Playthrough: “The Witch Hunter” from Insomnium!

Armed with his prized Jackson Rhandy Rhoads custom shop model, Insomnium guitarist Markus Vanhala plays through “The Witch Hunter” from the Finnish Melancholists Torsåker witch trials inspired album “Anno 1696“. Their ninth in all, the album is written around a short story from bassist Niilo Sevänen that muse on the events that saw 70 women beheaded in a small Swedish parish with dark tales of cannibalism and child murder from the years of the great famine…