History Music / LacunaCoil

* MsFanservice:
** The ''Comalies''-era videos, filmed while the band was trying to break through, saw Cristina use ThreeMinutesOfWrithing as well as wearing clothes that showed off her legs. This was averted once ''Karmacode'' was released and Cristina went to more conventional attire. The CostumePorn-heavy "End of Time" video almost counts if it wasn't for the close-up shots of BlackBlood dripping from her's and Andrea's noses and hands towards the end of the video.

* NewSoundAlbum: ''Comalies''. The sound was simplified, and Andrea's harsh vocals were almost completely gone.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Cristina was born in 1972 but looks much, much younger (even in some "natural" pictures with no makeup from 2018 she looks like she's in her late twenties rather than mid-forties).

* MsFanservice: The ''Comalies''-era videos, filmed while the band was trying to break through, saw Cristina use ThreeMinutesOfWrithing as well as wearing clothes that showed off her legs. This was averted once ''Karmacode'' was released and Cristina went to more conventional attire. The CostumePorn-heavy "End of Time" video almost counts if it wasn't for the close-up shots of BlackBlood dripping from her's and Andrea's noses and hands towards the end of the video. Inverted with the video for "Reckless".

* MsFanservice: The ''Comalies''-era videos, filmed while the band was trying to break through, saw Cristina use ThreeMinutesOfWrithing as well as wearing clothes that showed off her legs. This was averted once ''Karmacode'' was released and Cristina went to more conventional attire. The CostumePorn-heavy "End of Time" video almost counts if it wasn't for the close-up shots of BlackBlood dripping from her's and Andrea's noses and hands towards the end of the video.

%% * AlternativeRock

%%* FadingIntoTheNextSong / SiameseTwinSongs: "Trance Awake" / "Senzafine" from ''[=HALFlife=],'' "Aeon" / "Tight Rope" from ''Comalies'' and "You Create"/"What I See" from ''Karmacode.''

%** TheBigGuy: Richard

%%* [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY It Is Pronounced Coma-LISE.]]

* ReligionRantSong: Subverted with "Heaven's a Lie" — it's actually about a failing relationship.
%% "Give Me Something More" is a Type 1 example.

* ThreeMinutesOfWrithing: The international video for "Heaven's a Lie" as well as "Swamped". See MsFanservice above

%%* DarkIsNotEvil / LightIsNotGood: The message behind the "Trip The Darkness" video.

* ReligionRantSong: "Give Me Something More" is a Type 1 example.
** Subverted with "Heaven's a Lie" — it's actually about a failing relationship.

* DarkIsNotEvil / LightIsNotGood: The message behind the "Trip The Darkness" video.

* FadingIntoTheNextSong / SiameseTwinSongs: "Trance Awake" / "Senzafine" from ''[=HALFlife=],'' "Aeon" / "Tight Rope" from ''Comalies'' and "You Create"/"What I See" from ''Karmacode.''

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Andrea
** TheLancer: Diego
** TheSmartGuy: Marco
** TheBigGuy: Richard
** TheChick: Cristina
** GuestStarPartyMember: Ryan

* GothicMetal / AlternativeRock: How much of each depends on the album. Generally speaking they started off as the former for the their extended plays and ''In A Reverie'' before starting transitioning to the latter with ''Comalies''. After reaching their alternative rock peak at ''Shallow Life'' the band have since transitioned back to the former category.

* [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY It Is Pronounced Coma-LISE.]]

!!Nothing Stand in Our Tropes:

!!Lacuna Coil and their music provide examples of:

* DeterminedDefeatist: "Survive", "Nothing Stands in Our Way".

* LeadBassist: Marco became this for "Delirium" by necessity, as the band hadn't had time to find a new guitarist so he wrote and recorded all guitar and bass parts on the album, with a few guest solos.

2014 saw the band release "Broken Crown Halo" which would become the last album to feature the two Cristianos, who both retired from the band for personal reasons just prior to its release.

* [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Spell My Name Without An "H"]]: Hammered home quite emphatically on Scabbia's [[http://www.myspace.com/cristinascabbia Myspace page]]: "Cristina... [[BerserkButton NO DAMN H in it]]!!"

* GothicMetal / AlternativeRock: How much of each depends on the album. Generally speaking they started off as the former for the their extended plays and ''In A Reverie'' before starting transitioning to the latter with ''Comalies''. After reaching their alternative rock at ''Shallow Life'' the band have since transitioned back to the former category.

* FakeOutFadeOut: "Our Truth" fades out over a repeating riff, only to fade back in and immediately end.

* GothicMetal / AlternativeRock: How much of each depends on the album. ''Shallow Life'' contains the most of the latter; their extended plays and ''In A Reverie'', the most of the former.

* LesserStar: Andrea Ferro tends to be overlooked by the media and casual listeners (see FaceOfTheBand). To say nothing of the other members -- Andrea and Cristina write lyrics, but the others compose all the music.
** Andrea does a lot of the singing himself nowadays, although he's... Arguably not very good (especially when compared with Cristina). However he seems to have improved on ''Dark Adrenaline.''
** Subverted with the release of the video for "End of Time" -- only him and Cristina appear in the video.

** ''Delirium'' essentially undid the changes that ''Comalies'' and ''Karmacode'' made. Andrea's HarshVocals are very prominent on the record and the lyrical content is much darker.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Hammered home quite emphatically on Scabbia's [[http://www.myspace.com/cristinascabbia Myspace page]]: "Cristina... [[BerserkButton NO DAMN H in it]]!!"

* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Shallow Life''.

** "Senzafine" (from ''[=HALFlife=]'' and later ''Unleashed Memories'') is wholly sung in Italian.
** The title track to ''Comalies'', "Without Fear" from ''Karmacode'', "Die and Rise" from ''Broken Crown Halo'', and "Anima Nera" from ''Black Anima'' use both English and Italian.
** Finally, "My Spirit" from ''Dark Adrenaline'' incorporates a short speech in Italian during the interlude. Translated into English, it means about the same thing as the first verse and chorus.
** It should be noted that while "Senzafine" roughly translates to "Never-Ending", "Comalies" is a subversion — the band just wanted to use the word "coma" but needed an extra word to place at the end.

* ConceptAlbum: ''Shallow Life,'' loosely. The album talks about superficial lifestyles in most of the songs. Other albums like ''Comalies'' play with this by having a few groups of songs directly connect to form single storylines.

** TheBigGuy: Ryan

* LeadBassist: Marco became this for "Delerium" by necessity, as the band hadn't had time to find a new guitarist so he wrote and recorded all guitar and bass parts on the album, with a few guest solos.

* LyricalColdOpen: "Reverie," "Swamped," "Within Me", "Fire," "Broken Things".

** "Fragile" has the lyrics "Wounds are bleeding in my hands" / "Wounds are healing in my hands". Wounds is pronounced the same way as "round".

* BilingualBonus: "Senzafine" (from ''[=HALFlife=]'' and later ''Unleashed Memories'') is sung in the band's native Italian. The title track to ''Comalies'', "Without Fear" from ''Karmacode'' and "Die and Rise" from ''Broken Crown Halo'' use both English and Italian. Finally, "My Spirit" from ''Dark Adrenaline'' incorporates a short speech in Italian during the interlude. Translated into English, it means about the same thing as the first verse and chorus.

The band also has five former members:

* Ryan Blake Folden - drums (2014-present)

** "Blood Tears and Dust" too.

** ''Dark Adrenaline'' and ''Broken Crown Halo'' is DarkerAndEdgier again, at least instrumentally. The lyrics seem to float somewhere between the straightforward ones from ''Shallow Life'' and the deeper messages on the early albums.

* OneSteveLimit: Completely averted with two guys named Cristiano and two named Marco. There are nicknames for some of them, but they aren't actually that widely used.

* RecordProducer: Waldemar Sorychta falls under the George Martin category, having worked with Lacuna Coil from their signing onto Century Media up through ''Karmacode.'' They then switched to Don Gilmore (better known for working with bands like Music/LinkinPark and Music/GoodCharlotte) for ''Shallow Life'' and ''Dark Adrenaline'' and Jay Baumgardner ({{Music/POD}}, Music/{{Sevendust}}, Music/{{Evanescence}} and Music/PapaRoach) for ''Broken Crown Halo''. Finally, Zelati took over the role for ''Delirium''.

* TitleTrack: ''Comalies'', ''Shallow Life'', ''Delirium''.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Cristina is approaching her mid-40s, but looks much, much younger (around mid or late 20s).
** Andrea is in fact two years younger than Cristina, but does not show it because he actually looks his age, or at least closer to it than Cristina.

* Diego Cavallotti — guitars (2016–present)

* Cristiano "Pizza" Migliore - guitars (1998-2014)

* Marco "Maus" Biazzi - guitars (1999-2016)

* Andrea Ferro - Male vocals (1994-present)
* Marco Coti Zelati - Bass, keyboards (1994-present)
* Cristina Scabbia - Female vocals (1996-present)
* Ryan Blake Folden - Drums (2014-present)

* Raffaele Zagaria - Guitar (1994-1998)
* Claudio Leo - Guitar (1994-1998, died 2013)
* Leonardo Forti - Drums, percussion (1994-1998)
* Cristiano "Pizza" Migliore - Guitar (1998-2014)
* Cristiano "[=CriZ=]" Mozzati - Drums, percussion (1998-2014)
* Marco "Maus" Biazzi - Guitar (1999-2016)

** TheLancer: Marco

** [[TheSixthRanger The Fifth Ranger]]: Diego

** The "End of Time" and "Delirium" videos qualify as well.