Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Loaded Radio, Lacuna Coil singer Cristina Scabbia further explained the band’s decision to part ways with guitarist Diego Cavallotti. According to her, “the things [they] weren’t agreeing on weren’t changing.”

Scabbia said the following when asked about recruiting guitarist Daniele Salomone:

“Yeah, Daniele is not like an official new member of Lacuna Coil. We’re still, let’s say, testing him. He’s a great friend and we love him to pieces, but he’s relatively new to the band. He came in at the very end of the recording cycle, the writing cycle to help us out. I mean, he helped us out in the past with many guitar sounds. And he was actually helping Diego to fix some things. So he was the first name that we thought about when we found ourselves in need of a guitar player, because we had gigs coming.

We could have had many session guitar players — we know many and they’re all great — but we wanted to have a person that we knew that could share the time with us on a tour bus, because for us being on tour is like traveling with your second family. So it’s cool to have someone that just comes on stage and plays, but we need the band to be cohesive like a family. So we took the decision to not to work again with Diego, because every person in the band has to contribute to songwriting, and, of course, Maki [bassist Marco Coti Zelati] is the internal producer and so-called leader of the band because he’s been there from day one and he knows exactly what we want to achieve with the Lacuna Coil sound. Myself and Andrea [Ferro] are responsible for vocal lines and lyrics. But it needs contributions from the outside. It doesn’t need to be taken for granted. If you’re in a band, you have to contribute. Even only with your passion for the band or just hanging out with the other members because you feel you want to be with those people and you want to play that type of music. Not only just to be on tour and have fun. So we thought about a new start with a new cycle, and we feel that it was the right decision.”

She continued when asked if Cavallotti’s departure was a mutual decision:

“No, no, no, no, no. Obviously not, because we had a different opinion. [Laughs] We had a different opinion, so yeah, sometimes it happens that you disagree. We had some talks before we got to that point, but we saw that nothing was changing — the things that we weren’t agreeing on weren’t changing — so we said, ‘What’s the point?’ There was no change there.

It’s like a relationship. Sometimes it’s not even like a fault. I mean, you are who you are, so there was no guilt in that. And whatever you do, you do it because you feel like [it], so there is nothing else to add. It just happens.”

[via Blabbermouth]