Winter's Gate Explained

Winter's Gate
Type:	studio
Artist:	Insomnium
Cover:	Insomnium - Winters Gate.jpg
Recorded:	March – April 2016
Label:	Century Media
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Winter's Gate is the seventh studio album by 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."^[1]

The album consists of a single 40-minute track. For streaming and download services, it was split into seven separate tracks^{[2] [3]} despite containing six movements denoted in the lyrics.^[4] These movements are noted in the tracklist below. For vinyl, the song was split across sides between parts 3 and 4.^[5]

Credits

Credits are adapted from the album liner notes.^[6]

Insomnium

• Niilo Sevänen – lead vocals, bass
• Ville Friman – guitars, clean vocals
• Markus Vanhala – guitars
• 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 and artwork

• 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
• Teemu Tähkänen – artwork
• Jussi Ratilainen – photography
• Nora Dirkling – layout
• Tuomas Puumalainen – translation

Studios

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

External links

• • Winter's Gate at Century Media Records

Notes and References

1. Web site: INSOMNIUM To Release 'Winter's Gate' Album, Book In September. Blabbermouth.net. May 19, 2016. May 19, 2016.
2. Web site: Winter's Gate by Insomnium on Apple Music . iTunes . August 28, 2018.
3. Web site: Winter's Gate . Spotify . August 28, 2018.
4. Web site: INSOMNIUM LYRICS – "Winter's Gate" (2016) album . Dark Lyrics . August 28, 2018.
5. Web site: Insomnium – Winter's Gate (Vinyl, LP, Album, Album) at Discogs . Discogs . August 28, 2018.
6. Winter's Gate . . 2016 . Credits . booklet . . 88985348272.
7. Web site: Le Top de la semaine : Top Albums Fusionnes – SNEP (Week 39, 2016). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. French. 4 October 2016.