Wintersun have introduced their fourth studio album, Time II, arriving August thirtieth through Nuclear Blast Information.
The LP is the sequel to 2012’s Time I and marks the primary new album from the Finnish melodic dying steel band since 2017’s The Forest Seasons.
Wintersun didn’t supply up any music from Time II simply but, although they’ve proven off the paintings — a melancholic winter-scape, apropos of the band’s title — and the six-song tracklist anchored by three 10-plus-minute items: “The Approach of the Fireplace,” “Storm,” and the closing quantity “Silver Leaves.”
“Time II is an epic journey from gentle to darkness and again to gentle, exploring the universe and power, contrasting darkish stormy landscapes to calm and exquisite cherry blossom tree gardens with misty, snowy mountains that can depart you breathles,” said vocalist/guitarist Jari Mäenpää in a press launch. “It has songs with livid pace of drums, guitars, and bass and exquisite melodic slower songs with a magical unique affect. It has large orchestrations and choirs spiced with historical world devices and glimmering synths.”
He provides that the songs have each his “hovering, clear singing” in addition to his “aggressive model” of vocal.
“It’s a extremely detailed and sophisticated album the place you will see new issues with each hear,” Mäenpää concluded.
Mäenpää has been engaged on the overarching Time venture since 2004, the 12 months of Wintersun’s self-titled debut album. The band’s mastermind referred to as the endeavor “fairly a journey,” with the most recent chapter’s six tracks telling “particular person tales” which might be conceptually linked by the precise topics of every.
You’ll be able to pre-order Time II on CD and vinyl through Nuclear Blast. Try the album artwork and tracklist beneath.
Time II Art work:
Time II Tracklist:
01. Fields of Snow
02. The Approach of the Fireplace
03. One With the Shadows
04. Ominous Clouds
05. Storm
06. Silver Leaves