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  Shortly after completing their 'Sleepless Empire UK/EU' tour, Italian metal icons LACUNA COIL continue their live momentum with the announcement of their 'Sleepless Empire US' tour, which is set to start in March 2026. With this run of dates, the band brings their signature dark atmosphere and the emotional intensity of new album Sleepless Empire to stages across North America. LACUNA COIL return to the US with special guests Escape The Fate, as well as VOWWS (24/3 - 13/4) and AXTY (15/4 - 29/4). The tour is set to start in New York on 24th March and concludes in Albany on 1st May. Tickets go on general sale Friday 19th December at 10am local time. See the full list of upcoming tour dates here . The announcement comes with a corresponding new official video for ‘Hosting the Shadow’, that shows LACUNA COIL in full force during their set at Aftershock festival in October 2025. Joining them on stage is Lamb Of God-frontman Randy Blythe, who is featured on the album trac...

  As the band prepares to release their brand new studio album Sleepless Empire, Italian metal titans LACUNA COIL have released 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, which premieres this evening at 8pm GMT, 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! STREAM HERE WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO HERE 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 c...

  While 2025 has barely started, Italian metal legends LACUNA COIL are already going on full force with the release of their newest single 'Gravity'. The new single, which comes with a striking new music video, marks the fifth single from their upcoming record Sleepless Empire, which is set to be released February 14th 2025 via Century Media Records. Exploring themes of the inevitability of fate as well as the constant cycle of falling and rising, 'Gravity' delivers an important message on resilience. WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO HERE The band shares about the single: “Balance is so difficult to keep as we navigate through desperate times, feeling lost and gasping as we ask for help. How do we deal with tough times? Do we ask for a hand? Or do we isolate ourselves from everything else to recollect in our own misanthropic golden cage? I 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.” S...

  Italian metal titans LACUNA COIL announce their 10th studio album, Sleepless Empire, their first collection of new songs since 2019’s Black Anima, with their new single 'Oxygen'. The new song comes with a mesmerising new music video, filmed in Latina and directed by Daniele Tofani, that shows singer Cristina Scabbia in the lead role. Watch the 'Oxygen' music video here . Stream 'Oxygen' here . Pre-order Sleepless Empire here . Cristina Scabbia commented on the track and her experience filming the video: “'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 cour...

  Having announced nineteen bands - including the headliners - for 2025’s heavy metal extravaganza during this year’s event - BLOODSTOCK is delighted that fans are as thrilled with the line-up as festival HQ. The unprecedented demand has seen all adult early bird tickets sell out within 36 hours of going on sale, for the first time. All adult VIP tickets and campervan tickets then went on sale at 9am this Wednesday and promptly sold out just minutes later as well. Due to demand, the very popular ticket instalment plan has been brought forward and will now go on sale on Friday 30th August at 09:00 BST, for a limited number of standard weekend tickets. This allows fans to pay for their ticket in 6 instalments. Fans will have up to 29th October to sign up, unless the allocation sells out before 29th October. A first payment of £33.18 (+ fees) will be taken immediately upon sign up, with further payments debiting as follows: 25/11/24 - £33.18 03/01/25 - £33.16 03/02/25 - £33.16 03/03/2...

  Italian goth metal legends LACUNA COIL are proud to unleash a new single 'Hosting The Shadow' on the world. After their successful collaboration with Ash Costello of New Years Day on their latest single ' In The Mean Time ', the new track 'Hosting The Shadow' comes with none other than Randy Blythe from the mighty American band, Lamb of God. Stream 'Hosting the Shadow' here . On the new single collaboration, LACUNA COIL shares: "'Hosting The Shadow’ is a trip through light and dark, where silence reveals its hidden secrets. Obscure moments can become occasions to evolve, to learn to master one’s own shadow – which is crucial in order to prevail. Randy Blythe did an incredible job on this track, we absolutely adore his voice and his evil laugh! Our admiration for him is infinite and to have him as a guest on this song is a dream come true. Partnering with a friend you respect immensely, that also kicks ass on stages around the world: it doesn’t...

  Following the successful release of ' Never Dawn ' (over 2 million streams), the goth metal legends LACUNA COIL are back with their new single: 'In The Mean Time' featuring Ash Costello of New Years Day. The song’s title is a reference to the mean times the world is living in, as well as a reference to the state the band itself is in, between cycles. Stream 'In The Mean Time' here . Watch 'In The Mean Time' here . “’In The Mean Time’ is a reflection on how much our society has generally ‘lost the plot’. We are living in really mean times filled with unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive. The pressure that crushes from the outside doesn't allow us to see things with the right clarity. This song is like group therapy: not a lamentation, but acceptance that once broken, it’s hard to put oneself back together again. We need to take our minds off all the inescapable toxicity and find that there’s so much more to this life… and know t...

  Italian metalheads DRABIK release today 'Parasite', a powerful and punching new song produced by Lacuna Coil's bass player Maki. This song is the second one to anticipate a new album entitled "Mannequin" coming on September 23rd through Volcano Records & Promotion, and is available on all digital platforms including Spotify. The band also released a lyric video on YouTube that well represents the ruthless atmosphere in which they want to lead us with Parasite. If you are looking for something new and exciting in the metal universe, do not miss a unique band and this tune that combines attitude and a huge wall of sound with an intense and deep travel in the land of the unknown. Do not fight the parasite inside your mind, let it be your guide. Watch 'Parasite' here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbjqPmaXYMg "Mannequin" will include ten outrageously powerful tracks that will be revealed further on but today the label is excited to share t...

ELUVEITIE are a phenomenon that has been spreading over the world for more than 15 years. Starting with their legendary debut album 'Spirit' (2006), across the outstanding 'Slania' (2008) to their latest masterpiece 'Ategnatos' (2019), the Swiss have developed a groundbreaking recipe. And now the time has come to capture the magical live energy of the Swiss Folk Metal institution in the form of a new release. 'Live At Masters Of Rock' will be unleashed on November 1st and contains many songs off of the band’s new album as well as plenty of legendary ELUVEITIE classics. ELUVEITIE presents the first digital single of this upcoming release, allowing everybody to enjoy at home the unbeatable stage energy of their current Ategnatos World Tour. The song 'Breathe' is now available on all major streaming and download platforms: https://nblast.de/Eluveitie-Breathe The band also presents the second album trailer of 'Live At Masters Of Rock'....

Swiss folk metal stars ELUVEITIE are going to release their new studio album 'Ategnatos' on April 5th2019 via Nuclear Blast. Today, the band proudly present a brand new single 'Ambiramus'. The song can be heard and watched in the form of a music video over on YouTube. The music video was produced by the Polish company Grupa13 in January 2019 and can be seen here: https://youtu.be/hFa2M1QW6UI Chrigel Glanzmann states: "Here you go - the next single off our upcoming album: 'AMBIRAMUS'! It's definitely one of the most exceptional songs from our discography! 'AMBIRAMUS' comes in quite groovy and with a light-hearted, yet racing folk reel in the chorus and a very accessible overall appearance; easily the brightest song we’ve ever written. Yet at the same time it goes to where the actual magic of traditional Celtic folk music exists: a place where cheerfulness and melancholy, hardship and hope, glee and deep mysticism meet to become o...

We all wade through archetypes. We all ARE archetypes. Distant echoes of a life both primeval and noble. To embrace these archetypes, to accept them not only as a part of life but as life itself is what some may call enlightenment, some peace of mind. ELUVEITIE call it 'Ategnatos'. And by using their longest ever gap between albums to gather momentum, they just forged their strongest album around it. 'Ategnatos' will be released on April 5th 2019 via Nuclear Blast. The band presents the first album trailer on YouTube. Check it and find out more about the concept and the lyrics of the upcoming album: https://youtu.be/JcoOZjwss0c Recently, the band has released the title track as the debut single. The song can be heard and watched in the form of a music video over on YouTube. The music video was produced by the Polish company Grupa13 in January 2019 and can be seen here: https://youtu.be/BG6en2WyAsw Stream or download the new single here: http://nblast.de/EluAt...

CELLAR DARLING | LAUNCH MUSIC VIDEO FOR 'SIX DAYS';  KICK OFF TOUR WITH LACUNA COIL IN EUROPE THIS WEEK Switzerland's New Wave Of Folk Rock, CELLAR DARLING, just returned from their mostly sold-out tour with DELAIN and now prepare to embark on another extensive tour together with LACUNA COIL in Europe. The band have released an animated music video for 'Six Days' taken from the band's debut album, This Is The Sound.  Watch the beautiful and brilliant video:  https://youtu.be/jiHt3qR4gzM "It‘s the sixth of November. A good day to present you the video to our song 'Six Days', a dark and abstract story about the last man left on earth. We‘ve always wanted this special song to have a visual representation and we knew immediately that if we ever could realise this project, the man for it would be our favourite artist Costin Chioreanu. Without any guidelines he has managed to capture the atmosphere perfectly. The video really s...

INTERVIEW: Cellar Darling (Switzerland) Cellar Darling is comprised of Anna Murphy, Ivo Henzi, and Merlin Sutter who recently formed following the spilt from previous well-known folk metal band, Eluveitie. The trio have been hard at work since, creating their anticipated debut album 'This Is The Sound' which was released June 30th via Nuclear Blast Records and have impressed fans and press alike with their fresh and unique sound which has been dubbed as "the new wave of folk rock“. This is an exciting and busy time for the band, so I caught up with them to find out about their origins, their new album, touring and what is in store for the band amongst other things.. Can you tell us about the formation of Cellar Darling following leaving your previous band Eluveitie and how the band came to be? Merlin: What I remember most clearly is how quick it went. As you might know, the whole thing with Eluveitie came very unexpected for us - we were informed of a decision by...