Heart Like a Grave explained

Heart Like a Grave
Type:	studio
Artist:	Insomnium
Cover:	Insomnium Heart Like a Grave cover art.jpg
Recorded:	February 2019^[1] – April 2019
Studio:	SF Sound Studio (Helsinki, Finland) Teemu Aalto Music Productions (Kotka, Finland)
Genre:	Melodic death metal
Length:	60:56
Label:	Century Media
Prev Title:	Winter's Gate
Prev Year:	2016
Next Title:	Anno 1696
Next Year:	2023

Heart Like a Grave is the eighth studio album by Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium, released on 4 October 2019 via Century Media.^{[2] [3]} It is the first album to feature guitarist Jani Liimatainen. Loudwire named it one of the 50 best metal albums of 2019.^[4]

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album liner notes.^[5]

Insomnium

• Niilo Sevänen – bass, lead vocals
• Ville Friman – guitars, clean vocals
• Markus Vanhala – guitars
• Jani Liimatainen – guitars, clean vocals
• Markus Hirvonen – drums

Additional musician

• Teemu Aalto – backing vocals

Arrangements

• Insomnium – arrangements
• Teemu Aalto – arrangements
• Aleksi Munter – keyboards arrangements

Production and design

• Insomnium – production
  • Teemu Aalto – production, recording, mixing, mastering Kimmo Perkkiö – recording
• Aleksi Munter – recording
• Jens Bogren – mixing, mastering
• Simo Heikkinen – artwork
• Vesa Ranta – artwork, photography
• Nora Dirkling – layout
• Jussi Ratilainen – photography

Charts

Chart (2019)	Peak position
Australian Digital Albums (ARIA)^[6]	28
French Albums (SNEP)^[7]	178

External links

• • Heart Like a Grave at Century Media Records

Notes and References

1. News: INSOMNIUM Begins Recording New Album. Blabbermouth.net. 20 February 2019. 3 October 2019.
2. News: Insomnium Announce New Album 'Heart Like a Grave. Loudwire. Graham. Hartmann. 16 July 2019. 3 October 2019.
3. News: Insomnium: Reveal Details About New Album "Heart Like a Grave" Weclome Jani Liimatainen as Additional Guitarist. Century Media Records. 16 July 2019. 3 October 2019. 13 August 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190813195212/http://www.centurymedia.com/newsdetailed.aspx?IdNews=23788&IdCompany=3. dead.
4. Web site: The 50 Best Metal Albums of 2019 . . . March 7, 2021 . December 3, 2019.
5. Heart Like a Grave . . 2019 . Credits . booklet . . 19075974871.
6. Web site: ARIA Australian Top 50 Digital Albums. Australian Recording Industry Association. 14 October 2019. 12 October 2019.
7. Web site: Le Top de la semaine : Top Albums Fusionnes – SNEP (Week 41, 2019). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. French. 21 October 2019.