Insomnium

Infobox musical artist
Name = Insomnium

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Origin = Joensuu, Finland
Genre = Melodic death metal
Years_active = 1997−present
Label = Candlelight
Associated_acts = Watch Me Fall
URL = [http://www.insomnium.net www.insomnium.net]
Current_members = Niilo Sevänen
Ville Friman
Ville Vänni
Markus Hirvonen
Past_members = Timo Partanen
Tapani Pesonen

Insomnium is a Finnish melodic death metal band from Joensuu. They are influenced by doom metal, playing songs about sorrow, death and loss. They also incorporate elements of northern folk music and symphonic music into their sound.

Insomnium's sound has grown into even slower and more progressive death metal during the years, with occasional doom metal influences (some of their influences reflect an approach to metal similar to Amorphis's "Tales from the Thousand Lakes" album). The original hallmarks of the band's Scandinavian melodic death metal are very scarce, as the band has turned into a more epic approach. The melodies are highly melancholic, and the overall sound is much darker. The band's lyrics tend to be influenced (and occasionally taken) from classic poets like Hölderlin, Edgar Allan Poe, Finnish classic Eino Leino and other literature.

Band members

Current members

* Niilo Sevänen − vocals, bass (Watch Me Fall) (1997−present)
* Ville Friman − guitar (Arrival, Enter My Silence) (1997−present)
* Ville Vänni − guitar (Watch Me Fall, Hateform) (2001−present)
* Markus Hirvonen − drums (1997−present)

Former members

* Tapani Pesonen − drums, guitar (1997−1998)
* Timo Partanen − guitar (1998−2001)

Guest musicians

* Varpu Vahtera − keyboards on "In the Halls of Awaiting" (Watch Me Fall)
* Jone Väänänen − keyboards
* Aleksi Munter − keyboards
* Laura Naire − cellos

Discography

* "Demo '99" (demo) (1999)
* "Underneath the Moonlit Waves" (demo) (2002)
* "In the Halls of Awaiting" (2002)
* "Since the Day it All Came Down" (2004)
* "Above the Weeping World" (2006)
* "TBA" (Autumn 2009)

External links

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* [http://www.last.fm/music/Insomnium Insomnium] at Last.fm