Insomnium

Uh, I'm a Lutin O. I'm here on a very special episode of Les Lutins de l'Enfer.

Indeed, I am here with, uh, uh, Insomnium guitarist Ville Friman, coming to us live from, uh, Helsinki, I guess.

[laughs]

Yeah, Helsinki.

So I, I think we found our fan- fan- kind of fan base and, and, you know, hoping to make maybe a bit more, more in the future as well.

And, and, you know, just doing things we, we like and, and, and, you know, keeping true to our, our sort of vision of how metal bands should, should sound like or how we want to sound like.

like.And do, do you find when you're, when you're in the writing process, do you put guardrails on yourselves? Like, "Oh, this doesn't sound Insomnium, maybe we should rework it," or do you just go with the flow?

Yeah, I mean, like, you go with the flow, but probably, you know, not everything ends up the song.

I'm Brian Patton.

Today we welcome Niilo Sevänen from Insomnium to the podcast.

The new Insomnium record, Netherworlds, is out this Friday on Century Media Records.

Niilo talks about the bands that were influences on Insomnium, creating music that is both dark and joyful, the themes on Netherworlds, touring with their musical heroes, and more.

I think Netherworlds is an incredible record and a great kind of next step for Insomnium after kind of how dark their previous record was.

So make sure you check out this record on Friday.

Thanks so much for listening to this episode of As The Story Grows.

I wanna do something-

That is Gaia's Judgment by Heaven's Cry from the Food for Thought's Substitute album, and we're gonna dive right into the next one.

We're gonna hear from Insomnium, yeah, going back to their Candlelight record of 2009 called Across the Dark, and we're gonna hear a song about autumn called Lay of the Autumn, and that'll take us pretty close to our album of the week.

So let's stay tuned, and let's finish this segment off on a darker note.

Insomnium with Lay of the Autumn right here on Meguid Mayhem.

[rock music] I, I speak with a shattered voice.

I, I sink through the heavy ice.

Without a father's bliss-

bliss-For ideas, for others turn away your glance No fury as we pray, we shall do the right thing And turn to where we belong I was here with shattered voice The tale of barren souls The cry for those who died The peaceful never gone I, I seek with a trapped voice I, I seek with a heavy heart The light of day that dark will break Gray will cover this hate The truth will weigh it down Like this ocean cries Glassy bridges, rocks and fall Like birds of darling dreams We smile the hollow goddess down To the hills that freeze I was here with shattered voice The tale of barren souls The cry for those who died The peaceful never gone I was here with shattered voice The tale of barren souls The cry for those who died The peaceful never gone There was once a time We lacked wisdom and why you're blind There was once a time We lacked the mark under your eyes What do I have when you're gone? The wind, our only guide What do I have when you're gone? The signs of the line between Gold, dreams in silver clouds left Your love in a snow Blade of guilt weighs Stuck between death and demise In the darkest time All the world is ours to borrow Drown in its waves What do I hear when you're gone?

A lot more melancholic and certainly more Finnish.

I'm talking to Niilo from Insomnium.

And we'll get to that, but first, let's hit the great state of New Jersey-- not sure why I said it like that-- for the Hot Seat.

Seat.Kick it.

But hey, people like playing hockey in Finland.

They're part of the Four Nations thing.

And on this episode of the podcast, I'm talking to Niilo of the Finnish icons Insomnium.

They've got a new record called Netherworld coming out next week on Century Media Records.

Let's go back to Europe now.

We're gonna hear, um, from Insomnium in Finland and Denmark's Hate Sphere.

Let's talk about Hate Sphere first in this two-song set from Denmark.

Arguably Denmark's longest-running, most successful thrash band, and they are back October 9th.

The Italian label Scarlet Records is, has Hate Sphere under their umbrella, and we're going to hear the title track, Guillotine.

Yeah, just classic thrash.

From Finland, Insomnium, they're back.

Yeah, I mean, they never really went away, and, uh, very pleased to report they've released their 10th album, Netherworlds.

Let, let's do it." And, and we were supporting Katatonia for five weeks in, in America.

And Insomnium was also the other band, Finnish band, uh, supporting on that tour.

So we actually traveled together in the same van, 11 guys for five weeks.

Okay.

And I can't wait for that album.

Insomnium are releasing a new album too.

right which i'm really looking forward to as well i'm a huge insomnium fan

yeah yeah actually we'll get we'll get more into to them a little bit later too because i have um um like about the new album especially right because i could hear a little bit of of that in in it so it's super cool uh and so In the collection that you've acquired recently, records, CDs, tapes, it was records?

And then I think around 2010, 2011, one of my best friends was really into the more extreme kind of metal, introduced me to several bands.

I don't know.

I think the first thing you showed me was Weather the Storm by Insomnium.

And I mean, you already plus Michael Stanner as a guest singer.

It's pretty close up there.

The new Insomnium coming out on my birthday in October, it's phenomenal.

I've listened to a couple of those singles that have come out.

I think I've dug every single track that's come out so far.