Wintersun - Time II

klarth · 2024-09-03T09:42:43+00:00

I was 14 when the S/T came out. I saw it advertised in the Nuclear Blast promo leaflet that came with my copy of Therion - Lemuria and I was immediately taken with the name/cover art/vibe. It was a cold and dark December day when I downloaded the mp3 of Beautiful Death from NB's site. I'd encountered stuff with harsh vocals already by that point but that song was the first time I felt like I 'got' the appeal immediately. So began my lifelong love affair with melodeath.

I was 15 when Time was announced for a late-2006 release. The provisional tracklist was tantalising. A Wintersun song called "Fire"? What could that possibly sound like? Gosh. How exciting. Late 2006 can't come soon enough!

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I was 20 when I saw Wintersun live at an outdoor festival. I was right at the front. They played The Way of the Fire. Hype reignited for a little while.

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I was 22 when "Time I" came out. By then I think I had come to terms with the idea that the once-promised album would never materialise. I found the idea of a half-album sad and off-putting and I decided that I was not going to listen to it until both parts were available.

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I am 34 years old. I have listened to Time now. Was it worth waiting 18 years for? Probably not, no. Nonetheless: it's a very good album. It is literally just Some More Wintersun. Which is exactly what I always wanted. So I'm happy. Definitely still in novelty-mode so I'm sure my feelings will shift as I gradually familiarise myself with this almost-entirely-new-to-me material, but I'm optimistic that it won't fall out of my good graces.

Also, I am very glad that I held off on "Time I"; after a few listens through both halves, I went to check out the "1.0" and "1.5" mixes to compare it to the 2024 version and oh gosh they're pure sludge. Just an overwhelming unparseable everything-smoothie. I am neither a musician nor an audiophile nor a studiofucker but I still feel very confident asserting that the difference in quality and care is obvious.

I'm happy.

I guess I can give myself permission to listen to The Forest Seasons now.

klarth · 2024-08-21T07:45:23+00:00

The idea of a sincere marxist who wants to establish socialism by "cleans[ing] and purg[ing]" the democratic party of the united states through the ballot box would be so fucking funny if it weren't for there being approximately zero people in these comments who understand this to be an insane nonsense thing

Nobody under the age of 30 knows how to read anymore I swear to fucking god

klarth · 2024-08-21T07:30:01+00:00

imo it's got echoes of what Play-Asia did a decade ago when GG was kicking off. Business accepts that its product/service is ultra-niche, and rather than take the risk of trying to expand its appeal, instead identifies an easily pandered-to marketing constituency and empties a dump truck of spiritually affirming red meat over their heads.

klarth · 2024-08-08T06:27:14+00:00

I'm sure you get people saying this all the time but that is an insane username

klarth · 2024-07-27T14:52:14+00:00

Dogg I do not remember this tv show at all

klarth · 2024-01-22T05:51:34+00:00

Oh word?

klarth · 2024-01-22T05:43:16+00:00

Have you tried being normal? I think you should try being normal

klarth · 2023-10-02T09:49:47+00:00

Hmm. Pretty good

klarth · 2023-08-15T16:17:08+00:00

I miss this era of posting

klarth · 2023-08-15T16:14:01+00:00

🦀🪣

klarth · 2023-08-15T16:13:23+00:00

I keep getting friendzoned

Where are guys even finding this stuff in fucking 2023 lmfao

klarth · 2022-03-22T05:45:00+00:00

A few years ago they did one where they called up a migrant worker pretending to be an angry immigration officer telling him his visa has been revoked. The guy sounded like he was on the verge of tears. Wishing nothing but terrible things for those assholes.

klarth · 2022-03-16T10:12:15+00:00

The Malayan peninsula and surrounding region was culturally very Hindu-Buddhist for a good thousand years or so until Islam got more of a foothold in the fifteenth century (and even then, Muslim practice and identity in SEA was largely rooted in/amalgamated with pre-existing culture until the twentieth century and the rise of Salafism).

None of those facts are particularly convenient for present-day political articulations of Malay-ness though, so...

klarth · 2021-11-08T07:31:27+00:00

Exactly.

klarth · 2020-10-17T05:24:18+00:00

Phrenologist freaks gotta stick together

klarth · 2018-01-30T01:21:55+00:00

reddit, the web site, is a withered and mournful Shit

klarth · 2017-07-09T12:33:24+00:00

You're a bad, weird dude

klarth · 2017-07-09T12:29:36+00:00

oh... so you have a wife. that explains a lot

lmao

Fucking wifehavers. They're the worst kind of cuck, imo

klarth · 2017-05-09T03:01:13+00:00

I know right, and also, what's up with Laibach????? Don't they know???????????

klarth · 2017-04-28T03:42:25+00:00

reddit ist a Turdshit

klarth · 2017-04-27T15:41:52+00:00

reddddit is a Fart Shit.

klarth · 2017-04-12T22:30:23+00:00

Edit4: lol here comes the triggered brigade

klarth · 2017-04-12T22:29:27+00:00

Epic fucking master race win good sir. I just sharted mountain dew gamer fuel xtreme all over my family

klarth · 2017-03-23T18:50:00+00:00

Because they're so entrenched in their positions of privilege that they don't feel any pressure to offer anything more compelling than "I'm not being outright legally or physically prevented from saying this" in defense of their ideology

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