Insomnium release new music video for ‘The Witch Hunter’

INSOMNIUM have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track The Witch Hunter, is taken from the Finnish melodic death metal band’s upcoming new album, Anno 1696, which is scheduled to be released in February this year.

Speaking about the new song, guitarist Markus Vanhala says, “this is a good example of a song growing and finding its own wings during the studio process. This one definitely has a cinematic feel; the storyline needs the essence of journey moving forward. In fact, I made a Finnish vocal demo for this one, reading and screaming Niilo‘s storyline, but only the name stayed and translated from Noidanmetsästäjä to English. But that’s another story and a secret version never to be found by outsiders.”

Bassist/vocalist Niilo Sevänen adds, “this is Markus Vanhala‘s composition; it actually does not really sound like the archetypal INSOMNIUM song and has some very interesting elements. One of the songs that improved the most in the studio in my opinion – and became one of the singles. Lyrically it continues to tell the story from the witch hunter’s point of view.”

And guitarist Ville Friman concludes, “for me, this song has a really strong cinematic feel to it, and I can easily travel into the story in my head when I close my eyes.”

Watch the official music video for The Witch Hunter here: 

Anno 1696 is set for release on February 24th via Century Media Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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