Wintersun is one of my pandemic discoveries and I can't believe I hadn't come across them years ago.

" Loneliness" next. Jari's vocals there is amazing.

Growing up American, I listened to almost all American and British heavy metal music. Now because of KZfaq and reaction videos I've discovered so much more. Wintersun and Nightwish (Finland), Soen and Opeth (Sweden) and I've discovered that Rammstein (Germany) has more than 1 great song. I'm 56 so finding so much great new (to me) music is amazing and I can't stop listening to it. Wintersun has jumped to the top of the list in my book because like Tank said, its like it was written for me. Definitely listen to "Loneliness" or "Land of Snow and Sorrow" next

It’s ok to get teary eyed. This song is like father times giant footsteps echoing, coming for you.

I didn't grow up a metal head as you can see from my avatar, but had friends who played in metal bands on 10th grade so I've been rediscovering metal through these reaction videos and just like tank the Finnish sound keeps drawing me in. I moved away from finland 25 years ago, but went back and did my military service in 97, but no matter how long I've been away these Wintersun songs bring back memories of the darkness and gloomy weather mixed with absolute beauty and brightness of Finnish nature. Chills, literal chills!

Gotta do some Loneliness soon. Bring tissues if you've ever lost someone cause that one is a gut punch.

I highly recommend "The Forest That Weeps (Summer)", "Loneliness (Winter)" and "Death and the healing", they are amazing.

I've been listening wintersun since almost 15 years in Argentina. Now i've just moved into Finland one month ago and started to listen them again every day. Very happy to be here. I hope they can make a tour and see them live

Masterpiece!!!!! was soll ich noch sagen?!

Whenever i listen to wintersun, i just close my eyes and let the music paint a landscape in my mind.

This is more like a painting than a metal piece.

Yes, Tuomas and Jari are leagues beyond anything and in their fields are both the best. They cannot be compared, but I'd be giving my life to see a joint-album of these two. It'll either be something that is so beyond the scope of what we have experienced, or simply impossible.

LAND OF SNOW AND SORROW beautiful song, one more of jari's masterpieces . Greetings from Greece Tank. 👍👍

That face though, it reads "If I jam to this song on daily basis, will my hair grow out long like these guys?" 🍻

What! First Endlessness with Chase and now this?! It's a cold, grey, rainy Saturday here so I definitely need to thank you both for making it better! Reminder set 👌👌

I recommend Starchild from them. Lots of headbanging on that one

Saw the title for what this one was. Had to watch this immediately. Because these guys are so talented it is mind blowing. Jari has this ability to compose these songs that just come to life, much like Tuomas does for Nightwish, and how do you even begin to quantify that ability? Meanwhile, obviously, Kai is an absolute drum beast. Super technically talented, with so much passion in his playing. Jukka's bass playing just holds everything together, this solid backbone for everything to work on. Then. You get to Teemu. Teemu Mäntysaari. He actually teaches guitar privately over Skype, in person when they're touring, and in Helsinki. He's an incredible player, and has some of the cleanest technique I've seen. That LACS guitar of his is a beautiful piece of work, too. As far as next tracks? I think Awaken From The Dark Slumber (Spring) Live at Summer Breeze 2017 would be a killer one.

Death and the Healing is an interesting piece, metal and musicianship very nicely combined, with an interesting (and long) solo part.

the talent is BREATHLESS

Wintersun - Loneliness, beautiful and emotional ballad

The first time I heard and watched this video ,my blood was doing crazy things, I felt a lot of feeling at the same time. My eyes bounced back and fourth , I-was mesmerized,,, All I know I was sold ! Where was I all this time? Finding them is Great!!

I mean... the other song on this album "Land of Snow and Sorrow" is also fantastic in my opinion. But I am fairly new to Wintersun as well. Time is the only album I have binged on so far. I just can't stop listening to it. This is definitely one of my favorite songs I have discovered this year, or more than that. And that's not to saying that "Sons of Winter and Stars" isn't also a monster track! You keep posting them and I'll keep watching them! Was first lured to your channel because I am a decades old Nightwish fan and also exclusively a fan of Floor Jansen pre-Nightwish and beyond. (I almost shit myself when I found out she joined Nightwish, I had actually shipped it in my head long before it happened. Never seriously thought it would happen.)

Goosebumps all over the place, always makes me happy to listen to Wintersun, which has been my favourite band for 16 years now. I think you need to hear everything they created, because it's a powerful journey. You also need to check the band called ALCEST Cheers !

Tank❤🥰 I knew you would love this song! It's just SO GOOD!😊 Wintersun is finnish melancholy at it's best. Guitars are crying and Jari's voice makes your heart beat harder and cracks it a little bit....💕💔 Genius!

Land of Winter and Sorrow & Loneliness, which have already mentioned (it's a bit different, a sad ballad - on the memory of his father after he passed away).

Jarii posted on Facebook, that he is currently working on 4 Wintersun albums, including Time II. Whatever he has coming will be awesome!

And now we finally have Time II on the way! So stoked to have it in my lifetime, and Jari putting his demos on the same Time Package as well so we'll have a lot to listen to for a while. I personally want to hear the Fantasy Metal Project, as it might have some similarities to the first two Ensiferum albums as well. But of course, Time II is the one we've all been waiting for!

I heard Jari in Ensiferum first, and I always loved his sort of 'high pitched' growls / screams...So much energy, and so much soul in it

you should also check out Jaris old band Ensiferum.. :) i think he was on their 2 first albums

It was worth the wait, Tank! I guess a Wintersun Saturday is in order 🤘😊

Rolf Pilve also played with Wintersun when Kai was playing with Nightwish, Rolf is probably best known for playing drums in the Finnish power metal band Stratovarius

Some bands could have easliy made about 10 songs out of the amount of riffs which are in one Wintersun song :D amazing!

You will love the Forest Seasons album as well.

I listened to them the first time in around 2005 when i was 15 years old, 2006 i went to a concert with Wintersun as Guest and Amon Amarth as main act, was fuckin awesome. I bought the first album back then, good times.

Next it would be great to hear a little older and faster Wintersun. This song is one of the best guitar solos ever.😊 Wintersun Winter Madness Live @ Summer Breeze 2017

I think u should comple the hat trick and react to "Land of snow and sorrow" next. Last one of the Sonic pump studios stuff.. I think.

Loneliness next! Both the regular and acoustic version. It's their most emotional song by far. One of the inspirations behind the whole album Forest Seasons is Vivaldi's Four seasons.

Omg those guitars sound heavenly

"Loneliness" and "Battle against time" from their first album. Great video! greetings from Chile!

Loneliness next. Very touching song as it is influenced by Jari's father's death. Touching and needless to say amazing. Love your work, keep on going!

Thanks Tank, I truly enjoyed this. As a retired drummer, I am always amazed by Kai's talent. Absolutely going down the Wintersun rabbit hole! :)

loved the reaction! Wintersun is one of my fav bands, I would recommend you to check the forest that weeps, loneliness, sleeping stars (live version) and starchild. Also you should check the band Ensiferum, if you don't know about them, they are an amazing band and was the former band of jaari, where he was the vocalist in their first 2 albums, the song "hero in a dream" is just a masterpiece

As many already said... "Loneliness" next. Even though I think the Forest Seasons is to be appreciated in it's fullness, a reaction on Loneliness is mandatory, and the story behind that music still makes me shed a tear, so much emotion behind it.

Can this channel get much more subs people?!! I love this dude's reactions and breakdowns! 💯👏🏼👌🏼🇳🇴 He is such a likeable person!

Masterpiece! Thank you!

I fucking love this so much! I have told this to my friends to play this song when I am gone. Thanks Tank this is just so great to listen this with someone who loves it too.

Im still watching this reaction 🙈 Im in love with it. And this masterpiece of a song. I hope you are doing good man! 🤗💯🇳🇴

You are playing Finntroll in the end, well done sir!

If we have a popular proportional most heavybands in the world,best of those must be awesome. Well,in this case EPIC!!!!!

I adore this song, winter sun are a very understated band. I love all the shifts, twists and turns the music takes. Jari is an amazing singer and composer.

Gotta finish the studio sessions with land of snow and sorrow. Another beautiful tear jerking masterpiece!

Wintersun is fucking incredible. Time I is a masterpiece of an album. I've seen them live once. They sound the same live and they do on their albums. Having the whole crowd singing along to these songs is just a great time. One of the best shows I've ever been to. "Loneliness" and "Starchild" are great choices to react to next.

Thank You Tank! Maybe there's a little finnish melancholy in you, since these bands has had a crasp of your soul hahaa 🤘🏻

Greetings from Finland, the most metal country in the world - e.g. Finland: has about 700 metal bands per 1M inhabitants, The U.S. has less than 5. That being said, everyone should have some time for "Time", which is also what the kanji on the neck of Teemu's green guitar means. P.S. Kai Hahto has already recorded the drums for Time II in 2015, if my memory serves, but like you said, no release date is set yet. Wintersun has also added a new guitarist, Asim Searah; for their live shows since 2017 as Jari nowadays only sings when they perform live. P.S.S. I highly recommend that you also check out Jukka's (the bassist) former band, that broke up in 2012: Norther- Mirror of Madness kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mbqkhtRkv7jKhXk.html

Wintersun may take a long time between album releases, but I think you would agree it is absolutely worth the wait. Every album is an epic masterpiece of composition and musicianship. You cannot rush that kind of quality! Welcome to the Wintersun party brother!

"Feels like these songs were written for me" I know that feeling... with these Finnish wizards

Tank goes wild!! Wonderful!🙃

man never heard of them and they are absolutely amazing, time to listen to them in the hi-fi system NOW

Epicness 🖤🖤🖤 .great reaction..🔥🔥🔥..keel safe and healthy. 🤟

Remember to bring tissues when reacting "Loneliness" 😉

In fact, Sons of winter and stars has +1200 tracks. And mixing the ablum Time, Jari ruined a PC because it doesnt the enough power to work the songs, so it crashed. Also he did all the video and photograph production for the album Forest Seasons (he learned all that just for the it, so is a fucking machine) Land of snow and sorrow: the most beatiful balad in the metal history Death and the healing: excellent song, with a solo... Beyond the dark sun: all the power in just 2 minutes Winter Madness solo: the most epic solo in metal history. Battle against time: it crush your fucking soul. Not a fanboy opinion, just check out these songs and thanks me later

Jari is amazing. got to know him through ensiferum, their first album is incredible and i warmly recommend listening to anything from it.

Had to listen to Death & the Healing now because of the comment section! So, I recommend that song.

Gotta love this song and your reaction! We deffinetly have some grazy stuff coming from Finland :D

OWW YEE ... finally! I clicked in no time I think this will be your second Wintersun reaction if I am not wrong! AND this is going to be pinnacle reaction of this channel Hope this brings more Wintersun songs to this channel cause they are music monarchs lots of masterpiece they have I know you will enjoy this one, guarantied

Come on, man, do WinterSunday! What is holding you back? Nightwish Wednesday and Wintersunday what a week for your followers! Great reaction! I guess you will complete the three songs of the sony pumps studio series! After that I hope you start with their first album and listen to that and after that you go to the forest seasons...

Hi Tank! Thank you for reacting to this epic masterpiece. I've heard this live twice as the finale song to their gigs. It's an unforgettable experience. There is a third song left to this studio live session. Propably my favourite one too, called Land of snow and sorrow. Hope u react to that one too. Ws doesn't have musicvideos but one, Battle Against Time, and the rest are lyrics vids but i think Jari made them himself. There are some video releases from live shows from festivals like Summer Breeze and Karmoygeddon in utube that are of good quality. Then there is the Tuska live. When they toured US 2018 they filmed most of the shows so there is hope we'll get a full live release someday hopefully.. who knows. They also released a "new song" while over there to give their US fans smth special. It's not revealed officially from which album it is from but we the fanbase think it's from Time II a song called 'Storm'. Very powerful song. Aand Jari likes to be very mysterious about things. Lol. I wanted to mention that Jari is a huuuge Devin Townsend fan. And is constantly looking to find and improve guitarsounds. Check his utube channel for f.ex pick-up tests etc. He also dropped playing the guitar live to focus on the vocals and they got another guitarist on board. Teemu took over Jari's parts and Asim Searah plays Teemu's now since 2017 or -18. Teemu is a well respected guitar teacher and now since the launch of Ws patreon Jari and Asim have done lessons online too. About the drummers Heikki has been on board a lot but also Rolf Pilve from Stratovarius and at some point Timo Häkkinen too. Btw. if i remember correctly there are around 1500 tracks in SOWAS. If any of my knowledge here is missplaced please feel free and correct me. M

I have to say, listen the song again while reading the lyrics (although you're native english speaker). This song is actually really dark as time is our best and dearest friend and at the same time our worst enemy. It keeps evolving what is great and it keeps destroying what is current.

Both Nightwish and Wintersun are fantastic bands. There are so many good bands to listen too!

Did i nearly see a tear ;-) Which they also give me....They are so awesome

When I read that Kai Hahto is also the drummer of Wintersun I also listened to this band - and love it! Normally I prefer Symphonic Metal but this Melodic Death Metal Band is great! There are so many (for me) new bands still to discover.

Have seen them on the 70000 tons in 2015 .... they are an amazing live band.

thank you so much for making these awesome videos, your expertise brings a really cool angle to these.

Great bonus that Finntroll on the end.

Excellent choice! These studio vids are beautiful!

So beautiful! I can’t think of anything else to say about this piece of music! Keep rockin’ it out! 🤘🏻❤️

The Time II Package can be ordered since 2 days ! I ordered the package :-) I am really looking foward the release 🙂 !

YES !! Finally some more Wintersun here :) Great reaction man, probably one of the few bands with an absolutely flawless discography, can't go wrong with any of their songs. For something heavier and more "raw" I recommend Battle Against Time or Winter Madness (mind blowing solo in this one) both from their first record, both incredible songs

Great Reaction Tank, you are a great Guy, greetings from Germany 🤟

4:35 I have witnessed a computer freeze up once during a metal show, for Nightwish - The Greatest Show On Earth when they came through Western Canada on the Endless Forms Most Beautiful tour. They were playing the start of Greatest Show, and about 4 minutes in the backing track just cuts out, but the band, being the pros they are, just did it mostly with what they had, with Tuomas instantly filling in on some parts on the keyboard. It was only when they got to the stone age part that they had to call the song off, and they did it so smoothly that it didn't even feel like a cutoff... just like a song had ended naturally. Absolute masters of their craft, Nightwish are. Maybe a bit of roadie talk about it, but we didn't see any techs apart from the drum tech try to fix anything, I assume the stage master or head roadie was in Tuomas' earpiece because he did glance off stage and nod, then shook his head, then nodded twice and kept playing.

I think this is the best of a truly excellent Pump studio video set, haven't watched it yet, but betting you're absolutely blown away.

This was my first time hearing this band, and they really sound amazing. Such a lovely arrangement. I've started to use your channel as a rec source of new bands to check out, actually. I haven't really listened to nordic metal despite being swedish myself, because I got so into the Japanese VK scene (which I still love, of course, but no reason not to branch out!). There's a lot of great stuff to discover.

Tank, I love your videos. I think that every time I watch one, and again today. I love your headbanging, your enthusiasm, your knowledge, your Tank Facts. Great job man! I wish you all the best.

Danke! Big thx Tank - I love your channel, following it for a long time - it always gives me a smile, keep on rockin' 🙂🤘🤘🤘

Loneliness is my fav.The voice of this guy is fantastic!

Yey!! Been waiting for this! 😃👌🏼⭐️ So cool of you to react to this beautiful song! 🙏🏼✨😊

Finntrolls music backround at the end 😀

I saw many people recommending Death & the Healing. Seconded, thirded, whatever, but please do the 2.0 version of it! Your reaction was a joy to watch as always.

Love the use of Amorphis in the background of the video Tank 🤟

I had a chance to catch these guys live back in 2012 when they toured for Time I, they headlined with Fleshgod Apocalypse as support. Was an awesome packed show in a small club in Phoenix, they ended the night with Time II, sadly i can't remember the song anymore, but it was really awesome. On a side note, Jari is a HUGE perfectionist.

Yeah another Wintersun, which can only be good! Though, before seeing the full video you already earned the thumbs up for playing Amorphis - Death of a King in the background :D edit: and of course for Finntroll - Trollhammaren at the end ;)

Great content as usual! Time for some "Starchild" next?

Oh man, I've been waiting on this one and you delivered Tank. I personally can't decide which track to do next, too many awesome options. But since you obviously enjoy complex music with extreme vocals I have to recommend "The Ocean Collective". They just released an new album today and it's incredible. The epic on the album is Jurassic | Cretaceous that will take you on a journey. Or you could go for Pleistocene which has a great video and a unforgettable ending. I can't wait for more Wintersun too!

I would put Tuomas & Jari on a similar level for the complexity and layers of the compositions. I am just more attracted to the more melodic side of Tuomas and as I am not naturally a fan of the screaming, this make me lean more towards Nightwish, but for people who like harder music and the growl, I can understand the attraction to Wintersun.

Huge respect for Jari and the guys who put this tremendous effort in creating this masterpiece

Man you make my exact face every time I listen to wintersun. They are such an experience to withhold.

I can not get enough of watching this reaction! 😊😃👌🏼 I love ur honesty, your channel , and your face ( yep ) 😃👌🏼🇳🇴🇳🇴⭐️🤗🤗

Great reaction! They have one last song from Sonic Pump called Land of Snow and Sorrow. Other than that, I echo what's already been said, Loneliness is a great track that actually makes you feel cold and sad at once. Winter Madness has a face melting solo by Jari. That's off the first album from 2004 where Jari played every instrument and track himself besides drums, definitely worth a listen

Love this song, means a lot 4 me, btw yours reaction video is great also, keep it on.

That fucking build up in the beginning, holy shit... I was sitting there the whole time like "Come on, do it! Give me those riffs, I need it!"