Lacuna Coil is gearing up for the extensive "HardDrive Live Tour," a 43-date North American fall tour beginning September 22 in Albany, NY and wrapping November 17 in Toronto, ON. The band will bring their soaring hard rock, distinctive female-male vocal dynamic and alluring atmospherics—as highlighted on their current and fifth full-length album Shallow Life (Century Media Records) - to such markets as New York City, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Calgary, Minneapolis, Gainesville, Baltimore, and Hartford. The HardDrive Live Tour also features All That Remains, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, From Sword To Sunrise (1st leg), and Taking Dawn (2nd leg).
Formed in 1994 in Milan, Italy,
Lacuna Coil -
Cristina Scabbia (vocals),
Andrea Ferro (vocals),
Cristiano "
Pizza"
Migliore (guitar),
Marco "
Maus"
Biazzi (guitar),
Marco "
Maki"
Coti Zelati (bass), and
Cristiano "
Criz"
Mozzati (drums) - have sold over one million albums to date. With
Shallow Life - produced by
Don Gilmore (Linkin Park, Pearl Jam) - the band have undoubtedly proven that they are one of hard rock’s most successful artists; the album debuted at #16 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, marking their highest Billboard chart entry.
Alternative Press noted, "Shallow Life is simply infectious" (May 2009), while Outburn raved, "With Shallow Life, Italy’s Lacuna Coil have become an international powerhouse" (May 2009).
In other news, Lacuna Coil’s Fuel TV performance debuted last week, and performances of "I Won’t Tell You" and "Spellbound" can be seen here.