LISTEN TO THE NEW INSOMNIUM ALBUM, OR THE SORROW WILL BE ALL YOURS

I was listening to Insomnium’s new album, One for Sorrow, last night when I realized that it would be very easy for the metal community to take this band for granted. I mean, for nearly a decade now, they have released a new album every two, three years tops, like clockwork, and, let’s be real, all of those albums follow the same basic formula. That formula is the formula for EPIC AWESOME EPICNESS, which kinda makes Insomnium like the anti-Linkin Park, but, still, I can see how someone might go, “Oh, another terrific new Insomnium album? Well, terrific, terrific,” and move on.

Do not make that mistake. DO NOT TAKE INSOMNIUM FOR GRANTED.  The world does not have enough fantastic bands making consistently fantastic albums right now for you to do so. Life is short and Insomnium could easily go away tomorrow — we see it happen all the time. And then where will you be? Who will supply the soundtrack for your fantasies of marching off to save the world from a killer asteroid while jousting atop a giant black steed (all in slow motion, if possible)? Seriously: WHERE WILL YOUR LIFE BE WITHOUT INSOMNIUM?!?

So. One for Sorrow comes out on October 18 — that’s one week from today, dummies — on Century, but is now streaming in full right here. You have two choices: listen to it loud or listen to it really, really loud. As I have said before, the only people who don’t love Insomnium are people who have never heard Insomnium. So go listen to Insomnium. Your life will be much better for it.

-AR