Lacuna Coil Drop ‘Sleepless Empire’ and “I Wish You Were Dead” Video

As the band releases their brand new studio album, Sleepless Empire, Italian metal titans Lacuna Coil have also dropped the ultimate single, “I Wish You Were Dead,” alongside a stunning music video.

“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 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!

On the new single, the band shares:

“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 marks the tenth studio album of Lacuna Coil, released 14th February via Century Media Records. It is the first long play release after their remake album Comalies XX, which came out 2022. The new album comprises eleven 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.

Speaking about 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.”

Lacuna Coil recently announced the massive European & UK leg of their Sleepless Empire tour in October, November & December of this year. The tour kicks off in the band’s hometown, Milan, on October 10th.

Sleepless Empire Track Listing:

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

Tour Dates:

22/11 – 1865, Southampton
23/11 – Epic Studios, Norwich
25/11 – Stylus, Leeds
26/11 – Northumbria Uni, Newcastle
28/11 – Tramshed, Cardiff
29/11 – Chalk, Brighton

Lacuna Coil ‘Sleepless Empire’ album artwork