Music Assignment - Wang Jie

At 8 pm on October 8, there was a concert held in a live house of Helsinki which is called the circus. The performer was ” Insomnium”, a very popular band in Finland. In the concert, everyone was cheering, screaming and swinging and was deeply impressed by the songs.

Insomnium is a melodic death metal band from Joensuu, Finland, whose music also reveals links to other, neighboring metallic subgenres like doom, melancholy, and dark metal. It originally formed in 1997. And their stable lineup consists of Niilo Sevänen (bass/vocals), Ville Friman (guitar), Ville Vänni (guitar), and Markus Hirvonen (drums). 

I love this band because of its unique melody and strong storytelling. Actually it is well worth hearing if one has a taste for Nordic death metal that is beautifully, unapologetically melodic. When one thinks of Scandinavian metal, Finland has turned out to be an impressive player — impressive for black metal, impressive for folk metal, impressive for goth metal, and impressive for death metal. All in all, Insomnium have gave a summary of the melodic side of Finnish death metal.

The composers of most songs in this concert are Niilo Sevänen (bass/vocals) and Ville Friman (guitar).