Wintersun Time II

Members

Jari Mäenpää (Vocals, Guitar)

Teemu Mäntysaari (Guitar)

Jukka Koskinen (Bass)

Kai Hahto (Drums)

The Way Of The Fire
One With The Shadows
Storm
Silver Leaves

Jari Mäenpää has been teasing his Facebook followers over the last few weeks, with messages that 'something' is nearing completion and now is completely finished.

Knowing Jari, he'd troll his fanbase to a point where they'd find him obnoxious, so being sceptical about all this, seems to be a wise course.

However, allthough never specifying that it is 'Time II' he's talking about, this last message made it pretty clear that's exactly what this is about and is only contributing to the hype;

"When I announced last week that "it is done", I did not mean that IT is done. I meant that IT is done! :D

But seriously, after almost two years of insane amount of work (not to mention a lifetime of practicing and developing music composing, lyric writing, playing, singing, production and engineering skills etc.), something big and amazing that will blow your mind has finally been completely finished, 100%! We thought (and I'm sure you did too) that this day would never come, but it's finally here. I feel I did the impossible! Feeling very proud and happy!

The question now though is, will it ever be released? Well it will be sooner or later, but that is yet to be determined. I have sent a long email to Nuclear Blast and we are now in negotiations with them. That's all I can tell you right now. Keep your fingers crossed!"

Time II won´t be next Wintersun's release. They will present another album instead, which is scheduled to be released this year, according to Jari's words on his Facebook's page.

The problems with the studio and other ones, make impossible to finish this album. There is no information about a future release of it.

There is no confirmation about the name, release date or tracklist of the announced new album.

1. Fields of Snow
2. The Way of the Fire
3. One with the Shadows
4. Ominous Clouds
5. Storm
6. Silver Leaves

There is some news about the future of this album.

In the video (https://youtu.be/TeqvU5nylvk), it is explained the strategy of Wintersun, to finally make this album. Besides The Forest Seasons, one or two more albums will be released with similars campaigns before Time II. Also, The studio and touring should be finished, and the final touches will be applied.

There is a little raw snippet on the beginning of the video too, from the song "Fields of Snow".

There is a few unofficial live videos (some of them are quite good) of the song "The Way of the Fire".

In summary, between three and five years we should wait to finally hear this album.

After more of a decade of wait, on Wintersun Facebook page, it was announced that the album is "100% done" and will we released this year. More details will be revealed soon.

TIME II RELEASE AND WINTERSUN CROWDFUNDING II (FOLLOW-UP UPDATE)

So last Friday, we dropped the biggest news and gave a Wintersun album update of a lifetime! And yes indeed, TIME II is finally done. 100% DONE! And it sounds massive!

Were you guys surprised?

Thank you to everyone for supporting and helping us to get it finally finished! We'll be dropping more information along the way about the album and how all this happened.

Now... We need just a little bit more patience from you guys while we prepare everything for the release. The album booklet (Gyula Havancsák is working on it), promo photos (we have a photoshoot soon with Onni Wiljami Kinnunen), merchandise, physical release (CD, vinyl) with Nuclear Blast, etc.

If everything goes according to plan, the album release will happen in the late summer of 2024, the latest early fall.

Before that, we will launch the second crowdfunding campaign, planned to start on March 1st, which will be a pre-order for a very big PACKAGE that will include TIME II. More information about this later, but let's just say that there are a lot more surprises we have in store for you!