When Cristina Scabbia and Andrea Ferro first met in a metal dive called The Midnight, in their home city of Milan in the early 1990s, the prospect of forging a musical partnership that would take them all around the world for the next three decades was not even a fantasy.
“Italy doesn’t really have the history of rock’n’roll or metal roots or culture,” says Cristina more than 30 years on. “When we were sending our details to labels using a fax machine, we couldn’t even imagine getting signed.”
