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Wintersun - Time I



8.4 | 1203 votes |
Release date: 19 October 2012
Style: Extreme power metal

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Disc I
01. When Time Fades Away
02. Sons Of Winter And Stars
    1 - Rain Of Stars
    2 - Surrounded By Darkness
    3 - Journey Inside A Dream
    4 - Sons Of Winter And Stars
03. Land Of Snow And Sorrow
04. Darkness And Frost
05. Time
06. [hidden track] [Mediabook & Mailorder edition bonus]

Disc II [DVD] [Mediabook bonus]
+ Time I Live Rehearsals At Sonic Pump Studios
+ Licks & Tricks
+ Sons Of Winter And Stars - Project Demonstration
+ Photo Gallery

Disc III [instrumental CD] [Mailorder edition bonus]
01. When Time Fades Away
02. Sons Of Winter And Stars
    1 - Rain Of Stars
    2 - Surrounded By Darkness
    3 - Journey Inside A Dream
    4 - Sons Of Winter And Stars
03. Land Of Snow And Sorrow
04. Darkness And Frost
05. Time

The biggest surprise of 2012
Top 20 albums of 2012: 14

Line-up
Jari Mäenpää - guitars, keyboards, vocals
Teemu Mäntysaari - guitars
Kai Hahto - drums
Jukka Koskinen - bass, vocals

Guest musicians
Alpha Valtias Mustatuuli - vocals
Olli Vänskä - choirs
Mathias Nygård - choirs
Jukka-Pekka Miettinen - choirs
Markus Toivonen - choirs
Mikko Salovaara - choirs
Sami Hinkka - choirs
Heri Joensen - choirs

Additional info
Formats:
  • Limited Mediabook (hard cover, wide format) CD+DVD
  • Limited Mediabook (hard cover, wide format) CD+DVD + Instrumental CD of Time I, Certificate (limited to 500 copies, exclusively available at Nuclear Blast)
  • Limited Mediabook (hard cover, wide format) CD+DVD + Signed photo card Jari Mäenpää (limited to 1000 copies, exclusively available at Amazon.de)
  • Limited Mediabook (hard cover, wide format) CD+DVD + Wintersun logo shirt gray/black (exclusively available at Levykauppa Äx)
  • Limited Mediabook (hard cover, wide format) CD+DVD + Shirt (black) (EMP exclusive)
  • CD Jewel Case + Shirt (Nuclear Blast USA exclusive)
  • CD Jewel Case
  • Blue vinyl (180g vinyl in gatefold including poster)
  • White vinyl (180g vinyl in gatefold including poster. Strictly limited to 200 hand-numbered copies) (exclusive at Nuclear Blast mailorder)
  • Digital download
  • iTunes digital download with Time I booklet

Staff review by
Baz Anderson
Rating:
7.5
One of the most highly anticipated albums of the last decade; Time I finally ends the eight year silence, but was the wait worth it?

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published 22.10.2012 | Comments (220)

Guest review by
Bad English
Rating:
8.7
Wintersun - is it real? Well, no, it isn't. We hardly see the sun; for four whole weeks, it never shines.

Allow me to copy the style of DerRozzengarten (the greatest reviewer ever), who knows how to write proper metaphors. Such music is never meant to explain northern life for people who have never actually walked on a frozen river or cleared snow from their car before work (I'm not taking a jab at the French, Dutch, or Danish, who usually overreact when they see 1 cm of snow). Imagine the pre-internet days: it's blizzard beasts, mid-winter, the sun never shines, just 22 hours of darkness and twilight in between. There is nothing to do, only good music, books, or finding a way to channel your creativity. Outside activities, aside from collecting firewood and cleaning snow? I don't think so (but wait a minute, Jari lives in the city anyway?). Anyway, the streets are dead and frozen, the horizon is dark, and night light is ablaze on the snow. All you can do is wait for spring and then summer to arrive slowly. I've done it all my life, still do, and we all did. It's typical northern madness!

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02.07.2010 - 21:21
Rating: 9
Necrodamus
Hopefully it will be released by the end of the year...and it better be a masterpiece lol
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12.07.2010 - 12:19
Rating: 10
Windrider
Raureif
I guess if this will ever be released, it'll be the most famous and best metal album of all time!
And it will break all charts 'cause every fucking metalhead is gonna raid the stores for it haha
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12.07.2010 - 18:44
vezzy
Stallmanite
I'm disturbed people are still talking about this.
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12.07.2010 - 19:03
Got Mayhem?
Written by Windrider on 12.07.2010 at 12:19

I guess if this will ever be released, it'll be the most famous and best metal album of all time!
And it will break all charts 'cause every fucking metalhead is gonna raid the stores for it haha

It is?

We are?

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12.07.2010 - 19:18
Rating: 10
Windrider
Raureif
Written by Got Mayhem? on 12.07.2010 at 19:03

Written by Windrider on 12.07.2010 at 12:19

I guess if this will ever be released, it'll be the most famous and best metal album of all time!
And it will break all charts 'cause every fucking metalhead is gonna raid the stores for it haha

It is?

We are?



hopefully lol...
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23.07.2010 - 17:23
Prisoner
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It will be on the fucking charts but I tell you, don't think I'm pessimistic but I feel if this album ever gets released, It will be a disappointment!!!
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25.07.2010 - 20:37
Rating: 9
Aetherius
Hope its great!
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22.08.2010 - 04:24
qecc
"Jari Mäenpää has stated that the album length runs over 65 minutes" - Wikipedia

Doubt it's going to be a letdown.
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22.08.2010 - 13:20
vezzy
Stallmanite
Written by qecc on 22.08.2010 at 04:24

"Jari Mäenpää has stated that the album length runs over 65 minutes" - Wikipedia

Doubt it's going to be a letdown.[/sarcasm]

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22.08.2010 - 13:24
!J.O.O.E.!
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Written by vezzy on 12.07.2010 at 18:44

I'm disturbed people are still talking about this.

So disturbed you can't stop yourself commenting.
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22.08.2010 - 13:26
vezzy
Stallmanite
Written by [user id=4365] on 22.08.2010 at 13:24

So disturbed you can't stop yourself commenting.

On anything other than the what the album's gonna be, of course (besides bad).
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22.08.2010 - 13:35
!J.O.O.E.!
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Written by vezzy on 22.08.2010 at 13:26

Written by [user id=4365] on 22.08.2010 at 13:24

So disturbed you can't stop yourself commenting.

On anything other than the what the album's gonna be, of course (besides bad).

Yeah you gotta bump your comment numbers up somehow.
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23.08.2010 - 05:33
Rating: 8
iMorphball
What the fuck is going on with this album?
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23.08.2010 - 13:02
Zmaj Ognjeni Vuk
To Mega Therion
Nothing, actually.
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24.08.2010 - 05:10
warrior_of_ice
This album should be renamed to, "Trolled". Jari must be laughing at us all
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30.08.2010 - 22:34
Tordah
If this gets delayed one more time, I won't be buying.
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31.08.2010 - 03:23
RavenKing
It would be about time they release it. lol
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31.08.2010 - 23:24
Wishmaster
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Lol @ Jari must be laughing at us all. Is this ever going to be released?
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01.09.2010 - 13:46
Zmaj Ognjeni Vuk
To Mega Therion
Didn't he work of the first album for, like, nine or ten years? So, expect this somewhere in 2014.
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01.09.2010 - 15:07
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
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Written by Zmaj Ognjeni Vuk on 01.09.2010 at 13:46

Didn't he work of the first album for, like, nine or ten years? So, expect this somewhere in 2014.

Nine to ten years for the first album? And still such a middle of the road result? The guy should give up writing music.
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05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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03.09.2010 - 00:02
Sovereign87
I hope it will be released before 21/12/2012
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03.09.2010 - 00:04
Rating: 8
Wow its weird how people seem to have such a grudge against this band.
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03.09.2010 - 02:52
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
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@tornado maybe because of the way hw lots of people seem to rave about it as if were the second coming of Christ although the music is run of the mill generic power metal influenced by so-called melodic death metal whch is actually Gothenburg metal?
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03.09.2010 - 03:13
RavenKing
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 03.09.2010 at 02:52

@tornado maybe because of the way hw lots of people seem to rave about it as if were the second coming of Christ although the music is run of the mill generic power metal influenced by so-called melodic death metal whch is actually Gothenburg metal?

You could be surprised how many self-called metal specialists I have seen who label it as melodic Death, while it is only Power/Speed Metal with harsh vocals. Apart from vocals and a few blastbeats here and there, it sounds pretty much like Stratovarius 90s stuff (from "Episode" to the "Elements" albums).
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They say we'll be your friends we'll stick with you till the end
But everybody's only looking out for themselves
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03.09.2010 - 03:27
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Elite
Tell me about it hahahahahaha. A lot of people also call Chicken Of Boredom melodic death metal whereas the are along the same lines as Winterscum
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03.09.2010 - 18:59
Rating: 8
You cant blame them for the reaction they receive from people really. I don't care what genre they are labeled as but some of their riffs are brilliant.
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05.09.2010 - 14:40
Born-2rise
Nayyiker
Awwwhhh shit ive been waiting 2 years for this thing -.-
they truely are winterscum :/
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07.09.2010 - 16:26
Rating: 7
Moose
Wikipedia: "On April 26, 2010, Mäenpää announced on the Wintersun message board that Land of Snow and Sorrow is completely finished and that the tracks Storm and Silver Leaves will be done soon"

...Getting there slowly.
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14.09.2010 - 07:33
bluemobiusx
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 03.09.2010 at 02:52

@tornado maybe because of the way hw lots of people seem to rave about it as if were the second coming of Christ although the music is run of the mill generic power metal influenced by so-called melodic death metal whch is actually Gothenburg metal?

You just don't like Wintersun because the songs are not 20 beats per minute with the same slow dirge riff over and over with horrible out of tune vocals on top of it. Sorry, not everyone's favorite album is going to be some lame doom album.
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14.09.2010 - 08:34
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Elite
Written by [user id=20536] on 14.09.2010 at 07:33

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 03.09.2010 at 02:52

@tornado maybe because of the way hw lots of people seem to rave about it as if were the second coming of Christ although the music is run of the mill generic power metal influenced by so-called melodic death metal whch is actually Gothenburg metal?

You just don't like Wintersun because the songs are not 20 beats per minute with the same slow dirge riff over and over with horrible out of tune vocals on top of it. Sorry, not everyone's favorite album is going to be some lame doom album.

I not only like doom, but also love death metal, thrash metal, grindcore, black metal, true melodic death metal, US power metal, heavy metal. So before spouting off nonsense, you'd better check up on someone's musical preferences. Yes my favourite genre is doom. But a a lot of doom is a lot faster than you think. But then again how would you know, the only doom you probably know is the well established stuff such as My Dying Bride (who btw, played a lotof the time on their first album a lot faster than Wintersun) and Candlemass and Swallow The Sun, who all btw never play at 20 beats per minute. And since when are Candlemass' vocals and MDB's and Warning's and Saint Vitus' and, and and out of tune? And Wintersun's are good? Please don't make me laugh.
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