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01. Prologue
02. Helvetios
03. Luxtos
04. Home
05. Santonian Shores
06. Scorched Earth
07. Meet The Enemy
08. Neverland
09. A Rose For Epona
10. Havoc
11. The Uprising
12. Hope
13. The Siege
14. Alesia
15. Tullianum
16. Uxellodunon
17. Epilogue
18. A Rose For Epona [Acoustic Version][Bonus]
The best Folk Metal album of 2012
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Line-up
Siméon Koch - guitars, mandola
Patrick "Päde" Kistler - bagpipes, whistles
Anna Murphy - hurdy gurdy, vocals
Christian "Chrigel" Glanzmann - vocals, mandola, whistles, uilleann pipes, bodhran, bard harp
Kay Brem - bass, voice
Meri Tadic - fiddle
Ivo Henzi - guitar
Merlin Sutter - drums, percussion
Additional musicians:
Alexander "Sandy" Morton - narrations
Sarah Wauquiez (né Kiener) - accordion
Fredy Schnyder - hammered dulcimer
Christoph Pelgen - vocals
Nina Macchi - recorder |
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| Rating: 6 |
Written by M C Vice on 02.03.2012 at 10:32
On The Siege, the higher, Freddy Lim-esque voice: is that Anna Murphy giving harsh vocals a go?
Allegedly, yes. But it did disappoint me a little after the epicness that was Quoth The Raven.
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| Rating: 6 |
'Meet The Enemy', 'The Uprising' and 'The Siege' starts very fast and loud, and are dominated with harsh vocals and Gothenburg style guitar and drums which kills the folk sounds. Therefore, they sound like average songs, nothing special. Whereas, in songs like 'Helvetios' and 'Uxellodunon', the balance between folk melodies and metal tunes is perfect, and in 'Santonian Shores' too which is the best song so far for me in this album.
Other remarks I wanna make are:
'A Rose For Epona' is a big disappointment; because it has an awesome melody but very bad vocals that do not fit the album in any way.
Prologue and Epilogue is a cool addition, creates the Helvetii atmosphere very well.
I don't agree with the criticism about 'Alesia'. I think it's a decent duet, and female vocals are not very poppish as in 'A Rose For Epona'.
As a last comment: I don't like Eluveitie because they are a kickass metal band, I like them because they could blend awesome celtic folk tunes with the metal I love but they somewhat failed at that in this album. So, it came out to only be a mediocre album.
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| Rating: 8 |
This is better that "Everything Remains...." and its very close to be a great one, but they have to work on there generic guitar riffs because for me that was the downside of this album.
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| Rating: 8 |
Not sure why people are flipping out and kicking over chairs because of this album. I think its great. Anna does not have "pop" vocals in any of these songs, even rose for epona. I've never heard ANY pop singer bother to get that kind of range out of her voice. Anna is way too dynamic. Not every female lead has a pop voice. Not to mention she growls on The Siege and sounds amazing.
I'm loving the album. Some of my favorites are: Helvetios, Luxtos, Santonian Shores, A Rose for Epona, The Siege, and Alesia. I love how they're combining the elements from Evocation into the sound that they started with. The album is actually varied as well with lots of unique elements in the songs, which is unusual for an eluveitie album! The only songs I don't really like much are Scorched Earth and Meet The Enemy... the later is the most generic Eluveitie song ever, kinda disappointing that they made a video for it.
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| Rating: 7 |
Not bad. They've done slightly better before, but still a great release. Finally I got the chance to listen to the entire thing!
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| Rating: 3 |
Not even "good".
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Like 4 songs would make a solid EP...but to make a long lasting album out of this? meh...
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| Rating: 3 |
The fact that this got best folk album of the year really shows the sad state of folk metal right now..
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Its not the sad state of folk metal, but the sad state of folk metal fans... 
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First Eluveitie CD I get to listen. In my opinion the album has some good songs, and a few outstanding acts like Helvetios and Meet the Enemy, but in total there are 18 tracks. So there's this abundant instrumental filler, and I'm not really fond of the acoustic numbers either. I don't agree with the bashing I see here, it's quite a pleasant piece of work, but I'm certain it appeals to some more than others.
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