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Studio
  
(see Studios)

Producer
  
Insomnium, Teemu Aalto

Release date
  
23 September 2016

Length
  
40:02

Artist
  
Insomnium

Label
  
Century Media

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Released
  
September 23, 2016 (2016-09-23)

Genres
  
Melodic death metal, Doom metal

Nominations
  
Emma Award for Best Metal Album

Similar
  
Shadows of the Dying Sun, One for Sorrow, Above the Weeping World, Across the Dark, Since the Day It All Came Do

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Winter's Gate is the seventh studio album by the Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium. It was released worldwide on September 23, 2016 via Century Media Records. It is a concept album said to be about “a group of Vikings who set out to find a fabled island west of Ireland, despite the treacherous winter drawing near.” The album consists of a single 40-minute track, but it was split into seven separate tracks for the digital download and streaming version.

Contents

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Track listing

All lyrics written by Sevänen; all music composed by Friman, Vanhala, Sevänen.

Credits

Writing, performance and production credits are adapted from the album liner notes.

Insomnium

  • Niilo Sevänen – bass, vocals
  • Ville Friman – guitar, vocals
  • Markus Vanhala – guitar
  • Markus Hirvonen – drums
  • Additional musicians

  • Teemu Aalto – backing vocals
  • Arrangements and compositions

  • Insomnium – arrangements
  • Teemu Aalto – arrangements
  • Aleksi Munter – keyboard composition, keyboard arrangements
  • Ville Friman – keyboard composition
  • Markus Vanhala – keyboard composition
  • Niilo Sevänen – keyboard composition
  • Production

  • Insomnium – production
  • Teemu Aalto – production, recording (guitar, bass, vocals)
  • Kimmo Perkkiö – recording (drums)
  • Hannu Honkonen – recording (keyboard)
  • Aleksi Munter – recording (keyboard)
  • Dan Swanö – mixing, mastering
  • Visual art

  • Teemu Tähkänen – artwork
  • Jussi Ratilainen – photography
  • Nora Dirkling – layout
  • Additional credits

  • Tuomas Puumalainen – translation
  • Studios

  • SF Sound Studio – recording (drums)
  • Scoring Helsinki – recording (keyboard)
  • Studio Korkeakoski – recording (guitar, bass, vocals)
  • Unisound – mixing, mastering
  • Songs

    1Winter's Gate - Pt 16:14
    2Winter's Gate - Pt 26:38
    3Winter's Gate - Pt 35:52

    References

    Winter's Gate Wikipedia


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