This will be interesting…
Previously announcing, through the long winded process that their new album would be titled The Forest Seasons, Wintersun then showed us the track listing for the band’s forthcoming album and now it has appeared that the band want help from crowdfunding.
Essentially announcing their crowdfunding to be part of their preorder the band will be offering The Forest Package, instead of multiple packages will be focusing on one affordable perk which will feature the new album as a preorder as well as many other perks. Kicking off on March 1st and lasting until March 31st the band are hoping to meet their quota in order to establish Wintersun Headquarters.
In ways this appeals but in others it does kind of beg the question will anyone really care? The band have released two albums in ten years, they will be releasing a new record which sounds like just a prelude to Time II which frankly I had forgotten completely about. All power to the band, nevertheless it just seems a bit of a promise that would have been good some five years ago when Time I was released in 2012. That’s five years ago. The momentum behind it has been somewhat lost I have to say.
We shall see.
The band comments :
The purpose of this crowdfunding is to build the Wintersun Headquarters studio. As some of you may know this has been in the plans for a long time. It is our long time goal and dream. Building the studio is absolutely essential in order to finish Time II and produce our future albums as fast as possible and with the best production. All the money we raise will go directly to Wintersun, 100%, which we will use for building the Wintersun Headquarters.
This will be the biggest crowdfunding you’ve ever seen in the metal scene! It will be a different kind of crowdfunding than usually.
We are not going to offer dozens of different items from guitar picks to used socks for a thousand bucks. We’re going to cut all the crap and only offer one very valuable perk! That’s right! It will be a massive Wintersun Crowdfunding Package called the Forest Package and it will have lots of great Wintersun content including our new album The Forest Seasons. You will be blown away!
The Forest Package is huge and otherwise it would be very expensive, but we are going to offer it with to very affordable price in our crowdfunding. So you guys will get great value for your money and enjoy the new album like it should be experienced, with the BEST quality! The best thing is that all of the content is 100% done, so you don’t have to wait for many months. It will be basically a pre-order for our new album.
This way you get the new Wintersun album the easiest way, with the best quality and with the best price and you’ll help us get to the next level, so we can produce albums for YOU guys faster and with the best production! So this is a WIN-WIN for everyone!
The crowdfunding will take place on indie gogo between March 1st – 31st. It will last only ONE MONTH, so you guys need to be prepared! Get those credit cards and PayPal accounts ready!
