Insomnium - Across the Dark

Deep inside, you know that this pic is going to be used for a Japanese horror flick



How did I ignore this band for so long? This shit fucking rocks. I probably won't write the greatest review for this since I'm not familiar enough with their back catalog, but this is some quality melodeath that doesn't try anything really new but succeeds at refining much of what the genre did in the past.

It reminds me a lot of Sentenced's Amok and Dark Tranquillity's The Mind's I. I didn't think that any bands were keeping this style of melodeath alive today. Granted, I don't know what Insomnium did in the past so I can't judge this all that accurately, but damn, I fucking love this album.

9/10