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Lead singer and guitarist, Jari M\u00e4enp\u00e4\u00e4, of the Finnish, prog-metal band Wintersun took to his band\u2019s Facebook Page, with over 300,000 Likes, to explain why they can\u2019t create their next album, why crowd funding won\u2019t work for them, why it took them nearly 10 years to release their second record and why they may never be able to release their third.<\/p>\n
In his broken English, M\u00e4enp\u00e4\u00e4 posted on Wintersun\u2019s Facebook Page:<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve been thinking about this Kickstarter\/Pledge crowd funding thing for a while and I\u2019m very confident now that there is enough of you guys that would help us raise the money for the Wintersun studio! This would give me the freedom to make music efficiently and nonstop. It would eliminate lot of the problems I\u2019ve struggled with all my life and still continue to struggle everyday\u201d<\/p>\n
M\u00e4enp\u00e4\u00e4 says that he\u2019d like to build his own studio to properly record and mix his new albums. He says that he has never gotten \u201csatisfactory results\u201d from 3rd party studios \u201cfor the insane prices they charge.\u201d<\/p>\n
He goes on to say that his Los Angeles based label, Nuclear Blast, are \u201ctotally freaking out\u201d about the prospects of crowd funding. Even if Wintersun did raise the amount they\u2019d like to reach, M\u00e4enp\u00e4\u00e4 protests that the label would take half, the Finnish government would take 40%, leaving Wintersun with virtually nothing. M\u00e4enp\u00e4\u00e4 says:<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really like this, because they [Nuclear Blast] can\u2019t or won\u2019t loan me enough money to build a studio and fund an album, they don\u2019t want other people (the fans) to fund it either\u2026 unless they get a crazy big cut of the funding (for doing absolutely nothing)\u201d<\/p>\n
He continues:<\/p>\n
\u201cThey actually told me point blank that I should just stop making music and they will never release Wintersun from the contract.\u201d<\/p>\n
It seems M\u00e4enp\u00e4\u00e4 and band signed a pretty crappy deal. Why any band would sign with a record company that can\u2019t even provide a big enough advance to record an album is beyond me. But then again, it seems they signed this deal back in 2004 when iTunes hadn\u2019t even made it to Finland. Times were different.<\/p>\n
Nuclear Blast is one of the premier metal record labels in the world whose acts include Slayer, Meshuggah, Nightwish, Suicide Silence, Sepultira, All Shall Perish, Symphony X and many, many more.<\/p>\n
Well Jari\u2026 (can I call you Jari? I can\u2019t figure out how to pronounce your last name) seems to me you need to hire a lawyer to get you out of your record contract. Start a crowd funding campaign with your 300,000 Facebook fans, pay your label back for the (shitty) advance they gave you for the new record, and make the record you are envisioning in your heart. Best of luck!<\/p>\n
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Source: Digital Music News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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