Day 4: Insomnium – One for Sorrow Insomnium is known for their particular blend of melodic content with death and doom metal. The result with this album, is that it ranges from dark moods to exalted flights through open spaces. “One for Sorrow” finds Insomnium finding their balance and arriving at a place where they have the liberty to bring nuance and a sense of contemplation to the music. Among other things, this album sees a move toward using not only the vocal growls that are the staple of the genre, but makes clean vocal harmonies part of the backbone of the album. These harmonies are usually two vocal parts, but one of the guitars is often picking up a third harmonic line as a compliment. Even when I’m not necessarily in the mood for something in the metal genre, this remains a go-to album because of its strong melodic sense. Today’s nominations go the Justin Hunt and Mike Dolan.