Delirium

Personnel: Cristina Scabbia, Andrea Ferro (vocals); Marco Coti Zelati (guitar, keyboards, synthesizer, bass guitar); Ryan Folden (drums).Audio Mixer: Marco Barusso.Liner Note Author: Lacuna Coil.Recording information: BRX Studio, Milano, IT (12/2015/01/2016).Photographer: Alessandro "T-One" Olgiati.Despite parting ways with two guitarists and a drummer, Lacuna Coil turn inward as a quartet and reveal a scope hitherto unseen in their catalog on Delirium, their eighth studio album. The band named the album after a foray to a sanitarium in northern Italy, and the songs were inspired by the struggles of mental illnesses, failed treatments, and the demons each bandmember had faced over the years. For such a bleak outlook, Delirium is a focused wonder. Forgoing outside production help, the band opted to stay in-house with bassist and principal songwriter Marco "Maki" Coti Zelati (who also took on most of the guitar and synth work for Delirium). The result is a sprawling epic that is their mo