Time II

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Time II
Time II - Wintersun.jpg
Studio album by
Wintersun
Released30 August 2024 (2024-08-30)
Recorded2006–2023
Length48:37
Label Nuclear Blast
Wintersun chronology
The Forest Seasons
(2017)		Time II
(2024)

Time II is the fourth studio album by the Finnish melodic death metal band Wintersun. After numerous delays and being in development hell for 18 years, it was released on 30 August 2024 via Nuclear Blast and marked their first studio release in seven years, following The Forest Seasons in 2017.

Contents

The album reached first position on the Official Finnish Charts following its release. [1]

Background

Time I and Time II were initially planned to be one full album tentatively titled Time. As of the commencement of recording in May 2006, frontman Jari Mäenpää stated that the album length would run over 65 minutes, and that it would be a concept album. [2] Furthermore, according to Mäenpää, the album's sound was to be highly intricate. Each song was said to contain about 200 tracks. [2]

On February 27, 2009, Mäenpää announced through Wintersun's official website that the band would cancel all their live appearances, including Bloodstock Open Air and Summer Breeze, in order to make way for the slow progress of the album. [3] On April 26, 2010, Mäenpää announced on the Wintersun message board that "Land of Snow and Sorrow" was completely finished and that the tracks "Storm" and "Silver Leaves" would be done soon. [4] On November 17, 2010, the band members announced on Wintersun's official website that the album was close to being completed for the most part and that the synths and orchestrations might be finished around December 2010/January 2011. Jari intended to start mixing the album afterwards. [5] On December 25, 2010, Jari stated on the Winter Madness message board that "Silver Leaves" was finished except for some orchestrations. On December 26, 2010, Jari stated that three songs are finished and ready for mixing, and that four songs have "bits and pieces" missing, including vocals. [6] On March 19, 2011, Jari announced via the Winter Madness message board that mixing had been put on hold until late summer at the earliest due to various complications, ranging from a lack of 64-bit DAW plugins to noisy nearby construction. [7] Time was eventually announced to be split into two halves and released separately, with the titles of Time I and Time II. Time I was released in October 19, 2012 in Europe and October 22, 2012 in North America. [8] [9]

Production of Time II was then marred with years-long delays for a multitude of reasons, until 12 January 2024, when Wintersun announced on its social media that Time II is "100%" complete. [10] Three days later, on 15 January 2024, the band announced that "the album release will happen in the late summer of 2024, the latest early fall" and a second crowdfunding campaign was also announced. [11] On 9 February, the band revealed the track list and cover art for Time II. [12] On 26 February, the band announced Time II would be released on 30 August. [13]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Jari Mäenpää.

Time II track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Fields of Snow"4:05
2."The Way of the Fire"10:08
3."One with the Shadows"6:18
4."Ominous Clouds"2:21
5."Storm"12:15
6."Silver Leaves"13:30
Total length:48:37

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Time II
Chart (2024)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [14] 9
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [15] 1
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [16] 11
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [17] 8
Scottish Albums (OCC) [18] 51

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  2. 1 2 Jari Mäenpää (17 April 2007). "News update". Archived from the original on 26 November 2010. Retrieved 2 June 2007.
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