Lacuna Coil have announced their tenth album ‘Sleepless Empire’, sharing powerful single ‘Oxygen’. The follow-up to 2019’s ‘Black Anima’, the Italian metal titans’ latest full-length will arrive on February 14, 2025 via Century Media Records. Serving as the first taste of the band’s new era, ‘Oxygen’ comes alongside a stunning music video directed by Daniele Tofani.
Check it out below. Speaking on the new track and its accompanying video, singer Cristina Scabbia has shared: “’Oxygen’ 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.
” And on their upcoming album, the band have said: “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 on.