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Hell Yeah!! 
"Slania" and "Spirit" are their best work till now and "Helvetios" coming in...I think they gonna fucking explode. Too much excited!! 
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December 2012 ? Is it a joke ? I can't wait for 1 year ! I want more folk metal
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Hell yeah!!!....... Hail Eluveitie 
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| Rating: 9 |
I'd say that December 2012 is not the correct date. It's more like December 2011. The album is done already and it should be released in early 2012.
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| Rating: 7 |
Written by Ilidian on 30.11.2011 at 17:48
I'd say that December 2012 is not the correct date. It's more like December 2011. The album is done already and it should be released in early 2012.
It was wrong date, I corrected this.
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Hey...1 has it????Sounds interesting,lol
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 J. N. - 07.12.2011 at 02:14
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Written by Ilidian on 30.11.2011 at 17:48
I'd say that December 2012 is not the correct date. It's more like December 2011. The album is done already and it should be released in early 2012.
We usually put December when we don't know the exact date of the release.
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| Rating: 8 |
First listen:
01 Prologue: Not that special; just a man telling a Rhapsody Of Fire-like story.
02 Helvetios: The first minute I was like: Nightwish?!
03 Luxtos: Very catchy! You won't be able to sing along the chorus, though.
04 Home: Awesome!
05 Santonian Shores: Starts cool. So far the best track for me...
06 Scorched Earth: Instrumental track which reminds me of Turkish music. Epic, but it gets boring after two minutes.
07 Meet The Enemy: I love it!
08 Neverland: The vocals at the background make this song very special.
09 A Rose For Epona: Damn, she can sing!
10 Havoc: This song features a lot of awesome guitar and drum parts.
11 The Uprising: I like the part with the talking man in the middle of the song.
12 Hope: Soft instrumental track. It fits the album well.
13 The Siege: Damn, she can scream!
14 Alesia: I like this duet, but it won't be a song I'm going to listen to very often.
15 Tullianum: Fly rain man?
16 Uxellodunon: Just a normal Eluveitie track.
17 Prologue: I liked the choir they added to this outro.
Rating: 8.7/10 - Fantastic!
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 Fred - 15.01.2012 at 22:33
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For those of you who don't know it yet, the album has leaked about 6 hours ago. Yet to give it my first spin, downloading in some minutes!
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| Rating: 9 |
Holy fuck, the album is amazing. I just could not resist, had to download it, now I can't stop listening to it. They didn't changed their sound, very similar to previous works, but songs are much better than the previous one. And I just love the story and the concept of it. Not sure, but it will probably be 9/10. Definitely gonna buy it, well worth it.
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BudDa - 19.01.2012 at 10:57
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This album is abit boring
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| Rating: 6 |
Written by kaspair on 15.01.2012 at 15:18
13 The Siege: Damn, she can scream!
And I thought Quoth The Raven was supposed to be a one-time experiment. 
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| Rating: 8 |
Written by beyondtehdarksun on 19.01.2012 at 12:59
Written by kaspair on 15.01.2012 at 15:18
13 The Siege: Damn, she can scream!
And I thought Quoth The Raven was supposed to be a one-time experiment.
Me too, but it worked out fine!
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Nice , I love these band, lets see how it will sound...
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| Rating: 8 |
To be honest, the woman singing on 'A rose for epona' really brings it down a lot...hopefully her voice will be omitted elsewhere on the album.
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| Rating: 10 |
Need to vote.... deserves a 15 at least.
and dude, ana... shes hot and her voice is angelical. =)
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| Rating: 6 |
I loved about 1/3 of the album, the rest didnt do it for me at all. 6/10
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Majid - 08.02.2012 at 14:02
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Written by musicalkaratekid on 02.02.2012 at 00:15
To be honest, the woman singing on 'A rose for epona' really brings it down a lot...hopefully her voice will be omitted elsewhere on the album.
Unfortunately, the song "Alesia" is even much worse  I can't understand this new "poppish" trend in their music!!! Anyway, it will make for them a lot of money...
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Kenos - 08.02.2012 at 15:20
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The girl singing in this album is unbearable. I'd rather listen to a buzzing squeaky entry phone.
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Written by Majid on 08.02.2012 at 14:02
Written by musicalkaratekid on 02.02.2012 at 00:15
To be honest, the woman singing on 'A rose for epona' really brings it down a lot...hopefully her voice will be omitted elsewhere on the album.
Unfortunately, the song "Alesia" is even much worse I can't understand this new "poppish" trend in their music!!! Anyway, it will make for them a lot of money...
Yeah i agree, their music has taken a much 'poppier' turn. Oh well, it is still 'bearable' for the most part.
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DaUndataka - 09.02.2012 at 11:09
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I've always considered them "poppish". I really don't see, or hear, how this album is any different from previously released albums. I like it though.
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| Rating: 9 |
The first one to rate it, so I hope most of others will agree... 9 !
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| Rating: 9 |
Written by RhaegarTargaryen on 10.02.2012 at 00:02
The first one to rate it, so I hope most of others will agree... 9 !
Agreed !! It's definitely a 9.
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| Rating: 7 |
Goddammit, I need this on my Spotify already!
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| Rating: 9 |
This album has the same problem Everything Remains had : layers of cool folk on generic (read "boring") Gothenburg metal. Plus, Anna taking more and more place? I don't know... Her contribution was great on "Slania's Song" and "Qoth the Raven", but she sounds fucking annoying wether she sings ("A Rose for Epona") or shrieks ("The Siege"). The band is even beginning to recycle old melodies, which is never a good thing. I'll keep on listening and hope this will grow on me but so far I'm not very enthusiast.
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I say POO to the nay sayers, this is one of my most antipated releases of 2012!!
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| Rating: 3 |
A big disappointment...  Why Eluveitie, why?!
A few words to say - generic sound, recycled melodies, monotonous album. Love previous two though!
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Wes - 13.02.2012 at 00:18
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| Rating: 6 |
definitely has value to me as an album, but not as good as the last ones most likely. Still needs time.
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| Rating: 5 |
Bah, nothing new or special here. I gave it 3 chances, and all I can say is that "Meet The Enemy" is a good song.
Written by MetalHOE on 13.02.2012 at 00:02
A big disappointment... Why Eluveitie, why?!
A few words to say - generic sound, recycled melodies, monotonous album. Love previous two though!
Yes, Eluveitie always made a generic sound, not original at all. Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion was a kind of exception, though.
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Written by dant3x on 13.02.2012 at 15:39
Bah, nothing new or special here. I gave it 3 chances, and all I can say is that "Meet The Enemy" is a good song.
Written by MetalHOE on 13.02.2012 at 00:02
A big disappointment... Why Eluveitie, why?!
A few words to say - generic sound, recycled melodies, monotonous album. Love previous two though!
Yes, Eluveitie always made a generic sound, not original at all. Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion was a kind of exception, though.
Yes, Meet the Enemy, the only really good song... I know that they've always sounded rather generic but in a good way until now!
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AXA - 14.02.2012 at 07:11
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I don't like this album with this stuff
...fast and Noisy album
I don't feel any thing special in this band .
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Huge disappointment,uninspired.Please raise your standards metalheads!
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| Rating: 1 |
Utterly boring. Too generic, uninspired and way too long, didnt manage to listen to the whole thing, maybe they should wait more 5 years and take some time to write something new 
That track "Home" anyone noticed that sounds exactly as a song of the first album ? Cant remember which one now....
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Kenos - 15.02.2012 at 03:53
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Written by dant3x on 13.02.2012 at 15:39
Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion was a kind of exception, though.
An exception with still very mediocre results. Further proof that this bunch of clowns can do no good with folk stuff either.
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Kenos - 16.02.2012 at 02:38
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Written by Wes on 16.02.2012 at 01:56
Just out of curiousity, do you even like the albums I listed?
Spirit and Slania are decent/good folk-metal albums, about 6,5 - 7/10 for me.
Of course it's not the kind of metal I love, but in the end I can't really dislike them either.
After that it's just the same boring trite formula with generic melodeath stuff and tiresome folkish elements. And, as I mentioned before, even the "experiment" of Evocation is a fairly mediocre work. Methinks.
If I hadn't had to review this *thing* for the webzine where I usually write I wouldn't have cared that much, since I already didn't like Everything Remains at all.
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| Rating: 9 |
Powerful.. mysterious.. absolutely Eluveitie..!
When i saw that this album contains so many songs my mind immediately brough up the Evocation album which i found it a bit "quite" for eluveitie's standards. But fortunately this album is really strong with the traditional Eluveitie sound and with a diversity at their sound. Nice vocals as always. Looking forward to see them again at their next tour!
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| Rating: 9 |
Written by Rulatore on 15.02.2012 at 03:42
Utterly boring. Too generic, uninspired and way too long, didnt manage to listen to the whole thing, maybe they should wait more 5 years and take some time to write something new
That track "Home" anyone noticed that sounds exactly as a song of the first album ? Cant remember which one now....
how can u even rate than with 1..? Thats too biased. u dont just rate it in comparisson with what they had done in the past. Judge it also as if it was their first album. 1 is for rubbish. That is definitely not even close to rubbish
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| Rating: 3 |
Written by VaronoZz on 17.02.2012 at 14:26
Written by Rulatore on 15.02.2012 at 03:42
Utterly boring. Too generic, uninspired and way too long, didnt manage to listen to the whole thing, maybe they should wait more 5 years and take some time to write something new
That track "Home" anyone noticed that sounds exactly as a song of the first album ? Cant remember which one now....
how can u even rate than with 1..? Thats too biased. u dont just rate it in comparisson with what they had done in the past. Judge it also as if it was their first album. 1 is for rubbish. That is definitely not even close to rubbish
Hmmm, yes... 3 or 4 is more adequate. But I don't know what is more out of reality - if 1 or 9. 
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Written by MetalHOE on 17.02.2012 at 15:16
Hmmm, yes... 3 or 4 is more adequate. But I don't know what is more out of reality - if 1 or 9.
Everyone has a strict list of favorite bands for a reason, which for me eluveitie is included, so its a kinda normal for me to like an album of them a lot when it is not too diferent from the previous ones. So yea its 9 by trusting my ears which is also the most common vote for this album if u havent noticed.
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| Rating: 3 |
Written by VaronoZz on 17.02.2012 at 19:03
Written by MetalHOE on 17.02.2012 at 15:16
Hmmm, yes... 3 or 4 is more adequate. But I don't know what is more out of reality - if 1 or 9.
Everyone has a strict list of favorite bands for a reason, which for me eluveitie is included, so its a kinda normal for me to like an album of them a lot when it is not too diferent from the previous ones. So yea its 9 by trusting my ears which is also the most common vote for this album if u havent noticed.
Yes, I have noticed that... You're right. Unfortunately, Eluveitie are on that strict list of my favourite bands as well. As I said before, Slania and Everything Remains As It Never Was were great albums, really, so my expectations raised up when reading first articles about upcoming Helvetios. However, in the end, this album is a total letdown, I can't help myself.
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| Rating: 9 |
Written by MetalHOE on 17.02.2012 at 20:12
Written by VaronoZz on 17.02.2012 at 19:03
Written by MetalHOE on 17.02.2012 at 15:16
Hmmm, yes... 3 or 4 is more adequate. But I don't know what is more out of reality - if 1 or 9.
Everyone has a strict list of favorite bands for a reason, which for me eluveitie is included, so its a kinda normal for me to like an album of them a lot when it is not too diferent from the previous ones. So yea its 9 by trusting my ears which is also the most common vote for this album if u havent noticed.
Yes, I have noticed that... You're right. Unfortunately, Eluveitie are on that strict list of my favourite bands as well. As I said before, Slania and Everything Remains As It Never Was were great albums, really, so my expectations raised up when reading first articles about upcoming Helvetios. However, in the end, this album is a total letdown, I can't help myself.
Good, u have one more reason to have an opinion then. But it really pisses me off when people who dont really listen to some bands and just because they are not into them they have to vote with 1.
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| Rating: 7 |
This is definitely no Slania, but I gotta spin it some more...
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| Rating: 3 |
The Folk equivalent to Khaos Legions.
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Written by MetalHOE on 13.02.2012 at 00:02
A big disappointment... Why Eluveitie, why?!
A few words to say - generic sound, recycled melodies, monotonous album. Love previous two though!
My thoughts exactly, Thought Spirit, Slania and Everything Remains were excellent but this is definitely subpar. Not only is alot of the stuff recycled but its also dumbed down. Their metal riffs sound weaker and more generic than ever, Folky elements only occasionally sounding fresh, and the chick definitely has some strong vocal talent but makes the amatuerish mistake of over-dramatizing ever other word.
"Alesia" near perfect example of the flaws i just stated.
"Luxtos" - wtf??? why does korpiklaani have a song on the album??? lol
"A Rose for Epona" i dont mind the occasional pop elements in my metal, but this is too far.
"Havoc" epic folk melodiy, but drop the ball with the garageband sounding riffs.
The rest of the album sounds incredibly generic and/or watered down with only sprinklings of noticable changes and originality.
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| Rating: 9 |
Don't know what all the fuss is about, I'm thoroughly enjoying this release personally.
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Pesek - 28.02.2012 at 16:47
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The best song is cover... no, no, no... very very sad....
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Written by Rulatore on 15.02.2012 at 03:42
Utterly boring. Too generic, uninspired and way too long, didnt manage to listen to the whole thing, maybe they should wait more 5 years and take some time to write something new
That track "Home" anyone noticed that sounds exactly as a song of the first album ? Cant remember which one now....
I'd agree with you that the album is in fact a bit too long. 17 tracks is very exhaustive indeed, but the last few eluveitie albums have been of similar length, Maybe if they cut out the minute long interludes and the dreadful songs that are driven by the female singer's voice, then it would be probably more of an 8 or 9 for me. The fact that i gave it a 7 is fully based on the remaining tracks that don't let the album down.
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| Rating: 6 |
At first listen, the usual problem: all the 'metal' songs sound the same...
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Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IS5LqqWXGw
I wish they had evolved ina more progressive folky way and not as someone put it, laying folk on top of some bland gothenburg metal.
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| Rating: 8 |
Please make the intro tracks stop.
On The Siege, the higher, Freddy Lim-esque voice: is that Anna Murphy giving harsh vocals a go?
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