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 buddy Cristina Scabbia for her 53rd birthday by presenting her with a birthday cake. Additionally they led the viewers in a spirited “Completely satisfied Birthday” sing-along to mark the LACUNA COIL frontwoman’s newest journey across the solar. Video of their look may be seen beneath.
Earlier this yr, Scabbia was requested by Belgian Jasper how she initially felt about being featured on the duvet of the February 2006 difficulty of Revolver the place she was additionally included within the journal’s “The Hottest Chicks In Steel” article. She stated: “The factor is that I by no means noticed the malice in it. I at all times thought that it is truly a really highly effective factor for a girl to be female. I really like girls energy. I like to be empowered by who I’m, and I do not wish to conceal myself as a result of I am a lady and if I present my legs meaning I am price 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 most important honor as a result of it was the primary time {that a} journal, an American journal, would give a lady 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 girls may 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 distinct world earlier than LACUNA COIL — I used to be listening to a variety of dance and R&B music, so, for me, it was already regular to see girls enjoying music and singing. It was nothing new. Steel 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 totally different factor or I’m totally different or I am price much less as a result of I am a lady. So it was by no means my private downside. It’s true that notion of individuals — you must cope with it. You need to anticipate a response. All the pieces you do, every thing you say, you must anticipate 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 girls wish to do with their physique — it is as much as them, and I am not going to evaluate them, however for certain you must 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 certain that each girl included in these Revolver journal ‘Hottest Chicks In Steel’ had been proficient as effectively. So not less than we bought consideration again then. And I imply, it occurred to women as effectively to take a look at a singer as a result of he was sizzling or thought of attractive a singer. So no matter. If you need to use it as a software to get consideration and also you’re okay with it, so long as it is your resolution, 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 had 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. Steel was nonetheless a no-no for females, as a result of it was a really male-dominated scene. Which it nonetheless is, however after all there are various extra bands with a feminine within the lineup, which makes me completely happy regardless that we’re nonetheless seen in another way. I do not assume that it’s going to ever occur that we’re going to be seen equally, and partially it’s okay like this as a result of we’re totally different. I believe that we’re kind of a distinct 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 girls, it is type of like… As an instance for the fellows, if they’ve the look, it is a plus. For girls, if they’ve the look, it is a plus by way of media consideration; it is a plus by way of — I do not know — individuals drooling with you; nevertheless it would not essentially add as much as the potential you have already got. And that may 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 simply see, however it’ll cool if it will likely be doable to transcend that, particularly in music, the place the instrument you play, the voice you are pushing out of your physique and the sentiments you are making an attempt to convey together with your music are an important issues.”
LACUNA COIL‘s newest album, “Sleepless Empire”, was launched in February by way of Century Media Data.
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 reside 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 stated in a social media submit that “this resolution 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.
