Insomnium: Shadows Of The Dying Sun [2014]

June 7, 2014 · by Philip Hung Cao · in Albums. ·

Released	April 25, 2014
Genre	Melodic death metal
Length	56:43
Label	Century Media Records
Producer	Teemu Aalto, Insomnium

Shadows of the Dying Sun is the sixth studio album by the Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium. It was released in North America on April 29th, 2014 via Century Media Records, and on April 25th in Finland, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, the rest of Europe, as well as Australia and New Zealand on April 28th. It is the first album with new guitarist Markus Vanhala after previous long-time guitarist Ville Vänni departed in 2011.

The song “Revelations” in a form of a lyric video was released on March 21, 2014.^[1] A music video was made for the song and single “While We Sleep”, which was released on April 7th, 2014.^[2]^[3] And the last song “Black Heart Rebellion” was released on April 22, 2014.^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	“The Primeval Dark”	Friman	Friman	3:17
2.	“While We Sleep”	Friman	Friman	6:20
3.	“Revelation”	Sevänen	Vanhala	5:15
4.	“Black Heart Rebellion”	Friman	Friman	7:03
5.	“Lose to Night”	Friman	Friman	4:59
6.	“Collapsing Words”	Friman	Friman	4:38
7.	“The River”	Sevänen	Sevänen & Vanhala	7:57
8.	“Ephemeral” (Album version)	Friman	Friman	4:01
9.	“The Promethean Song”	Sevänen	Vanhala	6:41
10.	“Shadows of the Dying Sun”	Friman	Friman	6:32
Total length:				56:43