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The Metal Voice recently interviewed Lacuna Coil Singer Cristina Scabbia.

Scabbia talked about the bands upcoming studio album Sleepless Empire which will be released  February 14 2025 via Century Media. Plus she talks about technology, Social media and recalls working with Dave Mustaine on A Tout le Monde which she contributed vocals back in 2007 on a remake of the song on the Megadeth’s album United Abominations.

When asked about the new album Sleepless Empire musical direction
 “It’s probably a very balanced record that brings you stuff from the past but it’s very present and future orientated. It’s a weird mixture that brings more heavy stuff because that’s what we like. Instead of going softer we’re going the other way because that’s what we like for personal taste and  I think it’s working really well. The songs that we put out are having a great feedback and we’re happy.”

When asked how they go about choosing Death and clean metal vocals on their songs 
“There are some parts that are calling your voices. I mean Andrea (Ferro) has a very strong, very powerful voice that makes sense in the aggressive parts and the heaviest parts of the songs. My voice is more  angelic, epic, melodic in a way so obviously it helps more to open up some parts and make them even more dreamy or atmospheric. We don’t sit down and share vocal parts getting jealous about oh you sung three choruses and I sung four verses. We  don’t care. It’s the song calling for your (type of) voice and if you look at it the voices are instruments that you can add to every composition.”

When asked about her singing with Dave Mustaine on A Tout Le Monde in 2007 on Megadeth’s United Abominations
” I remember we didn’t meet before the recording. All I had was the original version that I already loved, so I had to create from scratch harmonization’s and embellishments. I worked with (producer) Andy Sneap. I went to the studio and I stayed there for a couple of days. I arrived in the evening. I spent one day recording everything that I had in mind or Andy had in mind. So we gave all the recorded material to  Dave and Megadeth and then they did the mixing the way they wanted to. But I basically re-sung exactly what Dave was singing. I did all the harmonization’s I did some oohh and ahhh without Really knowing what they wanted from it because the communication was made through email. When my management asked me to sing with them I said immediately yes because it was a such a cool experience and a privilege and I love that song. But then after a while I went to Los Angeles and they were filming the video (for the song) and that’s exactly when I met (Dave Mustaine and Megadeth) for the very first time. The video was filmed in two days.  I did all my filming in the second day and the first one was the band performance, so I went to the place where they were filming and I started to talk to Dave and he was super cool and super kind. Then we went on tour a couple of times together. I didn’t know what to expect (meeting Dave Musatine) because you know many people have different ideas of Dave so I was just like oh my God I was  almost afraid to meet him and he was a super gentle sweetheart.  I remember the first day on tour with him he left a bottle of champagne with a us and a note ,thank you for being on tour with us. It was super nice, he we asked him to take a picture with all the band and he was happy to do it. I remember that he only got pissed with me once.  I remember that  he threw  a party after  one of the gig, it was just like okay let’s organize  a margarita party something like this for all the group, of all the Tour, all the bands., to create an event that would bring us all together. I remember that there was metal music blasting but after a while I got tired because I love metal music but to me party music it’s another type of music sometimes. So I was just like okay let’s change a little bit let’s put you know I don’t know from music from the 70s and or some disco music and he just looked at me like so pissed. (laughs). But he did give me one of his guitars to thank me for singing a song with him. I remember that he came with two guitars, one was the angel of death and the other one was a guitar with  all artwork of United Abomination and  he asked me to choose.  I was just like  I am in one of the albums but the other one is the Angel of death! “