{"id":28644,"date":"2025-02-17T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/lacuna-coil-sleepless-empire\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T19:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T18:45:27","slug":"lacuna-coil-sleepless-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/lacuna-coil-sleepless-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"LACUNA COIL &#8211; &#8220;Sleepless Empire&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lacuna-Coil_SleeplessEmpire-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lacuna-Coil_SleeplessEmpire-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lacuna-Coil_SleeplessEmpire-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lacuna-Coil_SleeplessEmpire-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lacuna-Coil_SleeplessEmpire-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Lacuna-Coil_SleeplessEmpire.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Dynamic gothic metal<\/strong><br\/><strong>LACUNA COIL<br\/>&#8220;Sleepless Empire&#8221;<br\/><\/strong>Album (Century Media\/Sony)<br\/>Release: February 14, 2025<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Five years after<\/strong> the release of &#8220;Black Anima&#8221;, Lacuna Coil are no less hard, modern and dark. The band around singer Cristina Scabbia and shouter Andrea Ferro are now even more powerful. Once again, the focus is on their ability to create incredibly catchy yet hard-hitting songs. Be it the driving &#8220;Hosting the Shadow&#8221;, performed as a duet with Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe, the melodic heartbreak anthem &#8220;I Wish You Were Dead&#8221; (with some of the most beautiful vocal melodies on the album) or the darkly romantic &#8220;Gravity&#8221; &#8211; the talented Italians never fail to impress.   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-small-font-size\">Isabell K\u00f6ster<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Recorded in:<\/strong> SPVN Studio (Como, Italy)<br\/><strong>Produced by:<\/strong> Marco &#8220;Maki&#8221; Coti Zelati<br\/><strong>Mastered by:<\/strong> Marco D&#8217;Agostino<\/p>\n\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Sleepless Empire&#8221; on Spotify:<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/intl-de\/album\/2z6a4yNBjfxi9QvMheDRQ8?si=7KixgmCpQpSTj43Rt6-g8w\" title=\"Spotify Embed: Sleepless Empire\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2z6a4yNBjfxi9QvMheDRQ8?si=7KixgmCpQpSTj43Rt6-g8w&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lacuna-Coil-Oxygen-Press-Foto-by-CUNENE-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"Lacuna Coil\" class=\"wp-image-28289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lacuna-Coil-Oxygen-Press-Foto-by-CUNENE-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lacuna-Coil-Oxygen-Press-Foto-by-CUNENE-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lacuna-Coil-Oxygen-Press-Foto-by-CUNENE-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lacuna-Coil-Oxygen-Press-Foto-by-CUNENE-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Lacuna-Coil-Oxygen-Press-Foto-by-CUNENE.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In our March\/April issue, we conduct a touching interview with singer Cristina Scabbia.<\/p>\n\n<p>Listen to &#8220;Sleepless Empire&#8221; on Spotify<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dynamic gothic metalLACUNA COIL&#8220;Sleepless Empire&#8221;Album (Century Media\/Sony)Release: February 14, 2025 Five years after the release of &#8220;Black Anima&#8221;, Lacuna Coil are no less hard, modern and dark. 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