There's been some negativity for us putting our content behind a paywall (aka Netflix style subscription) and offering exclusive VIP services and attention to our Patreon supporters. We still don't think that there is anything wrong if any band or any artist wants to do this and put their hard work behind a paywall, but we want to make all our fans happy so we are doing these changes and we are going to see how this goes forward! Hopefully in a more positive direction.



Wintersun Patreon page will stay up and running, so it will be your choice alone if you appreciate our work putting out videos and whether you choose to support us through Patreon. The videos will come out more irregularly, sometimes less, sometimes more due to us needing also for some flexibility in our personal schedules.

Our Patrons will have an exclusive Early Access to all the future Wintersun videos on Patreon and will get to enjoy them like before without ads and with slightly better Vimeo quality. After the Early Access the videos will be released also on Youtube for free for everyone to watch. Some videos and updates still from time to time can be released exclusively in our Patreon.



The Wintersun Forum will continue to be in Patreon exclusively. So if you want to come hang out, talk, get advice, ask questions for our Wintersun Podcast and just have fun with us, we'll continue to be there for our Patrons!



The Wintersun Podcast will be free and public for everyone as well, but we will still take questions and topics to discuss mainly from our Patrons in our Wintersun Forum. In addition we will also take a few extra random questions from our Facebook/Youtube/Instagram page comment sections to spice things up!



The year worth of content that we have made already to our Patreon page will stay in our Patreon exclusively and you can sign up anytime with 10 euros to watch it all.



We hope everyone appreciates these changes and things will be more positive going forward! Here's our Youtube channel links where the videos will be released after the Patreon Early Access:



JARI: https://www.youtube.com/user/JariWintersun
TEEMU: https://www.youtube.com/TeemuMäntysaari
JUKKA: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpkkZsyQzVCtH0UEnJ9ltgQ
ASIM: https://www.youtube.com/AsimSearahOfficial

These changes will take place starting from April 2021.


NEW ALBUM UPDATE



Since the summer of 2020 Jari finished building his new semi-studio and DAW setup and he has been working tirelessly on new music. On the last update Jari mentioned that he has four new albums in the works and he is working on all of them at the same time until one of them will start taking the lead. Well one of them has... Jari has been focusing on one of these albums and it looks strongly that this album will be the next one!



The album structure, the riffs, melodies, basic drums beats... the "skeleton" so to speak is about 75% done. Also the lyrics are about 75% done. All the songs have names and the album has a really cool title and a concept. There's a Wision also for the album cover! In other words the album already has a very strong identity. In general we might say that the whole album is about 50% done or close to it. The album is massive as well, so there will be a LOT of new music released at once. This will be the biggest Wintersun album launch ever!



There is still a lot to be done though... Finishing drum arrangements, vocal arrangements, solos etc. and then recording it all. And of course mixing and mastering, although it is very close being already mixed and mastered and it sounds huge! Best sounding Wintersun album easily! Composing and arranging the synths and orchestrations are always the hardest part, especially dealing with the lack of computer power. The songs have been built now to a point that the computer's CPU screams and spikes 99% all the time in all the song projects (with the highest buffer). So working on the album will get more difficult going forward. Jari can't work freely in realtime anymore and cannot add any more instruments without having to bounce or freeze tracks back and forth repeatedly, which makes the process much slower.

In the meantime please stay patient, it's been only just roughly 9 months of album making and very good progress has been made in that time. Which wouldn't have been even possible without our great crowdfunders and everyone who has supported Wintersun in any way throughout the years, which has enabled Jari to build his new "semi-studio" to speed up the process. The Forest Seasons album was actually made in just 9 months from start to finish, but this new album is a whole different BEAST! It is once again way more bigger project. It's not as big and insane as the TIME albums are, but it's very close up there. We will continue to fight this battle so throw some encouragement and positivity in our direction!



We hope you guys appreciate this news as we appreciate you! Let's make things more positive as there are a lot of good things to look forward to! Have a nice week and stay tuned for the videos coming shortly! And remember to subscribe to our Youtube channels! Thank you.


- Wintersun boys

WINTERSUN PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/wintersun