Lacuna Coil
Give all proper credit to the Italians: They know how to do Horror. Drenched in centuries of Roman Catholic imagery, symbolism, mysticism, and genetically deep-rooted guilt, they take to the genre like piranhas to murky water. Italian act, Lacuna Coil, debuted in 1998, and they made an immediate splash in the international goth slash metal slash whatzit scene, with a bombastic doom ‘n’ gloom approach, both anchored and elevated by the enticing vocals of lead singer Cristina Scabbia. Lacuna Coil (the name translates to English as “Empty Spiral”) present a brand of straight-ahead hard rock that stands out thanks to Scabbia, who injects a mainline dose of operatic atmospherics into a genre perpetually in the terminal stages of adolescent... Read More
- Genre:
- Rock, Gothic/Industrial
- City Of Origin:
- Milan, Italy
- Formed Date:
- 1994
