Across the Dark - Composition - music.wikisort.org

music.wikisort.org - Composition

Across the Dark is the fourth full-length studio album by the Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium. It was released on 7 September 2009 on Candlelight Records.[1] The album features Jules Näveri from Profane Omen and Enemy of the Sun as guest vocalist and Aleksi Munter from Swallow the Sun as guest keyboardist.[1][2] The album was chosen as "Album of the month September, 2009" by German online magazine Metal 1.[3]

Across the Dark

Studio album by

Insomnium

Released

7 September 2009

Recorded

23 March – 22 May 2009

Genre

Melodic death metal

Length

45:40

Label

Candlelight

Producer

Samu Oittinen
Insomnium

Insomnium chronology

Above the Weeping World
(2006)

Across the Dark
(2009)

One for Sorrow
(2011)

The song "Weighed Down with Sorrow" is dedicated to Miika Tenkula.[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Equivalence"	Ville Friman	Friman	3:18
2.	"Down with the Sun"	Niilo Sevänen	Friman Sevänen	4:22
3.	"Where the Last Wave Broke"	Friman	Friman	5:03
4.	"The Harrowing Years"	Sevänen	Friman Sevänen	6:39
5.	"Against the Stream"	Friman	Friman	6:11
6.	"The Lay of Autumn"	Sevänen	Friman Sevänen	9:08
7.	"Into the Woods"	Ville Vänni	Friman	5:08
8.	"Weighed Down with Sorrow"	Friman	Friman	5:51
Total length:				45:40

Special Edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
9.	"The New Beginning"	Friman	Friman	7:15
10.	"Into the Evernight"	Sevänen	Sevänen	5:28
Total length:				58:23

Charts

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[5]
Sputnik Music	[6]
MetalEater	A−[7]
Blistering.com	[8]
Thrash Hits	[9]
Metal 1	[10]

Chart (2009)	Peak position
Finnish Albums Chart	5[11]

Personnel

Insomnium

Niilo Sevänen – vocals, bass
Ville Friman – guitar
Ville Vänni – guitar
Marcus Hirvonen – drums

Additional Musicians

Aleksi Munter (Swallow the Sun) – keyboards
Jules Näveri (Profane Omen, Enemy of the Sun) – clean vocals (tracks 3, 4, 6)

References

"Insomnium: new album title, release date revealed". Blabbermouth.net. 2 July 2009. Archived from the original on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
"Insomnium blog". Blogspot. 2 July 2009. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
Metal1.info Archived 28 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine September 2009
"Insomnium Guitarist Ville Friman on the Inevitable Truths of Critique | Guitar World". www.guitarworld.com. Archived from the original on 8 November 2011.
Henderson, Alex. "Review: Across the Dark". Allmusic. Retrieved 20 December 2009.
"link". Sputnikmusic.com. 7 August 2009. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
Metaleater - www.metaleater.com. "Album Reviews – Insomnium – Across The Dark". Metaleater.Com. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
"Review: Insomnium – Across the Dark". Blistering.com. 22 November 2007. Archived from the original on 29 November 2009. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
"Album: Insomnium – Across The Dark". Thrash Hits. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
"link". Metal1.info. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2011.
Suomen virallinen lista ^{[dead link]}

v t e Insomnium
Niilo Sevänen Ville Friman Markus Hirvonen Markus Vanhala Jani Liimatainen Tapani Pesonen Timo Partanen Ville Vänni
Studio albums	In the Halls of Awaiting (2002) Since the Day It All Came Down (2004) Above the Weeping World (2006) Across the Dark (2009) One for Sorrow (2011) Shadows of the Dying Sun (2014) Winter's Gate (2016) Heart Like a Grave (2019)

This 2000s death metal album–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.

Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.

2019-2025
WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии