Wintersun - Wintersun (Preorder 22/11/24)

Wintersun - Wintersun

Label: - - 0727361266974
Format: 2LP, Album, Transparent Orange
Country: UK
Released: 22nd Nov 2024
Genre: Metal
Style: Metal

Description
The amazing artwork from the self-titled debut album "Wintersun", courtesy of Necrolord already gives you a hint where this act might come from, exactly, Finland! Hailing from the land of the thousand lakes where the winters are long and cold, WINTERSUN is the new project of singer and multi instrumentalist Jari Mäenpäa, who recently left his former band ENSIFERUM. Powerful and majestic with a lot of energy, the music of WINTERSUN mainly flows with great melodies influenced by folk and Scandinavian traditional music. Lyrically the album deals with mastermind Jari's life, feelings, emotions, hallucinations and dreams, facts that make the record a very personal piece of work. Beside Jari, drummer Kai Hahto from the Finish Grindcore/Death Metal band ROTTEN SOUND plays on Wintersun and provided the album with 
a hellish pummelling in all of the right parts. The rest – vocals, guitars, bass and programming – was done completely by the perfectionist Mäenpäa. They both managed to create a diversified song spectrum from speed metal tracks over heavy guitar tracks to bombastic mid tempo opuses. While fast songs like opener Beyond The Dark Sun and Winter Madness stress out the high technical abilities of WINTERSUN, epic songs with big choruses like Sleeping Stars and Death And The Healing show the unique feeling of Jari for emotional and melancholic melodies. The vocals always fit perfectly to the
present mood – Jari masters everything, no matter if you take melodic clean vocals, brutal screams or Viking-like chants.
WINTERSUN is epic Melodic Death Metal once more over the top!