LACUNA COIL's male singer Andrea Ferro has issued the following update:

"I've been very busy with the works on the new LACUNA COIL album that has started taking shape. We feel like we're on the right creative mood but we still wanna write a lot more material before we call it done."

UK rock magazine Kerrang! recently spoke to LACUNA COIL frontwoman Cristina Scabbia about the group's forthcoming CD.

It's still early days for the follow-up to 2006's "Karmacode", with the band still piecing the songs together and seeking the right producer. But the sound, according to Scabbia, will "leave you with your mouths open. We want to experiment, we want to try something completely different, something that will rock your faces more than ever while still being LACUNA COIL."

The as-yet-untitled album is due for release in September 2008.

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Sounds promising! Can't wait to hear new stuff from them.

Thanks for posting.

I hope it won't be Karmacode 2 but that's unlikely considering they want the album to be "spontaneous." I hope that they do another Virtual Environment, Falling Again, Purify, The Ghost Woman and the Hunter and Heaven's A Lie/Swamped. Those tracks are Amazing. Can't wait till September.

Haven't heard anything from them in a while personally and I agree with childofsilence^, who just picked some of my faves. Will check it out if I have the time when it's released.

Karmacode is personally one of the best albums I've ever heard (and yes I've heard a lot of albums, old and new.) I don't have just one favorite or a track I skip, they're all equally perfect.

I hope it's more in the vein of Comalies, that album was perfection IMO. Karmacode was lacking in melody, most of the songs sounded way too similar for my tastes. Comalies was a perfect bridge between their raw, older metal sound, and the newer sound.

According to a posting on "The Lacuna Coil Community", EmptySpiral.net, a track from LACUNA COIL's forthcoming album will be unveiled as a playable song on "Guitar Hero 4: Rocks Gods", due for release in the summer on multiple console formats. This follows on from the success of "Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock", which included LACUNA COIL's song "Closer", taken from the 2006 album "Karmacode".

Though it is speculated that LACUNA COIL will preview new music in a series of live shows later this year, the game will be first time fans will be able to hear the new song, which currently has only a working title of "AF1".

More information can be found on the official "Guitar Hero 4" web site at this location.

In a recent interview, LACUNA COIL's male singer Andrea Ferro stated about the songwriting process for the group's forthcoming album, "This time around, we wanted to get back to jam all together in the practice room but that didn't really work out for us, because we were just not used anymore to jam for hours and then come up with ideas. There are too many elements now in our music to do that, so we tried again to work with the computer and then decide we would work the vocals together in the rehearsal place — me, Marco and Cristina especially — and then the rest of the guys for the music and arrangements. Basically we are all finding some ideas back home, then work the structure of the song in the practice room. Like… go there and let everybody listen your ideas, then decide which part fits the chorus, or fits the bridge or the verse, then re-arrange it together, and this way so far the vocals have been much more fluent and consistent compared to the past; we didn't just incorporate some parts but we tried to build it together and give it a good flow. So we have basically changed the approach. The more we work the more the songs sounds very…tight. The music is very fluent.

"At the moment, we have a couple of more classical ballads — those are more in our style — and then we've got like two or three songs which are more rock-orientated — still heavy, but with a very fluent sound. It's more about the vocals than the music. And then we have another song which is more heavy, and has more focus on the arrangement and the instrumental parts. All the three types of songs we have at the moment are quite different."

Read the entire interview at EmptySpiral.net.

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I wonder what they will have to offer this time. Should be exciting.

This should be exciting. I hope the new track leaks before summer. hehehehe.


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Watch Over You: Alter Bridge feat. Cristina Scabbia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sz-1Kz3lIg

LACUNA COIL's Cristina Scabbia has recorded a guest appearance with ALTER BRIDGE on the latter band's track "Watch Over You", to be released as a single in Europe. The track is now available for streaming on Cristina's MySpace page.

Commented Scabbia: "Finally, the duet I did with the band ALTER BRIDGE for the song 'Watch Over You' is out for you all to listen to... And I really can't tell you all HOW EXCITED I am about it! Hope that you'll enjoy it — at least the half that I do, 'cause I simply LOVE it to bits.

"I always love to perform collaborations with other musicians, especially artists that are writing and performing different kinds of music than what I usually sing, cause that’s the only way for me to learn something new, to challenge myself and grow up as a person and as a singer.

"Live and learn.

"I really want to thank ALTER BRIDGE — Myles, Brian, Mark and Scott — for inviting me to be part of this.

"I'm honored and grateful for the awesome experience."

ALTER BRIDGE issued its second album, titled "Blackbird", last October.

Guitarist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall and drummer Scott Phillips were all previously in CREED, while frontman Myles Kennedy sang for the MAYFIELD FOUR.

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