With their seventh album, Dark Crown Halo, coming out next month, Lacuna Coil announced today that longtime guitarist Cris “Pizza” Migliore and drummer Cristiano “CriZ” Mozzati are no longer in the band. They’d both been in the band since 1998, for all of their studio albums. Both members depart seemingly amicably, making statements that they’re making changes in their lives. Yeah, leaving the band you’ve been in for 16 years is a pretty big change. Here is the band’s statement as well as Pizza and CriZ’
It is with a heavy heart that we share this news with you today: Our two brothers Cris ‘Pizza’ Migliore and Cristiano ‘CriZ’ Mozzati have decided to retire from LACUNA COIL.
Both Pizza and CriZ have had big changes impact their lives recently – we know how stressful and difficult it can be to balance both real life and the life of a professional touring musician, and we have nothing but total respect for their decisions to focus on their families and lives at home.
We have such incredible memories of traveling and exploring the world together with Pizza and CriZ, and we want to wish them both all the best as they begin these exciting new chapters in their lives. We will never forget the important roles they played in this band, or the incredible times we shared together.
THANK YOU PIZZA AND CRIZ! WE LOVE YOU GUYS!!
Cristina, Andrea, Marco, and Maus.
LACUNA COILFrom Pizza:
Dear friends,
After over 16 years spent with the LACUNA COIL family, I decided to move on and begin a new chapter in my life. This hasn’t been an easy decision, as you can imagine, but I felt like I needed to change some things around.
I’m glad and honored that I’ve had the chance to be able to embark on such an amazing adventure, with such wonderful people as “travel companions”! I will never forget my time in LACUNA COIL and I wish my sister and brothers all the best for whatever the future may bring.
I’m sure you understand! I would also really like to thank every single one of you for showing such amazing love and support for a small band from Milan, Italy, who would’ve never thought would become what it has during these incredible 16 years. Thank you all and enjoy this last record we did with me and CriZ as part of the line-up – it’s some of the best music we’ve done and I’m sure you’ll love it!
Keep on rockin’!!
Cris ‘Pizza’ Migliore
From CriZ:
Hey Coilers,
As many of you guys and gals know, during this last year lots of very important things happened in my life – something really amazing, and deep enough to make me sit in front of my laptop to write these bittersweet words…
I’m leaving my “second family” LACUNA COIL because I need this change in my life… this hasn’t been an easy decision at all and I’ve come to it with pain in my heart, because together we laughed and cried; we fought and gave all our lives to this amazing band. Together we lived the dream for 16 wonderful, intense and unforgettable years. All you guys around the world gave me such positive and sincere vibes and emotions that will stay embedded in my heart for the rest of my life! I want to say thank you Coilers, friends, crew, partners, and people that listen to our music for being such an inspiration for me. To my brothers and sis I’d like to say the following: Never stop to kicking asses, you sure know how to!
The new record is the best thing we’ve done together. I have put all my passion and feelings into it and I’m sure you’ll love it. I’ll never stop playing drums – as we all know, if you were born with rock inside your veins, you’ll die with it… and this is what I will do.
Take care and stay Coilers!
CriZ
With the band headlining the Revolver Hottest Chicks in Hard Rock Tour starting this coming Thursday, no word yet on who will be filling in on guitar and drums. Here’s where you’ll be able to see the band, however:
2/20: Wilmington, NC @ Ziggy’s By The Sea
2/21: Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
2/22: Lexington, KY @ Buster’s
2/23: Springfield, VA @ Empire
2/24: New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
2/26: Worcester, MA @ Palladium
2/27: Lancaster, PA @ Chameleon Club
2/28: Columbus, OH @ Alrosa Villa
3/01: Joliet, IL @ Mojoe’s
3/02: South Bend, IN @ Club Fever
3/05: Broussard, LA @ The Station Live
3/06: Houston, TX @ Scout Bar
3/07: Austin, TX @ Infest
3/08: Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey
3/10: Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
3/12: Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
3/14: Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
3/15: Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
3/19: Los Angeles, CA @ House Of Blues
3/20: Anaheim, CA @ House Of Blues
