{"id":2903,"date":"2013-10-09T04:44:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T23:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2013-10-09T04:46:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T23:16:23","slug":"interview-with-wintersun-drummer-kai-hahto-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/10\/09\/interview-with-wintersun-drummer-kai-hahto-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview With Wintersun Drummer Kai Hahto (Audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Andrew Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wintersun1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2904\" title=\"wintersun1\" src=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wintersun1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wintersun1.jpg 300w, http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/wintersun1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Finnish epic metal band Wintersun released their new album &#8216;Time I&#8217; in and did their first ever North American co-headline tour with Eluveitie in 2012. Due to the overwhelming success of the tour, they returned on a headline tour of their own earlier this year, with support from Fleshgod Apocalypse, Arsis and Starkill. They&#8217;re finishing up the sequel to the Time I album and will be releasing it sometime next year, with more touring to follow. Before their show at the House of Blues in Hollywood on August 26th, I sat down with drummer Kai Hahto to talk about the two Time albums, live shows, and more. Listen to the chat below.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OcYbgCsPCxA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/gig_reviews\/2013\/08\/27\/wintersuns-north-american-tour-visits-house-of-blues-sunset-strip\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gig Review: Winterun\u2019s North American Tour Visits House Of Blues Sunset Strip<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit Wintersun on the web at:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/Wintersun.fi\" target=\"_blank\">Wintersun.fi<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/Wintersun\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com\/Wintersun<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Wintersun\" target=\"_blank\">twitter.com\/Wintersun<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Andrew Bansal Finnish epic metal band Wintersun released their new album &#8216;Time I&#8217; in and did their first ever North American co-headline tour with Eluveitie in 2012. Due to the overwhelming success of the tour, they returned on a headline tour of their own earlier this year, with support from Fleshgod Apocalypse, Arsis and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/2013\/10\/09\/interview-with-wintersun-drummer-kai-hahto-audio\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Interview With Wintersun Drummer Kai Hahto (Audio)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2906,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions\/2906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/metalassault.com\/Interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}