WINTERSUN

Release Year: 2024
Artist Origin: FIN
Style: dynamic neosymphonic harmonious death metal

exploring themes of light and darkness, Jari Mäenpää wanted to continue the story started on 2012's album, revealing ideas and compositions that had been developing over the years, thus the second part of Time completes the conceptual narrative as well, while sporting much more complex arrangements and a wider variety of influences, emphasizing darker, more atmospheric passages, featuring intricate, dynamic tempo changes and rich layering of instruments, blending expressive harmonious death metal with elements of folk metal, not to forget highly cinematic soundscapes for the sake of drama, while Jari's talent to juxtapose harsh growls and clean singing is quite genuine indeed; limited German white vinyl edition comes with a pro-printed lyric insert