"Within Me" is a song by Italian gothic metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

 band Lacuna Coil

Lacuna Coil

Lacuna Coil is an Italian gothic metal band from Milan. Formed in 1994, the group has had two name changes since being previously known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal and was inspired by the combination of gothic imagery and music...

, the song is released as a single from their fourth album Karmacode

Karmacode

Karmacode is the fourth studio album by Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil, released on 31 March 2006 in several countries in Europe, 3 April in the UK and other European countries, April 4th in North America, and 5 April in several other European countries...

.
It was announced as the fourth single from the album in 2007 by the Century Media site. The song is the first power ballad of Lacuna Coil to be a single.

The song is about the hurt of the end of a relationship. The launch of the single also coincides with the start of Jägermeister Music Tour where they support Stone Sour

Stone Sour

Stone Sour is an American rock band from Des Moines, Iowa. Since 2006, the group has been composed of Corey Taylor , Jim Root , Josh Rand, , Shawn Economaki and Roy Mayorga . Original drummer Joel Ekman left the group in 2006...

. The song has been performed on MTV2

MTV2

MTV2 is a cable network that is widely available in the United States on digital cable and satellite television, and is progressively being added to analogue cable lineups across the nation...

's Headbanger's Ball.

Meaning of the song

Release

The video was released April 10, 2007. The single was scheduled to be released on May 4, 2007, however was delayed for May 11, 2007 exclusively in Italy.

A new version of Within Me will be released in America on September 24 and in Japan on September 25.

Critical reception

The song was generally well-received by critics. PopMatters

PopMatters

PopMatters is an international webzine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters publishes reviews, interviews, and detailed essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports, theater,...

 describe the song "It’s formulaic, but at least this band knows how to work the formula well". Metal.it referred to it as "è un colpo a sorpresa, un brano che potrebbe essere il prologo dei futuri Lacuna Coil" (It's a surprise, a track that could be a prologue of future Lacuna Coil).

Music video

The video was filmed by Kal Karman from March 2 till March 3, 2007 in Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

 Borgo Medievale's park and castle and in desert in Sardinia

Sardinia

Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is an autonomous region of Italy, and the nearest land masses are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Tunisia and the Spanish Balearic Islands.The name Sardinia is from the pre-Roman noun *sard[],...

. Lacuna Coil's members appear with old style costumes. The video includes a part with fake rain.

Cristina Scabbia

Cristina Scabbia

Cristina Adriana Chiara Scabbia is an Italian singer, best known as one of the two vocalists in the Italian gothic metal band Lacuna Coil. She also writes an advice column in the popular rock magazine Revolver, alongside musician Vinnie Paul. Scabbia is featured in a Megadeth song, "À Tout le...

, after having filmed her part, went to the US to film the video for "A Tout Le Monde (Set Me Free)" with Megadeth

Megadeth

Megadeth is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California which was formed in 1983 by guitarist/vocalist Dave Mustaine, bassist Dave Ellefson and guitarist Greg Handevidt, following Mustaine's expulsion from Metallica. The band has since released 13 studio albums, three live albums, two...

.

• Director: Kal Karman
• Producer: Melanie Schmidt
• Director of Photography: Matteo De Martini
• Editor: Kal Karman
• Production Company: MO Vi DA Entertainment

Formats and track listings

These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of "Within Me".

• Radio promo CD

1. "Within Me"
2. "Within Me (Instrumental)"

• Italian CD Single

1. "Within Me"
2. "Enjoy The Silence (Live)"
3. "When A Dead Man Walks (Live)"

• Japanese CD Single

1. "Within Me"
2. "Virtual Environment"
3. "Closer (Acoustic Version)"
4. "Tightrope (Live)"
5. "Fragile (Live)"
6. "To The Edge (Live)"
7. "Our Truth (Live)"
8. "Heaven's A Lie (Live)"

Release history

Country	Date
Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	11 May 2007
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	24 September 2007
Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	25 September 2007

Chart

Chart	Peak position
Italian Single Chart Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	44