What Insomnium wrote in their booklet about this song :
This one I co-wrote with Niilo. Niilo came up with the first riff with his strange synth tracked demos and I wrote the rest of the song around that. I decided to take a path through mid 90's death/black metal. The band we used to listen back then (and still listen) include Dissection, Diabolical Masquerade, Dark Tranquillity, Amorphis etc. Naturally, all these influences can be heard on this song. Besides being first collaboration with Niilo it's also a groundbreaking song for me because I actually did the first clean vocal demo for it myself. And I don't normally sing at all. unless I'm in a karaoke bar and have already had 10 beer. M. Vanhala
The starting riff is already a couple of years old and not it finally found its place. Markus took my strange trackers demos and built the rest of the song around this one riff. Seamless co-operation! I have to give some credit to Sweden for the lyrical side as the idea to this text came from a poem by Carl Michael Bellman. I've used some characters from Greek mythology before (Medeia) and in this song we have Charon, the ferryman of Hades. This is the kind of composition that you just have to sing about the river of death. So very death metal. N. Sevanen
What Insomnium wrote in their booklet about this song : This one I co-wrote with Niilo. Niilo came up with the first riff with his strange synth tracked demos and I wrote the rest of the song around that. I decided to take a path through mid 90's death/black metal. The band we used to listen back then (and still listen) include Dissection, Diabolical Masquerade, Dark Tranquillity, Amorphis etc. Naturally, all these influences can be heard on this song. Besides being first collaboration with Niilo it's also a groundbreaking song for me because I actually did the first clean vocal demo for it myself. And I don't normally sing at all. unless I'm in a karaoke bar and have already had 10 beer. M. Vanhala
The starting riff is already a couple of years old and not it finally found its place. Markus took my strange trackers demos and built the rest of the song around this one riff. Seamless co-operation! I have to give some credit to Sweden for the lyrical side as the idea to this text came from a poem by Carl Michael Bellman. I've used some characters from Greek mythology before (Medeia) and in this song we have Charon, the ferryman of Hades. This is the kind of composition that you just have to sing about the river of death. So very death metal. N. Sevanen