Lacuna Coil have made the surprise announcement through their Facebook Page that guitarist Cristiano 'Pizza' Migliore and drummer Cristiano 'CriZ' Mozzati are to leave the band. Both have been in the band since 1998 and cite personal reasons being behind their decision. Whilst there is no real detail given there is no suggestion of any acrimony over the split. The full statement is as follows:
I know.
I know it feels weird the fact that we chose Valentine's day to release the news that Chris "Pizza" Migliore and Cristiano "Criz" Mozzati decided to leave the Lacuna coil family.
But it ALL makes sense when at the base of this choice there is still a huge amount of love.
Love for us 6 as a strong group of good friends, love for what we have been able to achieve in so many years together.
Love for Lacuna coil.
I believe this being THE most friendly split (I cannot even call it so, cause it sounds bad) happened to a band.
Not a fight, no ego problems, no anger: a decision taken in the most serene way from Criz and Pizza and fully accepted from the rest of LC.
No, you will not read any angry articles on Blabbermouth, sorry :))
We know we left some of you heartbroken with the news and surely Andi, Maki, Maus and I are gonna MISS THE HELL out of our brothers (even though we will still see each other off stage :)))!!) , but don't take this all as a sad news because Criz and Pizza are serene in their decisions and the rest of us are absolutely, completely, totally determined to bring you guys the most sincere and great album we did so far, "Broken Crown Halo", and keep the LACUNA COIL LEGACY going.