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Joensuu, Finland (1997 – present)
Insomnium is a melodic death metal band from Joensuu, Finland. Their lyrics often deal with subjects such as sorrow, death, and loss.
Biography
Insomnium began to take shape during the bleak spring of 1997. In a quiet town of Joensuu, located in the easternmost part of Finland, four young men were forming a fierce metal band. From the beginning it was clear that this band would make music that was brutal and yet melodic, full of contrasts and changing atmospheres. They took what they regarded as the best aspects of their favourite bands and moulded these influences into a new kind of entity. The result was the marriage of melodic Scandinavian death metal and traditional Finnish tunes. Lyrics turned out to be sorrowful, dream-like tales of love and death that usually took place amidst the Finnish nature. Influences were taken from the Finnish folklore as well as the world literature.
After two years of intensive training Insomnium made their first demo-cd, which received praises from all over the world. The second demo was made the following year and it gained a lot of attention as well. This time, record companies got interested, too. In the beginning of 2001 founding members, guitarist Ville Friman, drummer Markus Hirvonen and bassist/vocalist Niilo Sevänen, attached a new guitarist, Ville Vänni to the band. Now Insomnium was stronger than ever and ready to rise to the next level. A deal with Candlelight was signed the same spring and recording of the first album began in the summer.
Biography
Insomnium began to take shape during the bleak spring of 1997. In a quiet town of Joensuu, located in the easternmost part of Finland, four young men were forming a fierce metal band. From the beginning it was clear that this band would make music that was brutal and yet melodic, full of contrasts and changing atmospheres. They took what they regarded as the best aspects of their favourite bands and moulded these influences into a new kind of entity. The result was the marriage of melodic Scandinavian death metal and traditional Finnish tunes. Lyrics turned out to be sorrowful, dream-like tales of love and death that usually took place amidst the Finnish nature. Influences were taken from the Finnish folklore as well as the world literature.
After two years of intensive training Insomnium made their first demo-cd, which received praises from all over the world. The second demo was made the following year and it gained a lot of attention as well. This time, record companies got interested, too. In the beginning of 2001 founding members, guitarist Ville Friman, drummer Markus Hirvonen and bassist/vocalist Niilo Sevänen, attached a new guitarist, Ville Vänni to the band. Now Insomnium was stronger than ever and ready to rise to the next level. A deal with Candlelight was signed the same spring and recording of the first album began in the summer.
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Above The Weeping World
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Since the Day it All Came Down
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In the Halls of Awaiting
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In The Halls Of Waiting
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Shoutbox
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cosmoretro wrote:
Seriously, they are joking.
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st_blood wrote:
How the fuck can ANYONE say that clean vocals turn the music into metalcore?? Seriously, you don't understand music at all.
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Heppe wrote:
ATD is good, really good. But I'm afraid it's nothing compared to ATWW. Love all their albums though.
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Evil_and_Hate wrote:
Awesome band!
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morthigan wrote:
The best f... band ever! Everything - vocals, riffs, atmosphere, their combined brutality and subtlety... f.ex. in "Weighted down with sorrow" - brutal vocals and subtle lead guitar and begining. Just awesome.
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mizi303 wrote:
Love listening to these guys stoned.
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thelump94 wrote:
just got Across The Dark and Above The Weeping World for Christmas, fumigantly awesome
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cosmoretro wrote:
Sarcasm in this shoutbox is sky high
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Jetfuel495 wrote:
kaplis is a troll!
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sevenfourk wrote:
SnowyReaper, totally agreed! Don't smoke pipe-weed while listening Insomnium!
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SnowyReaper wrote:
i cannot tell if people are serious they think these guys are metalcore. I think you guys are smoking something if you are serious.
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sevenfourk wrote:
my vote :-)
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MetalPyro876 wrote:
Damn, I guess all the bands I like that began using sung vocals instead of screaming are sellouts and metalcore. Sorry, Primordial.
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Vash619 wrote:
Insomnium NEEDS tocome back to the states, It's been like 4 years now!
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sevenfourk wrote:
Clean vocals to sell out ? Guys, are you kidding ? This is just ridiculous :-D Not just vocals create the style, and the music in the last album can't classified as metalcore under pain of death. Don't make my cry!
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Redemption666 wrote:
To be honest, I like the other albums more than the new album, though the new album is still amazing.
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Kagami- wrote:
*of the other songs
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Kagami- wrote:
i think their old stuff is better than the new album, although weighed down with sorrow is one of their best songs. but none of the other albums is bad. they are my favourite band atm, their live shows are so amazing <3
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Wonderglue wrote:
Yes,clean vocals are so fucking metalcore. They sold out so hard,thus they play on MTV all the time. I also heard Anders Fridén joined the band adding Nu-Metal elements to their music.
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kaplis wrote:
Across The Dark has clean vocals and because of that it is sellout album and now Insomnium is metalcore...seriously
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Events
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Feb
6
Insomnium
Nuclear Nightclub, Oulu, Finland
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| 18 attendees
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Feb
7
Insomnium
Nuclear Nightclub, Oulu, Finland
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| 1 attendee
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Feb
19
FME - Finnish Metal Expo 2010
Kaapelitehdas, Helsinki, Finland
51 shouts
| 169 attendees
News
Finnish Metal Awards! Vote, vote!
4 Nov 2009 | from www.insomnium.net
The voting for the Finnish Metal Awards has started!
You can vote Insomnium in five categories: best band, album,
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Recent Activity
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da_Bambino, SebaWilku and sadrith_mora added Insomnium to their libraries. yesterday evening
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glosik1 tagged Insomnium with finnish and melodic death metal. yesterday afternoon
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metalhead-mpk and ImLikeMike added Insomnium to their libraries. yesterday afternoon
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Floyo_43 tagged Insomnium with melodic death metal and death metal. yesterday morning
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DarkSymphony500 connected Insomnium to the group Symphonic Death Metal. yesterday morning
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Metaldaze666, SnayerJC, DumontSobreira and 12 other people added Insomnium to their libraries. yesterday morning
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sj_metal_junkie tagged Insomnium with ‘doom metal’. Saturday evening
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sevenfourk tagged Insomnium with ‘melodic death metal’. Saturday evening
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ForeverNights, MyLilith and Sigthil added Insomnium to their libraries. Saturday evening
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