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Founded by ex-Ensiferum frontman Jari Mäenpää, Wintersun is a Finnish Metal band with an array of influences ranging from Power Metal, Folk Metal, Melodic Death Metal and even Progressive Metal (although the exact genre is debatable).
Jari has spoken about the genre of Wintersun’s music, and says “Well it´s difficult to put into a certain genre, cause there’s lots of variation. But to describe it, I would say something like: Extreme Majestic Technical Epic Melodic Metal.” He has also stated “But it’s really not death metal. It’s very difficult even for me to label it, but if somebody would put a gun on my forehead, I would probably say something like Extreme Melodic Majestic Metal.”
The first Wintersun album, “Wintersun” was scheduled for recording early in 2004 a time frame which clashed with the Ensiferum European tour. Jari Mäenpää was forced to choose between his booked recording time for Wintersun, or the Ensiferum tour; he chose Wintersun and was forced to leave Ensiferum behind.
The album was released on September 13, 2004 through Nuclear Blast Records.
Wintersun’s self titled album was produced solely by Jari Mäenpää himself, with only a session drummer (Kai Hahto) to perform the drums and percussion. Jari performed the vocals, bass, guitars and programmed the synth on his own. Indeed, the album was conceptualised purely as a solo project in tandem to Ensiferum (evident by the fact that the Wintersun album bears Mäenpää’s name on the front).
Jari has spoken about the genre of Wintersun’s music, and says “Well it´s difficult to put into a certain genre, cause there’s lots of variation. But to describe it, I would say something like: Extreme Majestic Technical Epic Melodic Metal.” He has also stated “But it’s really not death metal. It’s very difficult even for me to label it, but if somebody would put a gun on my forehead, I would probably say something like Extreme Melodic Majestic Metal.”
The first Wintersun album, “Wintersun” was scheduled for recording early in 2004 a time frame which clashed with the Ensiferum European tour. Jari Mäenpää was forced to choose between his booked recording time for Wintersun, or the Ensiferum tour; he chose Wintersun and was forced to leave Ensiferum behind.
The album was released on September 13, 2004 through Nuclear Blast Records.
Wintersun’s self titled album was produced solely by Jari Mäenpää himself, with only a session drummer (Kai Hahto) to perform the drums and percussion. Jari performed the vocals, bass, guitars and programmed the synth on his own. Indeed, the album was conceptualised purely as a solo project in tandem to Ensiferum (evident by the fact that the Wintersun album bears Mäenpää’s name on the front).
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kaplis wrote:
THANK GOD!
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melodictom wrote:
its not wintersun its starborn and the song is called time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ3ZTckIIrs
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chaosxgr wrote:
In that case I hope it's not real as well.
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kaplis wrote:
but if the song is real - i told you so, debut is unmatchable.
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kaplis wrote:
at first i thought it was real, the rhythm section sounded very Jari style, and drum fills too are something similar. ofc vocals are different, but it may be Jari, but i hope it's not him because i don't like them much. yeah the length in wikipedia is written ~10 mins, but this one is 6.44. also it doesn't sound like 200 layer worth of stuff.
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chaosxgr wrote:
Other places where I found this upload are also questioning whether this is real...I also would like to hear other opinions. Some are saying this is the incorrect length for the song as well.
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kaplis wrote:
i hope it's the real thing /downloading/
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Meat_Wolf wrote:
Sounds fake. What say you, people?
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chaosxgr wrote:
Song "Time" has leaked can be found here: http://abstraktmusic.blogspot.com/ Sounds amazing! :D
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Angry_Zombie wrote:
Let's collect money for them to finish Time, haha !
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SynnieGates wrote:
varuin, yes we know, someone already posted that a few weeks ago.
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varuin wrote:
http://www.wintermadness.net/messageboard/viewtopic.php?t=854&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 I haven´t been able to work properly in 3 months. My apartment is under renovations (which I didn´t have any say in), so I can´t live there. It´s scheduled to end this month, but there could be delays. But let´s hope there won´t be and I can get back to working full-time.
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Paduddel wrote:
you pronounce it "Maenbaa", finnish people told me so :D
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SynnieGates wrote:
Am I the only one who pronounces his surname "Ma 'n' Pa"?'' Nope, I do it too :P
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Alasin wrote:
You pronounce his name Mäenpää. In finnish you pronounce words like they are written. It's bit hard to foreigners ;>
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TheLastJihad wrote:
@stigmatyze: yes, when that many idiotic things spew from your keyboard in one sentence I can come to the conclusion that you are indeed a retard.
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MaximSagan wrote:
Am I the only one who pronounces his surname "Ma 'n' Pa"? Could that actually be correct?
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kaplis wrote:
i just realized that Extreme Majestic Technical Epic Melodic Metal is the best genre of all time....... BEST GENRE OF ALL TIME!
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KingCancer wrote:
If Nightrage's next album comes out before Time does.........
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DJ-Blutsauger wrote:
WHERE THE FUCK IS TIME JARI. MY PENIS ACHES FOR IT.
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