Lacuna Coil - Within Me
Added 2025-04-04 15:00:15 +0000 UTCHola familia!
It sucks that my brother and I did a video and it immediately got blocked.
My editor was up until 5AM trying to get this video to work and this one is slightly lowered opacity, but at least you can still see the video and such.
Also, shout out to my editor, Neenx, for doing the work he does. He's a former student from the high school band I work with and he's currently a college student studying film and editing.
Anyway, I knew about Lacuna Coil because my brother never shuts up about them, so I guess today was the day we ripped the band-aid off!
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The band was technically born from a different group, Sleep of Right, founded by bassist/primary composer Marco Coti Zelati (aka. Maki) and male vocalist Andrea Ferro (aka. Andi) back in '94, Cristina Scabbia joined in '95 and they morphed into Ethereal which became Lacuna Coil (which translates as Empty Spiral) when they signed to Century Media in '97 (as the name Ethereal was already taken by a Greek band). Their early albums had more of a European gothic metal flavour, borrowing stylistically from groups like Paradise Lost, Moonspell (Portuguese band they toured with) and The Gathering (the OG female fronted gothic/symphonic metal band for whom they were opening act several times, featuring a young Anneke Van Giersbergen, who you might know separately from her Devin Townsend collaborations). You'll also hear the influence in places of Type O Negative who they toured with in 2003. Their first three albums, In A Reverie, Unleashed Memories and Comalies still sound pretty timeless when I hear them today (they redid their '02 breakthrough Comalies for it's 20th anniversary as Comalies XX with newer arrangements, but I'm so used to the originals it doesn't sound quite right) . They built up a following in the US in the early 00s through relentless touring, primarily via Ozzfest and the American metal influences gradually bled into their sound as they fully embraced using 7 string guitars. This song/album would be from the middle of the 'classic' era lineup that was stable & unchanged from '98-'14. I was involved in the fledgling UK street team for the band whilst I was at university, which included the 'An Evening with...' tour where they'd open for themselves with an acoustic set and the Karmacode tour that followed, got to hang out with the band several times which was slightly surreal. Kinda fell out of touch with them musically over the last decade or so when they changed guitarists & drummers and moved away a little from their earlier sound. But checked back in more recently through old contacts, seeing them live again last October and catching up with Maki after the show with folk who'd followed them throughout that intervening time.
Andrew Hellebrand
2025-04-08 00:10:02 +0000 UTCGreat suggestion from Mark. Sounds really interesting.
Juan San
2025-04-06 17:43:10 +0000 UTC
