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One of my fuckin Favourite bands and i would even dare say the Best Band in it's genre..

Wintersun is a Finnish metal band, founded by ex-Ensiferum frontman, Jari Mäenpää. The band plays a range of genres that is often hard to define into one style, those being; extreme power metal, folk metal, progressive metal, melodic death metal and melodic black metal. There is also prominent use of orchestral keyboard sounds.

The first Wintersun album was supposed to be a side project of Ensiferum member Jari Mäenpää. However, the Ensiferum Europe tour was unfortunately scheduled for the same time with recordings of Wintersun. Mäenpää had to choose between his booked recording time for Wintersun and Ensiferum; he chose Wintersun and was forced to leave Ensiferum behind. Wintersun 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 synth alone. On September 13, 2004 self-titled Wintersun album was released through Nuclear Blast Records. A live DVD was released after only their 5th concert.

Current members
Jari Mäenpää − vocals, guitar (studio keyboards, bass on Wintersun)
Teemu Mäntysaari − guitar
Jukka Koskinen − bass
Kai Hahto − drums

Sites: http://www.wintermadness.net/

caught them live a couple of times opening for other bands.. not bad at all... not a great fan of power metal but those guys know what to do and how to do it ...

il Diavolo wrote:those guys know what to do and how to do it ...

+ 100000

yaaaarg! They only got an album and i can say they are in my favourite bands
I loved that cd and im waiting for their new one called "Time" which is going to be released this September!

I found about this band while searching for Ensiferum stuff, and I was FUCKING lucky