Lacuna Coil Announces New Album, 'Sleepless Empire'! Reveals New Single/Video "Oxygen"!

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Italian metal legends Lacuna Coil announced their 10th studio album “Sleepless Empire” via Century Media Records along with a new single “Oxygen”, which also came out with a captivating music video directed by Daniele Tofani. The video, starring vocalist Cristina Scabbia, artfully depicts the struggle of the narrator who feels trapped in a destructive cycle and finally decides to break free.

Watch the video HERE or click below.

On the song and her experience filming the video, Cristina Scabbia 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 realization 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."

“Sleepless Empire” contains 11 tracks, as well as two guest vocalists: Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe on the song “Hosting the Shadow” and New Year’s Day’s Ash Costello on “In The Mean Time”. Utilizing their cinematic style, the themes of the album will explore the dark place the modern world has become as a result of technology. The band 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."

Preorder “Sleepless Empire” HERE.