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BostonHerald.com - Music News: The woman of Ozz: Singer breaks ground at guy-heavy metal fest
The woman of Ozz: Singer breaks ground at guy-heavy metal fest
By Dave Wedge Boston Herald Chief Enterprise Reporter
Monday, July 31, 2006 - Updated: 10:48 AM EST
Ozzfest is undoubtedly the most testosterone-fueled concert event of the summer.Lacuna Coil’s Christina Scabbia is doing her part to give the festival a distinct feminine touch.
And she’ll be doing it in a big way: The Italian singer is the first woman to front a band on the main stage in the metal fest’s 11 smashmouth years.
“I’ve been touring for 10 years and I’m constantly surrounded by men. I can handle guys,” the raven-haired siren said, sounding as cocksure as the tattooed roadies who build her stage nightly. “I know what guys are thinking before they even think it.”
Her band’s new disc, “Karmacode,” blasted onto the Billboard Top 200 at No. 28 in April, while the majestic single, “Our Truth,” has been in heavy rotation on hard-rock radio. The track is a perfect snapshot of the European band’s enormous arena metal sound: gorgeously wailing vocals from Scabbia, powerful backing from singer/guitarist Andrea Ferro and a groovy tribal metal chug.
The band, whose name translates as “empty coil,” will help hold up the pop-metal end of Ozzfest when it pulls into the Tweeter Center in Mansfield tomorrow, joining power-metallers Disturbed, the politically charged System of a Down, glam-thrashers Avenged Sevenfold and Connecticut’s Hatebreed on the main stage, as well as Ozzy himself, who is performing on about half of the tour’s dates.
This year’s second stage has a distinctly local flavor, with three blistering Bay State bands - Unearth, All That Remains and the Red Chord - along with scream-popsters Atreyu, Black Label Society, Canadian crazies Strapping Young Lad, Christian-core band Norma Jean and Orange County’s Bleeding Through.
“The good thing is that I didn’t grow up a metal girl, so I keep my feet on the ground,” Scabbia said of touring with Ozzy and other metal legends. “There’s been an influence on me, but at the same time, they’re just people. So when I meet them backstage, I look at them like humans.”
The 31-year-old singer has been offered big bucks to show more skin, but the furthest she’s gone is a tasteful spread in Stuff magazine. Her decision to keep her clothes on at photo shoots, she explains, is about staying true to herself and avoiding exploitation.
“I think it’s cool that I can be in total control,” she said. “But I want to show myself, who I am, and not try to be something I’m not.”
On her second Ozzfest tour (the band played the side stage in 2004), Scabbia will be surrounded by beer-and-Jagermeister-swigging dudes, but she won’t be the only woman. Bleeding Through has a female keyboard player, and straight-edge hardcore band Walls of Jericho is fronted by the ferocious Candace Kucsulain.
“I feel very sensual and feminine in many moments. I like the fact that I’m a woman,” Scabbia said. “I’m not trying to be a man. I want to rock but in a feminine way. Plus I’m not doing it in a vulgar way.”
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