Interview With Niilo Sevänen Of Legendary Finnish Band "Insomnium"

“We wandered through the wintry wilderness. Across a frozen lake.
Up and down steep, rocky hillsides. Beyond pathless treks and deep enough to never hear church bells… *

At its strongest, music is a gateway into another world. The key to a gate nothing else can pry open. Music, essentially, is a weapon to destroy the walls we built around us – and Finnish metal melancholists INSOMNIUM are amongst its strongest wielders. Their ninth masterpiece, “Anno 1696”, leads us deep into a dark and troublesome past in Northern Europe, a time of witches, of superstition, of bloodlust and frenzy. And of werewolves. Set to their latest batch of achingly beautiful, ravaging, soul-cleansing post-doom dirges and accompanied by a blood-curdling, sombre short story written by frontman Niilo Sevänen himself, INSOMNIUM
once more summon a manifesto of grief and hope from the ever fertile and melancholic Finnish soil.

February 24th Insomnium released the much awaited Anno 1696, and it was a pleasure to have Niilo Sevanen on the Interview to talk on the album and much more. Check out the awesome Niilo and don’t forget to check out the new album.