One of the reasons I became such a huge fan of your band is that you guys have always had a literary element to your music. And I guess we’re stuck with the birds now hah hah. I guess kind of repeating a bit what you do can make it your thing, in a way. He came up with the idea of using birds again, and I suggested to him to also add the “dying sun” to the cover, and that was it pretty much. Basically we gave Wille all freedom to come up with the artwork. Ville Friman: We decided to work again with Wille Naukkarinen (Soulcarver Media), who is also known as the guitar player of Finnish band, Ghost Brigade. Is this quickly becoming shorthand for an Insomnium release? How’d you guys decide on the artwork for the disc? You’ve had a thing for birds on your covers for some time, and that interest has spilled over into a couple of different songs across your releases. We hope the fans will like the video too. We even had a bit of time to go for a lunch with some of the group after the shootings, which was really nice. Everything went smoothly, and we were looked after professionally.
We just love what they did with new Behemoth video and wanted to try out if we could get the same kind of quality to our video as well. We shot all our parts during one day and flew over to Wroclaw, Poland to do this. Speaking of the “While We Sleep” video, I heard tell that Grupa13 were involved. I’m not much of a guitar player, so I’m more than happy to leave this bit to Markus. He’s an amazing guitar player and has the touch, style and vision to pull it through with great taste. All the solos on this album are done by Markus. I haven’t seen the video yet as I write this, and I say this due to my love of Omnium Gatherum’s 2013 release Beyond, but is that Markus Vanhala on the closing solo? It sounds so much like his playing style and it is really high up there as one of the best moments on the disc. And we were thinking about finding the best tempo for each song, and when we wanted to sound fast, we went pretty much as fast as we could.Ī quick question about “While We Sleep” and the closing guitar solo. I guess we just brought the tempo up a notch in general. We weren’t trying to be fast intentionally. We have fast songs on the album, but also a couple of slower pieces. Ville Friman: Yes, I guess the blastbeats are bit of a new thing with us. Were you guys feeling in a faster mood than usual? Insomnium have done fast tunes and more “traditionally” (if you could forgive a reductive phrase) melo-death songs before, but this album really sees the speed increase on multiple songs. For example, I noticed a pretty big increase in tempo on a lot of the songs and the inclusion of some serious blastbeat work on the part of Markus. Shadows Of The Dying Sun is still recognizably Insomnium but there are a couple of shifts in sound. Just hoping that people will like it and enjoy it as much as we do. Album seems to be doing well in the press, and we just found out that it made album of the month in German Metal Hammer, which is pretty big. Ville Friman: No worries Dave, our pleasure really.
How are you feeling as the official release dates of Shadows Of The Dying Sun move closer? Thank you so much for sitting down for this interview. (NCS writer DGR recently had the chance to pose some questions by e-mail to Ville Friman, guitarist, song-writer, and co-vocalist for Finland’s Insomnium, whose new album Shadows of the Dying Sun was reviewed by the same DGR here.)
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