Kai Hahto (born 31 December 1973) is a Finnish musician, best known as the drummer of Wintersun and Nightwish.
Career In 2002, Hahto went to New York to study jazz drumming.
Hahto was a member of the grindcore band Rotten Sound.
In 2004 Hahto became one of the founders of the band Wintersun and left Rotten Sound later in 2005. In 2009–2012 he played about 300 shows with doom-death-metal band Swallow the Sun as a tour drummer.
Hahto has an endorsement relationship with Sihi cymbals, Pearl drums and hardware, Balbex drumsticks, Roland V-Drums and Finfonic earphones.
On 6 August 2014, it was announced that Hahto would play drums on the Nightwish studio album, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, replacing Jukka Nevalainen who went on hiatus from the band due to insomnia, and Hahto performed on all live shows since that date. On 15 July 2019, Hahto became Nightwish's permanent drummer following Nevalainen's decision not to return to the band.
In December 2020, it was announced that Hahto would be the drummer for the new lineup in Finnish black metal band Darkwoods My Betrothed, who had become active again.
Discography BandYear of releaseTitleLabelCartilage1992Split album w/ AltarDrowned ProductionsVomiturition1995A LeftoverInvasion RecordsWings1995DiatribeWoodcut RecordsRotten Sound1995Sick BastardGenet RecordsRotten Sound1995Psychotic VeterinarianS.O.A. RecordsRotten Sound1996Loosin' FaceAnomie RecordsEnochian Crescent1997TelocvovimWoodcut RecordsRotten Sound1997Spitted AliveI.D.S. RecordsRotten Sound1997Under PressureRepulse RecordsRotten Sound1998DrainRepulse RecordsRotten Sound2000Still PsychoNecropolis RecordsMax on the Rox2000VoodooKråklund RecordsRotten Sound20018 Hours of LobotomyM.C.R. RecordsRotten Sound2002MurderworksNecropolis RecordsMax on the Rox2002Rox IIKråklund RecordsRotten Sound2003Seeds of HateCudgel AgencyRotten Sound2003From Crust 'Til GrindCentury Media RecordsWintersun2004WintersunNuclear BlastMax on the Rox2004Rhythmic Songs from a Mysterious Red HouseKråklund RecordsRotten Sound2005ExitSpinefarm RecordsSwallow the Sun2009New MoonSpinefarm RecordsSwallow the Sun2012Emerald Forest and the BlackbirdSpinefarm RecordsWintersun2012Time INuclear BlastNightwish2015Endless Forms Most BeautifulNuclear BlastTrees of Eternity2016Hour of the NightingaleSvart RecordsNightwish2020Human. :II: Nature.Nuclear BlastAuri2021II – Those We Don't Speak OfNuclear BlastDarkwoods My BetrothedAngel of Carnage UnleashedNapalm RecordsWintersun2024Time IINuclear BlastNightwish2024YesterwyndeNuclear Blast
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Official Wintersun website