Interview by Kris Peters
Despite four decades of servitude to their craft, Italian metal legends Lacuna Coil are still invested in their music.
The band could easily rest on their laurels and slowly ease into oblivion after their servitude to the industry, but instead they continue on their quest for personal musical fulfilment to satiate their own hunger.
Many considered their 2022 reimagining of Comalies as a swansong of sorts for Lacuna Coil, some even thinking it to be a fittingly triumphant and grandiose way to go out by coming full circle with their music.
But they were wrong. Serving to actually align the past, present and future of Lacuna Coil, Comalies XX provided them with the musical freedom to embark on another chapter of their musical journey that begins with the release of Sleepless Empire on February 14. It is not that Lacuna Coil have reinvented themselves or their music, it's more that the band have found new ways of expressing themselves that promises to be the start of something special. HEAVY sat down with vocalist Andrea Ferro for a chat to talk about the new album and the process of bringing it to life.
"We can't wait for people to hear it," he smiled. "It's a good compilation of mixing of the old school sound of Lacuna Coil with some newer influences. It's quite a heavy, dark record altogether."
Sleepless Empire will be the tenth studio album put out by Lacuna Coil, but according to Ferro the band members still get that familiar twang of excitement with every release.
"We're very excited because we love touring a new album," he affirmed. "We love the reaction of the people when they hear the new songs, so it's still a challenging process. It takes a long time for us to work a record. We don't release albums just to release it. Actually, after all these years we want to release when we have something new to offer, something new to say. If we wouldn't like any more what we do, then we would quit. There's too much energy and effort to be put in with what we do in front of a new album cycle to not be loving it."
In the full interview, Andrea dives deeper into the musicality on Sleepless Empire, starting a new chapter of Lacuna Coil's music and what it means moving forward, the singles released and how they represent the album as a whole, the two guest artists and what they each brought to the table, if writing music becomes easier or harder the more you put out, being labelled as genre-specific and how it can affect a bands career, touring plans and more.
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