WINTERSUN - The Forest Seasons

C'est pas une blague :

Says WINTERSUN: "It's 2017, folks, and it's going to be a great year! Time for some big WINTERSUN news? Yes, it is!

"When we said that 'it is done,' we did not mean 'Time II', but we meant a new album for sure! 'Time II' won't be the next WINTERSUN album, because of reasons you already know from past updates and interviews.

"So what is 'it'? 'It' is a new album and it is 100% done! And no, that's not the name of the album. This album will be something new and different, but equally great or perhaps even better in some ways. Over 53 minutes of solid WINTERSUN material (with no intro tracks) and with a killer concept!


Mais c'est pas le deuxième volet de Time :

"Little addendum to clear some confusion about 'Time II...'

"'Time II' was already recorded the same time as 'Time I,' but the mixing of Time II came to a halt in 2014 when I realised that I could not finish the album with my resources. The album is just too big and I will not compromise and release it prematurely like I had to do with 'Time I.'

"'Time I' and 'Time II' are huge and just insane projects. They are big budget albums that I should have not probably even started working on at that point in my career. But at that time, I had a vision for those albums and that was the only music I wanted to make. So despite the lack of funding, I wanted to challenge myself and I started working on those albums with what I had...

"There were lots of technical problems and other obstacles along the way and those problems could have been solved or avoided with proper resources. Somehow I still managed to pull off at least something close to my vision for 'Time I.' I had to use time to compensate for the lack of funding and overcome the technical issues. You can literally buy money with time and buy time with money. Money = time = money. I wasn't 100% happy with the result, but the pressure was just too high to release 'Time I' and get the ball rolling. That won't happen again. 'Time II' will not be finished until I have the proper resources for it, but hopefully soon that's about to change!

Je me demande comment il a fait pour convaincre Nuclear Blast de continuer à lui filer des ronds. A leur place, j'aurais dégagé ce gros boulet depuis longtemps. Son attitude de diva et son sketch d'artiste torturé m'ont tellement gonflé que je me contrebranle de ce qu'il peut faire maintenant alors que j'avais surkiffé le premier album.

finalement, les fans, ils lui ont payé son sauna ou pas ?

J'imagine que oui, il y en a pas mal qui étaient prêts à vider leur compte bancaire pour sa pomme.

Le jour où il arrêtera la musique, il pourra devenir le nouveau Raël, il a déjà ses adeptes.

J'en ai parlé dans les news diverses mais j'ai pas jugé utile de créer un sujet pour ça !
Quel boulet ce mec...

Il s'en prend à Vivaldi cette fois...


Last week, the Finnish kings of epic melodic death, WINTERSUN, unveiled the title of their third studio album »The Forest Seasons« that will see the light of day in 2017 via Nuclear Blast. The new release will be a full-length album of 53 minutes featuring a brand new concept that band leader and mastermind Jari Mäenpää now reveals, together with the complete track list:

WINTERSUN - »The Forest Seasons«

1. Awaken From The Dark Slumber (Spring) 14:40
Part I The Dark Slumber
Part II The Awakening
2. The Forest That Weeps (Summer) 12:18
3. Eternal Darkness (Autumn) 14:08
Part I Haunting Darkness
Part II The Call of the Dark Dream
Part III Beyond the Infinite Universe
Part IV Death
4. Loneliness (Winter) 12:54

Total running time: 53:20

Yes, you guessed it! This album is our version of Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons', but it hasn't got anything to do with Vivaldi musically or with classical music. It is 100% original and solid Wintersun material! It is something new and different. Let's just say it has a bit more darker tone overall...

Next week you will know how we are releasing our new album, so stay tuned for more details! Click those notifications ON in all our Facebook pages, you don't want to miss the important updates of our new album! (Because of Facebook algorithm reach limit)

La campagne de crowdfunding va se faire :

THERE WILL BE A WINTERSUN CROWDFUNDING, STARTING March 1st

During last autumn we had long and productive negotiations with our record label Nuclear Blast and we finalized it in November 2016. We came to a good solution, a win-win deal that will benefit everyone - Wintersun, Nuclear Blast and especially the fans! This means that we will do the crowdfunding and it will include our NEW album THE FOREST SEASONS!

The purpose of this crowdfunding is to build the WINTERSUN HEADQUARTERS studio. As some of you may know this has been in the plans for a long time. It is our long time goal and dream. Building the studio is absolutely essential in order to finish TIME II and produce our future albums as fast as possible and with the best production. All the money we raise will go directly to Wintersun 100%, which we will use for building the Wintersun Headquarters.

This will be the biggest crowdfunding you've ever seen in the metal scene! It will be a different kind of crowdfunding than usually. We are not going to offer dozens of different items from guitar picks to used socks for a thousand bucks. We're gonna cut all the crap and only going to offer one very valuable perk! That's right! It will be a massive Wintersun Crowdfunding Package called the FOREST PACKAGE and it will have lots of great Wintersun content including our new album THE FOREST SEASONS. You will be blown away!

The FOREST PACKAGE is huge and otherwise it would be very expensive, but we are going to offer it with a very affordable price in our crowdfunding. So you guys will get great value for your money and enjoy the new album like it should be experienced, with the absolutely BEST quality! The best thing is that all of the content is 100% done, so you don't have to wait for many months. It will be basically a pre-order for our new album.

This way you get the NEW Wintersun album the easiest way, with the best quality and with the best price and you'll help us get to the next level, so we can produce albums for YOU guys faster and with the best production! So this is a WIN-WIN for everyone!

The crowdfunding will take place on INDIEGOGO between March 1st - 31st. It will last only ONE MONTH, so you guys need to be prepared! Get those credit cards and PayPal accounts ready!

Je suis pas sûr de tout comprendre... L'album sera dispo uniquement dans un coffret plein de conneries et pas séparément ? Ou j'ai mal lu ?

On le récupèrera sur les sites russes!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wintersun-crowdfunding--3

Patate et Dime sont super fan du concept!

Le pire, c'est que ça marche : cet enfoiros a récolté 200 000 boules en 3 jours.

Il y a un truc que je comprends toujours pas : s'il parvient à faire construire son QG tout équipé grâce au fric de ses adeptes, comment il va le faire tourner ? Avec quoi il va payer tous les ans la taxe d'habitation, les factures et tout le reste, lui qui se plaint d'avoir tout juste de quoi payer le loyer de son appart crasseux dans un quartier minable ? Il semblerait qu'il tienne compte de ça dans son estimation (Additional costs: Finnish taxes (& Indiegogo platform fee 5% + credit card fee 3%) 250.000 €) mais ça va pas couvrir les frais pendant 10 ans. C'est pas les ventes d'albums qui vont lui permettre de mettre des ronds de côté, il tourne presque pas, et ça risque pas de se bousculer au portillon pour qu'il puisse louer son truc à d'autres groupes vu qu'il s'est grillé auprès de pas mal de monde...

Il va retourner ramper devant les mecs de Nuclear Blast après leur avoir chié copieux sur la gueule ? Ou lancer un crowdfunding par an pour que les fanboys-vaches à lait payent à sa place ?

J'aimerais bien rentrer dans sa tête, il doit s'y passer des trucs cocasses.

Y'a bien Ne Obliviscaris qui a lancé un crowdfunding où les gens donnent du fric mensuellement, m'étonnerait pas que lui fasse pareil...

Les commentaires sur sa publication Facebook de remerciements sont savoureux, entre les fanboys/pigeons qui le sucent à n'en plus finir et ceux qui se font instabasher dès qu'ils émettent un doute sur le bien-fondé de la démarche.

Un laïus sur chaque morceau, avec des extraits :

J'attends avec impatience les réactions outrées des fanboys de Jari.

Il me fait peur le Monsieur de Wintersun quand il parle.

Ce disque est nul. Mais vraiment.

Des morceaux longs mais pleins de vide, basés uniquement sur 3 séquences alternées et répétées encore et encore. Et pas de riffs, mais des synthés pouet-pouet qui prennent toute la place.

C'est de la merde.

Que Jari se carre tous les exemplaires invendus de ce truc là où ça rentre. Il pourra ensuite lancer un crowdfunding pour financer la procédure d'extraction chez son proctologue. Et ses futurs albums, je ne veux même pas en entendre parler.

Yeah! Pingouin!\o/

Je l'ai écouté une fois distraitement et j'ai eu l'impression que c'était plutôt cool. Il va falloir que je creuse ce sujet.

Pingouin a écrit:Et pas de riffs, mais des synthés pouet-pouet qui prennent toute la place.

En tant que président du Comité Bontempi Pour le Metal, je me réserve le droit de poursuivre en justice pour ces propos insultants.

J'ai écouté le printemps là, ça me fait penser à un navet creux à la saveur relativement agréable.

Le seul truc que je sauverais, ce serait Winter (pas toi, on sait tous que tu mérites le pal vu tes goûts ), il y a une certaine émotion qui passe et ça aurait pu être bien si ça avait duré 5-6 minutes seulement.

Le reste, on dirait une tentative d'album à la Moonsorrow. Sauf que t'es pas un des cousins Sorvali, Jari. Retourne donc sur Facebook te faire masser la prostate par tes fanboys.

Connard.