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Italy
formerly Ethereal, Sleep of Right
1997?-

the band
Cristina Scabbia: vocals
Alice: keyboards (1998)
Andrea Ferra: vocals
Marco Coti Zelati: bass
Raffaele Zagaria: guitar (???-1998)
Claudio Leo: guitar (???-1998)
Leonardo Forti: drums (???-1998)
Cristiano Migliore: guitar (1998-)
Cristiano Mozzati: drums/percussion (1998-)

partial discography
Lacuna Coil EP (1997)
In a Reverie full-length (Century Media 1999)
Unleashed Memories full-length (Century Media 2001)

further reading
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~lacuna/
Official Lacuna Coil website - there's nothing here now, but it promises to be back up "very soon" - check back now and again.

http://www.centurymedia.com/temp/BandDetail.cfm?SID=-529489853&BandID=87
Lacuna Coil at Century Media - a trifle lean....

http://bands.freepage.de/lacunacoil/
"Inofficial fanpage" with more information than the official page and the label page put together. Can't beat love for motivation.

an opinion on Unleashed Memories
Jeb, writing in the Crass Menagerie zine:
"About the only metal genre that is threatening to become as cliché and trite as the Euro-power metal scene is the gothic metal scene. Fortunately there are bands like LACUNA COIL to fall back on. Bands that have texture, depth and dynamics in their music. Bands that use melody like bricks, building solid and luxuriant songs. LACUNA COIL weave music as much as they play it. They construct distinction in their sound rejecting the boring gothic paradigm every chance they get. Comparisons to THE GATHERING are inevitable but in my book that is about as solid a comparison as you can get. In fact, in my book I would say they are like a musical merger of late era SENTENCED, late era PARADISE LOST and the aforementioned THE GATHERING. In other words, nearly perfect."