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Wintersun - Live Shows Planned In 2011


Wintersun has finally shown a sign of life. Drummer Kai Hahto posted the following short announcement on his personal Facebook page:

"Wintersun will be playing 4 shows at least next year: 3 Metalfest shows in May 2011 and also Metalcamp 2011. That´s good news."

Some overly optimistic fan made the assumption that perhaps the long overdue album Time would be done by then... to which Hahto responded:

"Time has progressed very well and we hope that we can start mixing in December. But the shows are confirmed and after the new album is out, we start playing more actively. Let´s see what happens next year."

The Wintersun drummer also promised there would be "some updates" somewhere next week at the band's official website. Stay tuned.

Source: facebook.com
Band profile: Wintersun
Event: Metalfest Open Air Helvetia
Posted: 15.11.2010 by Jehan


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15.11.2010 - 01:11
Baz Anderson
Staff
Oh dear, here we go...
How people are still hanging onto this band after their album, I do not know...
Who knows. Maybe the next one will turn me.
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15.11.2010 - 01:14
LeChron James
Helvetesfossen
Seriously, they are the most overly dramatic metal band out there. the fucking backstreet boys were never this dramatic, and they're a fucking boy band.
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15.11.2010 - 01:24
opeth771
FINALLY!!!!! Wintersun FTW!
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15.11.2010 - 01:33
Carl Berg
Carl Berg
Woaaaaaaa!! Wintersun is alive? Is this an alternate dimension? Am I dead? Yeah I'm dead! Finally!! Wompapa wompapa
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15.11.2010 - 02:01
korppi89
Let´s see what happens next year... ffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!! come on guys wtf!!!
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15.11.2010 - 02:41
FRIENDSHIP
This brightened my day so heartily! Hooray for unsuspected news!
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Dylan
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15.11.2010 - 02:52
I'd like to know what the hell Jari has been doing to keep himself alive these last few years. Can't image he'd be getting much income from Wintersun considering the lack of live shows and albums....
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15.11.2010 - 02:56
DahliaRock
Every time I see an update from Wintersun, I think "ok, it's going to be yet another message saying the album will be next year" and I always win.. if only I was this lucky in a lottery!
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15.11.2010 - 03:00
Wes
Wintersun is the best, thats all. I saw this post on Facebook and wondered if it would pop up here. I can't wait!!
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15.11.2010 - 03:44
Doc G.
Full Grown Hoser
Staff
Man, here we go again. This is just giving false hope. So many people are going to start whining the moment they post-pone it yet again because Jari's dog gets hit by a car or something.
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15.11.2010 - 04:06
Promonex
Cathemeral
Elite
Written by insanity.peppers on 15.11.2010 at 02:52

I'd like to know what the hell Jari has been doing to keep himself alive these last few years. Can't image he'd be getting much income from Wintersun considering the lack of live shows and albums....

Did you know that the vast majority of metal musicians actually cannot live off their music?
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15.11.2010 - 04:07
MétalNoir
Fils du Lys
Why did Jari leave Ensiferum just to be part of a phantom band like Wintersun, which actually sounds very much similar to his years with Ensiferum??? Hope he'd kicked Petri out for a couple Ensiferum albums until he finally decides to resurrect Wintersun.
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15.11.2010 - 04:38
AngelofDeth
Cyborg Raptor
Wwwooooooooooooooooooooooooowwww.

Jari is blowing it. how can anyone have faith in this band anymore? its been 6+ years since their debut. they always promise these dates yet never deliver. I love the band and would love to hear the new album but Im tired of being dissapointed, Im not gonna get excited for it until theirs some legitimate evidence of its completion and release.

"Time" is the new "Chinese Democracy".
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15.11.2010 - 04:38
ruffio
Written by MétalNoir on 15.11.2010 at 04:07

Why did Jari leave Ensiferum just to be part of a phantom band like Wintersun, which actually sounds very much similar to his years with Ensiferum??? Hope he'd kicked Petri out for a couple Ensiferum albums until he finally decides to resurrect Wintersun.

I gotta agree with you on that. Been wondering the same thing myself.
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15.11.2010 - 04:48
Promonex
Cathemeral
Elite
I actually like Ensiferum with Petri. I'd rather have Kai Hahto back in Rotten Sound though.
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15.11.2010 - 06:32
Sworn
Who cares about Wintersun... they aren't an important band in the metal scene anyways.
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15.11.2010 - 06:48
Wes
The whole point of metal should be to avoid "scenes" anyway. I would rather have Jari take his time on the new album. I don't see the point of criticism when we are the consumers and we demand perfection. If you don't like Wintersun don't bother criticizing how long the album is taking.

Dropping our expectations for Wintersun should be a given. It has been delayed so much that we can't expect anything concrete from them. But that doesn't mean we devalue the band. We simply drop our high expectations. Wintersun stays Wintersun, and our expectations for a future release lower, that's it. I don't see how this makes Wintersun any worse.

As far as the "hype" is concerned, I've never felt any hype or seen any from Wintersun ever. Probably because I don't spend much time on forums or whatever, but i honestly don't think Wintersun is a kind of fan-boy band. If you want fan-boys go to Kamelot's forum and see all the girls praising "Poetry for the poisoned". Wintersun fans are music fans and always have been.

The album's delays, progress reports, and news like today's, serve only the fans. It's for us, who like the music. Feel free to criticize music, but do not criticize a band based on news and album details.

I guess some people just are different from the way I feel about Wintersun and that's fine. For me, I like Wintersun's music, their album is the best album I know of. Because of this I don't mind supporting the band for as long as it takes for them to make a new album.
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15.11.2010 - 07:46
BudDa
Elite
Written by korppi89 on 15.11.2010 at 02:01

Let´s see what happens next year... ffffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!! come on guys wtf!!!

exactly my thoughts!
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15.11.2010 - 08:24
pazuzuovbabel
Pazuzu
MEHH! ,, let me predict the future: just before the date came so close , a band update: Sorry folks we need to cancel all our dates, and put the album due to unpredicted problems with instruments, and they back to announce dates for 2012, but this time nature help them and put end for the world
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15.11.2010 - 09:00
INÆRIS
Written by Sworn on 15.11.2010 at 06:32

Who cares about Wintersun... they aren't an important band in the metal scene anyways.

I do! Just because Cynic released Focus and Traced In Air 15 years apart does not mean that they are not an important band. Both those albums are monumental to me. As is Wintersun's debut. When Time is released, I'm totally going to buy it. Until then, there's so much music to listen to from so many bands, that it's not hard at all to wait.
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15.11.2010 - 11:51
Windrider
Raureif
Lets hope this will be as awesome as the other one and really be released!!! Damn great news!
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15.11.2010 - 12:34
Ellrohir
Heaven Knight
This would be either huge or huge shame...
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15.11.2010 - 13:33
Carl Berg
Carl Berg
Written by Ellrohir on 15.11.2010 at 12:34

This would be either huge or huge shame...

Like with all follow-ups to a highly successful album.
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15.11.2010 - 15:32
Elodie Artour
Slania
Haha, not again, please!

P.S.: And I'm quite new to this whole saga, y'know...
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15.11.2010 - 15:44
FeskarN
Finally some news from the band! Hope that the upcoming update is positive atleast. I want the new album so bad..
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15.11.2010 - 16:11
qlacs
"The Quaker"
For every "postponers", let's just wait a month and hear some mixing... Jari said he will post some...
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15.11.2010 - 16:42
Written by AngelofDeth on 15.11.2010 at 04:38

"Time" is the new "Chinese Democracy".

let's hope not, after all that time that album still sucked

the least they could do is at least make Time worth the wait
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15.11.2010 - 16:47
Winterthrone
This is hilarious! The new Chinese Democracy? Maybe, but it'll certainly cost less. But, Chinese Democracy took 14 years to be released and we've been waiting for "Time" (lol) only 6 years now. 4 shows? lol that is not a lot of shows for a living-dead band like Wintersun. I hope these guys have good jobs to pay their rents.
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15.11.2010 - 16:53
Carl Berg
Carl Berg
Written by Winterthrone on 15.11.2010 at 16:47

This is hilarious! The new Chinese Democracy? Maybe, but it'll certainly cost less. But, Chinese Democracy took 14 years to be released and we've been waiting for "Time" (lol) only 6 years now. 4 shows? lol that is not a lot of shows for a living-dead band like Wintersun. I hope these guys have good jobs to pay their rents.

I agree. 4 shows is not a sign of huge enthousiasm, it's more like a "sign of life". Maybe it's just a stunt by the record company executives to see if people are still into it, whether they should be going forward with this project or not.
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15.11.2010 - 17:45
Vikcen
Metálico
Written by Promonex on 15.11.2010 at 04:06

Written by insanity.peppers on 15.11.2010 at 02:52

I'd like to know what the hell Jari has been doing to keep himself alive these last few years. Can't image he'd be getting much income from Wintersun considering the lack of live shows and albums....

Did you know that the vast majority of metal musicians actually cannot live off their music?

Well said.
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