Wintersun - Reveal New Guitarist
After Wintersun frontman Jari Mäenpää stepped down as guitarist to concentrate fully on singing when it comes to live performances, the search for a second guitarist started. Preferably, the band was looking out for a guitarist that lived in Finland and spoke the language as well. The choice has been made and it's 27 year old guitarist Asim Searah, originally from Pakistan but who moved to Finland at the age of 18. Asim Searah has been active as a guitarist as well as a singer in bands like Cantilena, Damnation Plan, Selfblind and Kiuas, and now joins Wintersun's roster.
The band added: "We've known him for a long time and we knew he is a great singer, but we didn't realise how talented and skillful guitar player he is. Asim was actually the first who sent us an audition video, which surprised us very positively. After the video auditions and two rounds of live auditions we realised he was exactly what we were looking for. He is very motivated and passionate with a good heavy metal attitude - a great guitar player and vocalist to improve the live sound of Wintersun even further!"
Asim comments: "It's an honour to be a part of a band that I have looked up to for many years. It's definitely a dream come true and I'm super excited to share the stage with Wintersun!"
The band added: "We've known him for a long time and we knew he is a great singer, but we didn't realise how talented and skillful guitar player he is. Asim was actually the first who sent us an audition video, which surprised us very positively. After the video auditions and two rounds of live auditions we realised he was exactly what we were looking for. He is very motivated and passionate with a good heavy metal attitude - a great guitar player and vocalist to improve the live sound of Wintersun even further!"
Asim comments: "It's an honour to be a part of a band that I have looked up to for many years. It's definitely a dream come true and I'm super excited to share the stage with Wintersun!"
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| Winter Heathen Posts: 90  |
It's gonna be a little odd with Jari not playing guitar live anymore, but I guess I'm okay with it.
---- Power metal incarnate.
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| Jagsey Posts: 143  |
What surprised me more is that Jari chose to sing in stead of playing guitar. He had a quarter of his lung removed due to tuberculosis and he is a beast on guitar... But then again it might be easier finding someone to play the guitar parts than someone with a similar voice.
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| roeder Posts: 149  |
Now the new studio won't be big enough for them. Damn. Time for another fundraising campaign .
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| zikon Posts: 252  |
Insert the "Stop it, stop it, it's already dead" meme.
---- "The poetry of the earth is never dead" John Keats
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| Andreas Posts: 334 |
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| bif91 Posts: 22  |
Surprised he wasn't obtained through a fundraising. I mean, he cost money after all.
---- "It's the team that matters. Where would The Beatles be without Ringo? If John got Yoko to play drums the history of music would be completely different" - David Brent
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| MyNameJeff Posts: 438  |
Time for a patreon to pay for the new guitarist's wages and monthly set of new guitar strings.
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| moe5512 Posts: 502  |
Written by Andreas on 13.04.2017 at 22:48 That's the guy.
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| The Melting Snow Posts: 674  |
Does Wintersun have the money to pay the guy? or will there be monthly crowdfunding campaigns? btw, happy to see a fellow countryman in a well known band. Pakistan Zindabad 
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| Pitwulf93 Posts: 71  |
I really do not get the hype around this band. Imo bands like Shade Empire or even Equilibrium do it better.
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| Belegûr Arise In Might! Posts: 365  |
Why did they do all the youtube audition crap if they were going with someone they have "known for a long time" ?
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| Tod_Engel Posts: 159  |
Still, it is nice to see that previous vocalist/guitarist of Cantilena was chosen as the new guitarist.
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| Litvin Posts: 364  |
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| Metren Dreadrealm Posts: 1410  |
Written by Belegûr on 14.04.2017 at 22:01 Excellent question. Perhaps they actually hoped someone participating on Youtube might turn out to better? That's a possibility. The more likely option, however, is that they're assholes.
---- My one-man project's Bandcamp with free downloads: https://dreadrealm.bandcamp.com/
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| Belegûr Arise In Might! Posts: 365 |
Written by Metren on 17.04.2017 at 12:29 Some of the guys on Youtube were really really good. Publicity stunt most likely, since Jari is an attention whore.
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| Metren Dreadrealm Posts: 1410 |
Written by Belegûr on 18.04.2017 at 01:16 Good for those guys that Wintersun went with Asim then, someone dodged a bullet.
---- My one-man project's Bandcamp with free downloads: https://dreadrealm.bandcamp.com/
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| IBlackened Posts: 479  |
Written by Belegûr on 14.04.2017 at 22:01 Taken from Wintersun's facebook post: "We've known him for a long time and we knew he is a great singer, but we didn't realise how talented and skillful guitar player he is. Asim was actually the first who sent us an audition video, which surprised us very positively." So apparently, they didn't know he could play like that.
---- Their old stuff is better.
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| moe5512 Posts: 502 |
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| IBlackened Posts: 479 |
The guy said he was Teemu's student, so it's very unlikely they didn't know he was skilled enough.
---- Their old stuff is better.
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