Insomnium Return With Epic ‘The Conjurer’ — Watch the Stunning Music Video
When Finnish melodeath exemplars Insomnium last left listeners with an album, it was 2019’s Heart Like a Grave. This month, however, the band is back with “The Conjurer” — it’s their first new song since that effort, and both it and its accompanying video make for an entirely epic experience.
Directed by Vesa Ranta, the clip combines a band performance with spectacularly snowy scenes of some dramatized quest, complete with aerial photography and visual effects. The song itself condenses Insomnium’s nearly 25 years of melodic death metal mastery into 7 minutes of mesmerizing musical twists and turns. Together, the combination is an unbeatable metal beast.
Watch the video down toward the bottom of this post.
“We haven’t been idle during the pandemic,” Insomnium bandleader Niilo Sevänen said in a message from the band’s label, Century Media. “‘The Conjurer’ is a tragic tale of jealous and searing love that opens this new chapter for Insomnium. Monumental composition by [guitarist] Markus Vanhala that reaches its peak in the soaring dual guitar solo. The wintry music video was shot in the dreamlike landscapes of northern Finland by director Vesa Ranta and his team. More shall follow…”
In a statement, the band noted the momentum they had two years ago and remembered there was “no absence of severe headbanging … until mid-March 2020 when the good old world abruptly closed its curtains. As of today, when wintry Northern darkness seems to be slowly giving a way to blooming flowers, Insomnium return with the brand-new track ‘The Conjurer.'”
Due to circumstances surrounding the pandemic, guitarist Ville Friman was unable to participate in the video shoot. Listeners looking to get official Insomnium merch can check out nightshiftmerch.com.