Lacuna Coil announce new album ‘Sleepless Empire’
LACUNA COIL have announced a new album!
Titled Sleepless Empire, the upcoming album from the Italian symphonic metal band is the long-awaited follow-up to 2019’s Black Anima, and is scheduled to be released in February next year, via Century Media Records.
Inspiration to create Sleepless Empire came during the sessions for Comalies XX (2022), the acclaimed remake of their breakthrough record of the same title. Writing and recording took place in northern Italy between Milano, the band’s hometown and Como, where SPVN Studios are located. As with their previous albums, production was done in house with Marco ‘Maki’ Coti Zelati at the helm, and artwork was hand curated by the talented Italian artist Roberto Toderico.
Speaking about the upcoming album, the band shares, “Sleepless Empire captures, through our eyes, the chaos of a generation trapped in a digital world that never stops, where social media consumes identity and every day pushes us one step closer to becoming soulless zombies. We find ourselves in between, having witnessed a full analogic world and the modern one, confronting the evolution and searching for a true meaning of it all. Throughout every song, the journey is an undercurrent of rebellion, a desperate cry to reclaim oneself in an era that seems to have lost its sense of time and reality.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, LACUNA COIL have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Oxygen. The new song is the third single to be released from the upcoming album, following on from Hosting The Shadow and In The Mean Time.
Speaking about the new song, and its accompanying music video, vocalist Cristina Scabbia says, “Oxygen is a powerful exploration of emotional struggle and inner conflict. The lyrics convey a sense of drowning in a toxic environment, both literally (in the video) and metaphorically, where attempts at salvation, represented by ‘oxygen’ are somehow futile. This song encapsulates the feeling of struggling to break free from what holds us down, when the journey is filled with difficulty. It’s a raw anthem of vulnerability, resilience, and the courage to face what seems insurmountable. Having to stay in the water for so many hours during the video shoot was cathartic for me, the realisation that the pleasant sensation of floating could in an instant become dangerous and deadly if I wasn’t careful was very fitting with the song’s theme.”
Watch the official music video for Oxygen here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. The Siege
2. Oxygen
3. Scarecrow
4. Gravity
5. I Wish You Were Dead
6. Hosting The Shadow (feat. Randy Blythe)
7. In Nomine Patris
8. Sleepless Empire
9. Sleep Paralysis
10. In The Mean Time (feat. Ash Costello)
11. Never Dawn
Sleepless Empire is set for release on February 14th via Century Media Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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