Photo courtesy of Eluveitie Facebook page

As the wheel of the year turns towards the hostile days of yuletide and the wild hunt picks up the scent of mortals, Swiss metal legends ELUVEITIE once again pour their despair regarding the abandonment of the world through their Gods into fantastic visuals. Today, the band featuring Chrigel Glanzmann and Fabienne Erni release a lyric video for ‘Exile Of The Gods’.

Stream the song here: https://eluveitie.bfan.link/exile-of-the-gods

Founding member Chrigel Glanzmann commented earlier on the single:
“We are very excited to share our new single ‘Exile Of The Gods’ with you – after ‘Aidus’ the ‘second page’ in Eluveitie’s next chapter.
Our current path leads us way back in time. And back to the present! Our new song cycle is all based on a very old mythic text – the hermetic lament. Although it didn’t originate from Celtic culture, we know today that its words were taken on, assimilated, and taught by the Celtic druids henceforth. In the interpretatio celtae its teachings were ascribed to the tricephalic Celtic god Lugus.
This ancient text contains some kind of a prophecy which holds some very serious and important words for us modern people of today – even if we assume that it’s not talking about our era (which personally I believe it does, though).
Among many other things that the lament of Lugus foretells: ‘…of thy faith nothing will remain but an empty tale, which thine own children in time to come will not believe; nothing will be left but graven words, and only the stones will tell of thy piety. For the gods – which once deigned to sojourn upon earth – will return from earth to Antumnos. The gods will depart from mankind, a grievous thing! The world will be left desolate, bereft of the presence of its deities.’
And this is, what our new single is dealing with!
However, that ancient text spells out clearly that we’re not simply talking about some mythological, religious or spiritual matters here. For it also talks very clearly about the development of mankind’s relationship with mother earth in that context and points out very concrete actions of ours (today) and their consequences in and for nature, and thus ultimately for us.
And so, we are excited to share our brand-new song with you all! And we hope you like it as much as we do and that maybe you even can find some inspiration in it! Enjoy!”

ELUVEITIE are currently on tour with Finnish metal veterans AMORPHIS and NAILED TO OBSCURITY. Check out the band at one of the below show dates:
09.12.              DE       Munich – Zenith
10.12.              DE       Leipzig – Felsenkeller
12.12.              HU       Budapest – Barba Negra
14.12.              DE       Wiesbaden – Schlachthof
15.12.              LU        Esch/Alzette – Rockhal
16.12.              DE       Oberhausen – Turbinenhalle
17.12.              DE       Hamburg – Große Freiheit

ELUVEITIE are:

Chrigel Glanzmann – vocals, whistles, mandola, bagpipes, bodhran
Fabienne Erni – vocals, celtic harp, mandola
Alain Ackermann – drums
Rafael Salzmann – guitars
Jonas Wolf – guitars
Kay Brem – bass
Matteo Sisti – whistles, bagpipes, mandola
Nicole Ansperger – fiddle

Last month ELUVEITIE came back with their new song ‘Aidus’. Today, the band is releasing the brand new lyric video. After the first video for ‘Aidus’ already has more than 700 thousand plays on YouTube, the fantastic lyric video for the song now follows.

Founding member Chrigel Glanzmann comments on the approach:
“Definitely one of the harshest songs of Eluveitie ever. It’s the sheer consequence  of our spiritual journey with “Ategnatos”:
We’re no longer a “Celtic Metal” band… a metal band singing about celtic history. We’re Celts playing metal music from all our hearts.
We’re no more a “Pagan Metal” band. We are metal music playing pagans from all our hearts, gashing principles of our modern societies with our ancient message like a surgical blade.
That’s probably the best way to describe our new single. Deal with it!”

Stream the song here: https://eluveitie.bfan.link/aidus

ELUVEITIE Live Festivals

09.07. DE Ballenstedt – Rockharz Open Air
27.08. DE Schleswig – Baltic Open Air

ELUVEITIE is on tour with Finnish metal veterans AMORPHIS. Check out the band on one of these tour dates:

11.11.              DE       Filderstadt – FILharmonie
13.11.              IT         Milan – Live Club
15.11.              FR        Toulouse – Le Bikini
18.11.              FR        Lyon – Le Radiant
19.11.              FR        Paris – L’Olympia
20.11.              FR        Lille – L’Aeronef
22.11.              IE         Dublin – Academy
23.11.              UK       Glasgow – QMU
24.11.              UK       Manchester – O2 Ritz
25.11.              UK       London – O2 Forum Kentish Town
26.11.              BE        Brussels – Ancienne Belgique
27.11.              NL        Tilburg – O13
29.11.              DK       Copenhagen – Amager Bio
30.11.              NO       Oslo – Sentrum Scene
01.12.              SE        Stockholm – Fallan
05.12.              PL        Warsaw – Progresja
06.12.              DE       Berlin – Huxleys
09.12.              DE       Munich – Zenith
10.12.              DE       Leipzig – Felsenkeller
12.12.              HU       Budapest – Barba Negra
14.12.              DE       Wiesbaden – Schlachthof
15.12.              LU        Esch/Alzette – Rockhal
16.12.              DE       Oberhausen – Turbinenhalle
17.12.              DE       Hamburg – Zeltphilharmonie

After three years of silence, Swiss Metal legends ELUVEITIE step out of the dark again, raising their voices to herald a new era of the band’s stunning career. Today, the band releases their new single ‘Aidus’, following the huge success of their last album Ategnatos but in the same time showing the band from a never-before-seen side.

Founding member Chrigel Glanzmann comments on the approach:
“Definitely one of the harshest songs of Eluveitie ever. It’s the sheer consequence  of our spiritual journey with “Ategnatos”:
We’re no longer a “Celtic Metal” band… a metal band singing about celtic history. We’re Celts playing metal music from all our hearts.
We’re no more a “Pagan Metal” band. We are metal music playing pagans from all our hearts, gashing principles of our modern societies with our ancient message like a surgical blade.
That’s probably the best way to describe our new single. Deal with it!”

The song comes with a new music video that you can check out here:

Stream the song here: https://eluveitie.bfan.link/aidus

ELUVEITIE will tour with Finnish metal veterans AMORPHIS. Check out the band on one of these tour dates:

11.11.              DE       Filderstadt – FILharmonie
13.11.              IT         Milan – Live Club
15.11.              FR        Toulouse – Le Bikini
18.11.              FR        Lyon – Le Radiant
19.11.              FR        Paris – L’Olympia
20.11.              FR        Lille – L’Aeronef
22.11.              IE         Dublin – Academy
23.11.              UK       Glasgow – QMU
24.11.              UK       Manchester – O2 Ritz
25.11.              UK       London – O2 Forum Kentish Town
26.11.              BE        Brussels – Ancienne Belgique
27.11.              NL        Tilburg – O13
29.11.              DK       Copenhagen – Amager Bio
30.11.              NO       Oslo – Sentrum Scene
01.12.              SE        Stockholm – Fallan
05.12.              PL        Warsaw – Progresja
06.12.              DE       Berlin – Huxleys
09.12.              DE       Munich – Zenith
10.12.              DE       Leipzig – Felsenkeller
12.12.              HU       Budapest – Barba Negra
14.12.              DE       Wiesbaden – Schlachthof
15.12.              LU        Esch/Alzette – Rockhal
16.12.              DE       Oberhausen – Turbinenhalle
17.12.              DE       Hamburg – Zeltphilharmonie