Across the Dark

by Insomnium

Across the Dark cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 7 September 2009
  • Label: Candlelight
  • Country: Finland
  • Length: 45:42
  • Community rating: 3.62/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Niilo Sev盲nen, VIlle V盲nni, Markus Hirvonen, Samu Oittinen

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The fourth studio album by the Finnish quartet introduces clean vocals for the first time in their discography, courtesy of Jules N盲veri, adding a new layer of emotional depth to their sound. The record maintains the band's signature, deeply sorrowful twin-guitar harmonies and punishing rhythm section, exploring themes of existential grief and Nordic nature. It solidified their standing as elite practitioners of atmospheric melodic death metal.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, melodic, progressive, soaring, nature

Tracklist

  1. Equivalence (3:18)
  2. Down With The Sun (4:22)
  3. Where The Last Wave Broke (5:01)
  4. The Harrowing Years (6:39)
  5. Against The Stream (6:11)
  6. The Lay Of Autumn (9:08)
  7. Into The Woods (5:08)
  8. Weighted Down With Sorrow (5:51)

Credits

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