PHOTO CREDIT: MARTA PETRUCCI

I WISH YOU WERE DEAD // NEW SINGLE // OUT NOW

SLEEPLESS EMPIRE LP // 14 FEBRUARY

UK TOUR // NOVEMBER

PHOTO CREDIT: MARTA PETRUCCI

Listen to: I Wish You Were Dead

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Ahead of the release of their new studio album Sleepless Empire on 14 February, Italian metal titans Lacuna Coil have released the final single from the album, I Wish You Were Dead.

I Wish You Were Dead is about the emotional turmoil and struggle that accompanies toxic relationships. The song’s video takes the track’s heavy theme and spins it into a romantic Gothic 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 as the band perform choreography.

The band share the following about the new single and the album release:

“We all have this person we wish never existed, right? We have all felt the need to erase the same person from our thoughts, someone who hurt us that’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 to it al. Throughout every song, the journey is an undercurrent of rebellion, a desperate cry to reclaim ourselves in an era that seems to have lost its sense of time and reality.”

Sleepless Empire marks the 10th studio album from Lacuna Coil and is their first long player release after their remake album Comalies XX which came out in 2022. The new album comprises eleven tracks and each one is a richly textured soundtrack to a specific time and 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.

Order Sleepless Empire here

In addition, the band will be available to sign the new album at HMV Oxford Street in London on Valentine’s Day from 6.00pm with four additional signing events in Italy the following week.

 Lacuna Coil recently announced the massive 37 date European and UK leg of their Sleepless Empire tour for October, November and December this year, taking in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and the UK. Full routing, tickets and VIP upgrades available here

UK dates as follows:

NOVEMBER

Sat 22 SOUTHAMPTON 1865

Sun 23 NORWICH Epic Studios

Tue 25 LEEDS Stylus

Wed 26 NEWCASTLE Northumbria University

Fri 28 CARDIFF Tramshed

Sat 29 BRIGHTON Chalk

Shortly after the release of the new album, the Italian powerhouse will be playing throughout Latin America and Mexico on a 12 date tour in March. They also recently announced they will be joining Machine Head and In Flames on their massive 25 date North American tour in April and May before returning to Europe during the summer for key festivals including Tallinn Rock and Bloodstock.

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