Fuck yes!

Lilian is pretty epic for a four-and-a-half minute track. Very promising!

The most wonderful time of the year. A new Insomnium album is announced

Haha, Sakis Tolis featured in a song called, "White Christ". That's apt.

Written by Risto on 03.11.2022 at 23:16

Lilian is pretty epic for a four-and-a-half minute track. Very promising!

Video is even better

The fact that there's 8 tracks on this album and that their average multi-track album runtime is around 54 mins, that leaves around 7 mins each for the 7 unreleased tracks.

Hopefully we should get some long songs on this release then

Written by nonZero on 09.11.2022 at 12:17

The fact that there's 8 tracks on this album and that their average multi-track album runtime is around 54 mins, that leaves around 7 mins each for the 7 unreleased tracks.

Average track length is around 6:20 (full runtime is 50:26)

Not sure what to make of it so far. White Christ is obviously trash and waste of space but honestly, apart from Lilian and Unrest, everything else sounds quite directionless. Maybe bonus CD will change it.

This was the first album I was looking forward to this year and I'm glad I got to hear it on vinyl first. I agree that White Christ is a bit off but Godforsaken fixes the mood right after. My favorite was the last song though. Otherwise it's solid Insomnium album with no big ups or downs.

There worst album ever!

F***ing beautiful. Again.

I am disappointed. Normally, every previous Insomnium album makes me listen it multiple times (throughout the months). But, this failed to create that urge. It seems that they tried new things but kept the ryhtmic and compositional structure the same with previous albums, making me feel like the album consists of 80% fillers.

As usual there's some excellent songwriting here, the lyrics are great, the theme is great, and it's very well performed and executed, but musically I don't really enjoy this as much as many of their previous releases, it's along way off the level of Winter's Gate or Above The Weeping World for instance, but that's certainly not to say this is a bad release by any means, it might even grow on me in time but for now it just doesn't wow me, with perhaps the exception of "Lilian" and "1696" is which are highlights for me.

Solid release. They're just a band that scratches an itch that not really any other band can.

At first I thought Insomnium was running out of steam with Heart Like A Grave. I think its a great record but compared to Winter's Gate it's not as impactful. This album is up there with Winter's Gate to my ears. Each song sounds amazing and they each have beautiful melodies. How is it possible for a band to be that good like Insomnium? It's another album that adds to their already consistent discography

Don't listen to MDM much these days, but these guys can really write a great hook. This is probably my favorite album of their recent material. I'd say Lilian and The Rapids are my favorite tracks

Several listens and looks better than the previous effort. Past melodies and structures are there, but also new arrangements. I think is a grower album that requieres several listens for full enjoyment and new things absorption.

I start getting disinterested in MDM after listening to a ton of trash but then the new Insomnium drops and I remember they are the masters of the sound.

"1696", "Lilian" and especially "Godforsaken" are pretty good tracks, the rest is alright.

Godforsaken and Lilian are really good tracks. Still spinning the same. Have to get more of other tracks to give a final verdict. Sadly this time #its taking more time to sink into the whole album.

Starless Paths is insanely good

Lilian seems are best song melodic melodic keys. This band has released so many albums, I lost somehow, I cant objective judge this, but I am not super inmpressed.

Written by Ruisedeer on 25.02.2023 at 09:56

Starless Paths is insanely good

my favorite from the album so far!

Finally some good Insomnium again! I was left very dissapointed by the Heart Like a Grave and all the singles/EP that followed, but this is again some great songwriting from our beloved band.

However, not all in this album is top-shelf material unfortunately, that's why it gets a 7 from me. The first 2 songs and especially "White Christ" which is a disgrace and very out of place here are kind of weak moments.

Everything else from "Godforsaken" and onwards has the great songwriting trademark of Insomnium. Well done.

Heart Like a Grave was a solid album for me, their best after Winter's Gate, I guess they never get to top that! But this one is little lower on my list than those two, I would say in par with One for Sorrow for me. The beginning is a little weak, that White Christ stuff is really by far the worst on the album, sound more like something Sakis Tolis would made than Insomnium, but after that it started to sound as any good old Insomnium did! Godforsaken is the best song of album for me, but Starless Paths is just right after it!
All in all, a solid album, and a solid 8 from me!

This is gooood! My best of Insomnium so far, top one followed by the Winter's Gate.

The second half of 'Starless Paths' is the epitome of songwriting and musicianship. There's always that particular moment on every Insomnium album where you just know they've nailed it again. 'Starless Paths' is that moment.

Final verdict: not impressed like their previous outings but still a great album. MDM still survives through them.

This album reconciles me with the band. After 15 playthroughs, I can affirm this is a solid effort that easily surpasses the horrible Argent Moon (destroyed in big part by Jani's clean singing) and the very uncohesive Heart Like A Grave, which had its moments to be sure, but never felt more than a collection of songs. Anno 1696 hearkens back to early Insomnium vibes, integrates some amazing moments reminiscing of the great Winter's Gate and include some off-the-beaten-path instances like the beautiful collab with Johanna Kurkela. Solid effort, but short of the greats like Above The Weeping World, Across the Dark and One For Sorrow.

Greats: Godforsaken, The Rapids
Meh: The Unrest (can clearly hear Jani's singing), White Christ.

A solid 8, tempted to bump it to 8.5, depending on how the album stands the test of time.

Do i hear Jani singing there???