Powerful and majestic with a lot of energy, the music of Wintersun mainly flows with great melodies influenced by folk and Scandinavian traditional music. Lyrically the album deals with mastermind Jari's life, feelings, emotions, hallucinations and dreams, facts that make the record a very personal piece of work. Beside Jari, drummer Kai Hahto from the Finnish grindcore/death metal band Rotten Sound plays on 'Wintersun' and provided the album with a hellish pummelling in all of the right parts. The rest - vocals, guitars, bass and programming - was done completely by the perfectionist Maenpaa. They both managed to create a diversified song spectrum from speed metal tracks over heavy guitar tracks to bombastic mid tempo opuses.