Music experts’ assistance courted for heavy metal question

I hope Cristina & co. will forgive me for posting an mp3 of one of their songs in the clear, but I really need help on this track:

Lacuna Coil — “What I See”, from Karmacode

Could you download that mp3, if your conscience is OK with it?

OK: what the hell is going on with the rhythm guitar at the beginning of the track and at roughly 1:26?!  I don’t know nearly enough about music to answer that question.  The drums are setting down something I can count — just a “one and two and” — but the rhythm guitar seems — relatively prime to that time signature?  There’s other weird time stuff in the song, including everyone just freezing at the same moment, which I adore, and the drums shift several other times to a “one two three rest“, which is — syncopation?  Seriously, help.

Sidebar: Yes yes yes, I know I was multiply teased when I brought up Lacuna Coil the first time.  Yes, there’s no cred there, I know.  It’s not that I don’t like Opeth and Celtic Frost — I still listen to Blackwater Park, I still listen to Into the Pandemonium, and I still Speak Truth to Power Metal — but I like me some Lacuna Coil, too.  You’ve gotta at least give them that the song I’ve posted is more complicated than would be expected were they just bubblegum metal.  (That last sentence, in the colloquial conversational compound subjunctive mood, was my gift to you.)

Plus, of course, there’s this:

What can I say? I’m a sucker for gorgeous busty foreign goth altos.