Building An Empire With ANDREA FERRO From LACUNA COIL

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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