What makes people create so much metal in Finland? Winter, son.

@Greatmeasures

12 күн бұрын

Yes! Perfect! Best one yet

@kanervatie

9 күн бұрын

Not bad...Not bad...

You need to show him any of the songs that they played at Sonic Pump Studios.

@juurihoito

13 күн бұрын

Hear hear!

@guylaub8505

13 күн бұрын

Agreed ! Especially Sons of Winter and Stars is an epic performance.

@thegoblonoid

13 күн бұрын

@@guylaub8505time is better

@cashewshalom

13 күн бұрын

Agreed

@wanmac31

13 күн бұрын

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We need more WIntersun! And it should always be the live version at Sonic Pump Studios.

Can't wait for the new Wintersun album in August, and your reactions to it. Snippets I have heard sound epic.

Oh boy, Judson about to fall in love Should’ve done the Sonic Pump version though

Trudging through the snow and seeing more of the same... Yes thats finland for you

He says he likes being here for a minute. All i hear is that he's ready for sons of winter and stars live at sonic pump studios.

Finnish metal always has some of the best production of anything. Sounds like they play in a cave 10 miles underground with the best acoustics possible. Great choice boys.

Been a while since I heard WinterSun! Thanks for that! Makes me want to dig up the Wintersun and Ensiferum playlist

I'm sure I've requested this before, but the studio video (from the Sonic Pump Studios sessions) for Sons of Winter and Stars is a MUST! An all timer for sure, and it's the kind of anything anyone can be amazed by.

Whenever I invest my attention into Wintersun, live or recorded I never regret that investment. I think they're very underrated. Ensiferum are awesome too 🤘

Wintersun is awesome, glad you guys are covering them!

Wintersun is one my favourite bands and this album is their greatest so far.

Next videos needs to be the ones from Sonic Pump studios... First Time and then Sons of Winter and Stars

Finally some Wintersun! Please react to something from the first self-titled album. Sadness and hate or Battle againts time would be cool!

Awesome, my favourite band of all time! Looking forward to some Ensiferum!! Love the content, thanks!

Hell yeah, finally Wintersun, but definitely "Land of Snow and Sorrow" is more repetitive in my opinion, "Sons of Winter and Stars" is more catchy I think or "Time" would've been better too. For the first album in case you guys give it a try, "Beautiful Death", "Battle Against Time" are excellent choices, if you go for popularity you probably will endup with "beyond the dark sun" is good, but not as good as the 2 I've mentioned. Can't wait for another try

Love to see you doing some Wintersun. :) Wintersun are WAY heavier than Nightwish(or Epica), you just picked "the ballad" like you said in the video, I guess it's more popular cause it is easier listening. Wouldn't be my personal pick for a reaction video but love to see them on the channel and can't wait for their new album. \m/

Back in high school my buddy and I were obsessed with Ensiferum and tried so hard to start up a folk metal band. Iron or Tale Of Revenge is my vote for an Ensiferum reaction. I live in Australia and down here it’s currently winter, son 🥶

I’m cracking up at Judson’s over the top expressions in the recent thumbnails. Five stars!

I love Judsons analysis connected to his musical skills. For me, he can add small takes of basic music theory and how he looks at the compositions and how it relates to his world. Ian a guitarist myself and I am usually curious of how they think in other genres. Myrath for example that have Arabic and Middle Eastern elements which you clearly hear. Keep up the good work

Thanks for this video, been meaning to get into Wintersun for a while, checked out their first album but didnt really get into it. Loved the song you showed here though, so i went to check out the rest of the album and loved it.

This is one of the best songs i know. Thanks for the reaction brothers! 🤘

loved judson's bach at the start

I saw them live with this album in 2013... such an amazing experience, memories came back to me thanks to your video

Hope to see you guys do more Wintersun, but from the first album. That's the fast, aggressive & melodic stuff that'll get Judsons brain going!

Make him listen to Time!

Wintersun band from Finland.

@planetcaravan2925

11 күн бұрын

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Luuuv wintersun

You can never go wrong with bach. The violin concertos and the french suites are a joy to listen to. 😁

Love the weird, triggering and awkward intros of Judson. This is obviously the new intro. Greetings from Chile 🥀

ooooooo that's a big one!!!

Nice one! Wintersun one of my favorite bands for sure. Please react to the band Alkaloid.

Here for the ukulele!!

Time or Sons Of Winter And Stars would have been great tracks to start off with. This is a cool song but it’s better in context with the rest of the album.

Have to admit, never heard of this band or song but it is beautiful!

Also, the drummer is Kai Hahto who also drums in Nightwish.

Btw that instrumental When Time Fades Away is probably my favorite part of this album.

Looking forward to the Ensiferum reaction. Always amazes me when musicians pick up a song by ear and just play it off of one hearing of it.

Gotta do Time and/or Sons of...from Sonic Pump studio. Epih songs, epic performance, epic shit 🤘

Wingreatsun! Land of snow and measures!

the extended heavy metal genres as they happened in historical order: new wave of British heavy metal comes, then inspires speed/thrash/power (all closely related). Death, doom, black and prog are further extensions coming out of that boom. It all happened in 5-10 years. All of them were thought of at the time as more 'extreme' in one way or another versions of the core heavy metal idea, meant to either supplant it or replace it in a highly competitive musical market of the 80s and early 90s. Hence heavy metal as the historical root can be seen as a 1970s to early 1980s thing and all the branches of extremity can be seen as a 90s and onwards thing. When people go 'blackened symphonic epic prog power death doom metal' they're basically saying 'this is an extreme metal band that has a lot of influences'. At some point what was extremity in the past becomes more rote to the trained and older audience (or due to shifting tastes, for a younger audience as well) as ironically when the hyperspeed, the blasting, all these extreme metal tricks are used all over and by everyone, all this music stops feeling extreme and goes back to being broadly what the culture understands as heavy metal. Extreme metal seems to be a term of the past, but it does contextualize and historicize bands like Wintersun (for which I have no preference so I will not comment on) Thankfully aside from all this genre talk, a good song is a good song, songwriting always wins, storytelling and mood and audio pictures always win, not who plays fastest or densest. So in a way it would be a very progressive outlook to just call all this shit heavy metal again and be done with it. Sure, being able to tell when a band is coming from Slayer or from Helloween or from Morbid Angel is important to get the metal culture, but it will be a waste of your time and energy to start talking about metal in these 'symphonic blackened death/doom' terms, your intuition is correct.

4:00 I describe Wintersun as a mix of Melodic Death Metal, Progressive and Power metal. Maybe like Progressive Melodic Death Power Metal.

@JohnDoe-rj8nd

12 күн бұрын

And in some instances melodic black metal ala Dissection & Emperor

Now do HEART OF STORM or HIGHLANDER by LOST HORIZON!

The bassist Jukka Koskinen is in 3 bands that all have an album release this year, Crownshift is the newest band, Wintersun Time ll is up next month and Nightwish of course in September. And Kai Hahto is his band-mate in both Nightwish and Wintersun. I don’t listen to a lot of Wintersun but like “Sons of winter and Stars” best and then “Time”

Feels like sitting down at an opera

Wrong version guys. It has to be from rehersal session from Sonic Pump Studios. You have another chance with Sons of Winter and Stars or/and Time - don't blow it up. ;) Different cup of tea (in your face) would be Eternal Darkness :)

@rujasu7731

13 күн бұрын

Why? It's literally a worse version compared to the TIme 1.5 record when you remove the video.

This makes me want to hear his reaction to one of Aquilus' tunes. It's less riff based than Wintersun and the tunes are usually through composed, but I think Judson would enjoy em. I recommend one of the following: Nigh to her Gloam My Frost Laden Vale Into Wooded Hollows Loss

That was some rambling!😂

@Greatmeasures

10 күн бұрын

No doubt

Sonic pump studios or we riot 😂

Sounds like the guitars 🎸 tuned to either drop C or open D at it has that very crunchy overly distorted bassy sound. It also has that very Nordic folk sound, I know that Children of Bodom used to play around with a lot.

Wintersun guitar player Teemu is now part of Megadeth.

Do Perennial quest by death

Will be checking out more of these guys fo sho. Im a big fan of slowing things down to make the heavy heavier. Ps. May i recommend checking out the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain? Not for the channel, but I reckon they'll raise a chuckle, if not an eyebrow. Highway to Hell is a particular treat.

5:00 now im wondering what the cut lecture was about 😂 Fitting analysis, it’s very montage-y music. Personally though, it’s just long and monotonous enough that maybe i’d skip to the bathroom or go make popcorn during that montage.

I'm hijacking this video to suggest doing Pig Destroyer again because i'm curious to hear both of your opinions. Something from Prowler in the Yard would be cool.

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It's coincidental you did the "when did mom die" bit, because there's a song that Wintersun did called "Eternal Darkness (Autumn)" in which Jari took inspiration from the fact that his father died in the autumn.

Please react to Death and the healing next it got mindblowing guitar solo and is my favorite Wintersun song of theirs!!

Time II D-44 😎

Sons. Of. Winter. And. Stars. Live at Sonic Pump Studios The for a deep cut - Starchild or Winter Madness \m/

I think he would love TIME from the Sonic Pump Studios

Would love to see Judson’s reaction to Left Hand Path by Entombed!

Ever thought of the live version of Fairy Tale by Shaman? André Matos was a very accomplished pianist and does an improvisation at the start of the live version and the piece is very impressive and memorable, especially the live version.

This is a scenario where I feel like you should have gone through the entire album, simply because a single song isn't a complete representation of what the band or even the album has to offer.

@JohnDoe-rj8nd

12 күн бұрын

As an addendum to anyone who is reading this on or after August 30th (2024) and is not familiar with the band, considering that Time II is releasing on August 30th, I would recommend listening to both Time I and II back to back since it was originally supposed to be just one album called Time.

@yankeedude252

9 күн бұрын

@@JohnDoe-rj8nd I've never looked forward to an album as much as I'm looking forward to Time II.

@JohnDoe-rj8nd

9 күн бұрын

@@yankeedude252 Same dude, literally been counting the days since it was announced

Great reaction. Anyway, can i request your reaction to superb band from japan? The band is call "Lovebites" They all The Beautiful Queens Metal band right now in the earth. They are really really World class musicians. Phenomenal. And they have a lot die hard fans too. The song is "Swan Song with chopin intro" Hope you check out, and can enjoy it too. Big thanks🙏

Lovely intro haha. I don't think you've had Symphony X on the channel yet. Maybe Symphony X - Awakenings. I'd suggest The Odyssey but it's pretty long for a first listen to a band.

Time next! Sonic pump version

let us see PRIMUS - John THe Fisherman!

Nightwishish, Judson. Nightwishish.

You have to do Arch Enemy!!!!!

May I suggest anything off HELSTAR - NOSFERATU. The entire album is a classical metal masterpiece!

Sounds like it’s tune to drop C or D has that very crunchy overly distorted bassy sound

Valiokin mainosti 🇫🇮

You really need to do Time or Sons of Winter and stars. But it HAS to be live rehearsal from Sonic pump studios. It sounds better than the album, and watching them play shows how crazy the songs are to get through.

@JohnDoe-rj8nd

12 күн бұрын

Or the new Time 2.0 version once that releases August 30th

Wintersun (and Ensiferum) would be Epic Power Metal I suppose. They are also very close to BM in their execution and themes. This tune was more Power Metal like though. They are definitely pushing the bounds from various genres away.

I’ve never made a suggestion for a song on your channel, but I’m compelled to request Nechochwen- The serpent tradition It won’t happen but I’d figure I’d try lol

First album>

Side note: Fallujah just did a 10 year remaster of their album 'The Flesh Prevails' Absolutely insane album I'd love Judson to hear.

@speshulk1207

12 күн бұрын

They're currently touring and playing the album in its entirety. If they're coming near you, go. Fantastic show, caught it on Saturday.

@NutOnYoutube

11 күн бұрын

​@@speshulk1207I'm from Australia so I'm not sure if they are coming our way. Fingers crossed.

Left dude looks like Eminem with the cap... can't unsee! Ah yeah, Wintersun, saw them in 2005 on a festival where the band Norther also played, so I saw the new band of the old singer of Ensiferum and the old band of the new singer of Ensiferum, I think even back to back. Getting nostalgic as I google these old lineups...

Agreed with the other comments, "Sons..." from the live version would be great to react to. More dynamic with heavier sections. Its a long song though.

Yall sponsored by Ocean Pacific Apparel yet?

Greetings guys Richard and Jatson or Jetson 😅. How can I send you or recommen you videos or bands or songs?

If you haven't gone there yet, I suggest Dream Theater "Dance of Eternity" and Liquid Tension Experiment "Acid Rain" I think Judson would have fun with both.

ok, sorry Judson, in min. 13:00 it looks like Win98's reaction to the latest version of World of Warship...🤘 Great band, difficult band but great. It will charm few people, but still 👍

Please make a reaction video about the avantgarde metal band THY CATAFALQUE . I highly recommend the Vadak record, especially the opening track called “ Szarvas”. Back in 2021 that album was international success among the metalheads, and also here in Hungary won all the prizes in rock/ metal category despite it’s an extreme metal album.

Children of Bodom?

Why do the vocals and general vibe give me Devin Townsend vibes. I can easily imagine him featuring in this.

@Always-fd7pk

12 күн бұрын

Jari is a huge fan, he even did an interview with Devin a couple of years back

@NutOnYoutube

11 күн бұрын

​@@Always-fd7pk Well that's not surprising at all haha cool how people are connected

Summoning could be interessting.

Wow, I have not seen a more bored person in quite a while.

Finally, Wintersun! This album is the one I consider the best-written of all time. That being said, yes, this is the "simple" track on that album. There are five tracks, but two of them are basically intros, so there's only three true songs- Sons of Winter and Stars, Land of Snow and Sorrow, and Time. Sons of Winter and Stars and Time are both more complex than this one, although I could personally never pick a favorite between the three. Highly recommend checking those out, though. Their first album was decent, but nowhere near on the same level, as you observed from whichever track you first listened to. Their follow up to this album, The Forest Seasons, was a huge downgrade. Probably stay away from that one and just wait for Time II to come out. One way or another, can't wait to see more Wintersun reactions. Many channels react to them, but as I'm sure you know, most reaction channels aren't very sincere in the opinions they give, so it's hard to find good ones. This is one of the few good ones, for sure.

@Greatmeasures

9 күн бұрын

Thank you for the kind words and for hanging out with us!

Please react to By the hands of violent winter by Illnath

I almost forgot, totally agree on the genre nonsense. That’s just because of peoples annoying need to put things in neat little boxes

@blechtic

13 күн бұрын

They are a description of the music. People like and dislike music genres for their different features, so a genre description may help them find out whether they might like it or not ahead of time and help in looking for similar music afterwards. It's not the exercise in OCD you might think it is, not that there's anything inherently wrong with that either, but simply giving a quick verbal idea of what the music is like. Ever read a music review? Genre and subgenre definitions give context to and define the range of the reviewer's descriptions, allowing them a freer range to describe nuances and impressions without being misleading. So, just because you don't have a use for genres, it doesn't mean others don't find them useful in appropriate contexts.

@yankeedude252

9 күн бұрын

It's necessary with metal because of how diverse it is as a genre. Power metal is absolutely nothing like black metal, and neither are anything like deathcore. The world of metal is vast, it must be broken up into smaller sections so you know what you're getting into and where to look for more bands that you like. Even the smaller subgenres are important. I don't like traditional death metal, but melodic death metal is my favorite genre in all of music. They're that different.

Redo request! Sonic Pump version is mandatory when reacting to this song.

How you gonna show him this one first and not the Sonic Pump Studios version? Or Sons of Winter and Stars or Time? You gotta revisit now. Sonic Pump Studios version>>>>>>>>>>album version.

It sounds like some Angra songs.

Say you are Finnish with out saying you are Finnish. Land of Snow and Sorrow

Be a flat minor, beacuse it is winter, son!

"Loneliness" is best from Wintersun

Devin Townsend and Nightwish had a baby and called it Wintersun!

@kahwigulum

13 күн бұрын

Blind Guardian is it's godfather