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INSOMNIUM Release Eighth Studio Album ‘Heart Like A Grave’
October 4th, 2019

Joensuu, Finland-based melodic death metal band Insomnium issued eighth full-length studio album Heart Like A Grave on October 4th, 2019 through Century Media Records.

The band commented: “The concept of the album is to delve deep into the heart of the Finnish melancholy. We’ve been inspired by some of the bleakest and saddest songs, poems and tales that truly capture the essence of northern gloom. Land where the frost ravages the harvest and creeps inside the souls, summer ends before it even starts, wife leaves, little brother dies in snow on a Christmas morning, and the golden days of youth are forever gone. So there are echoes of Harmaja, Rautavaara, Vainio, Peltoniemen Hintriikka and of course our own petty, miserable lives.”

Heart Like A Grave was mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden.

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘Wail Of The North’
02. ‘Valediction’
03. ‘Neverlast’
04. ‘Pale Morning Star’
05. ‘And Bells They Toll’
06. ‘The Offering’
07. ‘Mute Is My Sorrow’
08. ‘Twilight Trails’
09. ‘Heart Like A Grave’
10. ‘Karelia’

Insomnium’s line-up is as follows:

Niilo Sevänen (vocals and bass)
Ville Friman (guitar and vocals)
Jani Liimatainen (guitar and vocals)
Markus Vanhala (guitar)
Markus Hirvonen (drums)

Music videos were filmed for the title track and the song ‘Valediction’. In addition, an official lyric video was created for the track ‘Pale Morning Star’. All three clips can be viewed below.

Seventh studio record Winter’s Gate was released in September 2016.