No worries Chief, happy you managed to get here, there's no rush for any of my suggestions but I felt sure you would appreciate this masterpiece and you reacted much like I thought you would, it was great watching you get into it. Jari the lead vocalist is all the more amazing when you consider he lost half a lung to tuberculosis when in the military. You were correct about Kai, he was given the music and penned the drumming himself, he's an amazing drummer and is now with Nightwish(went there for a vacation as the joke goes lol). Jukka on bass is standing in for Marko of Nightwish on their present tour also. "Time" is as much a masterpiece as this, I'm sure you will enjoy. Keep up the good work bro, terrific to see your channel grow🤘

"Time" is absolutely essential!

The most amazing thing about Wintersun is just how many people don't even know about this frigging phenomaenal band. For the record I think Time is even better! Top reaction to this one.

"Time", "Forest that weeps", "Loneliness" and "Land of snow and sorrow" are great too 🙂

Your attention to the details in the music really sets your channel apart. Great reaction!

Loved your reaction Chief. I just love to put this song on in my headphones and close my eyes lying in my sofa and drift away. If you didnt already know Kai on the drums is now the drummer of Nightwish.

This song is so amazing. Kai -The Human Metronom - (and since 2013 drummer of Nightwish) is really a beast. All of them are technically on the highest possible level! When I see Kai at the end wiping off the sweat I always have a strange thought: I can her someone saying from the off: Oohh, sh... the camera wasn't running. Let's just do it again. Kai? Everything ok with with you?" ;-)

Great reaction! Someone already told you that Kai is the current drummer of Nightwish, but currently, the bassist Jukka is also member of the current Nightwish line up to replace Marko (Temporary or not).

Wow, thanks for reacting to Wintersun! "Time" from this same rehearsal session next, please. It is a true masterpiece, not as overwhelming as this one.

This is pure precious metal from Finland!

My favorite song of all time. This song is just straight up perfection ! Glad you liked it man. Highly recommend another awesome band called Epica, I think you will like them, also a symphonic metal band as Nightwish but much heavier and technical

Greetings from Helsinki, Finland. This is same song drum cam. Enjoy and stay heavy. Pearl Artist Kai Hahto/Wintersun - Sons Of Winter And Stars Drum Cam @ Nosturi, Helsinki 13.10.2012

The section about which you asked if it was all palm muted - it is a mix of palm muted alternate picking (up down) interspersed with a couple of open notes, legato hammer ons (not picked, the left hand strikes the strings) and mini sweeps (where the pick plays adjacent strings in the same direction.) It's all pretty bloody hard to do when you bung it all together. I've played for over 40 years and am fairly competent. I took one look at the tab for this song and thought "nope". Polyrhythms, syncopation, compound time and some savage stretches... it would take a year of daily practice to get even close to this insanity.

We have Bach, Mozart, Chaikovsky, Wagner and other genius musicians in classical music. We have Wintersun in metal at that level, in my humble opinion. They have technicality most can't reach. They have musicality most can't reach, i dare to say, even greatest of metal rarely may surpass. Attention to details, orchestration, melodies and interchanges, vocals, harmonies. Emotions they have and they bring...And it's metal af! What could be more metal than vikings on their drakkar on their next raid? For me, it's nothing less, but a mastercraft. It's been in my playlist as soon as i discovered this song, and it will stay there for years. Modern classic status worthy.

Next songs: Wintersun - Time (TIME I Live Rehearsals At Sonic Pump Studios) REMASTER kzfaq.info/get/bejne/art9qq-pq7Svg2Q.html Wintersun - Land of snow and sorrow - Live rehearsal @ Sonic Pump Studios kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mcByaa2H0dKug5s.html

This is the one I wanna tell everyone about. It's my go to music for pretty much everything, my religion. Glad it stirred you too. Thank you so much for this, made my day!

Great! Now do Wintersun - Time! :)

He spends his vacations playing in Nightwish. Best joke ever. Re-posting it.

Yes we know what you mean😂 We're Metalheads Awesome reaction, rock on🤘

Oh Chief...I laughed so much watching your reaction🤣🤣🤣 I always want to go into a Viking battle or so haha. Jari, the singer, composes all their music. This song had 1600+ tracks that had to be mixed!😂 And Kai happily banging away on his kit! 🤣 He is soo good! When he left for NW his successor had to simplify the drumming a bit 😂. A lot of smilies in my comment but I'm still giggling and laughing. Such fun. "Time" is very beautiful! Thanks for this one Chief. Take care. Btw... I can't find it but there is a video on YT of Kai in which he plays 4 different rythms at once with his hands and feet! A special brain he must have to do that 😅

I totally forgot to put this song on my playlist, thanks for the reminder, cause it suely should be there.. always a pleasure Cheif:) yeah Wintersun is a great band, now 2 of the guys in this video Kai and Jukka, on drums and bass is in Nighwish, so i also want to thank the guys from this band to make Nightwish continue.. but most of all just say, Wintersun is a great band!!

Time is even better and I think Jari’s voice sounds even better and it has more of a feeling

Nice video and hi Chief

I know what you mean. I am not ashamed to say, I am a huge fan of Wintersun. And seeing you react to them, in the way you did, brought tears in to my eyes. I thank you for this reaction to my my all time favorite band.

You may be just a dude listening to music, but you definitely pick up a lot of details. Really enjoyed your reaction! Now I'm looking forward to Time 😃

Next TIME from this same rehearsal🤘🇫🇮

I know everyone's already pointed out that Kai is in Nightwish now, but there are a couple other projects he's supplied percussion for that you might be interested in - both of which also include Tuomas from Nightwish - Auri, and Darkwoods My Betrothed. Auri is a very folky, atmospheric music group composed of Tuomas, Troy (yeah, from NW), and Johanna Kurkela (Tuomas's wife). They've just put out their second album, and Kai laid the drum tracks for them. This is the first single, Pearl Diving: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oM90kryVsKm9hJ8.html Then going in a complete 180, Darkwoods My Betrothed is a Finnish death metal group (that I admittedly don't know much about) who just named Tuomas as a full member of the band (he was their session keyboardist going back something like 25 years, this coming album is their first in decades) and Kai laid the drum tracks for them as well. I've heard that for one song, he's pounding out blast beats at something like 260/minute. This is the first single, In Evil, Sickness and in Grief: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hNqFZ9mQ2p3Uhac.html

What a song!!! I hear so much in it I don't even know where to begin. I hear Rammstein, Devin Townsend, Bruce Dickinson, Joey Jordenson, James Hetfield, all combined to bring an epic song...Wow!!! Very nice, and genuine, reaction to boot. Thank you so much for the shout-out Chief, that meant a lot. I hope you are having a great week, now and forever.

Its the battle metal song to rule them all battle metal songs

Thank you so much for this reaction. I enjoy looking people reacting to this awesome band on youtube. Seeing more people enjoying great stuff just makes me more optimistic about humanity's future lol. And yeah, Time from same rehearsal session indeed is awesome and worth checking.

Interesting that Saul requested this before "Time." I guess if you want to follow album order then go with "Land of Snow and Sorrow" next and "Time" after that (all from the Sonic Pump session). The whole album is a monster, so why not?

Now you have heard Wintersun. Next band must be Insomnium!

Great reaction Chief, I really injoy your channel💪 I know most of my fellow metalheads want you to react to time, witch is also one of my favorits, but I would like for you to react to Lonelyness, that is such a beautyful song. Stay safe boddy. Cheers from Denmark 🍺

Good evening Chief..I'm so glad you have reacted to Wintersun. Shout out to Sal for the recommending the band and track. I just love this band ...Jari's vocals are superb, Kai is also the drummer for Nightwish now. The band is just brilliant. Every time I here this track ...and all the others I am transported with them. I become a "Son of Winter and Stars". You are right about the song Time it is another brilliant song and title track of the album Time 1. Another track to check out is Land of Snow and Sorrow....yet again it gives me the chills. Have a good evening bro. Take care, stay safe. Peace and love Alan from Liverpool UK 👍✌️🤘☮️

the difference is that this is art and not just music ;-)

Kai is like ”okay this one song then I have to go and get my groceries” 🤣🤣

what the Dickens :) It's great watching someone that realises just why this is so good

Yes, do TIME pls!

After first time listening this song is like.. I think I need to lie down now.. 😂

btw: There is also a drum video of Kai Hahto. Insane! btw2: Never have to say sorry when going back at Wintersun. Or Nightwish. :-)

BTW. This song counts as 20 minutes of aerobic exercise just listening to it.

Yeah :D

What makes Jari's main line singing with all those huge soaring notes and holds, is that he's singing with only 1.5 lungs. He had to have part of a lung removed after he contracted tuberculosis while doing his mandatory Finnish military service, and he still sings like an absolute monster. Imagine what he'd be like with 2 full lungs :O

I'm nowhere near a drumming expert. But the reason you were thrown off by the beat was because the guitars play in a 3/4 timing, while Kai plays a 4/4 timing. Every 3 measures they end in synch again. Perhaps someone else can explain this better than I just did... but the effect remains the same.

🔥🔥🔥

I believe Kai is playing a standard 4/4 beat throughout most of the song but the chorus is in 3. Jari loves 3/4 and 6/8.

Loved the reaction mate. Subbed.

Good stuff!

The bass player is now also the bass player in Nightwish

U need to listen TIME

Well i went onto your patreon oh by the way your react was great

Jari Mäenpää was the frontman of Ensiferum before he formed Wintersun, so there's songs there with same thermes, same kind of musical storytelling and epic atmosphere. Songs like Lai Lai Hei, Little Dreamer, Token Of Time, Guardians Of Fate and Battle Song, After Mäenpää's departure, Ensiferum has gone on making similar songs (E.g. In My Sword I Trust, Victory Song, From Afar and Rum, Women, Victory).

Please check out, Kai Hahto explain how he play this song. It's very intresting

Great reaction. Also Jari, the singer and founder, is missing some of his lungs. I think one third.

Legend has it that metronome makers use Kai Hato to calibrate their metronomes....

😊🇫🇮🤘❤️🎶🎹🎸🥁✨👍 Would you give us more Audio Vol 🔝🔊✨🤘

Time II, it's coming, D-33... 😎

Such a great reaction, once again. Funny, I was just wondering what you feel about the Finnish names. Well, the creator of the band, Jari Mäenpää.... "Mäen" is the genitive form of word "mäki" - a hill. "pää" usually means just "head", but also the end point of something, in this case I'd believe it's the top of the hill. Someone else may have another point of view, but the words in the Finnish language often can be interpreted differently depending on the context.

If you get a chance at some point listen to the entire album in one go as each track leads into the next one and will take you on one huge journey. There are 5 tracks (not counting the 'hidden' track lasting a total of 40 minutes but 2 are interludes / openings to other tracks so only 3 have vocals ranging from 8 min 21 sec to 13 min 31 sec.

I recommend "From dusk to ascend" by Frosttide too. Thank you for amazing reaction.

When I listen to this song I'm always tempted to start a raid against the neighboring village.

Multi-talented Gacharic Spin was first metal band to star in a full-length theatrically released zombie movie “Metalca” (2013), trailer kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nNiUpsRh1N3UhHU.html and full movie kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fcCRZMdzvJvXaJ8.html. Enjoy for Halloween. There is an English subtitled version “Dead Bangers” but never saw it just the trailer.

It is a masterpiece, you know Kai the Drummer and Jukka that bassist here, are with Nightwish now. You should really check this out too, also amazing, also Time. Amazing.

To better see what Teemu Mäntysaari can do with his guitar, see these clips: Teemu Mäntysaari (Wintersun) Demos the Fortin EVIL PUMPKIN at NAMM 2020 - Videos 1-3: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9CKlpqEyqmpnWg.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eqqKnrdpyZjThWw.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iNpgp6uEkpuYeGQ.html

You just need to put some melodic into the metal and you get something awesome :D That song was great, I need to listen to some more by them! .. but right now I need a litte pause to recover :D And you deserve so much more subs, even when it's scary :)

I can only for a first time listen to the amazing song """""""""TIME"""""""""" sonic pump studio's,remastered, everything g is amazing but for me Time is a first, so i stop here and waiting for your reaction for this one, maybe stupid but........ that is the song i learned to appreciate them. See you , bye

They don't call Kai a human metronome without a reason. The "off beat" part you mentioned is actually called backbeat. To better understand how complex stuff Kai is actually doing here, try this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eK19lat5zM3FYWw.html And Kai can play that exactly same live: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zp6Pg8emuLGyh4k.html

Hello! I dont wanna bother, but if you could react to beast in black 'blind and frozen' it would make me so happy :D i been watching you for awhile now and I love your reactions so much 😁

Kai is sponserd by Duracell

Offbeats are the best, thats why i love progressive metal. Tool is the king on those.

Hi, react to the band’s beast in black blind and frozen or the cover version of that band’s singer, Yannis Papadopoulos, from Nightwish’s Ghost love score.

bit much for a one-time listen hu :D

The singer is missing one of the lungs or damaged.....

Why are you wearing a mask indoors BY YOURSELF?

Fakeeeeeee

y were mask when u r not in puplic? trying to hide? like wearing sunglasses inside without sun, or hat inside without rain. r u one of those who blocks the roads for common ppl getting to work?