Lacuna Coil have announced their tenth album ‘Sleepless Empire’, sharing powerful single ‘Oxygen’.
The follow-up to 2019’s ‘Black Anima’, the Italian metal titans’ latest full-length will arrive on February 14, 2025 via Century Media Records.
Serving as the first taste of the band’s new era, ‘Oxygen’ comes alongside a stunning music video directed by Daniele Tofani.
Check it out below.
Speaking on the new track and its accompanying video, singer Cristina Scabbia has shared:
“’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.”
And on their upcoming album, the band have said:
“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.”
Lacuna Coil will return to the UK this month, playing a run of shows with special guests Blind Channel.
Take a look at the full list of dates below, and grab your tickets via the band’s official site.
15.10 – Limelight, Belfast
16.10 – Academy, Dublin
18.10 – O2 Academy, Bournemouth
20.10 – Academy, Manchester
21.10 – SWG3, Glasgow
22.10 – KK’s Steelmill, Wolverhampton
24.10 – Rock City, Nottingham
25.10 – Roundhouse, London
26.10 – O2 Academy, Bristol