LACUNA COIL will free up their 10th studio album, “Sleepless Empire” — their first number of new songs since 2019’s “Black Anima” — on February 14th, 2025 by means of Century Media Data
The legit song video for the LP’s newest unmarried, “Oxygen”, filmed in Latina and directed via Daniele Tofani, that presentations singer Cristina Scabbia within the lead position, will make its on-line debut these days at 9 a.m. PDT / 12 p.m. (midday) EDT.
Scabbia commented at the monitor and her enjoy filming the video: “‘Oxygen’ is a formidable exploration of emotional combat and interior battle. The lyrics put across a way of drowning in a poisonous surroundings, each actually (within the video) and metaphorically, the place makes an attempt at salvation, represented via ‘oxygen’ are one way or the other futile.
“This tune encapsulates the sensation of suffering to break away from what holds us down, when the adventure is full of problem. It’s a uncooked anthem of vulnerability, resilience, and the braveness to stand what turns out insurmountable. Having to stick within the water for such a lot of hours all the way through the video shoot used to be cathartic for me, the belief that the delightful sensation of floating may just instantly turn into unhealthy and fatal if I wasn’t cautious used to be very becoming with the tune’s theme.”
Inspiration to create “Sleepless Empire” got here all the way through the classes for “Comalies XX” (2022),the acclaimed remake of Lacuna Coil‘s step forward 3rd report “Comalies”. Writing and recording happened in northern Italy between Milano (the band’s place of origin) and Como, the place SPVN Studios are situated.
As with their earlier albums, manufacturing used to be carried out in space with Marco “Maki” Coti Zelati on the helm, and art work used to be hand curated via the gifted Italian artist Roberto Toderico. Two different very particular skills enrich the album, specifically the visitor vocalists: Lamb Of God’s Randy Blythe at the tune “Webhosting The Shadow” and New Years Day’s Ash Costello on “In The Imply Time”.
As a token of the band’s love for the gaming international (which we’ve noticed in previous endeavors comparable to their card sport “Horns Up” and their collaboration with Zombicide for which they wrote the monitor “By no means First light”),the band have created an oracle “sport” to be performed with customized made cube to be had handiest within the field set model of “Sleepless Empire”.
The brand new album is created from 11 tracks; each and every one is a richly textured soundtrack to a selected time and position. With “Sleepless Empire”, that position is darkish, cinematic, and unmistakably true to the original traits that experience given the band any such celebrated access within the annals of heavy song.
The band stocks: “‘Sleepless Empire’ captures, thru our eyes, the chaos of a technology trapped in a virtual international that by no means stops, the place social media consumes id and each day pushes us one step nearer to changing into soulless zombies.
:”We discover ourselves in between, having witnessed a complete analogic international and the trendy one, confronting the evolution and in search of a real which means of all of it. All through each tune, the adventure is an undercurrent of revolt, a determined cry to reclaim oneself in an generation that turns out to have misplaced its sense of time and truth.”
“Sleepless Empire” monitor record
01. The Siege
02. Oxygen
03. Scarecrow
04. Gravity
05. I Want You Have been Lifeless
06. Webhosting The Shadow (feat. Randy Blythe)
07. In Nomine Patris
08. Sleepless Empire
09. Sleep Paralysis
10. In The Imply Time (feat. Ash Costello)
11. By no means First light
