# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ville-friman
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:05:55.288Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ville-friman"
name: "Ville Friman"
slug: "ville-friman"
description: "Insomnium is a Finnish melodic death metal band formed in Joensuu in 1997. The sound and lyrical themes of their music portray darkness, sorrow, loss, pain, and nature. Their music includes elements of progressive metal and doom metal."
tagline: "Finnish musician and professor in microbiology"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/20170708_Ballenstedt_RockHarz_Insomnium_0205_Insomnium.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1980-04-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.46
  momentum:             6.296296296296297
  historical:           5.936501333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/FrimanScience"
    handle:    "FrimanScience"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://villefrimanscience.weebly.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/383543"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ڤيل فريمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Friman"
    title: "Ville Friman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Friman"
    title: "Ville Friman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville_Friman"
    title: "Ville Friman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3"
    title: "ヴィレ・フリマン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/421e0413-9809-47ca-931a-efb4b397fb5c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7931001"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump