Lacuna Coil announce first new album in five years, Sleepless Empire

Lacuna Coil have just confirmed their first new album in five years, Sleepless Empire.

The follow-up to 2019’s 4/5-rated Black Anima is due out on February 14, 2025 via Century Media, and the band reveal that this record “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.”

Having already released Hosting The Shadow (featuring Randy Blythe) and In The Mean Time (featuring Ash Costello), Lacuna Coil have marked their big announcement with another new single: Oxygen.

Vocalist Cristina Scabbia says that the song “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 video for Oxygen now:

Check out the Sleepless Empire tracklist:

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

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