Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil
Sleep of Right
Lacuna Coil, briefly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, are a symphonic/ gothic/ melodic metal band formed in Milan, Italy. They usually count their existence as a band from 1998, when they adopted their present name on signing with Century Media and began to record their debut full-length album, In A Reverie, with four of the six members of what was to become their most long-term core line-up, lead vocalists Andrea Ferro and Cristina Scabbia, composer/bass guitarist and sometime keyboard player Marco “Maki” Coti Zelati, drummer/percussionist Cristiano “CriZ” Mozzati, and guitarists Cristiano “Pizza” Migliore and soon-to-be-added second guitarist Marco “Maus” Biazzi.
Early members who performed with them under previous names and/or recorded with them on the Lacuna Coil EP, released in the early months of 1998, included the late Claudio Leo (also of Cayne, who died in 2013, and to whose memory the song One Cold Day was later dedicated), Raffaele Zagaria, Leonardo Forti and Michelangelo Algardi.
Probably Italy’s best-known modern-day musical export, they bore a huge part in pioneering and popularising the melodic metal blend of “beauty and the beast” style vocals with their male and female lead singers, were the first female-fronted or co-fronted band to be asked to play the main stage at Ozzfest in 2006, and have enjoyed sustained success across both Europe and the United States for well over a decade.