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ELUVEITIE REMEMBER HOW TO BE HEAVY AGAIN (THANKFULLY!)

 Thursday, January 28th, 2010 at 10:30am by

eluveitie I’ve always thought Eluveitie stood out from the pagan/folk/whatever metal pack because they’re one of the heavier bands of the bunch. Where several of these bands choose to dive deep into their respective country’s folk music and metallicize it, Eluveitie instead opt to folk-ify their metal. Their songs are basically heavy Gothenburg-style melodeath with some folksy instrumentation; combine that with mainman Chrigel Glanzmann’s acute songwriting and you’ve got the reason why Eluveitie remain one of the only folk metal bands that continually pique my interest. In a sea of a whole bunch of very mediocre bands in this uber-specialized micro-genre, Eluveitie stand out.

Their new track “Kingdom Come Undone,” now posted on their MySpace page, is no different; it’s great. Eluveitie are letting the metal world know loud and clear that their 2009 all-acoustic record was just an experiment and that the band we heard on Slania is the real Eluveitie. So far we’ve heard two tracks from Everything Remains (As It Never Was) (out February 19th on Nuclear Blast) and they’ve both been bangers.

-VN

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  • msv81

    This band is really, really good. I agree with you, Vince, in that they’re pretty much the only pagan/folk metal band I truly enjoy. Ensiferum is relatively good but only in small doses. I enjoyed Eluveitie’s acoustic record a lot, but I’m glad they went back to their “real” sound.

    This album will be a contender for top of my year-end list for sure.

  • http://dcmetalreview.wordpress.com/ Dan-O

    Goddamn, I can’t wait for this release!

  • Kuranes

    I think I liked Thousandfold better, but this is still pretty excellent.

  • Zoker

    Wow… I almost gave up on this band after Thousandfold, which, to me, was an uninspired song coming after a terribly uninspired album. But then they release Kingdom Come Undone and… wow… now I have high hopes…

    Still, I don’t think they can top Slania… I mean… Inis Mona is simply one of the best songs ever composed…

  • http://thenumberoftheblog.wordpress.com/ groverXIII

    I love me some folk metal, and Eluveitie do it as well as anyone. This album is going to be fucking brilliant… I can feel it.

  • shreddy_lee

    love this band!

  • JOnny fIve aces

    so they went from crappy metalcore riffs with hurdy gurdy slapped on top to crappy chug riffs with hurdy gurdy slapped on top. it’s really no wonder they’re so popular.

    • Ziltoid

      Nah, the metalcore is still there. They just chug a bit as well. Regardless, this music is so bad.

  • MBraids

    I’m not crazy about the folk metal, but I still enjoy a fair bit of it, and they always make for fun live shows. The first US Paganfest tour (Eluveitie, Tyr, Turisas, and Ensiferum) was absolutely unreal. I went out to see Tyr and Korpiklaani last week; also a hell of a good time, in spite of the fact that I don’t even care about Korpiklaani that much.

    That all being said, regardless of how much people care about the whole folk/viking/pagan deal, everyone needs to go see Turisas live. I’ve seen them twice now, and they totally blow away every other band I mentioned above (though Eluveitie come damn close).

  • Ziltoid

    Whoa! A song with generic metalcore riffs! How original! How amazing!

    This song is just as bad as any other metalcore song out there. Throwing a hurdygurdy over it doesn’t hide the fact that this is just a shitty song full of metalcore riffs. All we need now is a hurdy gurdy breakdown and we have folkcore.

    • Kàn I)))

      Folkcore is br00tal!

    • LionSlicer

      i could see where youre coming from, but when they add folk instruments on top, shit gets interesting, at least for me

  • DemonicLemming

    The Divine Evocation (the mainly-acoustic album) was the best of what they’ve put out so far, I think. Their regular stuff isn’t bad, but isn’t quite as distinct as the acoustic music.

  • mike

    Metalcore? WTF? More like heavily-influenced modern day Dark Tranquillity MDM.

    Spirit will more than likely remain my fav. Eluveitie album…though this new track is much better than Thousandfold.

  • TheKingBoar

    Ok, it’s time to realize that Evocation was really not that bad of an album. Good music is good music whether it’s metal or not, and Evocation was fantastic and atmospheric. Also, Spirit > Slania.

    • DemonicLemming

      Hear, hear. I think the majority of the people who don’t like Evocation are the people who only like folk/pagan metal because it’s moderately trendy at the moment.