Ville Friman

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Instruments Guitar Record label Candlelight Records Genres Melodic death metal		Role Musician Name Ville Friman

Born April 30, 1980 (age 43) ( 1980-04-30 ) Labels Candlelight Records Edgerunner records Associated acts Insomnium Arrival Enter My Silence People also search for Niilo Sevanen, Marcus Hirvonen, Ville Vanni, Timo Partanen, Tapani Pesonen Albums Shadows of the Dying Sun, Above the Weeping World, One for Sorrow, In the Halls of Awaiting, Across the Dark
Music group Insomnium (Since 1997)

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Ville Friman (born April 30, 1980) is a Finnish musician. He is one of the founders, main composer, and guitarist of the melodic death metal band Insomnium. Although Insomnium is his main band, he also plays guitar for the dark/thrash/black-metal band Arrival and bass guitar for melodeath act Enter My Silence. Alongside his musical career, Dr Ville Friman has a PhD in evolutionary ecology from the Helsinki University, and is now a Research Associate in that field at the University of York, UK. He has cited his influences as Sepultura, Pantera, Slayer, Metallica, Queen, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, AC/DC, Van Halen, Kiss, Venom, Celtic Frost, Death, and Deep Purple.