Delirium (Lacuna Coil Album)
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| Studio album by Lacuna Coil | ||||
| Released | May 27, 2016 | |||
| Recorded | December 2015 – February 2016 | |||
| Studio | BRX Studio, Milano, Italy | |||
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| Length | 44:38 | |||
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| Producer | Marco Coti Zelati | |||
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| Loudwire | Favorable |
| Burrn! | 92/100 |
Delirium is the eighth studio album by Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil. It was released by Century Media on May 27, 2016. This is the first album to not feature long time drummer Cristiano "Criz" Mozzati and guitarists Cristiano "Pizza", who retired from the band on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2014, and Marco "Maus" Biazzi, who left the band just before recording sessions, making it the first album since their debut to feature other band members, and the first one completely recorded and mixed in Italy.
Lacuna Coil began shaping their eighth studio album, the follow up to 2014's Broken Crown Halo, during the final shows of their "Broken Crown Halo Tour". Bassist Marco Coti Zelati was absent for a small portion of the tour due to illness but collected ideas while at home recovering. The band took short break after the tour ended and visited Coti Zelati's home studio to look over what he'd come up with. During an interview on April 6, 2016, male vocalist Andrea Ferro said, "all the material that was coming from him was ultimately pretty intense, a little heavier and a little darker than usual and we really liked this new direction he was taking."
When asked to explain the recording process during an interview, female vocalist Cristina Scabbia responded, "The process was pretty much the same; we always write in the same place – Marco's (Coti-Zelati) basement. He has a studio in the south so nothing really changed in the song-writing process but obviously the ideas were different and the inspiration was different, and there was a bit of time between Delirium and Broken Crown Halo (2014) so the life experiences were different. But the song-writing was done in the same way starting from the music and then contributing the vocal lines and lyrics."
The band ended up appointing Coti Zelati as their producer. Scabbia said, "I'm really proud of Marco because it was the first time that we self-produced the record. We did it in Milano with people that we knew and I think that Marco did a great job. We chose all the sounds and the parts to keep and I think that he conveyed perfectly the spirit of Delirium. It's our heaviest record and it's our most intense record – even in terms of the visual side of the record; the photo-shoot and the booklet – it may be the first concept album that we've ever done because everything is there and we know perfectly what we want".
The official recording process began in December 2015 and finished in February 2016 at BRX Studio in Milano, Italy.
Due to the sudden resignation of the band's previous guitar player, Coti-Zelati, recorded the majority of guitar work for the tracks. Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge and Mark Vollelunga of Nothing More were among a small minority of guest musicians to record guitar solos on various tracks.
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