Although 2025 has just begun, Italian metal icons LACUNA COIL are already making waves with the release of their powerful new single, “Gravity.”

Words by Felix Bartlett | Jan 10, 2025

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Lacuna Coil have just dropped their latest offering accompanied by a striking music video, “Gravity” is the fifth single off their highly anticipated album Sleepless Empire, set for release on February 14th, 2025, via Century Media Records.

The track delves into themes of fate’s inevitability and the recurring cycle of rising and falling, delivering a poignant message about resilience.

Speaking on the track the band share ““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.“

Sleepless Empire marks LACUNA COIL’s 10th studio album and their first full-length release following the 2022 remake of their iconic Comalies album.

Continuing to talk on the album 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 album features eleven new tracks, each offering a vivid soundtrack to a specific moment in time. With Sleepless Empire, that moment is dark, cinematic, and unmistakably reflective of the distinct sound that has cemented LACUNA COIL’s place in the heavy music landscape.

Check out the album artwork and tracklist below and pre-order the new album here.

Sleepless Empire Tracklist:

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