Jari Mäenpää's Fans i repeat again: i am NOT Jari! i wrote him an e mail about the space when i created it and he replied, but that's all. WELCOME TO ALL NEW FRIENDS view more
About me: This is a FAN SPACE
I created for other Jari's fans, to celebrate him and exchange opinions and works about him and his music.
If you have fan art or other works you'd like to submit, feel free to send them via pm or via e-mail to: taleofrevenge@gmail.com
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Jari Mäenpää, born in Finland (23.12.1977), is the founder of metal band Wintersun in which he performs vocals and plays guitar. He also played bass and keyboards on Wintersun's first album before hiring a full-time line-up.
He started playing at 14 or 15, when his friend Oliver Fokin got a guitar
and he showed him some Metallica riffs. He thought they sounded pretty cool,
so he wanted to learn too.
Before forming Wintersun Jari was best known for his time in the Viking/Folk band Ensiferum, which he joined in 1996 after leaving his prior band named Immemorial.
Wintersun was initially planned as a parallel project alongside Ensiferum, but in January 2004 he was forced to leave Ensiferum due to clashes between their touring schedule and the studio recording time he had booked for Wintersun.
In 1997 Jari had to put his musical career on hold to take part in Finland's compulsory military service. In an interview Jari admitted he disliked the time he spent in the military, and suspects it's where he acquired tuberculosis.Some of the inspirations for the Wintersun lyrics come from that dark period of his life .
Jari was also was a member of the band ArthemesiA.He likes meat, fish and extra cold Coca Cola in 0,33 glass bottle.
Jari's equipment:
Pod Pro, Mesaboogie ,Jackson, Tokai Telecaster ; Ibanez PGM, Ibanez Jems
(Infos from: Wikipedia; Wintersun forum; Behind the Dark Sun site; thanx Joey for infos about equipment)
Video Wintersun - Beyond the Dark Sun:
Who I'd like to meet: Jari Mäenpää's fans !
LINKS:
www.wintermadness.net
www.ensiferum.com
www.arthemesia.blackmetal.fi
www.behindthedarksun.de.vu
wintersun.extra.hu
www.wintersunbrasil.com
GOROD have posted one more new song - Programmers Of Decline - from their upcoming album "Process Of A New Decline" on the band myspace page (www.myspace.com/gorod).
"Process Of A New Decline" is due to be released this summer on Willowtip Records for North America and 1st of june on Listenable Records for Europe.
12 JUNE - RELEASE PARTY -l' HERETIC - BORDEAUX - FRANCE
To promote it's new album, GOROD will support IMMOLATION on their European dates. The dates are as follows: 23 JUNE - SAVIGNY LE TEMPLE - L'EMPREINTE - FRANCE 24 JUNE - NOTRE DAME DE GRAVENCHON - L'ARCADE - FRANCE 25 JUNE - ROTTERDAM - BAROEG - HOLLAND 26 JUNE - GRONINGEN - VERA - HOLLAND 27 JUNE - LONDON - UNDERWORLD - LONDON DEATHFEST - UK
Unsharpen Dawn ist von hunderten beworbenen Bands unter den Endteilnehmern der Rock Area Faninvasion gekommen! NUN BRAUCHEN WIR EUCH, UNSERE FANBASE! Seit einer der 50 FREIKARTEN-GEWINNER und fahrt KOSTENLOS mit Unsharpen Dawn auf das Festival! Die Chancen auf den Gewinn stehen sehr gut - vorrausgesetzt ihr Votet und wir dürfen die
Hello here, we have a new song called "The Vinland Saga", it's a test song (not definitive) We need some feedback for this test-version. It would surely be a great honour if you could comment the new song ( and of course the others^^) Cheers, Max from Pellon Pekko
P.S. : We know that the sound of the songs is bad, but it's before to go to studio ;)