WINTERSUN guitarist Teemu Mantysaari is featured in a new video interview, conducted at this year's Tuska Open Air in Helsinki, Finland where the band played the main stage. Teemu shares his background and early days as musician, how he joined Wintersun in 2004, the band's approach to performing their intricate and multi-layered arrangements live, the guitar gear he prefers, and more.

After several sold-out shows last year on their inaugural North American co-headlining tour with ELUVEITIE, Finnish epic metallers Wintersun will return to North American shores once again for a headlining tour this August/September. Joining them are Italian symphonic death metal champions FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, melodic tech-death kings ARSIS and up-and-comers STARKILL.

Says Wintersun: "We're thrilled to return to North America for a full-scale headliner tour in August and September! It will be our first longer own headlining tour ever and this time, without any setlist length limitations, we'll be able to offer the North American crowds a special show - representing both the Wintersun and Time I albums. There might also be some surprises in the setlist as well... We are really looking forward to sharing the live magic with YOU, all the fans out there!"

North American tour dates:

August

6 - Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore
7 - Philadelphia, PA - Theater of Living Arts
8 - New York, NY - Irving Plaza
9 - Boston, MA - The Sinclair
10 - Montreal, QC (Heavy MTL) *
11 - Toronto, ON - The Opera House
13 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's
14 - Cleveland, OH - House Of Blues
15 - Chicago, IL - House Of Blues
16 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrew's Hall
17 - St. Paul, MN - Station 4
18 - Winnipeg, MB - Park Theatre
19 - Regina, SK - Riddell Center @ UoR
20 - Edmonton, AB - The Starlite Room
21 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theater
23 - Seattle, WA - Studio Seven
24 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater
25 - San Francisco, CA - DNA Lounge
26 - West Hollywood, CA - House Of Blues
27 - Anaheim, CA - House Of Blues
28 - San Diego, CA - House Of Blues
29 - Tempe, AZ - Joe's Grotto
31 - Dallas, TX - House Of Blues

September

1 - Houston, TX - House Of Blues
3 - Fort Lauderdale, FL - Revolution
4 - Orlando, FL - House Of Blues
5 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade
6 - Charlotte, NC - The Fillmore

*Wintersun only