LACUNA COIL

LACUNA COIL
Biography

Lacuna Coil is a heavy metal band from Milan, Italy. The singer Andrea Ferro and the bassist Marco Coti Zelati started it in the early 1990s, and Cristina Scabbia joined as a second lead voice, so that a man and a woman singing side by side became the band's signature. A demo made under the name Ethereal won the band a deal with Century Media Records in 1996, when it became Lacuna Coil, and every album since has come out on that label. The third album, Comalies (2002), took off in the United States after the band played Ozzfest in 2004 and became the first Century Media release to pass 100,000 copies there. Dark Adrenaline (2012) reached No. 15 on the Billboard 200, and in 2018 Metal Hammer's Golden Gods named Lacuna Coil the best live band. Rooted in gothic metal, the band's sound grew heavier from Delirium (2016) on, and Sleepless Empire (2025) is its tenth studio album.

Before the name: Sleep of Right and Ethereal (1993-1996)

The two singers, Cristina Scabbia and Andrea Ferro, first crossed paths in the early 1990s at The Midnight, a metal bar in Milan. What became Lacuna Coil started in 1993 with Sleep of Right, a band in which Ferro sang alongside Marco Coti Zelati, later Lacuna Coil's bassist and chief songwriter (Louder, 2025). The band itself counts 1994 as the year it was formed, and marked its 25th anniversary in 2019 (Blabbermouth, 2020). Its early guitarists included Claudio Leo and Raffaele Zagaria (Loudwire, 2013).

Scabbia was Coti Zelati's girlfriend and a regular at the band's rehearsals, and she already had some studio experience as an uncredited voice on records produced by DJ friends. Asked to sing on a trial basis, she won the band over. The plan had been to keep her in the background as a backing singer; instead the contrast between her voice and Ferro's became the core of the band's sound. Ferro has said that women singing in metal were nothing new, but that in the doomy blend of gothic and death metal the band was leaning towards, her voice made it sound like nothing else. Studio time came cheap through a municipal scheme that halved the rate for young bands recording at night, so the sessions ran from midnight until seven in the morning; by day the band was organised from the gothic clothing and shoe shop where Scabbia worked (Louder, 2025).

In May 1996 the band, then called Ethereal, recorded a two-song demo and sent it to labels around Europe; after weighing the offers it signed with Century Media Records. Because a Greek band already had the name Ethereal, the group became Lacuna Coil, a mix of Italian and English that translates as "empty spiral". The band has explained that it chose the name because it kept close to the meaning of Ethereal while expressing its own outlook on life (the band's former website, 2001, 2004 and 2012).

Century Media and the Lacuna Coil EP (1997-1998)

In October 1997 the band recorded its first EP, Lacuna Coil, at the Woodhouse Studio in Hagen, Germany, with the producer Waldemar Sorychta (the band's former website, 2001 and 2004). In December it played its first shows, supporting its labelmates Moonspell around Europe; nerves and stage fright got the better of the line-up, which fell apart halfway through the tour, and Markus Freiwald of Kreator on drums and Anders Iwers of Tiamat on guitar stepped in to see it through (the band's former website, 2004 and 2012).

Two old friends joined in January 1998, Cristiano Migliore on guitar and Cristiano Mozzati on drums (the band's former website, 2001 and 2012). Claudio Leo, who had played on the Lacuna Coil EP, left the band that year (Loudwire, 2013). The EP came out in February, and the band opened for Moonspell at the Coliseum in Lisbon in front of 4,000 people. In April it toured Europe again with The Gathering and Seigmen, and in August it opened the main stage of Wacken Open Air in Germany (the band's former website, 2001).

In a Reverie and the Halflife EP (1998-2000)

In October 1998 Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro, Marco Coti Zelati, Cristiano Migliore and Cristiano Mozzati went back to the Woodhouse Studio to make their first full-length album, In a Reverie, with Waldemar Sorychta; for some of them it was the first real studio session of their lives (the band's former website, 2004). In January 1999 Marco Biazzi, known as Maus, joined as a second guitarist, which the band regarded as completing its line-up, and in February it celebrated the album's release with a show at the Rolling Stone in Milan before more than 1,500 people (the band's former website, 2001 and 2004).

The rest of 1999 was spent touring: a co-headlining run around Europe with Skyclad, a tour of Eastern Europe supporting Grip Inc., Dynamo Open Air in the Netherlands, and Italy's Gods of Metal festival on a bill with Metallica (the band's former website, 2001 and 2012).

In January 2000 the band recorded the five-song EP Halflife with Sorychta at Damage Inc. Studios in Ventimiglia, on the Ligurian coast. It was the band's first go at digital recording, at lyrics in Italian and at a cover song (the band's former website, 2001 and 2012). The EP holds "Halflife", "Trance Awake", "Senzafine", "Hyperfast" and "Stars", a song by Steve Hillier (MusicBrainz), and it reached the shops in March 2000 (the band's former website, 2001). In April the band played its first headlining tour of Europe, thirteen shows including the UK and Ireland (the band's former website, 2001).

Unleashed Memories and a first American tour (2000-2001)

In October 2000, on its third visit to the Woodhouse Studios, the band recorded its second album, Unleashed Memories, again with Waldemar Sorychta: nine new songs and another version of "Senzafine", closer to the way the song was first written (the band's former website, 2001 and 2004). The album arrived in January 2001, ahead of the March date originally intended, and the band went straight out on a European tour with Theatre of Tragedy and Beseech. In March and April it toured on the Metal Odyssey Tour 2001 with Dimmu Borgir, In Flames, Nevermore and Susperia, and in the summer it played Wacken Open Air again (the band's former website, 2004).

In December 2001 Lacuna Coil toured the United States for the first time, twelve shows with Moonspell; two further shows in Canada were lost when the tour bus broke down (the band's former website, 2004).

Comalies and the American breakthrough (2002-2004)

The third album, Comalies, was prepared with Waldemar Sorychta in Milan and recorded at the Woodhouse Studio in Germany from April 2002, with the sessions finished in May (the band's former website, 2004). Its title joins the words "coma" and "lies"; Cristina Scabbia has said the band went through a kind of creative explosion in the studio and worked as if in another dimension (Blabbermouth, 2022). The album was released in Europe in September 2002 and in the United States in October (the band's former website, 2004; Billboard, 2004), and that autumn the band co-headlined a European tour with Sentenced (the band's former website, 2004).

In 2003 Lacuna Coil spent four weeks in the United States supporting Opeth, playing its first two American headline shows along the way. In the summer it spent ten weeks touring the country with Type O Negative and Anthrax, and then headlined its first American tour, with Dog Fashion Disco in support. The same year it made its first music video, "Heaven's a Lie", in Gothenburg with the director Patric Ullaeus of the Revolver Film Company (the band's former website, 2004 and 2012).

From May to September 2004 the band was on the road in America, first supporting P.O.D. and then on Ozzfest 2004, whose bill included Black Sabbath, Slayer, Slipknot, Judas Priest and Black Label Society (the band's former website, 2012). It was Jack Osbourne who had pointed his parents, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, towards the band, and they put it on the bill (Louder, 2025). Its twenty-minute set on the second stage opened with "Swamped" and included the single "Heaven's a Lie" (Billboard, 2004). Metal Hammer reported in 2006 that, day after day, only Slipknot sold more at the festival's CD stall than Lacuna Coil, whose album on sale there was Comalies, released back in 2002 (Louder, reprinting a 2006 Metal Hammer feature).

Radio and MTV took up "Heaven's a Lie" at the same time, and between that and Ozzfest the band quickly became far better known in America (Louder, 2025). Comalies entered the Billboard 200 in August 2004 and climbed to No. 178, and reached No. 9 on the Heatseekers chart; by September it had sold 147,000 copies in the United States, the first Century Media release ever to pass 100,000 there (Billboard, 2004). It kept selling: by January 2006 the count stood at 227,000, and the album had also peaked at No. 9 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart (Billboard, 2006); by 2012 it had passed 300,000 (Blabbermouth, 2012). The video for "Swamped" was again shot in Sweden with the same director (the band's former website, 2012).

Karmacode and a first visit to Japan (2005-2008)

The fourth album, Karmacode, was recorded in 2005 at Massive Arts Studios in Italy and the Woodhouse Studios in Germany, mixed by Ronald Prent at Galaxy Studios in Belgium and mastered by Darcy Proper (the band's former website, 2012); the band co-produced it with Waldemar Sorychta (Billboard, 2006). Between sessions the band toured Britain as "An Evening with Lacuna Coil", and every show sold out (the band's former website, 2012).

The first single, "Our Truth", also appeared on the soundtrack of the film Underworld: Evolution, with a video directed in Los Angeles by Fort Awesome, and the album ends with a cover of Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" (Billboard, 2006). Karmacode came out in the United States in April 2006 (Billboard, 2006) and entered the Billboard 200 at No. 28 after selling 34,000 copies in its first week; it went on to sell more than 200,000 copies in the United States (Billboard; Blabbermouth, 2012). Videos were made for "Our Truth", "Enjoy the Silence", "Closer" and "Within Me" (Blabbermouth, 2008), and "Within Me" was the last single from the album (the band's former website, 2012).

Early in 2006, after shooting the videos for "Closer" and "Enjoy the Silence" in downtown Los Angeles in a single day, the band supported Rob Zombie across America, with Bullet for My Valentine opening. After European summer festivals such as Download and Rock am Ring, the band rejoined Ozzfest, sharing the 2006 bill with System of a Down, Ozzy Osbourne, Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, Hatebreed and DragonForce. A European headline tour followed, then Danzig's Blackest of the Black tour, the band's first headline shows in Mexico and an American tour with In Flames (the band's former website, 2012).

In 2007 Lacuna Coil toured America on the Jägermeister Music Tour with Stone Sour and Shadows Fall, and then headlined its first full tour of the United States and Canada, with Within Temptation, The Gathering and In This Moment among the support acts. In October it came to Japan for the first time to play LOUD PARK, and in November it made its first trip to Australia on Gigantour 2007, headlined by Megadeth (the band's former website, 2012).

In November 2008 the band released its first DVD, Visual Karma (Body, Mind and Soul). The double DVD gathered live sets from Wacken Open Air and LOUD PARK in 2007, the four Karmacode videos and footage from the road; the limited edition added an audio DVD with a 5.1 mix of Karmacode and a CD of the Wacken performance. It came out in North America on 25 November (Blabbermouth, 2008; the band's former website, 2012).

Shallow Life and Dark Adrenaline (2008-2013)

Writing for the fifth album, Shallow Life, began in March 2008. After pre-production with the producer Don Gilmore in Los Angeles in August, the band spent more than two months from September recording at NRG Studios in Hollywood, and Ted Jensen mastered the album at Sterling Sound in New York (the band's former website, 2012). Released in Europe and North America on consecutive days in April 2009, it entered the Billboard 200 at No. 16, the band's first top 20 album there, with 21,000 copies sold in its first week; it reached No. 25 in Italy and No. 2 on the UK Rock Albums chart (Billboard; Blabbermouth, 2009 and 2012).

Century Media also released the compilation Manifesto of Lacuna Coil in 2009. That year the band played the Music as a Weapon 4 arena tour with Disturbed, Killswitch Engage and Chimaira, Australia's Soundwave festival and its own Spellbound tour of America, and an unreleased song, "The Last Goodbye", was used on the soundtrack of Saw VI. According to the band, "Spellbound" and "I Won't Tell You" both made the top 40 of American rock radio. In 2010 it toured the United States with Five Finger Death Punch and Seether before headlining in South America for the first time (the band's former website, 2012).

Writing for the sixth album, Dark Adrenaline, started in January 2011, and recording began in April, again with Don Gilmore producing, at Officine Meccaniche in the band's home town of Milan. The vocals were finished at the Can-Am Studio in Los Angeles, Marco Barusso mixed the album in Milan, and its release was moved from October 2011 to January 2012 (the band's former website, 2012). Dark Adrenaline reached No. 15 on the Billboard 200, still the band's highest position, after selling around 20,000 copies in its first week, and No. 18 in Italy (Billboard; Blabbermouth, 2012). In 2012 the band joined Megadeth, Motörhead and Volbeat on Gigantour in America (the band's former website, 2012; Blabbermouth, 2014).

On most of the Dark Legacy tour of 2012 and 2013 the drums were played by Ryan Blake Folden, an American who had been the band's drum technician and who stood in while Cristiano Mozzati stayed at home with his young child (Blabbermouth, 2014 and 2016). In January 2013 Claudio Leo, the band's early guitarist, who had gone on to play in Cayne, died (Loudwire, 2013).

Two departures and Broken Crown Halo (2014-2015)

In February 2014 the guitarist Cristiano Migliore and the drummer Cristiano Mozzati, both members since 1998, left the band (Blabbermouth, 2014 and 2016). Cristina Scabbia explained that they wanted to settle down and had grown tired of touring (Blabbermouth, 2016). Lacuna Coil went out as a five-piece on The Hottest Chicks In Hard Rock Tour, with Marco Biazzi covering all the guitar parts and Ryan Blake Folden back behind the kit (Blabbermouth, 2014).

The seventh album, Broken Crown Halo, was recorded in Italy with the producer Jay Baumgardner and the engineer Kyle Hoffmann and mastered by Howie Weinberg. It came out in North America in April 2014, a day after the rest of the world (Blabbermouth, 2014), and reached No. 27 on the Billboard 200 and No. 13 in Italy (Billboard; Blabbermouth, 2014).

Delirium and twenty years (2016-2018)

Marco Biazzi left in January 2016; Cristina Scabbia has said it happened just as the band was about to go into the studio (Blabbermouth, 2016). The eighth album, Delirium, was recorded at BRX Studio in Milan between December 2015 and February 2016 and produced by the band's bassist and main songwriter, Marco Coti Zelati, with Marco Barusso as engineer; Coti Zelati also made the artwork, from a photo session by Alessandro Olgiati. Barusso and two friends of the band, Diego Cavallotti and Alessandro La Porta, played the guitars, and it was the first album Ryan Blake Folden recorded with the band (Blabbermouth, 2016).

Scabbia described the album as a return to things the band had done in its earliest years, the growled vocals, the epic sounds and the choruses (Blabbermouth, 2016). Andrea Ferro later dated the band's turn towards a heavier sound to this record, saying that a changed line-up with players of different styles let the band push things like double-bass drumming (Blabbermouth, 2025). Delirium was released by Century Media in May 2016 (Blabbermouth, 2016) and reached No. 33 on the Billboard 200 (Billboard); the label said it charted in twelve countries (Blabbermouth, 2017).

Until a new guitarist was settled, Daniel Sahagún of Black Lodge filled in, starting on the 70000 Tons of Metal cruise in 2016 (Blabbermouth, 2016; Loudwire, 2016). Diego Cavallotti, who also joined as a stand-in, went on to become the band's guitarist (Blabbermouth, 2024). In September 2016 the German edition of Metal Hammer named Lacuna Coil the best international band at its awards (Metal Hammer Germany, 2016).

In May 2017 the band signed a new deal with Century Media, announcing at the same time that it would join Epica's The Ultimate Principle tour of North America (Blabbermouth, 2017).

To mark twenty years since its debut, the band played a one-off show at the O2 Forum Kentish Town in London on 19 January 2018. The British circus company Incandescence performed with it, and the career-spanning set included songs the band had never played live before. The show was filmed and recorded, and came out that November as The 119 Show - Live In London (Blabbermouth, 2018 and 2019). In June Lacuna Coil was named best live band at Metal Hammer's Golden Gods in London (Louder, 2018). For the anniversary the London publisher Rocket 88 also brought out the band's first book, Nothing Stands In Our Way, in which Scabbia, Ferro and Coti Zelati tell twenty years of the band's story alongside photographs and keepsakes from their own collections; the Classic edition is a 224-page hardback, and the signed Signature edition came with four art prints by Coti Zelati (Blabbermouth, 2018; Rocket 88). An updated and expanded paperback edition followed later, adding the making of Black Anima and the pandemic years (Rocket 88).

Black Anima and the pandemic (2019-2021)

The ninth album, Black Anima, was released worldwide by Century Media in October 2019 (Blabbermouth, 2019 and 2020). Its title sets anima, Italian for soul, beside black, the darkest of colours. The album was made after a hard period in Cristina Scabbia's personal life, and it brought in new faces: Diego Cavallotti on guitar and Richard Meiz on drums (Louder, 2019). It reached No. 87 on the Billboard 200 (Billboard).

In March 2020, with the coronavirus spreading through its home region of Lombardy, the band called off its coming shows in Dubai, Bangkok, Melbourne, Sydney, Tokyo, Osaka, Singapore and Jakarta (Billboard, 2020). In September it played Black Anima in full at the Alcatraz in Milan, streamed with no audience in the room; Century Media released the performance in 2021 as the live album Live From The Apocalypse (Blabbermouth, 2022; MusicBrainz). Scabbia has said that the band stopped writing altogether during the pandemic (official site).

Comalies XX (2022-2023)

For the twentieth anniversary of Comalies, the band's five-piece line-up of the day remade every song on the album with new arrangements in the vein of its current sound. Comalies XX, introduced in its announcement as Comalies "deconstructed" and "transported" into 2022, was released by Century Media in October 2022 (Blabbermouth, 2022, 2023 and 2024). Cristina Scabbia said it was neither a reboot nor a spin-off, just a way of dressing the twenty-year-old songs for the present. A new version of "Tight Rope" came out first with a video, and on 15 October 2022, the day after the release, the band played Comalies in full at a one-night anniversary concert at Fabrique in Milan (Blabbermouth, 2022 and 2023).

Scabbia has described Comalies XX as a kind of comeback that renewed the band's love of songwriting (official site), and the ideas for the next album grew out of its sessions (official site; Blabbermouth, 2024).

Sleepless Empire and the band today (2024-)

On 17 June 2024, as it moved into writing and recording its next album, the band announced that it had parted ways with Diego Cavallotti, its guitarist since 2016 (Blabbermouth, 2024). On 4 August 2024, at the Rockstadt Extreme Fest in Romania, Daniele Salomone, a guitarist and producer who had played with Cavallotti in Inverno, took the stage with the band for the first time (Blabbermouth, 2024). In January 2025 Cristina Scabbia explained that Salomone, who had already helped the band on earlier recordings, was touring with it as a session musician and had not yet been made an official member (Blabbermouth, 2025).

The tenth studio album, Sleepless Empire, was produced inside the band, with Marco Coti Zelati steering it, and its writing and recording were split between the band's home city of Milan and Como, where SPVN Studios is based. It was recorded by Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro, Coti Zelati on bass, guitars and synths, and Richard Meiz on drums (Blabbermouth, 2024). Ash Costello of New Years Day guests on "In The Mean Time" and Randy Blythe of Lamb of God on "Hosting the Shadow"; Ferro has said the friendship with Blythe goes back to sharing a stage at Ozzfest in 2004. The cover art, made entirely by hand, is by the Neapolitan illustrator Roberto Toderico, whom Scabbia met at a comic convention (official site; Blabbermouth, 2024).

Ferro has called the album "a portrait of our times": his generation, the first to know both the analogue world and the digital one, has watched society change, and the record is about that change (official site). Century Media released it on 14 February 2025 (Blabbermouth, 2024; Louder, 2025; MusicBrainz), and the box set hides a divination game inside its booklet (official site). The album reached No. 30 on the Billboard Italy Albums Top 100 (Billboard). Ferro has called it a varied record, heavy in places, darker or lighter in others, and a step on from Black Anima (Blabbermouth, 2025).

In October 2024 the band toured the UK and Ireland with the Finnish band Blind Channel, a tour that a review placed at the close of the band's thirtieth year (Blabbermouth, 2024; Louder, 2024). In November it appeared, along with In Flames and Unearth, on "These Scars Won't Define Us", a new song released by Machine Head ahead of the spring 2025 North American tour on which the four bands were billed together (Blabbermouth, 2024). After a European tour for Sleepless Empire in 2025, an American tour from 24 March to 1 May 2026 with Escape the Fate was announced in December 2025 (Blabbermouth, 2025), and in October 2026 Epica named Lacuna Coil, together with Ad Infinitum, as the first two bands for its Epic Metal Fest in Maastricht, the Netherlands, on 4 June 2027 (Epica's official site).

Work outside the band

In 2007 Cristina Scabbia sang a duet with Dave Mustaine on "A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)", the re-recorded song that Megadeth released as the first single from United Abominations; the original is on Youthanasia (1994), and the new version is faster (Blabbermouth, 2007). That year she also sang on "S.O.S. (Anything but Love)" from Apocalyptica's album Worlds Collide and appeared in its video, shot in Vilnius, Lithuania (Blabbermouth, 2007). In February 2008 she sang with L'Aura at the Sanremo festival as part of the charity project Rezophonic (the band's former website, 2012), and in 2018 she was one of the four coaches on the Rai 2 talent show The Voice (Rolling Stone Italia, 2018).

Besides writing and producing, Marco Coti Zelati created the artwork for Delirium and the art prints that came with the Signature edition of Nothing Stands In Our Way (Blabbermouth, 2016 and 2018).

Discography

Year	Title	Type	Label
1998	Lacuna Coil	EP	Century Media Records
1999	In a Reverie	Studio album	Century Media Records
2000	Halflife	EP	Century Media Records
2001	Unleashed Memories	Studio album	Century Media Records
2002	Comalies	Studio album	Century Media Records
2006	Karmacode	Studio album	Century Media Records
2009	Shallow Life	Studio album	Century Media Records
2012	Dark Adrenaline	Studio album	Century Media Records
2014	Broken Crown Halo	Studio album	Century Media Records
2016	Delirium	Studio album	Century Media Records
2019	Black Anima	Studio album	Century Media Records
2022	Comalies XX	Comalies, reworked	Century Media Records
2025	Sleepless Empire	Studio album	Century Media Records

Besides these there are the live releases Visual Karma (Body, Mind and Soul) (2008), The 119 Show - Live In London (2018) and Live From The Apocalypse (2021), the compilations The EPs: Lacuna Coil / Halflife (2005) and Manifesto of Lacuna Coil (2009), and The Presence of the Past (XX Years of Lacuna Coil) (2018), a box set of thirteen CDs (Blabbermouth; the band's former website; MusicBrainz).

Concerts in Japan

In Japan, Victor Entertainment issued In a Reverie (1999) and Unleashed Memories (2001), and GrindHouse Recordings issued Comalies in 2005. From Karmacode (2006) the new records have come out on Marquee Incorporated's Avalon label, except Dark Adrenaline and The EP's, the two EPs on one disc, which King Records issued in 2012. The Japanese editions of the first two albums added the EPs' songs as bonus tracks, and Delirium (2016) and Sleepless Empire (2025) reached Japanese shops before they reached anyone else's (the obi strips, ORICON, Tower Records, Marquee Incorporated).

The band first came to Japan in October 2007, for the second day of LOUD PARK 07 at Saitama Super Arena on 21 October; the organiser's timetable put it on the Ultimate Stage at 14:45, on a day that Marilyn Manson closed (the LOUD PARK 07 site). It later wrote that this was its first experience of Japan and that it had a couple of days to see the city as well (the band's former website, 2012). Six songs from that set, "To the Edge", "Swamped", "Closer", "Within Me", "Daylight Dancer" and "Our Truth", appear on Visual Karma (Body, Mind and Soul) (Blabbermouth, 2008). The festival also scheduled a signing session with the band at 16:30 that afternoon (the LOUD PARK 07 site). The second visit was to the same festival: on 9 October 2016, the second day of LOUD PARK 16, the band played the Ultimate Stage at 12:30 (the LOUD PARK 16 site).

Concerts in Tokyo on 23 March 2020 and in Osaka on 24 March 2020, on the tour for the album Black Anima, never took place: on 2 March 2020 the band called off its Asian and Australian dates because of the coronavirus outbreak (Loudwire). Its first headline show in Japan came in their place on 16 December 2022 at Shibuya Stream Hall in Tokyo, brought over by Evoken de Valhall Production, with Amiliyah opening. Doors opened at 17:00 and the show began at 18:00; tickets cost 13,000 yen for VIP, 8,500 yen for general admission and 5,000 yen for high-school students and younger (Pia; BURRN! ONLINE). It was the band's only Japanese date that year and the closing night of its December dates in Asia, with a set of about 90 minutes (Young Guitar).

The world tour for the 2025 album Sleepless Empire took the band to the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and five Australian cities before it returned to Shibuya Stream Hall on 23 February 2026, once more for a single Japanese show. Counting LOUD PARK 07 as the first visit, it was the band's fourth concert in Japan; the show ran for about 85 minutes, and eight of its songs came from Sleepless Empire (BURRN! ONLINE).

Date	Venue	Show
21 October 2007	Saitama Super Arena (Saitama)	LOUD PARK 07, second day; the first visit
9 October 2016	Saitama Super Arena (Saitama)	LOUD PARK 16, second day
16 December 2022	Shibuya Stream Hall (Tokyo)	The first headline show in Japan; Amiliyah opened
23 February 2026	Shibuya Stream Hall (Tokyo)	Part of the world tour for Sleepless Empire

About the sources

The sources are Lacuna Coil's official website (lacunacoil.com) and the band's 2001, 2004 and 2012 biographies on its former website (lacunacoil.it), as preserved by the Internet Archive; Billboard's articles and chart records; Blabbermouth.net; Louder (Metal Hammer); Loudwire; Metal Hammer Germany; Rolling Stone Italia; Epica's official website; and the publisher Rocket 88. Some labels, release dates, track lists and Japanese editions were checked against MusicBrainz.