The band is from Switzerland and they are one of my favourite bands. Eluveitie (the English pronounciation is El-Vay-Tee, the "u" is silent) was an inscription on an antique pottery found at an archeological site in Mantua (northern Italy). Mantua was an Etruskian city and the inscription possibly means, that this pot belonged or was crafted by a Helvetian person, because in Etruskian language "Eluveitie" means something like "The Helvetian". The old Latin name for Switzerland is "Confoederatio Helvetica". The band was meant to be a studio project first (started in 2002) and as the founder Christian "Chrigel" Glanzmann is from Winterthur in Switzerland he chose the inscription as the name for the project. He didn't expect that his style of music (Celtic Folk mixed with Death Metal) would be received by the audience so well. After the first successful single releases he got requests for live performances and decided to ask the musicians who joined him for this project to form a "real" band. Since the beginning there were a lot of line-up changes though. But I think most of the band members are still Swiss and the only members of the current line-up that are not from Switzerland are Nicole Ansperger (fiddles, she is from Germany) and Michalina Malisz (hurdy gurdy, she is from Poland). All in all there are nine members in the band 1 drummer, 1 bassist, 2 guitarists, 1 violinist, 1 hurdy gurdist, 1 whistle player (who also plays the bagpipe), 1 female vocalist (who also plays the celtic harp) and 1 male vocalist (founder of the band who plays also bagpipe, bodhran, mandola, tin whistle, low whistle and celtic harp). They play Celtic Folk Metal which is a combination of melodic Death Metal and Celtic Folk. Their main theme is Celtic history and culture from the antiquity. The Celts lived all over Europe and were a pretty dominant culture until they were subdued by the Romans who almost eradicated all Celtic culture on the European continent. Eluveitie mostly sing of the celtic tribe of the Helvetii who lived in the area of todays Switzerland, southern Germany and western Austria and was the first tribe that came under pressure when the Roman Empire started its expansion north and when the Gallic Wars (around 60-54 B.C.) started. The band had a lot of line-up changes during the years, the most impactful in 2016, when the previous female vocalist/hurdy gurdist Anna Murphy, drummer Merlin Sutter and guitarist Ivo Henzi left the band and founded "Cellar Darling" (check them out). Some songs from Eluveitie you could react to are: "King", "Tegernako" (live at Summerbreeze 2008), "Thousandfold", "A Rose for Epona", or "Quoth the Raven" (video recorded in the studio) with the previous line-up (pre 2016) or "The Slumber", "Worship", "Deathwalker" (live at Wacken 2019), "Breathe", "Ambiramus", "Ategnatos" with the current line-up. They have two pure acoustic folk albums too. Some of their acoustic songs I would recommend are "Omnos", "Brictom", "Desumiis Luge" (a curse of Helvetic women against some Roman leaders) from the album Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion and "Lugus" (god of Trade and craftsmanship), "Caturix" (god of war), "Artio" (bear goddess) or "Epona" from the album Evocation II: Pantheon. For "Epona" the best choice is this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4GXoafWv86M.html because someone added Gaulish and English lyrics to the official music video and at the end of this video there is a little explanation who Epona was. On the two Evocation albums the songs are sung in Gaulish, the extinct (since 500 AD) language of the continental Celts that could be reconstructed by using inscripions found at archeological sites from all over Europe and parts (grammar, pronounciation) of languages that are of Celtic origin that are still spoken today, like Gaelic, Welsh or Breton. And because you love the hurdy gurdy, check out the channel of Eluveities hurdy gurdist Michalina Malisz ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QfP2qYlNBdw.html . She has done a lot of playthroughs of Eluveitie songs on the hurdy gurdy and before she was asked to join the band she did a lot of Eluveitie covers, so PLEASE avoid these covers and playthroughs until you have reacted to the specific song because you would ruin future reactions. But you could check her "5riffs" series where she plays 5 riffs from famous bands (like Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden) on the hurdy gurdy. She has done a great cover of "Martyr" by August burns Red too ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Mvs39ZeQjq4.html . There is also a great interview with the two vocalists Christian "Chrigel" Glanzmann and Fabienne Erni which they did for the podcast of vocal coach Beth Roars: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-y14pAyoAiIM.html . Fabienne Erni and Guitarist Jonas Wolf also have a side project called "Illumishade" thats worth checking out.
This band has been around for 2 decades now, so there is a rabbit hole to go down, for sure. I would recommend "Rebirth". ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d-pSq4MJmy8.html
Longtime fan here. So happy they are finally back. Celtic pagans playing metal with all their heart. First the collab with Faun, and now this banger of a song. Looking forward to a new album 🖤🤘🖖
To add to the recommendations, if you want to hear the female vocalist, Fabienne Erni, in a completely different musical direction, you should check out her other band ILLUMISHADE.
Yep, a great colab of these two bands, but only 4 members (the metal-part) of Eluveitie are involved, as the Folk part is already covered by German Pagan Folk band "Faun". In this song Chrigel sings his part of the vocals not in Gaulish but in Welsh.
Eluveitie (Helvetie), is one of the OGs of folk metal, Feuerschanwanz and Saltatio Mortis are kind of new. They pretty much defined the sound in the early 2000s, together with Arkona. The go-to reaction video is Rebirth ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-d-pSq4MJmy8.html , or Ategnatos ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BG6en2WyAsw.html or King ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--AawUSC6hGY.html . Or Call of the Mountains, the ballad. Look also at Arkona, Goi, Rode Goi ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A7fuuDc2hH0.html and Mantra/ Shtorm ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dhQD8thabaY.html . And their compatriots, GRAI ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HymGkCrYC24.html, Поступь зимы .
Clicked for Eluveitie, got surprise Unus Annus XD The first song of Eluveitie's that I ever heard was Inis Mona and I was hooked. They have a tonne of amazing songs but one of my favourites is The Seige; the violin part gives me goosebumps everytime.
Love Eluveitie. Such a diverse and great band. They've made som pretty heavy and amazing music over the years. Lot's of celtic metal and also stories/songs in the language that the Gauls use to speak in Europe. An ancient celtic language.
Saw them live with korpiklaani, great show! You are going to love this band, it is definitely right up your alley as you said. I would recommend starting with older stuff like fire wind wisdom (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2DYKsQqQgSk.html), or you could go to their most popular song call of the mountains, a little poppier but quite good.
I'm honestly surprised you didn't know about Eluveitie since your tastes align so closely to mine. Since their last album came out prior to your channel starting, I guess I just assumed you were already familiar with them. They are one of my favorite bands, and funny enough, I'm actually wearing one of their concert t-shirts right now (saw them with Korpiklaani back in 2019). I think their most popular reaction is "Rebirth," which definitely shares DNA with this song. My favorite videos, both off their last album, are "Ategnatos" and "Ambiramus." The latter is more folksy/poppy, but it reminds me of one of my favorite moments at a concert, as the whole crowd was jumping up and down throughout almost the whole song. Very energetic and not reacted to nearly as much as some of their other songs. That said, all of their songs are great so you really can't go wrong. FYI, someone else has probably mentioned it, but I think they have 9 members now.
Inis Mona, Celtos, Havoc, Rebirth, Ategnatos, Helvetios, Quoth the Raven, Tegernako, King, The Raven Hill; Just to name a few veeeery good songs from them. For me it all began with Inis Mona which is just insanely awesome and I still love it so much.
Would add Catvrix of Evocation 2 pantheon album. Because the opening chant is part of that song . Translation: We are strong We are brave We are free We are bold A lot of their lyrics are in ancient gaullish.
They are very good but I very much prefer the brake-off band Cellar Darling. The former singer/Hurdy Gurdy player Anna Murphy .took the drummer and guitarist and formed a powerful trio. They call their music Prog-Folk-Metal. I've heard several Hurdy Gurdy players but Anna plays like no one else, like she thinks it's a Stratocaster. I'd recommend "Dance" or "Insomnia".
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Suggested ELUVEITIE songs: King Ategnatos Exile of the gods Inis mona Epona Rebirth From darkness Celtos A cry in the wilderness Breathe Helvetios Jezaig
@@Jaimunji Fair (hey and it was a Kiwi pointing it out to you ;)) The lead man has is finger in the Celtic Reconstructionist Pagan Pie, which is how I came to find out about this band. I just get bloody tired of everything being "norse this" and "viking that".
Home work my friend. Before you come aboard you must research the band in its intirity before reacting to a song of eluveitie. Sorry but you haven't got a clue so far
