'One for Sorrow' is the fifth studio album by Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium, originally released in 2011.
"A 53 minutes long album with melodic dark metal full of screaming guitars and Scandinavian (Finnish) heritage. On paper, it's like they've tailor made an album for me.
I love this kind of melodic dark metal but I'd like to point out before I start my review that I therefore doesn't exclusively just give every band that plays it my highest score. I'm very picky and my reference is immense so it's not like this band can come and live on old merits and do me over with cheap tricks. I'm happy to say they've tried none of those things.
The sound on 'One For Sorrow' is far from safe, it's like a big, tall brick wall that's at least a couple of meters thick. It's big, solid and seems endless and it's like turning on a dream. As you push play, you're drawn in to a world where everything around you disappear in to a sea of sounds that completely fills your entire hearing. Behind the vocal parts there's drums and below them there's keyboard lines and guitar lines. Below it all we find the bass filling up a foundation of heaviness in the music and making it completely float away weightless with your ears and land in a place where no people exist and our natural laws doesn't work. A place where everything is solidified into clouds, following the wind. Thrown around like a feather… We are not in command, the album is...
Insomnium is like a whole universe packed on a journey of fifty minutes. A journey between ten different planets, each with their similarities as well as differences but with a common denominator to fascinate and impress in every song with equal persuasion in their own specific way. So similar, yet so different.
Life is so present at 'One For Sorrow', but in a way that only Insomnium can express it - heavy, melancholic, almost depressed but still so beautiful and inspiring that you don't really see it as painful. It's hard and heavy as a truck loaded with parts from a windmill. And the music flows like carried by the wind. It's melodic as if it had been carved by hand out of a single piece of iron. It's hard to miss anything at all when you play this album, at least if you're a fan of this kind of music. The hard, heavy, melodic and yet so beautiful music that we in Scandinavia seems to be so very good at producing. So mighty… that's all I can say.
To me it appears that Insomnium haven't lost a single ounce of quality since [their] amazing debut..." - Hallowed (Sweden)
Coke Bottle Green Vinyl Pressing
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Tracklisting
Side A:
1. Inertia
2. Through The Shadow
3. Song Of The Blackest Bird
4. Only One Who Waits
5. Unsung
Side B:
1. Every Hour Wounds
2. Decoherence
3. Lay The Ghost To Rest
4. Regain the Fire
5. One For Sorrow
