ABCs of Metal - [I] - INSOMNIUM - "Pale Morning Star" (REACTION!) 

"This is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard. " That's Insomnium

Insomnium are one of those bands you kinda have to help you feel when you have trouble. Like, when you need to feel a bit gloomy and explore those feelings, Insomnium are the band I turn towards. A lot of their songs portray themes like sorrow and loss for these reasons I believe, because it is good sometimes to let yourself go and feel things that perhaps you have been holding back. If you wanted to listen to more of their stuff / react to more. I'd heartily recommend: While We Sleep Through The Shadows One For Sorrow (The music video especially, but the song itself is quite emotional for me) Ephemeral Thank you for the awesome reaction and the content you create, much love

Man I dropped everything I was doing to see this reaction, great song from an amazing band

Insomnium make some of the most beautiful, if not THE most beautiful music in all of metal. What's crazy is their song making is only getting better as they evolve: better vocals, instrumentals, production, etc.

'"Heart like a Grave" is one of the greatest recordings of melodic death metal.

Insominium are one of the most comunicative and soul-piercing band in this fucking world! They are awesome on this!!!

PLEASE. Do a *one take* Reaction to Winter's Gate by Insomnium!!! It's their most incredible album, and it's a concept album that forms a single 40minute flowing song of perfection. The lyrics were a short story about Vikings going on a raid, and dying on their way home while chasing a the treasure of a great golden wolf with six legs, the come upon a gate that was made by the Gods, and then the demons of winter are released from it (sort of). It was written by the bassist/vocalist/lyracist that won an award in Finland from what I read. They brought the idea to Nuclear Blast records and they approved making an album out of it. It's a mix of their special flavor of melodic death metal but they added a touch of black metal influence to it as well. It is my favorite album to play through on guitar and one of my favorites to sing along to. You will absolutely love it, I hope to see you make a video on it!!

Boy, where have you been? Insomnium is one of the best bands in metal and at the top of my list. They cover every emotion and always end up laying you at the gates of peace. Dig deeper and you’ll find everything you could need.

This is truly a beautiful song, there's so much dynamicism, contrast, melody, dissonance, harmony, brutality. It's all there, and the lyrics are great too!

You should definitely listen and react more Insomnium! They have so much epic and beautiful songs. Greetings from Finland!

Insomnium is just one of those bands (or maybe THE band) that understands perfectly how to put such delicate topics like grief and sorrow into music that you can really feel and relate to. They are perhaps the only band that I know of where those growling vocals are not really "harsh", but instead really pleasing, soul-touching and almost hauntingly beautiful. You could play any of their songs to a person who really dislikes metal music in general and you would get a reaction like "wait... this is metal, but it's... nice?", because it's thoroughly enjoyable for anyone. Every time I listen to one of their songs I can feel the emotions they've put into it, and I'm picturing the solitude of those gloomy autumn days in the finnish taiga forests with their fir and spruce trees, fog rolling through the landscape and a crackling fireplace flaring in a wooden cabin. This music just ticks all the boxes to take you out of your everyday hustle and to put you in a place of serenity and composure, giving your mind a well-deserved rest. For a follow-up reaction I would suggest "Heart Like A Grave" or "Weighed Down With Sorrow", which are a bit slower, but equally phenomenal.

O - Orbit Culture - The Shadowing

Insomnium - Valediction, The promethean song, Shadows of the dying son, or While we sleep

Judas Priest - A touch of Evil

If you like this, I think Wintersun - Loneliness (Winter) would be a good choice for [W]. You can feel the emotions in the music. It's such a haunting song.

Thanks for bringing me this band! That was an emotional punch and I loved it...will definitely be listing to more!

ever since i lost Mum back in sept 2021 , im finding alot of Insomnium tracks leaves a tear in my eye,,what an amazing band

O - Omnium Gatherum - The Unknowing

Finnish and Skandinavian melo death, is so beautiful, touching and emotional that some time it feels like you just want to cry and on the other hand you feel some calm and restfull. My English is not very good, sry about that.

Wow, this was really great. I'd never heard Insomnium before. Thanks for introducing me to it.

More insomnium for sure whenever possible!!

According to Wikipedia, Niilo, the vocalist/lyricist has a degree in literature and history of culture. Even though English is not his mother tongue, this fact just shines through his lyrics. Definitely some poetic veins going on there.

M - mgla - exercises in futility I or age of excuse II

Its a beautiful song, filled with emotion. Great reaction Alex \m/ You gotta try Wintersun - Loneliness (winter) its in the same category as this one. Jari wrote the song after loosing his dad, and its so packed with emotion!

One of my favorite bands ever. They do not have a single bad song. Literally you could have reacted to any of them.

Hi Alex, found you and your reaction videos recently. Insomnium is very important band to me and I think you really understand what Insomnium is about. You are absolutely right with your comments. Keep doing these reaction videos, these are nice to watch. You are such nice person. Best regards from Finland!

Insomnium "while We Sleep" "Through the Shadow"

One of my favourite songs by Insomnium is "In the Halls of Awaiting" not only musically but also lyrically

This is the second video that you n ever did of Insomnium. You reacted to While We Sleep last year. Found Insomnium just last year fell in love right away. All of there songs are about sorrow. Loss and Finish lore.

I ve already been on their concert twice and it was amazing.. Actually two of the best concerts i have seen so far! These guys are so chilled, they learned a lot of Czech swearwords and they applauded the Czech beer on the concert :D

W- Wintersun - Lonliness

Dude my favorite metal band ever! All there songs are amazing! You feel loss but also hope.

Insomnium is incredible. One of my favorite melodic death metal bands.

Glad to see more Insomnium content, but just wanted to point out that you have experienced them before on your "While We Sleep" vid. Glad you revisited them though, they deserve all the recognition!

Hey Alex, I’ve been watching your channel for awhile now and I have to say You are an AMAZING public speaker You really keep everybody entertained whenever you talk and it’s amazing Good job man

I really liked this band. Then I went to a live show in Baltimore last spring, now they are easily one of my very most cherished bands. Appreciated the reaction, a powerful response.

This song describes perfectly what the melodic death metal is. Such an amazing and emocional song, it generates me goosebumps.

J: Judas Priest - Painkiller K: Katatonia - Forsaker

Adding a suggestion for "M": Mors Principium Est - Death is the Beginning

Alex my dude, thank you so much for choosing this song. I had recommended this song on your "H" video. This song means so much to me personally. It released in the year following my grandmother's death. She was the cornerstone of our family and one of the kindest, warmest people I've ever known. The very first time I heard this song I came to tears and even now my eyes water as the words and emotions flow through me. I imagine it from the point of view of my grandpa, who thankfully is still with us, and all the pain he goes through on a daily basis to not have someone with him that he was married to for over 55 years. It's a sobering song of loss, pain, and the hope of reuniting at the end. Thank you so much again for picking the song I recommended. I'm glad you enjoyed and understand it much the same way as myself. Peace.

03:32 That's exactly what happens at Insomnium concerts: You have some people moving super fast while some are just swaying slowly with a relaxed look on their face!

For "S" you need to do SepticFlesh, Portrait of a headless man!

Judas Priest - Beyond The Realms Of Death, Living After Midnight, Diamonds and Rust

"In the Groves of Death" is my favorite song by Insomnium if you feel the need to delve a little deeper into what they've put out. It's a little like this song in that its a longer song that doesn't follow most traditional song structures, and it's really all about the atmosphere.

It's crazy how whenever I'm in the mood to swap up what I'm listening to you pop up in the search results with a recent video of what I'm searching for.

I'm a simple man, I see an Insomnium reaction, I stop working, I listen then I like. Awesome band. For J, the best pick would be Jinjer...but you already made a few... :)

Insomnium - Valediction is one of my favourite songs. This one is amazing too!

J- Jobforacowboy (entombment of a machine) or (Ruination)

About damn time!!! I’ve been pitching bands like this to this channel for so long!!! Please review more “not too well known” bands!!!

I genuinely cry EVERY SINGLE TIME I listen to this song, and many other songs from Insomnium. They're just unbelievable. I love them so much. I recommend you to listen to some of my favorites: Heart Like a Grave One For Sorrow Winter's Gate (Pt.4) Daughter Of The Moon

Insomnium is incredible! You need to do Winter's Gate (pt. 1-7) in one shot. you can break up the videos to post, but please listen to it all in one sitting. It's one, seven part, 40 minute song. Its absolutely incredible. Insomnium deserves so much more attention than they get from reactors! Dive in! For the letter T - The Acacia Strain - Sensory Deprivation. You'd be the first major reactor to do this band!

Anathema with the song One Last Goodbye...simply the best song you can hear about losing somenone you love...believe me.

Leprous - Contaminate Me (live from Rockefeller Music Hall)

I've listened to this song over and over since it came out. Its truly epic. Never looked up the lyrics until I watched this video and holy shit. I've not lost someone as close as the lyrics describe but damn. I'm practically in tears. This song just went up another level to me.

Bro, you have to react to "heart like a grave" After the ABCs of metal yourney! Don't sleep on this

This song, and their equally amazing Heart Like A Grave have gotten me through my darkest moments during the loss of my mom, and your description of the conflicting emotions of grief, and your summary of this song is so spot on I have chills! Please, Please react to Heart Like A Grave!!!

Dude if you liked this song, check out their album "Shadows of the Dying Sun." "While We Sleep" will knock you on your ass.

This channel is way short of Jinjer reactions ;) So here is a couple :) Jinjer - Who is gonna be the one Live : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U6rv5qi8-8s.html&ab_channel=NapalmRecords Jinjer - Judgement & Punishment "One take vocal performance" : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q5rg_63Shqg.html&ab_channel=JinjerMetalBand

For J, I'd love to see you take on Job For A Cowboy, since you never have! They're a sick band, and normally I'd suggest Entombment of a Machine, however, I think their musicianhip on the albums after that would blow you away!

This album (Heart Like a Grave) blew me away, instant favorite. I mean I knew it was going to be great after hearing this song and the title track, pre-release... But then when my ears bathed in the melancholic splendor of songs like "Mute is My Sorrow", "Twilight Trails", and "The Offering" it vaulted to album of the year for me, passing Evergrey's "the Atlantic" (another excellent album).

Insomnium is another type of art ❤️ You shall listen their latest album " heart like a grave" I'm sure you will enjoy it

Insomnium. It was the last show I saw before this corona *****. The show was amazing. Everybody had a huge smile eventhough the music is so somber. ☺️

Instant thumbs up... haven't watched yet... can't wait to see your reaction. So glad so many of us wanted this yesterday and got our wish!!🤘🤘

YASS THIS is literally my favourite band ever and one of their best fucking songs.

I can't stress more (heart like a grave) i covered it once i saw it... Again (heart like a grave) u'll know who was the so xalled girl you said he lost. The whole album is based on an epic story of love, waiting, rejoice, and death:(

I was suppose to see insomium last april but a week before covid shut everything down, they are amazing and the last few years have grown to become one of my fav bands. Id recommend the song the river by them is so intense but again beautiful at the same time keep up the awesome reactions

I saw a comment on your last Judas Priest video suggesting their 1984 song, The Sentinel. The 1986 live version from their Fuel For Life tour is absolutely mindblowing. A newly sober Rob Halford is at his absolute peak and the whole performance is a joy to experience. In my opinion, it's one of their best and heaviest songs. So, for J, I'd like to suggest Judas Priest - The Sentinel, live from their Fuel For Life tour in 1986. If not for your ABCs-series, you'd be missing out if you did not listen and react to it at another time!

One of the most talented bands I have ever known across all genres. Their ability to compose with such feeling and mastery is mind bending.

One of the best songs by them must be Heart Like a Grave!

i LOVE insomnium and for some reason never heard this one before thanks dude all there music is like this

Welcome to Melodic Death Metal. Insomnium is one of the greatest!

So beautiful and I was thinking about my Grandma I miss her so much thank you the awesome reaction

wonderful Insomnium ❤ O is for Orbit Culture for sure. they just released a new video yesterday.

I am discovering so much great music through those reaction videos! Great band!

Insomnium - in the groves of death Do it.

First band I have seen and heard live.. I instantly fell in love with them.

Insomnium is beautiful

This entire album is both amazing, and deeply saddening from start to finish. Hands down the best album I heard in 2019.

You definitely have to do more insomnium reactions in the future! /,,/

I N S O M N I U M 🤘

The best fuck...ng melodic death metal song

[J] - Jungle Rot - "A Burning Cinder"

Revocation - That Which Consumes All Things

I miss my Maria so much. Since she passed away nearly two years ago, I have been in agony. I see her everywhere. When people talk to me, I wonder how she would have put it and what she'd think of my response. I think of how her eyes would flash wish exasperation when I sneaked a fart in the queue at the grocer's only to blame someone else's behind for the misdeed, promising impending doom once we were outta there. But most of all I remember the nights just laying there, talking. The heat of her body against mine, her taking my hand, whispering, "I love you". Sometimes we'd lie like that for hours, with or without words because none were needed. I think of everything about her and what we had. She was the only one for me and she took my heart with her. I refuse to let go of her because I simply can not. Love you baby, forever and always. 😭😭😭

[P] - Parasite Inc. - "The Pulse Of The Dead"

Weighed down with sorrow. A song for people with depression. That song have walked with me through years

Insomnium -"twilight trails", mixture, sadness, anger and hope. It's from the same album as "pale morning star".

K : Katatonia - The Winter Of Our Passing M : Moonspell - The Greater Good T : Termina - The Abyss 🤘Keep on with the Great Content Bro🤘

For J: Judas Priest - Judas Rising Judicator - The Queen of all cities Jane's Addiction - Mountain Song

I used to fall asleep listening to this song. The meaning has evolved for me, from the loss of someone who did not really die but left me. But this year, i think of my grandfather whom I had so much in common with but did not speak to for so many years. It was dark...really dark but this song helped

Crossing my fingers for Jinjer for J! They released a new video for the song Home Back That I think you’ll love!

You reacted to their song While We Sleep and it was the first time I heard them. Thanks to that reaction I discovered one of the most beautiful metal bands. Love them!

You said ones if I'm not mistaken you are more of a metalhead now. But now you are starting to understand what metal is al about and it's not just the music. So nice to see you're starting to feel it in your soul.

Insomnium is fantastic! Check out "Heart Like a Grave" next with the video. Beautiful!

Damn! That note at 6:40 just freakin’ hit! I’m not one for music where I can’t make out the lyrics but the ABC’s of metal have introduced so many new songs that I’ve grown to appreciate despite the growling.

J- Judas Priest - No surrender, Judas is rising, or Redeemer of souls

J - Jinjer: Home Back L - LANDMVRKS: Lost in a Wave O - Orbit Culture: Open Eye S - Shadow of Intent: Malediction T - Tallah: Overconfidence U - Upon A Burning Body: King of Diamonds

J- Jinjer - Home Back

Their music reads like beautiful poetry with amazing melodies!!!!

J - Jinjer please