★★★★★
Sound: The album begins with an eerie and minimalistic track, "Prologue", with an old man giving a soliloquy. It's startling, bleak, and it definitely sets the tone for the album, after which the real music begins and it carries us through for about twenty minutes. The next track, "Helvetios", is the title track which as far as I understood tells the story of the Helvetian community, the people before Gaulish...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Summary: Helvetios achieves what it sets out to do, but it does not invert the fear that Eluveitie's sound may be starting to wear out 8 of 8 thought this review was well written When it comes to the more vivacious side of folk metal (as opposed to the more metal rooted style presented by bands like Primordial, Falkenbach and Metsatöll), Eluveitie are definitely one of the forerunners of the genre...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Summary: Helvetios achieves what it sets out to do, but it does not invert the fear that Eluveitie's sound may be starting to wear out 8 of 8 thought this review was well written When it comes to the more vivacious side of folk metal (as opposed to the more metal rooted style presented by bands like Primordial, Falkenbach and Metsatöll), Eluveitie are definitely one of the forerunners of the genre...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2012-02-20
★★★★★
Eluveitie are a folk metal act based in Winterthur, Switzerland, with strong Celtic influences. Helvetios is their fifth full-length studio album and first concept release. Most of their lyrics are in Gaulish, officially an extinct language. Eluveitie maintain a revolving line-up of anywhere between eight and ten musicians, performing live with a variety of folk instruments, including tin whistles, bagpipes and hurdy-gurdies. Violin is also featured prominently in their sound...
- exclaim.ca
2012-02-09
★★★★★
"Unfortunately, 'Evocation I' ends up being an album that will probably only inspire certified Gaulish mythology academics." Folk metal is a tough genre to sell to the general metal populace. But bands like Eluvieitie have succeeded in breaking that barrier because they add death grunts and very metal-ish tempos and guitars to traditional pagan and folk instruments...
- www.metalunderground.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
"What was once fresh and creative is now starting to become stale, though the band gets enough material together to pass off 'Everything Remains As It Never Was' as above-average." In 2009, Eluveitie released "Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion," an all-acoustic album that dropped any hints of a melodic death metal sound from earlier albums. It was a risky venture that had a few redeeming qualities, but turned out to be a contrived and lackluster experiment...
- www.metalunderground.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
No matter what bells, whistles, and fiddles you incorporate into extreme metal, folk metal is only as good as how well you marry the two styles. There has to be an even balance: lean too much toward the heavy side, and the acoustic instrumentation feels too tacked-on, but if you lean too far the other way, you're just another cornball Renaissance Faire act. It's a very fine line to walk, but when done capably, it can work extremely well...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-03-11
★★★★★
Sound: Wew, a new Eluveitie album. Its a return to the sound of Slania, but slightly different in many ways. To those who don't know Eluveitie (pronounced 'El-vay-tee' apparently), they are a folk metal band, with a heavy dose of melodic death metal (Or you could put the it other way round, its hard to tell). They come from Switzerland, but play Irish/Celtic folk influenced metal...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2010-03-05
★★★★★
Sound: After Spirit, Eluveitie goes on with a more approachable sound. This means nothing less than quite a positive evolution in the way they present their music. In a sea of folk metal bands we have today, Eluveitie presents it's innovation in the "area" of folk music they fuse with metal - that being Celtic folk music. Spirit presented to us the "spirit" of this music, and Slania is merely an evolved picture of it...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
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