ABOVE THE WEEPING WORLD (2LP)

Limited orange colored vinyl LP pressing. Insomnium took shape during the austere spring of 1997 in the somnolent town of Joensuu, located in the easternmost part of Finland. From the beginning it was clear that this band would make music that was brutal and yet melodic, full of contrasts and changing atmospheres. They took the best traits of their favorite bands and molded these influences into a new kind of entity. The result was the marriage of melodic Scandinavian death metal and traditional Finnish tunes. Lyrics came to be sorrowful, dream-like tales of love and death, often set amidst the Finnish nature.'