LACUNA COIL To Celebrate 20th Anniversary Of ‘Comalies’ With Special One-Night-Only Concert

Italian heavy rockers LACUNA COIL will have a good time the twentieth anniversary of their third studio album, “Comalies”, by performing it in its entirety at a one-night-only live performance on Saturday, October 15 at Fabrique in Milano.

Pre-sale tickets will likely be out there through Metalitalia from tomorrow (Tuesday, Might 10) at 10.00 CET. Basic on-sale will likely be Friday, Might 13 at 10.00 CET.

LACUNA COIL‘s third album, “Comalies” was launched on October 29, 2002 by way of Century Media Information. The LP, which featured the band’s breakthrough single “Heaven’s A Lie”, has reportedly gone on to promote over 300,000 copies in america alone.

Concerning the “Comalies” title, LACUNA COIL lead singer Cristina Scabbia mentioned: “[During the album’s recording], we had a kind of artistic explosion. We had been working in a coma, kind of like in a special dimension. To begin with we simply needed to make use of the phrase ‘coma’ however there was one thing lacking so we performed with the 2 phrases coma and lies.”

The “Comalies” tune “Swamped” is obtainable as a downloadable observe for the music online game sequence “Rock Band” and in addition appeared within the 2004 online game “Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines”.

LACUNA COIL performed its first present in entrance of an viewers in additional than two years on April 7 because the help act for APOCALYPTICA on the Masquerade in Atlanta, Georgia.

Previous to the Atlanta live performance, the final time LACUNA COIL performed collectively was on the group’s particular September 2020 livestream occasion the place the bandmembers carried out their newest album, “Black Anima”, in its entirety with no viewers in attendance on the Alcatraz Membership in Milan, Italy. That present was launched as a reside album, “Stay From The Apocalypse”, through Century Media.

LACUNA COIL hadn’t performed in entrance of a crowd because the completion of the band’s South American tour in February 2020.

Three months in the past, LACUNA COIL mentioned that it had entered the studio to start recording “a really particular challenge.” No additional particulars have been made out there.

Final June, Scabbia instructed Revolver that she and her bandmates did not use the coronavirus downtime to work on new music. “We did not need to power the truth that as a result of we had been residence, we needed to write music,” she defined. “We at all times thought that to put in writing music, it’s essential to be impressed. And inspiration comes from the surface, comes from experiences that you’ve, issues that you just reside. At the very least that is legitimate for us.

“Every thing we do in an everyday life, in a standard life enriches us and offers us enter that we will put in our music,” she mentioned. “And in addition we like to put in writing collectively. So, if Marco [Coti Zelati, bass] creates the premise of the music along with the opposite musicians within the band, then Andrea [Ferro, vocals] and I leap in with the lyrics and vocal traces. However we try this collectively. We have to enter in songwriting mode. So we did not actually like the truth that we needed to write individually simply because we’ve to place a file [together] as a result of it is quarantine. Now we’re beginning to accumulate concepts ‘trigger we really feel just a little bit happier.”

Scabbia continued: “We did not need something linked to the negativity of the pandemic… That is why I used my time to do one thing fully completely different. As a result of I do know that what I did that it is fully completely different from what I often do will make me begin once more to do what I did earlier than with ardour — with the identical ardour. I used to be simply afraid that if I’d have used all of the downtime making music once I did not actually need to, it will have had a adverse affect on me. And it will have been, like, ‘I actually do not need to try this.’ And I additionally needed to show to myself that, yeah, music is foremost ardour. I really like what I do for a residing, and I hope that I can do it till the day I die. However I additionally needed to indicate myself that I might be able to doing one thing else as effectively.”

In February 2021, LACUNA COIL took half in an initiative dubbed “L’Ultimo Concerto?” (Final Live performance) to spotlight the more and more unsure way forward for music venues. As an alternative of delivering reside performances as a part of a scheduled free digital stream, every of round 130 Italian artists was filmed taking the stage at a special venue after which standing there in silence as a means of commemorating the one-year mark because the first Italian venues closed.