Factory of Dreams Interview 2013 
April 6, 2013 (via Skype)

Thanks to the magic of the Internet, geography is no longer an insurmountable obstacle for musical projects, as amply demonstrated by Factory of Dreams, the collaboration between Portuguese multi-instrumentalist/composer Hugo Flores and Swedish vocalist Jessica Lehto. Factory of Dreams first caught my attention with their brooding, cinematic music videos … I’m never quite sure what is happening in the videos, but I sure do enjoy the look and feel of them! With their fourth release, Some Kind Of Poetic Destruction, the band embarks on a conceptual sci-fi adventure that leaves much open to interpretation, but is nonetheless a more accessible album than Melotronical. This is definitely an album that you’ll want to listen to with headphones and the lyrics in front of you, as the story and the layers of sound unfold.

Cristina Scabbia Interview
Philadelphia - April 18,2013
In-Person Interview at the Electric Factory

Going into this interview, I was only a casual fan of Lacuna Coil, which means I knew their song Our Truth from the second Underworld film. Being a large fan of the vampire genre, it is almost a requisite part of my movie-watching life to both know and to have watched the Underworld films. I have mostly a tepid response to those films, but Lacuna Coil’s music has always struck me as being filled with thundering drama and heart-felt lyrics. I’ve always loved how neither the female and male vocalists were forced into the obligatory roles of the female vocalist being the lilting soprano vocalist or the male vocalist being this gruff, burly growler. Instead, Lacuna Coil was always unique from day one.