LOL AT LACUNA COIL’S ANDREA FERRO
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 at 2:30pm by Vince NeilsteinSo Blabbermouth posted this live footage of Lacuna Coil performing at the Graspop Metal Meeting in Belgium a few weeks back. I clicked, figuring I’d at least get to oggle at Cristina Scabbia; the one-camera shoot meant this ended up not being the case, but I at least got to hear her very sexy voice… and male vocalist Andrea Ferro’s vocal diarrhea.
True, soundboard recordings are always a mixed bag; you hear each instrument clearly, but you don’t necessarily hear them the way they sounded live because house engineers mix to the sound of the venue, not through headphones. But Ferro’s performance is just undeniably, horrifyingly god awful. “Spellbound” starts off innocently enough with the instrumental intro, after which Ferro takes a stab at his first verse. I don’t think it’s possible for him to sound any worse; I mean, it’s like… just BAD. How is this guy still in the band? And to make matters worse, Cristina Scabbia follows him with a chorus that sounds practically perfect, arresting as always, as if to say “This guy sucks so bad, doesn’t he?”
-VN
Wow, “vocal diarrhea” does not begin to describe that. He must have nude photos of Cristina that he has threatened to release if kicked out of the band.
you gotta be right…that’s damn disgusting…for as big as LC is in some places this guy blows!!!….They could do soo much better finding another male singer?
how about the old scar symmetry singer? he’s kick ass…
This fucking dude sounds like he needs to clear his Throat BADLY!
Vinnie, when you’re right you’re right. I might only add that Scabbia’s vocals sound enhanced by possibly a TC Helicon (or some other) vocal harmonizer.
I think they were organic, just had a backing track for that harmonized part
he has to know that he sucks. Just watch the crowd. It’s sort of funny.
That’s awesome… ahahaha
Wow….
Maybe he was just having a really bad night? Or does he ALWAYS sound like that? Ouch…
I saw them years back on ozzfest and he was very very bad. I have always thought he was the low point of the band. It sucks too cause they have some good catchy tunes and her vocals are great. but I am always turned off as soon as his part comes in.
You could find a better singer with very little effort.
Yea, I gotta agree with Sammy, Cristina sounds modified, but like raiseyerfists said, it may just be a backing track.
Regardless, Andrea sounds like shit. Thing is, he’s actually pretty much nailing the part he does on CD, he just sounds slightly more guttural. Thus, I think he just blows no matter what he’s doing (unless it’s harsh vocals, back when he did those, he was fine).
Whatever, their new CD was wretched anyway.
Yeah, his harsh vocals were decent enough. I don’t even see why he tries to sing, it’s obvious that he can’t. He should stick to harsh vocals or get the fuck out of the band.
Man that guy sucks!
Scabbia needs to form her own band or do porn.
I hate this band so much and I wish they would just go away.
+1 to her doing porn, and I’m not a big fan of the band either
I’ve seen ‘em live before, he doesn’t usually sound that bad. Must be an off day, but yeah…pretty terrible in that video. Then again Cristina didn’t sound all that great in this video either.
That sounded atrocious. I like a fair number of bands that do the male/female dual vocals but I always thought it was pointless with LC. Andrea can’t sing and adds nothing to the songs. Would be much better for this band if they just had Christina sing.
There’s a backing track on her vocals yep. oh…. Can’t believe i just commented on this post.
When I saw them at Music As A Weapon they sounded great. Maybe he was just having a bad night.
Scabbia is hot: her voice is hot, she is f****n hot.
if she`s singing with some kind of `enhancement` why not add it to his as well…..somehow……?
maybe even a robot voice from war games would sound better, at least you`d know what he`s singin!
…oh man that was bad.
maybe he`s just having an off day, but he killed that song stone dead – in a very very bad way…
Absolutely. Ferro needs Stephen Hawking’s voice thingie. The old one, not the new one.
Didn’t LC originally only have Christina? Why is Andrea in the band? Why do they think he is good? Why? WHy? WHY!!?!?! He is the only reason I dislike this band.
No, he was actually in the band before she was
Just read that on Wiki, we’re doomed to this crap forever then lol
Compare the vocals on the live version to this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_VS2B48c24
Yeah, he’s at least tolerable on the studio albums, but he really brings down the entire band when they play live. I’d much rather see Scabbia do all the vocals, but then they would pretty just be a poor man’s Nightwish, which might not be so bad. I just wonder if they keep Andrea in the band because they think it differentiates them from bands like Nightwish or Within Temptation.
I doubt it, quite a few bands have male/female vocalists: Tristania, Epica, Catafalque, Leaves Eyes just to name a few.
I’m guessing its cause he was one of the originals.
Nightwish has a male vocalist
This won’t earn me any cred, but I’m guessing he’s referring to Wishmaster-era (pre-Marco Hietala) Nightwish.
Unfortunately it wasn’t just an off night for him. He’s actually getting consistently worse with time – it beggars belief.
fuck this band
completely
Wait a minute. So is that his only job? Does he play in instrument? You mean he’s in the band for his vocal abilities and this is the most he can deliver? Whaa….?
He’s the primary songwriter in the band, apparently.
I was there, he didn’t sound so bad in person. I guess my ears must’ve been malfunctioning from exhaustion!
I was at Queensryche’s DVD shows (Live Evolution) at the Moore a few years ago, and I thought Geoff Tate sounded great live. Then the DVD and the album came out, and man…his voice didn’t sound anywhere near as full on the recordings as they did at the show.
What’s worse than his singing? His ridiculous facial hair. That annoys me even more… ugh… I mean I too have a beard but his just increase his doucheness exponentially.
These guys are just plainly boring pop metal
Oopsy Daisy …. I mean, Holy Crap !!!!
How is this even remotely considered metal?
Well duh. The headbanging makes it metal. Isn’t that the rule?
They need to kick his ass out….saw them at Ozzfest a couple of years back, and in between songs, he tried to say something to the audience, but it only resembled a drunk Italian with a mouth full of puke trying to gargle ice cubes while humming Lacrimosa. Everyone was sorta like “…..tf did he say? Just start the fucking music again.”
I really don’t think Scabbia’s voice is processed. She’s got a backing track for the chorus, which doesn’t surprise me. The drummer starts the track in the first second of the video and then counts off to start the song. His in-ears will have a click track running as well so that shit stays in time. The track is probably just harmonies for the chorus and maybe some other ambient shit…I dunno…I lost interest in this band years ago.
hahaha, always thought he sucked and it’s so much more gratifying to watch him bomb.
I have seen them a couple times live and both times he sounded god awful, not a fan but this dude ruins whatever they have going for him. also they tried to say that they were having technical difficulties at both occasions, from what i could tell the suck was working pretty good
How funny would it be if he got kicked out of the band he started? Haha.
fuck he sounds bad live, I thought he was a douche in their videos.
this is sucking on a whole other level.
I’ve seen worse. Hey, at least it isn’t “(attack x 2) + !”
Very good point!
argh, he is indeed awful. I liked him on the older albums/EP. His vocals have been going downhill since…oh I don’t know, Comalies or Karmacode. He sounded much better on songs like “Senzafine” and “The Secret…” That’s the stuff I actually give a shit about anymore by this band.
How did they not kick this guy out after all of these years? And their last two albums blew.
andrea needs to take some ear training classes. his problem is that (when he’s not the wrong note) his pitch is very flat. in the recording studio, they can modify the pitch so that it’s in tune. cristina on the other hand, has very good intonation most of the time.
He sounds like John Tardy trying to sing.
Tardy kills this guy dead.
he sounds like Cookie Monster.
ME WANT COOKIE!!!
It’s lose-lose with this guy.
It’s not just that he’s a bad singer (his studio performances are far from stellar anyway and they’re in pitch), he’s an ugly sonofabitch too.