March 23 2014
HARD ROCK INTERVIEWS 2014 - LACUNA COIL VOCALIST - ABDREA FERRO
LACUNA COIL Andrea Ferro spoke to Mark Rockpit about the great new album 'Broken Crown Halo' and recent line-up changes. he checks in from the middle of the current US Tour!
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Lacuna Coil is busy in the midst of their current US Tour, then it's on to Mexico and South America to mark the first outing for material from the excellent new album 'Broken Crown Halo'. |
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Andrea: Usually, we like to talk about real life, so we have in mind certain topics, but then they’re not necessarily going to end up in the songs. When we demo the vocals we have already come up with some words and sentences, that make sense, so they kind of give you the direction already, and sometimes you have to go with the flow. This time around there has been a lot of comparison between the metaphors and between the real life stories; we have been using a lot of mixed metaphors, like in “Die & Rise” we talk about werewolves and vampires, but the song talks about the fact that you have to be adaptable and regenerate yourself to every experience, whether that be positive or negative, you have to adapt to be a better person. So, we use a lot of these with zombies, and other horror characters, which is always the base of our lyrics.
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Andrea: Marco wrote the music, after we lost our first guitar player Claudio Leo who we’d know since we were kids. When I was 16 or 17 we used to hang out in the same Metal bars, and he was a friend not just a fellow musician. So it’s been very tough, and that song has a very special meaning for us we wrote the lyrics imagining life as a natural passage, we had lots of natural images like the rain and other forces of nature because at the end of the day life and death are both part of the same game, you can’t have one without the other. And even though no one is ever ready to face it you have to kind of let it go. So we wanted to celebrate his life, his friendship and let him know he will be someone who will always be with us.
Andrea: Yes, our ex-drummer together with Marco look after the design, we like to keep all the new media fresh and they do a great job! We have a lot of input and we like to keep all the ‘new media’ like Facebook and Instagram looking good and up-to-date. It’s an extra job these days.
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Andrea: Yeah it’s getting harder for sure. But that’s for music in general not just Rock. The problem is that the system has been changing so rapidly that people are unsure. Record sales are gone, and people don’t know whether they should buy or download, or stream it. And people are now trying new ways to make revenue for their bands; it’s a very experimental moment of confusion where not many people know where to go. We were lucky that we formed when bands were still putting out records and could get a certain following and grow up on our own, become better musicians while still having support. Now if you don’t make it at the first attempt it’s very hard to make it as a band. The other problem is that so many bands are just trying to sound like what is popular at the moment, and that’s an issue for future generations.
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Mark: If you could have been a ‘Fly on the wall’ for the creation of any great album from any period, just to see how the magic happened and it all came together, what would it have been for you any why?
Andrea Ferro spoke to Mark Diggins March 2014 |
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