Lacuna Coil releases new single/video “I Wish You Were Dead”!

Announce release events; additional album signing events in UK & Italy;
on EU/UK „Sleepless Empire“ 2025 tour in fall!

„I Wish You Were Dead“ handelt von den emotionalen Turbulenzen und Kämpfen, die mit toxischen Beziehungen einhergehen. Das Video zum Song, das am Donnerstagabend um 21 Uhr Premiere hat, nimmt das schwere Thema des Songs auf und verwandelt es in eine romantische Gothic-Geschichte, gerade rechtzeitig zum Valentinstag.  Das Video wurde von Martina L. Mclean in einer Kirche in Capranica, einer kleinen Stadt nördlich von Rom, gedreht und stellt eine Premiere in der Geschichte von Lacuna Coil dar: die Band führt eine Choreographie auf!

Merkt euch den Termin vor: „I Wish You Were Dead“ Videopremiere am Donnerstag, 13. Februar, 21 Uhr CET hier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H86cL4NBZRg

Listen to „I Wish You Were Dead“ here.

„I Wish You Were Dead“ is about the emotional turmoil and struggle that accompanies toxic relationships. The song’s video, which will premiere on Thursday evening at 9pm CET, takes the track’s heavy theme and spins it into a romantic Goth tale just in time for Valentine’s Day.  Filmed by Martina L Mclean in a church in Capranica, a small town north of Rome, it marks a first in the history of Lacuna Coil: the band performing a choreography!
Save the date: „I Wish You Were Dead“ video premiere on Thursday, Feb 13^th, 9pm CET.

The band shares about the new single and the album release:
„We all have this person we wish never existed, right?  We all felt the need to erase the same person from our thoughts, someone who hurt us that it’s still in our mind. We wanted to write heavier lyrics on a happier musical canvas.  Also we are a little tired of being politically correct at all costs…“
„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.“

„Sleepless Empire“ marks the 10^th studio album of Lacuna Coil and is set to be released this Friday, February 14^th, 2025, via Century Media Records. It is the first long player release after their remake album Comalies XX, which came out 2022. The new album comprises 11 new tracks; and each one is 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.

Pre-Order „Sleepless Empire“ here.

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

To celebrate the album release and give fans the chance to be a part of the „Sleepless Empire“, several in-store events on release day across Europe have been announced, find your nearest shop HERE