Lacuna Coil have jarred us wide awake with the latest preview from their forthcoming Sleepless Empire album. This time around, the Italian gothic-metal vets have unleashed a weighty cut called “Gravity,” which arrives alongside an epic new video.
After promoting the song across nearly a week’s worth of teaser posts and video clips, Lacuna Coil officially floated “Gravity” our way today (January 9th). The latest Sleepless Empire single thrives off a mix of dizzyingly arpeggiated synth sounds and bleakly anthemic guitar chunking, while Andrea Ferro and Cristina Scabbia trade-off throughout the song with their respective screamed and sung approaches.
When it comes to the chorus, the tune likewise features a few contextually unbalanced conundrums that speak to the song title (“I have to fall down to get back on top.”) The music video adds to the upended feel while navigating performance footage and shots of Scabbia floating through the atmosphere alongside oodles of feathers and flower petals. You can see for yourself up above.
“Balance is so difficult to keep as we navigate through desperate times, feeling lost and gasping as we ask for help,” the band wrote in a joint statement. “How do we deal with tough times? Do we ask for a hand? Or we isolate ourselves from everything else to recollect in our own misanthropic golden cage? [We] hope you will love ‘Gravity’ as much as we do and that it will make you reflect on the time we have left and how to use it wisely.”
“Gravity” is the latest reveal from Sleepless Empire, following earlier singles “Oxygen,” “Hoisting the Shadow” and “In the Mean Time”. The album is due out February 14th via Century Media Records.
Scabbia likewise leant vocals to Machine Head’s “These Scars Won’t Define Us” single, whicn also included guest spots from members of In Flames and Unearth. All four bands head off on tour together this spring, kicking things off April 5th with a show at Oakland, California’s Fox Theater.
You’ll find all of the date details here.