Insomnium with Omnium Gatherum and Wilderun at Underground Arts

Friday, May 10, 2024 

Doors: 7:30 PM | Show: 8:30 PM

21+

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About Insomnium

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At its strongest, music is a key to a gate nothing else can pry open. Music is a weapon to destroy the walls we built around us – and Finnish metal melancholists Insomnium are amongst its strongest wielders. Their 9th masterpiece, “Anno 1696”, leads us deep into a dark and troublesome past of Europe. The witch hunt is in full swing across Europe and the gruesome trials have even reached the remote landscapes of Finland and Sweden. Set to their latest batch of achingly beautiful dirges and accompanied by a short story written by frontman Niilo Sevänen himself, Insomnium once more summon a manifesto of grief and hope.

Founded in 1997 in Joensuu, they first gained recognition in 2002 with “In the Halls of Awakening”. Quickly building on this with death/doom juggernaut “Above the Weeping World” (2006) or melancholic masterpiece “One for Sorrow” (2012), the Finns surprised everyone with their achingly forlorn “Argent Moon” EP in 2021, only to shed their skin once more. “If someone thought that we have grown soft with the Argent Moon EP, I think ‘Anno 1696’ shows that there is the same old spirit left.”

Mixed by Jaime Gomez Arellano and mastered by Tony Lindgren, “Anno 1696” is by far their most emotionally rattling achievement. Insomnium take us into a world woven of sorrow and crumbling vestiges of hope, deliver an album relying on the strengths of their beloved trademark sounds and a new sense of grandiose, melancholic storytelling. Welcome to 1696. Welcome to hell.

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About Omnium Gatherum

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A long-tenured melodic death metal act from Finland, Omnium Gatherum paid their formative dues in the late '90s before earning their place in the European metal community with a series of respected albums in the mid-2000s for labels like Nuclear Blast and Rage of Achilles. Already headed in a more progressive direction, the band worked with Swedish producer Dan Swanö on 2008's The Redshift, igniting a hard-won breakout phase that would culminate with 2011's career highlight, New World Shadows. Over the next several years, the band deepened their collaboration with Swanö, settling in for a fruitful tenure with Century Media Group that yielded albums like 2016's Grey Heavens and 2018's The Burning Cold.

Formed in Karhula, Finland in 1996, the history of Omnium Gatherum has been marked by a succession of lineup changes with founding guitarist Markus Vanhala serving as the group's only mainstay throughout their career. During their early years, Olli Lappalainen -- initially a guitarist -- acted as vocalist, but was replaced in 2000 by Antti Filppu, while his replacement on guitar, Harri Pikka, remained with the band for their first four albums. Two other bassists preceded Janne Markkanen's 1998 entry to the lineup, while only one drummer served before longtime sticksman Jarmo Pikka, who joined a year later. After several independent demos and seven years together, Omnium Gatherum signed with Rage of Achilles and released their 2003 full-length debut, Spirits and August Light. Along with keyboardist Mikko Pennanen the membership on their first album included Vanhala, Filppu, Harri and Jarmo Pikka, and Markkanen, all of whom except Pennanen appeared on their 2004 follow-up, Years in Waste, which appeared via the Nuclear Blast label. This release marked a noticeable shift toward a more technical, progressive approach as well as Filppu's last appearance on vocals. By 2007, the band had again swapped labels, this time to Candlelight Records, and introduced vocalist Jukka Pelkonen and keyboardist Aapo Koivisto, both of whom would go on to become core members with their own distinctive sound. Their first release with this new lineup, Stuck Here on Snake's Way, made a solid showing on the Finnish albums chart and was followed in 2008 by the more innovative effort The Redshift, which marked their first time working with Swedish metal titan Dan Swanö, and placed even higher on the national chart at number 24. Between those two releases, bassist Markkanen was replaced by Eerik Purdon, who himself was succeeded in 2009 by Toni "Tsygä" Mäki. Another major lineup shift occurred with the departure of longtime guitarist Harri Pikka, leaving Omnium Gatherum a five-piece on their epic 2011 Lifeforce Records debut New World Shadows.

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About Wilderun

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Metal/Orchestral/Folk/Prog