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Epic Studios, Norwich

Sunday 23rd November 2025

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📸Denis Gorbatov

LACUNA COIL – NORWICH – LIVE REVIEW

Back in February, Italian metal favourites Lacuna Coil released their tenth studio album ‘Sleepless Empire’. Now as the year reaches its climax, UK fans are able to hear this songs come to life on stage.

The bands UK tour kickstarted in Southampton following a European run and tonight they arrive in a wet and dreary Norwich. Playing host is Epic Studios which continues to impress as a modern and spacious venue.

NONPOINT

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The show is a sell out and the venue is already full as our special guests Nonpoint hit the stage. The Floridians made their mark in the early 2000’s and are also ten albums deep into their career.

The group are given a solid forty-five minutes to play with and deliver a good account of their catalogue of songs for those in the audience that are already familiar. The delivery of those songs is as passionate as ever from a band who clearly just love doing what they do.

What they do this evening is bring sunshine state vibes to autumnal Norfolk! Their heavy groove is enticing enough to get the fans warmed up and the likes of ‘In the Air Tonight’ and set closer ‘Bullet With a Name’ limber up some voices also.

Frontman Elias Soriano repeats a few times that the band will return to the UK next year and with the ongoing resurgence of love for the nu-metal era, Nonpoint once again seem to have a point to prove!

LACUNA COIL

Soon enough the lights go down again and it’s our headliners Lacuna Coil who are warmly welcomed to the well-prepared stage. With the venues dexterousness allowing bands to utilise the built-in video screens, Lacuna Coil embrace the opportunity with some really stunning visuals.

As with every show at Epic Studios, this is a nice addition that adds extra layers to the performance. But… it is very much the performance itself from the band that is so engaging this evening.

Again, you can tell the band enjoy performing and that makes a real positive difference. Watching vocalists Andrea Ferro and Cristina Scabbia intertwining is mesmerising and is central to the uniqueness of the band. Equally however the fun being had by the other three members as they stalk the stage is just as noteworthy.

The key feature of the show tonight though is ‘Sleepless Empire’ itself with eight of the records eleven tracks aired. In a nineteen song setlist that represents 42% of the set and is truly an enormous vote of confidence in the album considering the vast range of material now in their arsenal.

This faith is well placed as the album is superb, and those sentiments are echoed by the responses to these tracks this evening. In particular ‘Gravity’ and ‘Oxygen’ are standout moments in the show tonight and ‘Never Dawn’ is given the prestige of the final song of the evening.

Whilst there is a good mix of tracks presented from the rest of their albums, it is ‘Sleepless Empire’ that shines tonight. This is clearly a good time to catch the band with fresh and exciting material and an experienced live capability combining to great effect.

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