Throughout LACUNA COIL‘s live performance at Metalfest in Plzeň, Czech Republic on Friday (June 6),Sharon Den Adel of WITHIN TEMPTATION and Simone Simons of EPICA got here on stage to shock their colleague and good friend Cristina Scabbia for her 53rd birthday by presenting her with a birthday cake. In addition they led the viewers in a spirited “Completely happy Birthday” sing-along to mark the LACUNA COIL frontwoman’s newest journey across the solar. Video of their look could be seen under.
Earlier this yr, Scabbia was requested by Belgian Jasper how she initially felt about being featured on the quilt of the February 2006 concern of Revolver the place she was additionally included within the journal’s “The Hottest Chicks In Metallic” article. She mentioned: “The factor is that I by no means noticed the malice in it. I all the time thought that it is truly a really highly effective factor for a girl to be female. I like ladies energy. I like to be empowered by who I’m, and I do not wish to disguise myself as a result of I am a girl and if I present my legs meaning I am value much less. That is not my downside. So once I truly went on that cowl of Revolver journal, as a result of I used to be the very first girl to to truly seem on that cowl, for me, it was simply the largest honor as a result of it was the primary time {that a} journal, an American journal, would give a girl the pleasure of being on a canopy. So for me, it was one thing that blew my thoughts again then.”
Cristina continued: “I used to be simply completely happy if extra ladies might come on board of this women-fronted, the female-fronted band [movement], stuff like that, even when that is a definition that I by no means preferred. Perhaps as a result of I used to be coming from a special world earlier than LACUNA COIL — I used to be listening to loads of dance and R&B music, so, for me, it was already regular to see ladies enjoying music and singing. It was nothing new. Metallic was predominantly adopted by guys as a result of it was a extra aggressive and heavy sound, however I by no means checked out myself because the completely different component or I’m completely different or I am value much less as a result of I am a girl. So it was by no means my private downside. It’s true that notion of individuals — you need to take care of it. You need to count on a response. Every part you do, every thing you say, you need to count on a response. And I might by no means go over the road, displaying myself, however that is as a result of I do not wish to do it. However I do not care about what different individuals wish to do, different ladies wish to do with their physique — it is as much as them, and I am not going to guage them, however for positive you need to put together to a response as quickly as you do one thing. It is discouraging that they solely see the look of it, however I am additionally positive that each girl included in these Revolver journal ‘Hottest Chicks In Metallic’ have been gifted as properly. So a minimum of we received consideration again then. And I imply, it occurred to women as properly to have a look at a singer as a result of he was scorching or thought of attractive a singer. So no matter. If you should utilize it as a software to get consideration and also you’re okay with it, so long as it is your determination, you are able to do no matter you need.”
Two years in the past, Cristina was requested as a part of Jonathan Montenegro‘s “My 3 Questions To” collection if she believes that girls are being taken extra critically within the metallic scene than they have been three many years in the past when her band was first shaped. She responded: “Do I really feel that issues modified? Completely, sure. After I began, there weren’t so many bands with a feminine within the lineup. Metallic was nonetheless a no-no for females, as a result of it was a really male-dominated scene. Which it nonetheless is, however in fact there are various extra bands with a feminine within the lineup, which makes me completely happy regardless that we’re nonetheless seen in a different way. I do not assume that it’ll ever occur that we’re going to be seen equally, and partially it’s okay like this as a result of we’re completely different. I believe that we’re kind of a special world.
“What I do not like about being a feminine in a male-dominated world is the truth that fairly often we’re judged by our appears to be like, which I get it; many guys get the identical,” she continued. “However for ladies, it is sort of like… As an instance for the blokes, if they’ve the look, it is a plus. For ladies, if they’ve the look, it is a plus when it comes to media consideration; it is a plus when it comes to — I do not know — individuals drooling with you; but it surely does not essentially add as much as the potential you have already got. And that could be a disgrace, as a result of individuals shouldn’t be judged by their appears to be like. I perceive that the look is very first thing that you just see, however it is going to cool if it is going to be potential to transcend that, particularly in music, the place the instrument you play, the voice you are pushing out of your physique and the emotions you are making an attempt to convey along with your music are an important issues.”
LACUNA COIL‘s newest album, “Sleepless Empire”, was launched in February by way of Century Media Information.
Final October, Italian guitarist/producer Daniele Salomone confirmed that he has joined LACUNA COIL because the alternative for the band’s longtime guitarist Diego Cavallotti.
Salomone made his dwell debut with LACUNA COIL on August 4, 2024 on the Rockstadt Excessive Fest in Râșnov, Romania.
In June 2024, LACUNA COIL introduced Cavallotti‘s departure. Diego, who joined LACUNA COIL in 2016, initially as a fill-in guitarist following the exit of Marco “Maus” Biazzi, later mentioned in a social media submit that “this determination just isn’t the results of my dissatisfaction or need to discover new alternatives.”
Cavallotti and Salomone performed collectively within the Italian metallic band INVERNO, which launched its debut album, “Stasis”, in December 2023.
