Insomnium Through The Shadows video

INSOMNIUM present the first promo video “Through The Shadows” from their upcoming album “One For Sorow”.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZmK2ZWBxQc

Vocalist and bassist Niilo Sevänen comments: “We're very happy to announce the first video premiere for “One For Sorrow”. The track is “Through The Shadows”, written by Ville Friman, who also sings the chorus with me. We collaborated again with our good friends from Obscure Entertainment from Tampere, Finland. And again it turned out great, like all the previous videos we've done with them. Hope you enjoy it! We had a great time filming, despite the million mosquitoes harassing us. The video will be premiered by Radio Rock, Finland (http://www.radiorock.fi/uutiset/viihde/insomniumin-uusin-yksinoikeudella-rockilla-katso-video) where I'll be a guest from 19:00-20:00 local time.”

The first media feedback on “One For Sorrow” is praising the album as the band’s best effort so far. Metal Hammer Germany wrote in the brand-new October issue: “The first impression is just completely stunning. “One For Sorrow” is still melodic Death Metal but with a complexity and catchiness that most of their competitors miss. “One For Sorrow” is the logical next step for the most promising Finnish band since a long time.”

“One For Sorrow” will be released on October 12th in Finland, October 17th in the rest of Europe and October 18th in North America. Followed by European headline run in November (see dates below).

Formed in 1997 in the town of Joensuu, in Eastern Finland, INSOMNIUM released two demos that led to a deal with UK label Candlelight Records. Founding members Markus Hirvonen (drums), Ville Friman (guitars) and Niilo Sevänen (vocals and bass) added guitarist Ville Vänni to the band for the release of their Candlelight debut in 2001. Throughout the following decade, the band went on to release four more highly acclaimed albums, the most recent of which, 2009’s Across the Dark, entered the Finnish album charts at #5. Along the way, they picked up a couple of awards in their homeland for Best Band and Best Album.

In the spring of 2011, INSOMNIUM entered the studio to record what would become “One for Sorrow”. While drums, bass, keyboards and vocals were recorded in Finland and guitars in Gothenburg, Sweden, the album has a remarkable cohesiveness and clarity of sound.

INSOMNIUM LIVE:
04.11.2011 Finland Joensuu Kerubi
05.11.2011 Finland Helsinki Nosturi

One For Sorrow European Tour 2011
w/ Before The Dawn and My Grain
14.11.11 Holland Rotterdam Baroeg
15.11.11 UK London Underworld
16.11.11 Belgium Antwerpen Trix
17.11.11 Switzerland Aarau Kiff
18.11.11 Slovenia Ljubljana Gala Hala
19.11.11 Austria Wien Arena
20.11.11 Czech Rep Prague Klub Matrix
21.11.11 Germany München Feierwerk
22.11.11 Germany Würzburg Posthalle
23.11.11 Germany Wiesbaden Schlachthof
24.11.11 Germany Leipzig Conne Island
25.11.11 Germany Hamburg Markthalle Marx
26.11.11 Germany Essen Turock
27.11.11 Germany Berlin Comet

INSOMNIUM online
http://www.insomnium.net
http://www.facebook.com/insomniumofficial
http://twitter.com/insomniumband
http://www.myspace.com/insomniumband
http://vf-insomnium.blogspot.com

Machine Head - Unto The Locust Pre-Order Now

Metal Hammer Presents Machine Head - Unto the Locust | PRE-ORDER | Due for UK release 26th September 2011 | MACHINE HEAD’S SPECIAL EDITION FANPACK

Metal Hammer are set to release Machine Head’s next album Unto The Locust in the UK with a special edition fan-pack! As well as the album itself, the pack comes complete with a 132–page special issue, including exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the making of the new album, extensive interviews with every member, never-before-seen historic shots from the band’s personal collections and a guide to their custom rigs, this is the ultimate companion to the long-awaited follow-up to The Blackening, Metal Hammer’s album of the decade.And that’s not all. This exclusive fanpack also includes a 100% official patch, Machine Head bottle opener key ring and poster. This is your chance to be part of Machine Head history!

“This is gonna be fucking awesome! It’s ridiculous,” says Robb Flynn of the venture. “I can’t believe that there’s going to be a magazine about us with a special edition of our new album. It’s pretty mindblowing, really. It’s something really fuckin’ cool for the fans, and it’s something incredible for us too. We’re all really stoked on this new record and we can’t wait for everyone to hear what we’ve been doing in the studio. Releasing it this way on newsstands (not just record stores) makes it way cooler! You guys know how to make magazines, man! People over here in the US need to look at the UK and how you make magazines. You guys make people care about this stuff and you’re real music fans. Get your niche and fuckin’ ride it! People want cool shit and cool interviews. We’re pumped about the whole idea”

Unto The Locust Track Listing

1. I Am Hell (Sonata in C#)
I) Sangre Sani
II) I Am Hell
III) Ashes To The Sky

2. Be Still And Know
3. Locust
4. This Is The End
5. Darkness Within
6. Pearls Before The Swine
7. Who We Are
8. Locust (Live)

New issue of Metal Hammer - on sale now!

Metal Hammer, still only 4.25 for 130 pages of heavy metal!

BOOOOM! Pick up this month’s issue of Hammer and get TWO FREE CDS! The first one is made up of 15 tracks from the latest and best metal releases including music from DEVILDRIVER, TURISAS, TIMES OF GRACE, GLAMOUR OF THE KILL and CAULDRON. CD two is THE DEFILED’S entire brand new album, ‘Grave Times’.

ARCHITECTS make their Metal Hammer cover debut, and they’re on fire. Literally. The young UK band have created a hardcore following with their metalcore brutalism but can they retain that with their latest album, a massive pop metal masterpiece? We put it to Sam and the boys…

MACHINE HEAD and FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH about their highly-anticipated new albums, take a look at what METALLICA have been up to and see what the future holds for SLIPKNOT. We chat to SYLOSIS about their long-awaited new album and losing a member, DEVILDRIVER about staying prolific and staying angry, and post-hardcore soon-to-be-kings LETLIVE about what makes them tick.

SATYRICON’s Satyr tells us his life story, COHEED AND CAMBRIA get taped up and probed with sticks and harsh questions, we burn rubber on the road with the BLACK SPIDERS and we delve into RAMMSTEIN's back catalogue.

the 2011 Hotlist: everything you need to know about what’s coming up this year – the releases, the tours the festivals! METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER, ANTHRAX, CHILDREN OF BODOM, ALICE IN CHAINS, DIMMU BORGIR, MASTODON, TRIVIUM, MACHINE HEAD, IN FLAMES, LAMB OF GOD, OPETH, the freshest rumours on DOWNLOAD and SONISPHERE and many more!

AFTER THE BURIAL, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, PSYCHO, WINDS OF PLAGUE and many more. And elsewhere in the mag are BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, TIMES OF GRACE, EARTH, IMPALED NAZARENE, GALLOWS, TURISAS, AMON AMARTH, SOCIAL DISTORTION, MURDERDOLLS, BRING ME THE HORIZON, STRATOVARIUS and tons more! Get metal, get Hammer. We who are about to mosh, salute you!

New Issue Of Metal Hammer - On Sale Now!

Cruising in our Delorean at 88mph, this month’s issue is all about bringing you the Future of Metal right now! Which bands are shaping the future of our beloved genre, is metal still in a great state and who will dare to grasp the baton from metal’s living legends when they hang up their studded belts? BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE might have polarized opinion over the years but they are rightfully throwing their name forward as a contender to the metal throne! Get the lowdown on their rise to the top, their most successful year yet and watch them put up their fists to fight all forms of criticism!

Elsewhere, we look at ARCHITECTS, SYLOSIS, ASKING ALEXANDRIA, YOUR DEMISE, MALEFICE and more to delve into the state of British metal, there are crucial sounds coming out of the States with ESCAPE THE FATE, EMMURE, LETLIVE, THE WORD ALIVE and MOTIONLESS IN WHITE and there’s our all killer, no filler look at 75 BANDS WE THINK WILL SHAPE THE FUTURE OF METAL from every type of metal sub-genre!

We get up close with the confrontational A DAY TO REMEMBER about fighting the mainstream and winning, CRADLE OF FILTH leader Dani Filth tells us about his two decades in music and the band’s bad-ass new album, discover all about the life and times of legendary MOTORHEAD rager Lemmy Kilmister, hear about how MINISTRY and more shaped the life of LINKIN PARK’s Mike Shinoda. We send BUCKCHERRY to face a none-more-sexy Spanish Inquisition and get the real story behind the movings and shakings in UNDEROATH and their killer comeback album!

We hit the road for debauchery with glam-rock revivalists JETTBLACK and RECKLESS LOVE, there’s more tips for the top with Aussie prog weirdos KARNIVOOL, Scottish bruisers BLEED FROM WITHIN and US Melodicore mob WE CAME AS ROMANS, the story behind Benji SKINDRED’s old band, DUB WAR, and your essential guide to NEUROSIS in this month’s Metal Detector.

We rate and review THE BIG FOUR’s DVD and see who came out on top out of METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER and ANTHRAX and cast our judgement over the new MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE album!

We give you the skinny on gigs from BRING ME THE HORIZON, KORN, LACUNA COIL, THE DAMNED THINGS, KILLING JOKE, ALTER BRIDGE and more!

As if this wasn’t enough, there’s a free 2011 CALENDAR of rare and unseen metal artwork featuring IRON MAIDEN, DOWN, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, METALLICA, SLAYER and more, our HEAVY METAL RAZOR CD featuring KORN, STONE SOUR, AIRBOURNE 36 CRAZYFISTS and more!