Lacuna Coil release striking new single "Gravity"
While 2025 has barely started, Italian metal legends Lacuna Coil are already going on full force with the release of their newest single Gravity. The new single, which comes with a striking new music video, marks the fifth single from their upcoming record “Sleepless Empire”, which is set to be released on 14th February 2025 via Century Media Records. Exploring themes of the inevitability of fate as well as the constant cycle of falling and rising, Gravity delivers an important message on resilience.
The band shares about the single:
“Balance is so difficult to keep as we navigate through desperate times, feeling lost and gasping as we ask for help. How do we deal with tough times? Do we ask for a hand? Or do we isolate ourselves from everything else to recollect in our own misanthropic golden cage? I hope you will love 'Gravity' as much as we do and that it will make you reflect on the time we have left and how to use it wisely.”
You can check out the official video below:
And 14th February sees the release of “Sleepless Empire” Lacuna Coil’s 10th studio album and the first long player release since their remake of classic album “Comalies”, released as “Comalies XX” which came out in 2022.
On “Sleepless Empire”, 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.”
The new album comprises eleven new tracks, each one a richly textured soundtrack to a specific time and a place. With “Sleepless Empire”, that place is dark, cinematic, and unmistakably true to the unique characteristics that have given Lacuna Coil such a celebrated entry in the annals of heavy music.
“Sleepless Empire” is available to preorder now HERE.
“Sleepless Empire” Track Listing
1. The Siege
2. Oxygen
3. Scarecrow
4. Gravity
5. I Wish You Were Dead
6. Hosting The Shadow
7. In Nomine Patris
8. Sleepless Empire
9. Sleep Paralysis
10. In The Mean Time
11. Never Dawn
The new album is available in the following formats:
Ltd. Deluxe CD Box Set with symbolic dice oracle
Ltd. CD Digipak
Ltd. CD Digipak (US version)
Black LP & LP-Booklet
Black LP & LP-Booklet (US version)
Ltd. white LP & LP-Booklet
Ltd. deep blood red LP & LP-Booklet (exclusive Sony Music Entertainment Italy version)
Ltd. Sparkle Rainbow LP & LP-Booklet
Ltd. transp. glow in the dark LP & LP-Booklet (exclusive band version)
Black LP & LP-Booklet (US version)
Ltd. ultra clear LP & LP-Booklet (US version)
Ltd. silver LP & LP-Booklet (US version)
Digital album
Photo (c) Cunene
After the release of “Sleepless Empire”, Lacuna Coil will not be slowing down. Shortly after the release of their new record, the Italian powerhouse will be touring through Latin America as well as Mexico in March 2025. They also recently announced that they will be joining Machine Head on their massive tour across North America in April and May 2025, alongside In Flames and Unearth. Additionally, the band is also already announced for some festivals in Europe during the summer:
LACUNA COIL 2025 UK/EU Tour Dates
06/06 - Metal Fest OpenAir (CZ)
15/06 - Lignano Sabbiadoro, Arena Alpe Adria (IT)
28/06 - Tallinn Rock Festival (EE)
06/07 - Lucca Summer Festival (IT)
08/08 - Bloodstock Festival (UK)
10/08 - M’era Luna Festival (DE)
15/08 - Motocultor (FR)
Lacuna Coil are an Italian gothic metal band formed in Milan in 1994 and the name translates as “empty spiral”. Today, the band consists of Cristina Scabbia (Vocals), Andrea Ferro (Vocals), Marco Coti Zelati (Bass, Guitar, Synths) and Richard Meiz (Drums). They
The band is renowned for their distinctive blend of heavy metal, gothic rock, and symphonic elements, characterised by dual vocal harmonies between co-lead vocalists Cristina Scabbia and Andrea Ferro. The band gained international recognition with their third album “Comalies”, released in 2002, which featured hit singles like Heaven's a Lie and Swamped. This album marked their breakthrough in the United States and helped them secure a dedicated fan base worldwide.
Over the years, Lacuna Coil have released several successful albums, including “Karmacode” (2006), “Shallow Life” (2009), “Dark Adrenaline” (2012), and “Black Anima” (2019).
Known for their dynamic live performances and strong stage presence, Lacuna Coil have toured extensively, sharing stages with prominent bands in the metal scene and performing at major music festivals around the globe.
