and both harsh and clean vocals. Although Mäenpää enjoys writing his music without limiting it to any genre, the band's myriad styles have been broadly described as power metal, folk metal, melodic death metal, neo-classical metal, and black metal. Mäenpää has spoken about the genre of Wintersun's music, and says "Well it´s difficult to put into a certain genre, cause there’s lots of variation. But to describe it, I would say something like: Extreme Majestic Technical Epic Melodic Metal." He has also stated "But it's really not death metal. It's very difficult even for me to label it, but if somebody would put a gun on my forehead, I would probably say something like Extreme Melodic Majestic Metal." Band members Current members Jari Mäenpää − lead vocals, keyboards, rhythm guitar (2003–present, guitars are studio only since 2016), lead guitar (2003−2004, 2004), bass (2003−2004) Kai Hahto − drums (2003–present; on hiatus since 2017) Teemu Mäntysaari − lead guitar, backing vocals (2004–present) Jukka Koskinen − bass, backing vocals (2004–present) Live members Heikki Saari – drums (2017–present) Former members Oliver Fokin − lead guitar (2004) Timo Häkkinen − drums (2015–2016) Asim Searah − rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2017–2022) Rolf Pilve − drums (2017–2018) Timeline Discography Studio albums Demos and compilations Winter Madness (2004) – demo Wintersun: Tour Edition (2006) – live album Live at Tuska Festival 2013 (2017) – live album Videography "Beyond the Dark Sun" (2004) – music video Live at Summer Breeze 2005 (2005) – DVD Notes References Finnish heavy metal musical groups Finnish melodic death metal musical groups Finnish folk metal musical groups Finnish power metal musical groups Musical groups established in 2004 Musical groups from Helsinki Musical quintets Nuclear Blast artists