The band is from Switzerland and are one of my favourite bands. Eluveitie was an inscription on an antique pottery found at an archeological site in Mantua (northern Italy). Mantua was an Etruscian 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), "Artio" (bear goddess) or "Epona" from the album Evocation II: Pantheon. For "Epona" someone added Gaulish and English subtitles to the official video and at the end of this video there is a little explanation who Epona was. 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 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h8yAZdSK0bSmlKs.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 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g9yjZpyLyrfOoWg.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: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r5dko6Sq1KfNeYE.html . Fabienne Erni and Guitarist Jonas Wolf also have a side project called "Illumishade" thats worth checking out.

If you like the concept of metal mixed with other genre + nice woman in the front, I would also suggest the Swedish band "Amaranthe". Start with "The Nexus" or "Helix" and see if you like it.

They are one of my favourite bands. I would suggest reacting to: King (Powerful, only him) Ategnatos (Epic) Sleepwalker (both singers) A rose for Epona (More rock-ish, but great)

Great band. Great live band too. They are pronounced „El-veytee“. The „u“ is silent. Seen them live a bunch of times and they nailed it every time.

Thanks for reacting to this great band from Switzerland. Could you please react to their song Quoth The Raven? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ft6lo5p-la7Rqnk.html Nobody ever reacts to that but I think you'll really enjoy it. Ategnatos is a another song you might enjoy by them... ☺️ Also please check out Black Moon by Cellar Darling, a band formed by former members of Eluveitie...

Oh... and please react to A Rose For Epona. It's probably their most famous song: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZeci8d92tmWh30.html

already heard the new superepic song AIDUS from ELUVEITIE?

A few bands that have a similar feel to Eluveitie are Arkona, Schandmaul, GRAI and Feuerschwanz.

Pirate metal? Alestorm? :)

Try the Song King by eluveitie !

Ahh we Americans can't pronounce words correctly...El-Vay-Tee dear Man :) . I love this band, please continue your journey into them

like you reaction but you are a little to loud and music to low, greetings from Austria