The band is from Switzerland and 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 "Eluveitie" means something like "The Helvetian". The actual official name of Switzerland is Confoederatio Helvetica. The band plays Celtic Folk Metal using tin whistle, low whistle, fiddle, bagpipe, celtic harp, mandola, bodhran and hurdy gurdy and 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) or "Artio" (bear goddess) from the album Evocation II: Pantheon. On these two 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. You could check out the channel of Eluveities hurdy gurdist Michalina Malisz ua-cam.com/video/QfP2qYlNBdw/v-deo.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 ua-cam.com/video/Mvs39ZeQjq4/v-deo.html . There is also a great interview with Christian "Chrigel" Glanzmann (founder, male vocalist) and Fabienne Erni (female vocalist) which they did for the podcast of vocal coach Beth Roars (there is a short explanation of how a hurdy gurdy works in this video): ua-cam.com/video/y14pAyoAiIM/v-deo.html . Fabienne Erni and Guitarist Jonas Wolf also have a side project called "Illumishade" thats worth checking out.
Holy moly, i just got schooled :0 thanks yo so much for this background story, its really interesting, i have put most of the songs you sugest on my list but might take me most of this year to get throug it XD never the less, thank you for all the information on this awesome band :)
Thought you'd like that one a bit more than Rebirth. Epona is the goddess of horses, so the lyrics in this song involve singing her praises. Call of the Mountains is another popular softer song by these guys & it features their old singer Anna Murphy, who left a few years back to form the band Cellar Darling.
The band is from Switzerland and 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 "Eluveitie" means something like "The Helvetian". The actual official name of Switzerland is Confoederatio Helvetica.
The band plays Celtic Folk Metal using tin whistle, low whistle, fiddle, bagpipe, celtic harp, mandola, bodhran and hurdy gurdy and 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) or "Artio" (bear goddess) from the album Evocation II: Pantheon. On these two 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.
You could check out the channel of Eluveities hurdy gurdist Michalina Malisz ua-cam.com/video/QfP2qYlNBdw/v-deo.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 ua-cam.com/video/Mvs39ZeQjq4/v-deo.html .
There is also a great interview with Christian "Chrigel" Glanzmann (founder, male vocalist) and Fabienne Erni (female vocalist) which they did for the podcast of vocal coach Beth Roars (there is a short explanation of how a hurdy gurdy works in this video): ua-cam.com/video/y14pAyoAiIM/v-deo.html .
Fabienne Erni and Guitarist Jonas Wolf also have a side project called "Illumishade" thats worth checking out.
Holy moly, i just got schooled :0
thanks yo so much for this background story, its really interesting, i have put most of the songs you sugest on my list but might take me most of this year to get throug it XD
never the less, thank you for all the information on this awesome band :)
Thought you'd like that one a bit more than Rebirth. Epona is the goddess of horses, so the lyrics in this song involve singing her praises. Call of the Mountains is another popular softer song by these guys & it features their old singer Anna Murphy, who left a few years back to form the band Cellar Darling.
yeeah, you were right about that one chief ;).
I will check the other band as well at some point :)
Nice reaction! ☺️ A Rose For Epona is another song with their old line up... 😉
thank you, glad you enjoyed it, a rose for epona is on my to do list :),
You react to eluveitie tegernakó or from darknes. This is my favorite songs
i have put them on my to do list, but it might take me some time to get them done :)
@@Lanon13 I'm waiting great