WINTERSUN

Release Year: 2004
Artist Origin: FIN
Style: dynamic intense harmonious death metal

initially planned as a parallel project alongside Ensiferum, Jari Mäenpää's solo entity has emerged after quite some years of precise writing and composing - eight songs of this debut longplay marked highly harmonious death metal direction with grandiloquent neo-symphonic touches, still brimming with epic and subtly folk-influenced melodies, standing as an extension of ideas used for his then main band; brimming with adrenaline, dynamic, dramatic and blood-pumping expression with excellent drum work by Kai Hahto and sweeping vocal addition was hailed with massive excitement by those who admire Scandinavian heavy-weighted sound, and was mostly to blame that eventually Jari has left his previous band to fully focus on Wintersun