Finnish melancholic melodeath masters Insomnium debuted their new single and video ‘White Christ’, featuring Sakis Tolis, last week. The 2nd single from the upcoming album ‘Anno 1696’, set for release in February via Century Media Records!
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News Posts
Oceanhoarse is celebrating Ozztober again, this time with the Ozzy classic ‘Bark at the Moon’ with guest appearances from Hannes Kett and Markus Vanhala!
Finnish melodeath masters Insomnium present another new single ‘The Antagonist’, which will be featured on their upcoming EP ‘Argent Moon’!
Members of several folk metal bands gathered under the name The Wee Folk Metal Crew and released their first musical collaboration under the form of a cover of Insomnium’s ‘While We Sleep’!
Wacken unleashed 11 more names during their Halloween live stream show with a performance from Hämatom!
Century Media tries to soften the blow of all the cancelled festivals by organizing a massive online Century Media “Isolation Festival”!
Rockfest adds 12 more names from both Finland and other countries to the 2020 line-up, check it out!
Tuska unleashed a bunch of names for 2020!
Wolfheart gets recognition for their talent and get signed to one of the major metal labels: Napalm Records!
Headliners & some other awesomeness
Interviews
A talk with Niilo and Ville of Insomnium about their new album ‘Anno 1696’, how the short story it’s based on was specially written by Niilo for the album, how much they love putting together special editions and a kind of whole experience for their fans and how they got Johanna Kurkela and Sakis Tolis to join them on some tracks!
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Watch the chat we had with Markus Vanhala about the new Insomnium EP ‘Argent Moon’, the upcoming new work of Omnium Gatherum and his new black metal project I Am The Night!
Interview with the melodic death metallers from Re-Armed about their upcoming new album “Ignis Aeternum”.
We talked with guitarist Ville Friman about recording “Winter’s Gate”, touring, branding, beer and science!
Album Reviews
With ‘Anno 1696’, Insomnium created a new refreshing album that shows a different kind of style than what they have released of late. It became a raw, blackened and fierce release that really embodies the dark part of history that it’s based on. Out this Friday via Century Media Records!
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Insomnium is taking you away on a viking group’s voyage towards doom and damnation…
Lists
February has some great releases again, and we’re looking forward to albums from artists like Memoriam, In Flames, Paramore, dEUS, Mordkaul, Ulthar, Avatar, The Abbey, Insomnium, Host, Gorillaz and Heidevolk!
An albums of the year list that focuses on quite a few deathcore and metalcore releases, but also has room for some more melancholic affairs.
After endless debating the list is done with one clear winner!
Photo Reports
Ultima Ratio Fest has been bringing a proper collection of metal bands around Europe with Moonspell, Insomnium, Borknagar, Wolfheart and Hinayana. Sadly it seemed the crowd was mostly asleep at this stop at Backstage Munich, regardless some great metal music was played this night!
Insomnium finally got to do their Finnish tour with Finntroll and we were at the very first stop in Helsinki!
Pictures of the first day of Finland’s SaariHelvetti festival held in Tampere in 2021! With a whole slab of quality Finnish metal bands from start to finish!
The MTV Headbanger’s Ball is always a very good show, and this year was no different. If you want to see our photo impression, this is it!
The pictures of a weekend of celebrations and discoveries at the 20th anniversary of Tuska Open Air!
Gig Reports
Insomnium finally got to do their Finnish tour with Finntroll and we were at the very first stop in Helsinki!
Masters of melancholic melodic death metal, Insomnium, bring their masterpiece ‘Winter’s Gate’ live through a streaming concert and we were there!
Pick Your Poison
Insomnium has released a light and clear beer to go along with the dark and murky thoughts you might have. Check out what we think of it!
