Swiss folk metal RULES 🤘😎 I really hope you check out the official videos for Rebirth, A Rose For Epona, and The Call of the Mountains for great reaction videos 😁 Actually, for an overall great time just put on their album Ategnatos and let it play 👍

Thanks for doing it. This is the second incarnation of the band. It’s worth going back to early era with Anna Murphy on vocals and hurdy. Fans genuinely love both versions of the band. They have two folk acoustic records that are absolutely fantastic as well.

OK so you want traditional instruments give HEILUNG Krigsgaldr or In Maidjan a go Both are available live on YT from their LIFA album

Their album Helvetios is one of the best folk metal albums I have ever heard. It is a concept album that harkens back to when the Celtic-Helvetians were fighting the Roman legions. The songs are incredibly powerful. And seeing it performed live... lets just say the mosh pit went insane! We were all fighting the Roman hordes together with the band. Eluveitie is among the absolute best in terms of folk metal, no question. I highly encourage you to explore further.

So yeah , digging into Eluviete, the logical next song from this should be Catvrix off evocation 2 pantheon. That opening chant forms the basis of that song , (a very different vibe musically though. )

Hi Eric! Minor thing, depending on what/where you read, the pronunciation is either el-VAY-tee or el-oo-VAY-tee. Pretty close though! The derivation and etymology is pretty cool. The word/name comes from the Etruscan (predecessor of Romans) and is Gaulish for The Helvetian, i.e. one from Helvetica or Gaul (some of the ORIGINAL Celtic peoples). Interestingly enough, the band often works with a linguist to have parts of their lyrics in ancient Gaulish or as close has can be had these days. I took a lot of Latin in high school and college, and Roman History, so when I first tumbled to this band I was like "Oh cooooool!!!"

Bands who used the hurdy gurdy even back in the 90ies (I can't believe I'm so old) were Subway to Sally and Schandmaul and Faun and they are still here in 2024 :-) bagpipes, hurdy gurdy, nyckelharpa, all kinds of flutes...❤️ They are able to magically ban all the bad vibes.

This song makes me think that Heilung & Amon Amarth had a baby.

This song and video are a masterpiece! Can't wait till it's next week Friday. I am staying in Germany for a week from tomorrow especially for a final bang of my holiday with a magical show of my two absolute favourite bands, the kings of folk metal Eluveitie (EL-VAY-TEE) and the best symphonic metal band Epica! I share your video in the discord from the female vocalist of Eluveitie, her name is Fabienne Erni. She is one of my three absolute favourite female vocalists besides Simone Simons (Epica) and Floor Jansen (Nightwish). Hope you are doing more Eluveitie because they will release more new stuff for their upcoming album, I believe later this year! Greetings from the Netherlands! 🤘🏻

Design your Universe (live Retrospect) / Unleashed (live Retrospect ), Cry for the Moon(live Retrospect) - Epica I remember you - Skid Row (live) Soulbound - Unleash the Archers Burning Time (live) / Dracula - Iced Earth Ategnatos / King - Eluveitie Rebel in the F.G.D. or The great Missconceptions of Me - W.A.S.P

Nice that you covered this band because, something like El-uu-wei-ti ;-) is far away from Mainstream even to Metal standards! It's great to give them a platform on your side to reach all kinds of people who might not have found them!

"Sorry, you are not hot enough to play the Hurdy Gurdy" One of my favorite lines from now on hahaha

It´s so much fun skipping through reactions of Eluveitie (El-vei-ti) just to see how they pronounce it

Quite enjoyed it but to me it seems like they are trying to be all things to all men. And yes Ed Warby who plays for Arjen is an amazing drummer.

Great you came around reacting to Eluveitie - pronounced „El-vaytee“ (the u is silent) - great live band too if the mix is done right 😉. The first half is really dark, but the second half is more traditional eluveitish. Don’t hesitate to dig into Eluveitie.

The name of the Band is pronounced Helvetie, not as it is written. It's the ancient name for Switzerland. Fitting for the most sold swiss act. 😉😉 P.s. Other folk metal bands to look out for are Arkona, GRAI and Feuerschwanz. P.p.s. Not only Nuclear Blast, but Napalm and even some of the smaller players like Seasons of Mist and Scarlett Records are putting out incredible stuff these days. Atomic Fire, the splinter from Nuclear Blast, also looks good so far, though things are still a bit up in the air.

And my favourite drummer for the shifts you're talking about is Themis Tolis from Rotting Christ . Blast beats when needed , fitting the music perfectly , switching around when required (fire, God and fear for example)

Aaah some decent swiss music, ty.

I love seeing a violin, or should I say fiddle, in a metal band.

Great band, I really enjoy their music. Please react to Lovebites again as well. The Crusade is an awesome song from them.

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I really like the instruments there using for the rhythm very good not a big growl fan but I like the music and the female has a beautiful voice I would like you to react ayreon valley of the queens or magnetism, tuomas holopainen a lifetime of adventure and of course nightwish poet and the pendulum God bless

Please react to Nightwish - Greatest show on Earth (Tampere 2015)🤘🙏

Saltatio Mortis doesn't have a hot chick playing the hurdy gurdy, he is somewhat stylish tho.

Hi Eric. I'm going to say a thing. I've been a Elu fan now for over 10 years and when this premiered the other day I couldn't make it through until the melodic break, the monotone blastbeat just bored me. That's a me thing... It's not the first time they have gone all death core, but yeah, whilst sounding like them, it's not a balanced "This is Eluveitie" experience. I guess I should back that with suggestions, Inis Mona, Omnos, From Darkness, King, (making of) Quoth the raven, there are so many, that's not even a few. They have more than two modes, it's worth having a look.

Pronounced El-Vay-Tee :)

I believe it's el-uh-VAY-tee, but I'm surely no expert.

gotta say, i like Rebirth more. This one is very technical, kinda Jazzy vibe to listen to. Wich is fine, just not a everyday Song for me^^