Jari Maeenpää

Jari Mänenpää live at Bloodstock Open Air 2011

Jari Mänenpää (born December 23, 1977 in Finland ) is a singer , guitarist and founder of the melodic death metal band Wintersun . From 1996 to 2004 he was also the singer and guitarist of the Viking and folk metal band Ensiferum .

biography

Jari Mänenpää is the founder of the band Wintersun , in which he sings and plays the guitar. On the debut album Wintersun he also played synthesizers and electric bass ; he has formed a live band to perform. Before joining Wintersun, he was a member of the Viking metal band Ensiferum , which he joined in 1996 after leaving his previous band Immemorial . In the beginning he had only planned Wintersun as a side project for Ensiferum, but he left the band in January 2004 because the recording times in the studio collided with those of an Ensiferum tour . In 1997 he was drafted into the Finnish military. In an interview, he said he did not enjoy it and was suffering from tuberculosis at the time , which is why he was hospitalized for several months and had parts of his lungs surgically removed. He was also a member of the symphonic black metal band ArthemesiA .

Equipment

Guitars

At Ensiferum he played a DXMG Dinky , a guitar by Jackson in Transparent Green. For the recordings of the first Wintersun album he used the Jackson and in addition a Tokai Telecaster (copy of a Fender guitar ), which is quite untypical for metal , in order to have a "dirty western sound" in some songs. Live he also frequently uses the Paul Gilbert PGM 301 from Ibanez . For the second album Time he mainly wants to use an Ibanez Jem ( Steve Vai signature guitar).

amplifier

For the rhythm guitars comes as amplifiers of the (Amp) Triaxis preamp from Mesa / Boogie as a preamplifier for use, he on the Simul-Class 2:90 power amp ( amplifier ) of Mesa / Boogie and a Mesa / Boogie Cabinet connected Has. Nothing is known about the equipment used for the lead guitar .

Discography

Ensiferum

Demos and singles

• 1997: Demo I (demo)
• 1999: Demo II (demo)
• 1999: Hero in a Dream (Demo)

EPs and albums

• 2001: Ensiferum
• 2004: Iron

Wintersun

• 2004: Winter Madness (demo)
• 2004: Wintersun
• 2006: Wintersun Tour-Edition (incl. DVD)
• 2012: Time I
• 2017: The Forest Seasons

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ensiferum: Ensiferum Band History. (No longer available online.) In: Ensiferum, the band's official homepage. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012 ; accessed on October 27, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Metal Eater: Interview with Jari Mäenpää. In: Metaleater. Metaleater, December 29, 2004, archived from the original on May 29, 2006 ; accessed on August 20, 2008 . 
3. ↑ Metal1Info: Interview: Wintersun. (No longer available online.) In: Metal1Info, Metal-Online Magazin since 2002. Metal1Info, July 18, 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 20, 2008 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.