“Security will think that you’re either the wife or the girlfriendof someone, or a groupie”: Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia explains how women are “treated differently” in the heavy metal scene

Lacuna Coil singer Cristina Scabbia onstage in 2024.

Lacuna Coil singer Cristina Scabbia has explained how women are “treated differently” to men in heavy metal.

Talking exclusively in the new issue of Metal Hammer, the Italian gothic metal vocalist says that while she’s never encountered “problems” in the genre because of her gender, she believes women have to “prove” themselves as rock stars more than men do.