In The Halls Of Awaiting...

[pittsyco38]

What are your thoughts on it? What's your favorite song on the album?

I'll add mine later...

[Farslayer]

Never heard of 'em until now. Looks promising. Think I'll order this when done farting around on this board. If it sucks I'll definitely be back to trash it...ha. Also, the appearance of this forum makes me feel right at home, in Hell!

[Crimson Twin]

Great album.

My favorites are Ill-Stared Son, Medeia & In the Halls of Awaiting. But all the songs are magnificant.

[Mr. NoReaction]

Tie between Black Waters, Dying Chant and Journey Unknown

Pretty good for a debut ... and the girl in their video was pretty hot lol

[Pakkanen]

My faves are Dying Chant, Journey Unknown and Ill-Stared Son, though the rest is great too.

BTW is the video still available for download somewhere?

[CLAYMAN]

My fav song is dying chant, but they're all amazing!

[reiter.ger]

there is a video out of them?

hm my favorite song is journey unknown i would say, but in the summerholiday in italia i only heard the bitter end

[pittsyco38]

Yes, they made a video for The Elder. You can download it here.

http://uncle.netsonic.fi/~tuomas/qt/insomnium-elder.mov

It is a Quicktime file, so you have to have Quicktime to play it.

[reiter.ger]

not a spectacularly video, but first time that i see insomnium moving ;D

[Addicted To Death]

Right now it's a tie between "Song of the Storm" and "Black Water". But i'm sure it will quickly turn into the whole album! :cool:

[Pakkanen]

Originally posted by pittsyco38
Yes, they made a video for The Elder. You can download it here.

http://uncle.netsonic.fi/~tuomas/qt/insomnium-elder.mov

It is a Quicktime file, so you have to have Quicktime to play it.

Thanks for the link...

[ShaneBarnes1982]

I've been a fan for a long time.. I just need to buy the album!!!

[Punisher]

my favorite songs are in the halls of awaiting, black waters and the elder. but all songs in ithoa rocks and HARD!!

[thunderstruck67]

I think The Elder is my favorite track...second favorite, actually, to the awesome title track!

[CLAYMAN]

Well I finally got the CD, and I can't stop listening to it! I think it's an thoroughly good CD, unlike most nowadays! Good work Insomnium! :)

[Zero888]

i first heard the elder, and even after i got the cd thats the first song i think of when i listen to the cd and its the first song that goes on. and i really like song of the storms, especially the "go" in the beginning

[reiter.ger]

i really like the end of song of the storm ^^

[Farslayer]

Just got this a couple of days ago. This is a pretty damn solid production. Definitely grows on you the more you listen to it.
Sticker on my disc says:
INSOMNIUM
Classic melodic Scandinavian metal
akin to vintage In Flames, early Amorphis
except even better!

[lucifer1126]

Wow...i saw the Insomnium - Halls of the awaiting in this music store in the clearance section for only $4.95, mint condition too. Pretty sad :( i bought mine at first for $18.00.

[Pakkanen]

Ha, I haven't paid anything for that album. A friend gave me a promotional copy though I would buy it if only I could find it in the stores.... :rolleyes:

[lucifer1126]

actually i have two copies of this album, i'm willing to sell it for 8 euro if u got paypal.

[pittsyco38]

The End Records has it for $13 US.

www.theendrecords.com

[reiter.ger]

i lost the little book in the cd case ;D

[Pakkanen]

Well, I guess I'll buy it next time, when I'm in Finland..... or maybe I'll get it at ebay.

[lucifer1126]

I put my extra one up on ebay already. If you're interested, here's the link

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=lucifer1126&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=50

good luck bidding, it says only ship to US but for you i can ship it to germany. but postage might be slight more expensive.

[kokonik]

I have bought The Halls of Awaiting at amazon.de and it came in 4 days. I must say, wow, this album is really great. Very good album. :Unholy: :rock: :rock: :rock: :Unholy:

[Pakkanen]

Originally posted by lucifer1126
I put my extra one up on ebay already. If you're interested, here's the link

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=lucifer1126&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=50

good luck bidding, it says only ship to US but for you i can ship it to germany. but postage might be slight more expensive.

Thanx, but I think the postage would be much more expensive than the CD, so I'll better try to find it here.... and as long as I've got the promotional copy it isn't that important because all I'm missing is the booklet...

[Elfgirlie]

The first time i heard Insomnium was when they had a gig in Nummirock-festival, summer 2002. And unfortunately I don't remember much of that gig becase I was a bit drunk. Too bad. :| I definately should have heard them earlier, because the band was from the same town I lived in at the time, and they had had many gigs in there. But nope, wasn't I dumb? :)

And then, in january 2003, i heard Medeia in Metalliliitto (finnish metal-radioshow), and I was in love. :) I bought the album immediately, and it still spins in my cd-player at least once a week.

Hmm... favourite songs...? Ill-Starred Son, Song Of The Storm and In The Halls Of Awaiting.

[lucifer1126]

Originally posted by Pakkanen
Thanx, but I think the postage would be much more expensive than the CD, so I'll better try to find it here.... and as long as I've got the promotional copy it isn't that important because all I'm missing is the booklet...

I can sell it to you for 8euro (include postage already) via paypal.

[Pakkanen]

I just bought it from a friend for 5 euros.... :)

[lucifer1126]

lucky :)

[Kirurgisti]

It's a very good album. It's in my top-5 list of albums. I've never heard melodies like that. Looking forward to the next album, I'm sure it will rock. The best songs on this album are Ill-Starred Son, Song of the Storms and Journey Unknown.

[Emperial Wrath]

I truly find every song amazing on this CD since I (finally) bought it in november, it has not left my car stereo or my winamp playlist.

[Silvicola]

Out of the new songs, I like Medeia and In the Halls of Awaiting best.

[obsolete]

Those are old . . .

[Silvicola]

They were new at the time of that album. All of my true favorites were on the previous two albums.

[MadTinus]

Originally posted by Mr. NoReaction
... and the girl in their video was pretty hot lol She looks like Pink :D.

[Kirurgisti]

I think the new page is better than the old one.

EDIT: Fuck? this post was supposed to go to the other thread... Ahh, what the hell.

[Addicted To Death]

Finally ordered it! Can't wait till it gets here!

[sNi]

In the halls of the awaiting is one of the best albums out on the market.
I was stunned and I actually like the whole album, all the songs!!

[VEHEMENCE]

The Elders song and video rules.

[heavyfuckingmetal]

from now on it's the moment of listening this album in my player ;)

i'm very glad.

[Everlost]

The intro in Shades of Deep Green is amazing but on the whole the songs I like the most are Ill Starred Son (awesome song but i dont like the acoustic part that much). Bitter end (damn catchy chorus, this would be great to see live, I can see myself yelling: BITTER is the nightly silence, BITTER till the end of time! :)). Albums "hit song" the elder is one of the best too of course. I love some parts of In The Halls of Awaiting but some parts just float away and I start to think something else.

Edit:
Curse on you evil insomnium! Now when I started to think about In The Halls Of Awaiting I had to start listening it :p.

[ict1523]

I agree. The main reason that makes The Bitter End the best song is the chorus. Ill-Stared Son and The Elder are close seconds.

[Wintersoul]

yeah.. the chorus in the biter end is really amazing.. but I must say that In The Halls Of Awaiting have a chorus just as grate.. if not grater.. :finger: I think its one of Insomniums beat songs... *growls "Will you follow me! through eternity,
to another world! to the quiet halls!"*
but the chorus would be nothing whit out Niilo :D

[dyingsea]

I got since the day... first and just got halls... yesterday. They are both quiet different and quiet the same. Since the day has a general dark atmosphere to the whole recording and most of the songs are midpaced. Halls has some very good straightforward faster songs and then some songs are slow full of a very bleak sorrowful atmosphere. I really can't decide which I like better so I won't. These are two of my favorite cd's in my whole collection though.

[Swansong89]

Dying Chant, I'll stared son, The elder love them all :)

[lost_to_apathy]

I can't decide which I like best either!! For me they can just flow as one huge album, I just set up a playlist on my iRiver with every song on, plus Numen Divinum at the end :)
And I know all the lyrics to each song now :)

[Swansong89]

I can't decide which I like best either!! For me they can just flow as one huge album, I just set up a playlist on my iRiver with every song on, plus Numen Divinum at the end :)
And I know all the lyrics to each song now :)

Sounds really nice :) I would like to see you sing them ^^
Which iRiver is it?

[lost_to_apathy]

Haha, I'm not too hot on my growling... I did do something of an attempt at Dark Tranquillity kareoke once, but it was hit and miss to say the least...
It's the iRiver H140, the black and chrome 40GB one that just got replaced by the shittier looking H340 with the colour screen. I think mine looks sexier, managed to get a new one off ebay :)

click here for pic (a promo pic of it) (http://www.mp3-music-player-info.com/image-files/h140.jpeg)

[Swansong89]

Haha, I'm not too hot on my growling... I did do something of an attempt at Dark Tranquillity kareoke once, but it was hit and miss to say the least...
It's the iRiver H140, the black and chrome 40GB one that just got replaced by the shittier looking H340 with the colour screen. I think mine looks sexier, managed to get a new one off ebay :)

click here for pic (a promo pic of it) (http://www.mp3-music-player-info.com/image-files/h140.jpeg)

Man, that one rocked hard :)
I want one of those with colorscreen and 5 gb memory :) they are so fucking hot ;)
But I havent got the money...

[lost_to_apathy]

Well I at least salute you for not wanting a fucking ipod :)

[Swansong89]

ah ;) your one of those antiIpod! muhaaa :P

[lost_to_apathy]

damn right!! I more or less point and laugh if I see someone with those goddamn white earphones..... at the same time proud knowing that my jukebox is so much better ;)
Before this H140 i have now, I had a H110, the first one that came out, I waited AGES for that thing to be released, but it was worth it ;) I had it for over a year, then I decided I needed more storage (10gb was full up!) so I sold 'my baby' to a friend :) and got me the one I have now ;)

[Swansong89]

haha, thats a hell of a great feeling^^
Is you 40 gb full?

[lost_to_apathy]

I've filled up 25GB so far.... but if it ever gets full there's quite a bit I can delete that I don't listen too often :)

[blackorchid]

I don't want to pick a favorite.. :: pouts :: The whole albulm is like.. genius!

::falls down:: I'm not worthy!

haha.. gawd, I'm a loser.

Ever just grab the cd, and wander around wherever while listening to them on your headphones. They fit waaaay too perfectly in the wintertime for me.

In the Halls of Awaiting though.. first song I listened to. First favorite. First song I attempted to play on guitar by them. Yeeeeah... Down-hearted my tune.

OOOOOOH! I'VE LOST MY WAY IN THE DARK.. STRAYED APART FROM MY LOVE!
I'VE FACED THE DEMONS OF MIGHT.. PASSED AWAY INTO SHADES!

aw, right when it speeds up.. brandi = :P

[blackorchid]

p.s. screw ipod. get creative labs or toshiba.