In 2008, it was announced that Lacuna Coil’s fifth studio album would be produced by Don Gilmore and would include some Arabic influences. Cristina Scabbia explained in the magazine Rock Sound : “It’s different, but it’s our style. We haven’t done anything absolutely different from our style, because that wouldn’t…
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The band toured extensively to support the album throughout 2007. This included the Jägermeister Music Tour , The Hottest Chicks in Metal Tour 2007, Loudpark Festival ’07 in Saitama City ‘s Saitama Super Arena , and the Australian leg of Megadeth ‘s Gigantour .
That December, Lacuna Coil teamed up with In Flames, The Sword and Seemless for a US tour, as well as The Blackest of the Black 2006 Tour.
It was then announced that Karmacode would be released in the United States on 4 April 2006.
After their tour with Zombie, they performed main stage at Ozzfest 2006 along with System of a Down , Ozzy Osbourne , and Hatebreed , becoming the first female-fronted band to co-headline the heavy-metal festival.
Corresponding with the release of the new album, Lacuna Coil toured with Rob Zombie throughout North America in early 2006.
That summer they also played on the main stage of the Download Festival (a three-day music festival in England’s Donington Park ), which was headlined by Metallica , Tool , and Guns N’ Roses .
On 23 December 2005 the band announced on their web site that all recording, mixing, and mastering on Karmacode had been completed.
During their 2005 European Tour, Lacuna Coil debuted two new songs from Karmacode at selected concerts: “Our Truth” and “Fragile” under the working titles “Antonio” and “A2” respectively.
In early 2005, “Heaven’s a Lie” won in The 4th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Hard Rock/Metal Song.