HOARD ALMIGHTY
Box sets, underground oddities and all the essential merch you need this month
Listen to Lacuna Coil’s 1999 debut album, In A Reverie, and for all its downcast, gothic-tinged aura, it’s still easy to see the level of scope and ambition that’s made the Milanese metallers the globe-trotting behemoths they are today. In celebration of their two decades as a band (or thereabouts, since they actually formed in 1994), they’re following up their spectacular series of circus-themed, commemorative concerts and accompanying DVD with an equally exquisite book, as told by founder members Andrea Ferro, Marco Coti Zelati and Cristina Scabbia. Running to 224 pages, and full of rare and classic images, it also comes as a yet more glorious, foil-detailed hardback Signature Edition, complete with presentation box, signatures from each member of the band and four original art prints by Marco himself. Una cosa di bellezza!