Thank you so much Kelly for this reaction. This song comes from their latest 2017 album "The Forest Seasons", which is almost Jari Mäenpää's solo project as he not only composed, arranged, recorded & produced the album, but also played all the instruments. He got help from the other band members plus many others just for additional vocals & choirs. Jari wrote this song to deal with the death of his father. Given that he has only one fully functioning lung as he lost 25% of his other lung to tuberculosis, he is a powerful vocalist also.

Jari writed this song while mourning his father's death.

One of my favorite songs, one of the best songs i ever heard. Jari's a genius, like Tuomas. Amazing musician to. In the first albums Jari recorded everything except the drums. Kay from Nightwish was Wintersuns drumer when this was recorded. The fact that Jari's the wrighter and the singer, helps to pass the emotion.

Thank You Kelly so much!💝 This masterpiece Make's really raw and naked! It is so emotional! To my own Father's memory too! Essence of Finnish Winter and missing the allready gone loved one's!❤ Make's me cry every time!

😘😘😘😘😘 I read so much emotion to this song but your reaction go deep in my heard. I love all your reaction and if your cry, i cry with you and i am a 64 y old grandpa.

I have one wish before i left this world, Jari and Toumas wrote an opera about the music from suomi.

its great when someone really appreciates this music the way it deserves - beautiful & complex - gorgeous

Ty kelly! I hope this song shows that metal can be beatiful, even the growlparts when it is used the right way 😊 i am glad you can see the beaty of metal music nowdays 👍 in fact, many metal music is influenced by classical music.

Kelly, I’m glad you reacted to the lyric version so you could have some context to the music. This is a very deep song and many reactors have hated on it because of the harsh growls. Taken in context they make sense. Winter is the season of change! The old and the weak die off and those remaining must grieve but know that rebirth via spring is coming.

Fantastic song, and a great reaction. I’ve drifted quite a long way from music featuring harsh vocals these days, but there are still a small number of bands I still love who use this style. Wintersun are one of them, as the musicianship is stunning, and I love the clean vocals too.Another is Amorphis, also from Finland, who also use contrasting clean/harsh vocals and feature phenomenal melodies. You might like a few of their songs too, and I’d say a good starting point would be Amongst Stars from their latest album. Thanks again for this wonderful reaction to a song I’m extremely fond of.

This song is just perfection through and through. A real pleasure to listen every single time.

Oh, and Kai Hahto from Nightwish is their drummer in this album 🙂

I really like the way you visualize the musik, how you listen to the lyrics, how you let yourself fall into the songs. Only a human being with deep feelings is able to do this like you. God bless you!

Kelly, this is the best reaction I've seen on this song! THANKS! So much people reacting on this song, but they weren't even close to understanding the song and feeling it on emotional level. YOU DID. And I respect that! Thanks for the reaction. I love this song, Because I can relate to what Jari felt (he lost his father, and after that wrote this song). I also lost my father recently. And this song, though it's very heavy, at the same time is helping.

there is no better sound, or song like this. This is just diamond all the way. This is magic.

EPIC.....the Highlight of their new CD....and if you know the health history of the Singer,you are even more amazed !

...their "Forest that weeps" might be something you would like too, and I would try also their "Time" too 🤗 ...and if you still like them after those, the "Sons of Winter and Stars" and "Land of snow and sorrow" 😊

Thank you for this Kelly. The words in the song remind me of memories. "So much was left undone." We have been told that we are the forest people ... we do not show or express our feelings. But music is our channel and Jari if anyone knows how to do it ... touch the soul.

Great reaction. I can hear you have learned a lot on your journey as you have an open mind. I encourage you to keep listening, searching, and discovering. I love Wintersun. Intelligent, harsh, delicate, melodic, emotional, powerful... Try "Time" and the other seasons: spring, summer and autumn. "Sons of winter and stars" I would leave alone for now. It is an epic song but very long and demanding. Keep it up! Ps. I love how you prepared with the sweater and painting :)

First time hearing this group and they sound great. Loved the reaction Kelly and keep them a coming, I'll be listening to some more of their stuff

Jari's father died while doing the album. Jari took a week off from everything and made this song for his father.

Great video, and I especially enjoyed your comments! Like you, I am drawn to the various forms of Metal music because of the intelligent and creative song writing, often combining genres of music, with masterful skills throughout! In my mid-50s, harsh vocals only work for me when they serve a specific purpose and are at least a little bit intelligible, though I do understand their purpose! Thanks for this...keep up the good work!

I've not listened to much Winter sun but this is my favourite track so far 🤘

very very good raection kelly ty

Hi! Excellent reaction! You are listen with your soul and speak from it. Its nice to see how you live with the song and how you discloses your experience. Thank you!

Thank you for reacting to this, It has been great following you discover the beauty of metal. Nightwish is one heck of a gateway drug.

Very genuine reaction...really nice !

My gosh, indeed.

Wonderful, insightful reaction Kelly. I know you don't care for harsh vocals, but it's great to see you give this song a chance. I don't know much about this band, but I like what I hear. I have read that this is more like a Jari solo album as he does everything except the additional vocals. Very talented guy obviously. I must listen to more of this band. Cheers!

awesome song Kelly …

Hi, thanks for this Wintersun, you have found next awesome Finnish metal band. :-) And I see many my fellow countrymen have already wrote here lot of info..., but, anyway, I will still put my spoon to this soup. :-) Wintersun has been around several years and has made so far 3 albums (2004, 2012, 2017). It is in same class with Nightwish in that sense, both don´t know how to do a bad song... Jari Mäenpää is founder and composer. All albums are what he hears inside his head... Like Tuomas. This song was from latest album, last song. It contains only 4 songs, Four Forest Seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Autumn has really dark feeling, melancholic. It describes same time Autumn in Finland (dark season) but also Jari´s father was seriously sick - and later died. Jari put those his emotions, dark feelings to that song. After that comes Winter (Loneliness) and his father is already dead and he is missing him. ("There was so much I wanted to say...") From this Loneliness, Jari made also so called acoustic version, It is even more beautiful than this and more touching. When this album came out 2017, I think in August I listen some song from it everyday... At first my favorite was Summer, but then later this Winter. Only thing is, this is so sad and i cannot listen it if my own mood is down. Too heart braking... Jari is really good singer, like you already noticed. And also really good guitarist. Here is one song , it should come to fourth album, if he ever managed to do it (Time II and second album was Time I, so we have waited that fourth album some time...). Way of The Fire kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ma2Xn86nppizcps.html This is taken from audience, so sound quality is not best possible, but quite good. Jari is doing two guitar solo and the second one is that "special". Person who has taken this video use zoom to his hands then. And ... Well you see then why :-) Jari is not anymore playing guitar in concerts, too heavy. Playing guitar and singing, cos his lungs. (look that other comment below from Tarmo Tyyri). But i am so sorry that we cannot enjoy his guitar anymore... And this song, Way of the Fire shows what he could do with guitar! From second album, there is 3 songs, live rehearsal in Sonic Pump Studios. They all are good point to start. You will see how they play and also sound quality is really good. Sons Of Winter And Stars (TIME I Live Rehearsals At Sonic Pump Studios) REMASTER Time (TIME I Live Rehearsals At Sonic Pump Studios) REMASTER Land Of Snow And Sorrow (TIME I Live Rehearsals At Sonic Pump Studios) REMASTER In those you will see also Kai Hahto playing drums. And if you start from Sons of Winter and Stars, you will see Kai in really hard work! :D Much harder than he play in Nightwish. Sometimes, I was hoping that Jukka N. would come back to Nightwish and then Kai goes back to Wintersun. Would have been correct drummer in each band. But in life, things don´t always go as you wish... For me Jari Mäenpää and Tuomas Nevalainen, theu go to class COMPOSER. And then we a lot of other really great and amazing song makers... But those two goes to top. Music + lyrics, they really can make those. Both are really talented musicians.

On my last years of my life i has one wish, a metal opera composed by Jari and Toumasz

For some reason this song reminds me of Lake of Tears. Its time to listen to Headstones again.

You can check also instrumental versions of whole album if you don't like growls💙

Great comments and reaction! Land of Snow and Sorrow Live in Sonic Pump Studios next!

You're beautiful you understand jaris pain and conflict with how life is

Really enjoyed your reaction, new subscriber. If you appreciate the complexity in song writing, a couple of other artists to explore are Devin Townsend and Tool. Both offer so much for different reasons.

Wow! It's amazing!!! I love whole album "the forest seasons". Finland rulez ✌️especially I like "the forest that weeps / summer" and "awaken from the dark slumber /spring" ♥️check it if you want

If you want more Wintersun that's kinda similar to this song, I guess there's "Death and the Healing", "Sleeping Stars" and "Land of Snow and Sorrow". He has many kinds of songs, many are much heavier and faster, more epic and cinematic or just harsher and more primitive, but you can't go wrong with any of the songs. You may use this playlist for reference: kzfaq.info/sun/PLxgg5Heqa3J39aTZzda_v9ie-ncUK6o7i

I like people like you. You can appreciate the good music. I suggest to listen Helloween - Light The Universe and Stratovarius - Season Of Change as those two bands were a big influence to Tuomas Holopainen. Also you should check Saxon - Kingdom Of The Cross to see how a good background music with a good naration can be a great song. Also SONATA ARCTICA - We Are What We Are & I Have A Right worth a try.

If you don't like the growls you can listen to the acoustic version

Honest and Emotional reactions! Here's a suggestion: INSOMNIUM - Heart Like A Grave

I find it interesting to see you dive into progressively heavier bands. Maybe someday you will come back full circle to your first metal video and approach death metal with a new understanding. As a next step into that progression i would recommend Jinjer "teacher teacher". I expect this will be your first time hearing 'blast beats', it will be a fun reaction. The lyrics of the song are also quite interesting. Jinjer has some songs which i think would be too heavy or too experimental for you right now, but "teacher teacher" i think strikes just the right balance. If you want something to test the waters first you can start with Jinjer "Pisces". Pisces is Jinjers most popular song, also one of their "lightest", so it makes a good introduction.

I think the next Wintersun song for you is from their most popular album, Time. So check out: Time - Live Rehearsal @ Sonic Pump Studios Remastered. Land of Snow and Sorrow - Live Rehearsal @ Sonic Pump Studios Remastered Sons of Winter and Stars - Live Rehearsal @ Sonic Pump Studios Remastered All of them are complex as fuck, but sons is the most complex.

In this Genre Juri and Toumasz are the best.

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