History Music / Wintersun

* {{Mondegreen}}: "Starchild" has the particularly hilarious misheard lyric, "Forming universes with our balls!"

[[caption-width-right:348:From left to right: Kai Hahto, Jari Mäenpää, Teemu Mäntysaari, Jukka Koskinen]]Wintersun is a Finnish ExtremeMetal[=/=]SymphonicMetal band founded by the former Music/{{Ensiferum}} guitarist/vocalist/[[FaceOfTheBand frontman]] Jari Mäenpää.

However, in early 2017 it was announced that [[HesBack the band has recorded and produced]] an all-new all-different album in the middle of the Time II problems to be released as the third full-length Wintersun album, ''The Forest Seasons''. Here's to hoping it'll be true...

* EpicRocking: Already abundant on the self-titled début, but blown into [[SerialEscalation preposterous overdrive]] on ''Time I'' with multi-part, ten-minute-plus tracks featuring hundreds of layers of orchestration. (It's worth pointing out, as well, that ''every single song'' on the self-titled album is longer than the song that precedes it).

The wait was finally rewarded in 2012, when Time was announced to be released - in two parts. Time I finally saw daylight in October 2012. Time II is currently being mixed, but the renewing problems in the production - mostly lack of funding and proper studio resources - have implied of [[HereWeGoAgain another]] development hell...

--> ''Night is falling over my home''
--> ''The land of snow and sorrow, oh carry me away from the cold''
--> ''And I fall asleep and I will not be afraid''
--> ''All I was, is gone now and sorrow is all I feel''

* AudienceParticipationSong: ''Death and the Healing''
* EpicInstrumentalOpener: ''When Time Fades Away'' and ''Darkness And Frost''.
* EpicRocking: Already abundant on the self-titled debut, but blown into [[SerialEscalation preposterous overdrive]] on ''Time I'' with multi-part, ten-minute-plus tracks featuring hundreds of layers of orchestration.

* IWillFindYou: Sung word-by-word in ''Time''.

The wait was finally rewarded in 2012, when Time was announced to be released - in two parts. Time I finally saw daylight in October 2012. Time II is currently[[note]]In March 2013[[/note]] being mixed, and has been pushed to early 2014 release.

* ''Time II'' (2014)

* SelfBackingVocalist: ''All'' the vocals in the debut album are sung by Jari. Even the choirs. ''Time I'' has "only" most of them, with some back-up from Jukka and Teemu (also see HeyItsThatVoice above).

* [[AllStarCast All Star Cameo]]: ''Sons of Winter and Stars'' features a choir consisting of members of Music/{{Ensiferum}}, Music/{{Turisas}}, Týr and Kiuas.

* DevelopmentHell: ''Time''.
** SavedFromDevelopmentHell: ''Time I'' finally saw the light! Now waiting for Time II...

* FanNickname: [[Music/GunsNRoses "Finnish Democracy"]] for ''Time''.

* HeyItsThatVoice[=/=][[AllStarCast All Star Cameo]]: ''Sons of Winter and Stars'' features a choir consisting of members of Music/{{Ensiferum}}, Music/{{Turisas}}, Týr and Kiuas.

* ThePeteBest: Oliver Fokin played the guitar on tour 2004, but was fairly soon replaced by Teemu Mäntysaari.

[[caption-width-right:348:From left to right: Kai Hahto, Jari Mäenpää, Teemu Mäntysaari, Jukka Koskinen]]Wintersun is a Finnish ExtremeMetal[=/=]SymphonicMetal band founded by the former Ensiferum guitarist/vocalist/[[FaceOfTheBand frontman]] Jari Mäenpää.

* EpicInstrumentalOpener: ''Darkness And Frost''.

* HeyItsThatVoice[=/=][[AllStarCast All Star Cameo]]: ''Sons of Winter and Stars'' features a choir consisting of members of Music/Ensiferum, Music/Turisas, Týr and Kiuas.

* FaceOfTheBand: Jari.
* FandomRivalry: with Ensiferum. However, there is no bad blood between the bands themselves, and Jari has stayed a good friend with Ensiferum's Markus Toivonen.

* HeyItsThatVoice[=/=][[AllStarCast All Star Cameo]]: ''Sons of Winter and Stars'' features a choir consisting of members of Ensiferum, Turisas, Týr and Kiuas.

* FolkMetal: [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly Debatable]]. They've headlined in FolkMetal tours, but that's probably mostly due to Jari's connections to Ensiferum, as the folk elements are rather mild in their music (though Time I has some influences from Japanese folk).

* EpicRocking: Already abundant on the self-titled debut, but blown into preposterous overdrive on ''Time I'' with multi-part, ten-minute-plus tracks featuring hundreds of layers of orchestration.

* EpicRocking: already abundant on the self-titled debut, but blown into preposterous overdrive on ''Time I'' with multi-part, ten-minute-plus tracks featuring hundreds of layers of orchestration.

* EpicRocking

Wintersun is a Finnish ExtremeMetal[=/=]SymphonicMetal band founded by the former Ensiferum guitarist/vocalist/[[FaceOfTheBand frontman]] Jari Mäenpää.

Originally a side project, Jari had started writing songs for Wintersun project in 1995, and drafted the first album along with his band duties in Ensiferum. However, due to the clashing schedules for recording the debut album and already booked Ensiferum tour he was forced to quit the band and focus solely on Wintersun.

* ''Time II'' (2014)