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Interview with Cristina of Lacuna Coil

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Baltimore MD
September 27th 2017

Tonight Baltimore, MD was given an early Christmas gift in the form of a rock concert. Putting together two iconic bands Epica and Lacuna Coil.

Empire Extreme talked one on one with singer Cristina Scabbia before Lacua Coil’s set. Which was one interview I have always wanted to do.

Empire: How is the Tour going with Epica?

Cristina: The tour is going excellent so far. We still have a few gigs to go, and I’m sad because I’m enjoying it a lot. We knew the Epica guys and girl before, so it just made our friendship even stronger.

Empire: How has the response been for Delirium ? Last time we talked to you guys the album hadn’t been released yet?

Cristina: It has been really good. We have been able to keep the old school fans and and make some new fans, and they all agree on our music. We wanted to do something that we liked and that we’re excited about doing. The theme for the album was so intense.

Empire: To me it’s the best album along with Comalies.

Cristina: I can agree with that, everything was perfect all together. Everything just fell into place perfectly.

Empire: How has it been working with Andrea and Marco for so long?

Cristina: Its always fun. We know how the process works and we know how to deal with each other. It’s a lot of work and conversations and sometimes you “fight” about it. We record and come up with ideas in Marco’s studio.

Empire: How do you feel about being on the list of Hottest Female Metal singers?

Cristina: I smile about it. I don’t get offended by it. I get flattered. I know who I am. I don’t represent myself in a slutty way, so if someone finds me attractive I take it as a compliment. At the same time I don’t look at myself as an object only, because I know what I can offer with my voice and performance. I remember being the first woman on the cover of Revolver Magazine, when they started that issue.

Empire: Have you had any bad fan experiences?

Cristina: I’ve had a few stalkers, but nothing really dangerous. Sometimes fan love you so much but they don’t understand that you don’t know them because you meet so many fans.

Empire: I’ve seen that you’re a Star Wars fan.

Cristina: I am! I love the costumes and the Empire and just the themes of the movies,. I love the way they created it.

Empire: I saw online that you guys were brought onstage by Stormtroopers, how did that happen?

Cristina: We did a Metal Cruise, and we were doing a signing. All of a sudden I see a Stormtrooper in line. I flipped out because I’m a big kid when it’s comes to strange and peculiar stuff. I met this guy Lewis from San Antonio. I stayed in touch with him. We played the show there again this tour and I recognized him and went to talk to him. He told me he had a surprise for me in Dallas. We were playing there the next day. So I’m in Dallas doing an interview and Marco comes in with two Stormtroopers, and one was my friend and the other guy was part of the 501 Legend. We took pictures and I tried on the costume. I tried on one of the helmets and cut my nose and it was bleeding. So we decided that we do a pre arrest with them bringing us on stage and released us for the show. We thought that was fun and brought something special to the stage.

Empire: Lacuna Coil did a cover for Madonna’s “Live To Tell” for the latest album. How did that get chosen to do?

Cristina: Long story short. When I was a little girl I loved Madonna. Still do. When it started to rain I would sing “Live to Tell”. I was convinced it would stop raining before I finished it and it always did. So I use to sing it to keep sadness away. For my birthday before we released the album, Marco’s girlfriend had a great idea for Marco to rewrite the song and give her the Zip drive with it on it. I got this for my birthday and when I heard the song I started crying, I thought it was the sweetest thought ever. Someone had listened to my story and it was so personal. I liked it so much, we decided to put it on the record.

 

Later that night Lacuna Coil came out with their amazing stage costumes and just killed it. Playing a lot of songs of the latest album Delirium and throwing in a few classic Coil songs in as well. I have seen Lacuna Coil since Comalies album came out and still just as good if not better. Cristina came out during Epica’s set and did a song with Simone. They are such an amazing band to see live, and by far one of my favorites because they don’t do that rockstar bullshit. They keep it real and communicate with the fans 100%. Next year is the 20th Anniversary of the band and I can’t wait to see what we have in store for that.

 

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Where does the band name come from? Wanting to be the best version of yourself at all times. The name is a reminder to hold ourselves accountable.

How is the music scene in Michigan? The Michigan music scene has always been vibrant and in my opinion, important. Do we get the credit we deserve? Absolutely not. But for the state that brought you Motown, Eminem, Lizzo, The White Stripes, I Prevail and so many other incredible artists – it’s kind of hard to believe that Michigan remains a hidden gem.

How’s the reception from the fans of the latest album “Omen”? It’s been incredible. From seeing people singing along at shows to us seeing new supporters of all different ages, colors, and creeds joining the journey. Omen has been a pivotal album in our career and we’re proud of it!

If you could tour with 2 bands, which bands would you want to tour with? Spiritbox and Bad Omens. They’re both making waves, changing who the metal audience is, and surely they’d be fun to hang around with.

Where do you draw inspiration for the lyrics? Honestly, the lyrics are our stories. The stories of our struggles, our trials and our tribulations.

What’s been your favorite tour or show? We just got off of a tour with our labelmates, Any Given Day. They treated us to a handful of sold out shows over in Europe, which at this point we call our second home. Those were great shows, but any show we’ve done in Europe is typically one for the books!

If you could bring back a dead musician, who would it be? Prince for sure. An incredible musician I would love an opportunity to chat or make music with!

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INTERVIEW WITH TWIN TEMPLE

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Being Married and being in a band together. Do you feel that makes it easier or harder?

We love to do the Devil’s work together so for us its a match made in hell. 

What’s your favorite horror movie?

That’s hard to narrow down but the first few that come to mind are Rosemary’s Baby, The Devil Rides Out, Wickerman, The Devils Reign featuring Anton Lavey, Mario Bava’s Black Sunday, anything starring Vincent Price. We also got to see an advance screen of “Late Night with the Devil” featuring a very evil performance from our friend Dave Dastmalchian. We’re also looking forward to Bryan Fuller’s “Dust Bunny” and are positive it will be a new favorite. The list goes on…..we are huge horror fans.

Favorite Non Horror Movie?

Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (which is horror/noir adjacent) and The Burbs (also horror adjacent…haha.)

All of Quentin Tarantino’s films- our latest favorite is Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, because 1960’s LA…

What misconception of Satanists would you like to educate people on?

We’re not here to proselytize, force our beliefs on people, or educate people on them Selves, Satanism or anything else. If people are interested in exploring Satanism, we encourage them to do their research and question everything. 

If you could bring back any dead musician, who would you pick and why?

We would have loved to do a song with Ronnie Spector who recently passed. Also would have been amazing to collaborate with Jack Nitzsche who arranged so many amazing songs. 

If you could tour with any 2 bands, who would you want to tour with?

The Ronnettes & The Shangri-Las.

What has been your Favorite Tour so far?

The God is Dead Tour that we’re currently on is definitely the most evil and blasphemous tour yet. We find it very pleasurable to be able to continue expanding the rituals and seeing our nightmares come true on stage.  

You were on “Dragula” with the Boulet Brothers, how was that experience?

It was a fiendish delight to collaborate with some of our fav monsters. 

What was it like Touring with Danzig?

Another nightmare come true! We’ve both been fans for a long time and we’re obviously inspired by the wicked world Glenn has conjured. So to get to spend time with him and watch him live every night and to now call him a friend is completely surreal. He’s a legend— but was also one of the coolest, kindest, most unholy people we’ve had the carnal pleasure of touring with. 

How’s the reception of the last album “God is Dead”?

Personally, we love the record and are very proud of what we’ve accomplished. As far as other peoples’ reactions…. we don’t know and don’t care! We pleasured ourselves and that’s what matters most.

What got you interested in the style of music you play? And how would describe your music?

We’ve always loved classic American music from jazz to blues to country to rock and roll and so on. We also love the pageantry of heavy metal and theatre. So for us it was a very organic culmination of our obsessions. Rock and roll has always been the devils music. 

Have you visited the Satanic Temple in Massachusetts?

No we have not but Lucien did attend one of our rituals so we had a chance to share where we get our babies blood and all things Satan. 

Have you had any bad encounters at shows because of the misconception of satanism?

No! We purposefully foster a live show environment where all are welcome, all should come being the most important person in the world which is themselves, whatever that may be. Even Christians! We believe music is meant to bring joy, transcendence… We just want to share the things we love; pink, rhinestones, big hair, great rock ’n’ roll, Satanic ritual, you know…  but we have had churches assemble outside our shows, screaming through distorted PA speakers that God is not dead & wishing us all a “terrible time”.  Why would their God not want us to have fun? This kind of behavior is only makes us more proud to be who we are and do what we love.

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EMPIRE EXTREME GOT TO SIT DOWN AND TALK TO ARI LEHMAN OF FIRST JASON AND TALK ABOUT STARTING THE CULT OF JASON VORHEES FANS

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