003 and invited them in to play it live on the air. By late October Century Media listed the song on more than sixty-five US commercial rock stations. In July 2004, while they were on Ozzfest, the label said Heaven's a Lie and Swamped had been taken up by nearly a hundred commercial stations. Earlier that year the Heaven's a Lie video had hit number one on Fuse's viewer-vote Oven Fresh, ahead of Britney Spears, Pink, and Maroon 5.
- Scabbia later said the Ozzfest merch tents sold more Lacuna Coil CDs than anyone except Slipknot, and that this was when they started living off the music. Century Media's September 2004 statement claimed the same weekly ranking and said Comalies had passed 150,000 US SoundScan. A Billboard report filed during the tour was more cautious: among second-stage acts they were behind only Slipknot and Atreyu, both of whom had newer records.
- On 3 December 2005 they filmed Our Truth in the Hollywood Hills, the first video Scabbia has called super-professional. It was freezing. Fake snow fell while she turned a Japanese-style parasol, a nod to the shamisen intro. The crew told them not to wander in the dark because of mountain lions and coyotes; she remembered hearing howling.
- Covering Enjoy the Silence was Scabbia's idea. She wanted a version that people might mistake for a Lacuna Coil song. Recording a cover did not require the original band's blessing, but an official video did, and Depeche Mode gave it.
- Shallow Life was meant as a joke about a superficial world. The pictures showed Scabbia as a pop princess and Ferro as a rapper, and a lot of listeners thought the band had actually changed. Scabbia later said that was a bigger mistake than the music: the songs were fine, the image fought the point.
- They wrote My Spirit the same night they learned Peter Steele had died. Type O Negative had been a model for them, and they had toured with the band. Scabbia later paired that song with One Cold Day as the two tributes she would not separate.
- Claudio Leo, a founding guitarist, died in January 2013. Ferro said they had known him since they were teenagers in the same Milan metal bars, not only as a bandmate. Coti Zelati wrote the music for One Cold Day; the lyrics treat life and death as the same passage, rain and weather included, so the song would remember Leo rather than catalogue the illness.
- When Mozzati stayed home after the birth of his daughter, his drum tech, Ryan Folden, played the 2012 and 2013 tours. Mozzati remained the official drummer and recorded Broken Crown Halo. Folden was not a new hire. He already knew the songs and the bus.
- On 14 February 2014 Cristiano Migliore and Cristiano Mozzati retired. Scabbia said there was no fight: they could no longer live the months away from home, and it was probably the friendliest split in the band's history. The remaining four did not open auditions.
Studio albums
- Broken Crown Halo (Mar 2014)
- Dark Adrenaline (Jan 2012)
- Shallow Life (Apr 2009)
- Karmacode (Apr 2006)
- Comalies (Sep 2002)
- Unleashed Memories (Jan 2001)
Formation 2 of 8
Jan 1998 – Jan 1999
Members
- Cristina ScabbiaVocals
- Andrea FerroVocals
- Cristiano MiglioreGuitar
- Marco Coti ZelatiBass
- Cristiano MozzatiDrums
Formation facts
- After the three departures they rebuilt with guitarist Cristiano Migliore, from Thy Nature, and drummer Cristiano Mozzati, from Time Machine, and that five-piece recorded In a Reverie. On the 1998 European tour with The Gathering, Migliore was injured and Node's Steve Minelli covered guitar. Scabbia shared the stage with Anneke van Giersbergen on more than one night.
Studio albums
- In a Reverie (Jun 1999)
Formation 1 of 8
1997 – Jan 1998
Members
- Cristina ScabbiaVocals
- Andrea FerroVocals
- Raffaele ZagariaGuitar
- Claudio LeoGuitar
- Marco Coti ZelatiBass
- Leonardo FortiDrums
Formation facts
- In 1997 they mailed cassette demos to labels from Milan, a city with almost no metal industry. Century Media faxed back, and the label's boss flew in to meet them at Cristina Scabbia's brother's clothing shop, where she worked. There were no chairs, so they sat on the floor among the racks of hip-hop and dark clothes while customers interrupted. The label signed them still calling themselves Ethereal; a Greek band already had that name, so they became Lacuna Coil, empty spiral.
- Their first tour was December 1997, supporting Moonspell around Europe before the debut EP was out, including a 15 December night at Camden's Underworld that an independent attendee still records as their first UK show under the Lacuna Coil name. After only three shows, guitarists Raffaele Zagaria and Claudio Leo and drummer Leonardo Forti left. Scabbia later said they continued as a three-piece with help from other Century Media musicians.