**Insomnium** are not just a band – they are chroniclers of melancholy. Formed in 1997, this Finnish quartet tells its stories through melodic death metal that long ago outgrew simple genre boundaries. Their music fuses the weight of crushing riffs with ethereal melodies, as if the frozen Nordic landscape itself had found a voice. Characteristic are their long, atmospheric compositions, which don’t rush forward with brute force but instead draw the listener into the silence between the notes.

Lyrically, Insomnium walk the line between poetry and darkness – their texts are steeped in nature, death, solitude, and hope, reading more like literary works than conventional metal slogans. Each album feels like a chapter of a saga, one not read with the eyes but listened to with the heart; it’s not just music, but an atmosphere that swallows the listener whole.

On stage, the band delivers the same energy that permeates their recordings – not frenzied aggression, but a tidal wave of emotion carried in every note. Insomnium prove that within extreme metal it is possible to craft music that is as heavy as an iceberg and as fragile as a memory.