{"id":51380,"date":"2017-01-04T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=51380"},"modified":"2017-01-05T00:26:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T00:26:33","slug":"news-wintersun-release-third-studio-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-wintersun-release-third-studio-album\/","title":{"rendered":"WINTERSUN Complete Work On Third Studio Album (January 4th, 2017) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>WINTERSUN Complete Work On Third Studio Album<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>January 4th, 2017<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nHelsinki, Finland-based epic metal group Wintersun have completed work on their third full-length studio album.<\/p>\n<p>Wintersun issued the following statement: \u201cIt\u2019s 2017, folks, and it\u2019s going to be a great year! Time for some big Wintersun news? Yes, it is!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we said that \u2018it is done,\u2019 we did not mean <em>Time II<\/em>, but we meant a new album for sure! <em>Time II<\/em> won\u2019t be the next Wintersun album, because of reasons you already know from past updates and interviews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what is \u2018it\u2019? \u2019It\u2019 is a new album and it is 100% done! And no, that\u2019s not the name of the album. This album will be something new and different, but equally great or perhaps even better in some ways. Over 53 minutes of solid Wintersun material (with no intro tracks) and with a killer concept!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis album will be the third full-length Wintersun album. We will release the name of it soon and other details such as the track list etc. We\u2019re gonna start putting the pieces of the puzzle together for you guys, how it\u2019s going to be released and what will happen&#8230; It will be a whole new experience! It will all make sense to you very soon!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd this album is not the only thing we\u2019ve done, not by a long shot! In fact, your minds will be blown soon! That is a guarantee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wintersun\u2019s line-up is as follows;<\/p>\n<p>Jari M\u00e4enp\u00e4\u00e4 (vocals and guitars)<br \/>\nTeemu M\u00e4ntysaari (guitars)<br \/>\nJukka Koskinen (bass)<br \/>\nKai Hahto (drums)<\/p>\n<p>Second studio record <em>Time I<\/em> was released in October 2012 via Nuclear Blast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINTERSUN Complete Work On Third Studio Album January 4th, 2017 Helsinki, Finland-based epic metal group Wintersun have completed work on their third full-length studio album. Wintersun issued the following statement: \u201cIt\u2019s 2017, folks, and it\u2019s going to be a great year! Time for some big Wintersun news? Yes, it is! \u201cWhen we said that \u2018it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3264],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wintersun-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51381,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51380\/revisions\/51381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}