“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! 

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.

LACUNA COIL have recently announced a fall 2025 European tour with special guests NONPOINT.

Go to www.lacunacoil.com and use code SLEEPLESS2025 to access pre-sale now.

General on sale and VIP upgrades available on Monday, February 3 at 11:00 a.m. local time.

Tour dates:

Oct. 10 – Milan, Italy – Alcatraz
Oct. 11 – Meisenthal, France – La Boite Noire
Oct. 12 – Paris, France – L’Elysee Montmrartre
Oct. 14 – Toulouse, France – Le Bikini
Oct. 16 – Madrid, Spain – La Riviera
Oct. 17 – Lisbon, Portugal – L.A.V.
Oct. 18 – Seville, Spain – Custom
Oct. 20 – Barcelona, Spain – Apolo
Oct. 21 – Grenoble, France – La Belle Electrique
Oct. 22 – Stuttgart, GER – LKA Longhorn
Oct. 24 – Lausanne, Switzerland – Docks
Oct. 25 – Zurich, Switzerland – Dynamo
Oct. 26 – Munich, Germany – Backstage Werk
Oct. 28 – Budapest, HUN – Barba Negra
Oct. 29 – Vienna, AUT – Szene
Oct. 31 – Wroclaw, Poland – A2
Nov. 02 – Hamburg, Germany – Markthalle
Nov. 03 – Berlin, Germany – Huxley’s
Nov. 04 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Pumpehuset
Nov. 05 – Oslo, Norway – Vulkan
Nov. 07 – Jyvaskyla, Finland – Lutakko
Nov. 08 – Tampere, Finland – Tavara-Asema
Nov. 11 – Stockholm, Sweden – Debaser
Nov. 12 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Pustervik
Nov. 14 – Nijmegen, Netherlands – Doornroosje
Nov. 15 – Cologne, Germany – LMH
Nov. 16 – Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg – Rockhal
Nov. 18 – Brussels, Belgium – A.B.
Nov. 19 – Frankfurt, Germany – Batschkapp
Nov. 20 – Eindhoven, netherlands – Effenaar
Nov. 22 – Southampton, UK – 1865
Nov. 23 – Norwich, UK – Epic Studios
Nov. 25 – Leeds, UK – Stylus
Nov. 26 – Newcastle, UK – Northumbria Uni
Nov. 28 – Cardiff, UK – Tramshed
Nov. 29 – Brighton, UK – Chalk
Dec. 01 – Lille, France – Le Splendid

LACUNA COIL will be touring in support of its upcoming album, “Sleepless Empire”, which is set to be released February 14, 2025 via Century Media Records.