Gave this a good run but just couldn't get into it. I think they are good musicians but none of the songs are memorable or evoke any emotion in me. Just bland and uninspired. Just not my cup of tea, I suppose. The high rating from others indicates it's popular and well-liked, so I guess I'm in the minority.

Written by Ace Frawley on 28.08.2013 at 13:45

none of the songs are memorable

My problem too...I can't tell any songs from any of their albums apart, aside from the production value

Pretty album cover though, don't you think?

Written by Ace Frawley on 28.08.2013 at 13:45

Gave this a good run but just couldn't get into it. I think they are good musicians but none of the songs are memorable or evoke any emotion in me. Just bland and uninspired. Just not my cup of tea, I suppose. The high rating from others indicates it's popular and well-liked, so I guess I'm in the minority.

I'll add myself to that minority, even as a fan of melodic death metal. I agree with everything you said.

As for the cover art, it's okay. Better than the music at least.

Maybe best Insomnium album by so far....hope we get more albums like this!

Written by NorthernDickhead on 17.10.2013 at 11:28

Best Insomnium album by so far....hope we get more albums like this!

This is great, but I do miss their more "epic" songs from AtWW:(

Written by Milena on 27.12.2011 at 08:33

Maybe after this Insomnium will deteriorate and people will refer to One For Sorrow as the last good album of theirs.

Above the Weeping World is their last really great abum imo

Listened to this album again the other day and was almost shocked to realize how poor the whole mixing sounds like ! Compared to "Shadows of a Dying Sun" this album sounds like chaos. You can hardly make voices froms guitars or drums. I need to listen again to older albums of the band to see how they sound now but I am afraid that same impression will hit me hard in the face :/

Written by s_t_s on 20.08.2016 at 09:29

Listened to this album again the other day and was almost shocked to realize how poor the whole mixing sounds like ! Compared to "Shadows of a Dying Sun" this album sounds like chaos. You can hardly make voices froms guitars or drums. I need to listen again to older albums of the band to see how they sound now but I am afraid that same impression will hit me hard in the face :/

This album probably has the worst production considering the music behind it. Above the Weeping World is relatively raw for example but is better suited there.

Strong album, but somehow I think nothing can be best as their latest one, more clean singing into it

Written by Bad English on 20.11.2019 at 18:46

Strong album, but somehow I think nothing can be best as their latest one, more clean singing into it

Been revisiting this one. Better than I had in mind, upvoted to a 7.5.
Nothing reaches Above the Weeping World for me. But this might be my 2nd favourite album of them, with a huge gap to the former.
I definitely prefer it to everything they released thereafter, where I might be in the minority, too.
Through The Shadows and Unsung stand out.

Probably the most beautiful intro to any Insomnium album. Some great songs on this one. Their 4th best IMO.

Another pretty solid release, but if I'm tbvh I prefer the previous release overall to this one. Eventhough this is a very strong release, it somehow didn't exite me in the same way the previous few albums did unfortunately

Once again there's some quality songwriting, and it's beautifully constructed with some very impressive melancholic melodies throughout, and there's some really good songs on here, although some songs are better than others. The main downfall for me is the production, it's more refined but sounds a wee soft imo, it misses that slightly stripped back heavier sound. I would say though that this is probably their best cover art

"Song Of The Blackest Bird", "Lay The Ghost To Rest", "Through The Shadows" and "Unsung" are the main highlights for me with the rest ranging from average to fairly good.