Chrigel Glanzmann Kay Brem Rafael Salzmann Matteo Sisti Jonas Wolf Alain Ackermann Nicole Ansperger Fabienne Erni Annie Riediger
Past members
Philipp Reinmann Mättu Ackerman Yves Tribelhorn Dani Fürer Gian Albertin Dario Hofstetter Dide Marfurt Severin Binder Linda Suter Sarah Wauquiez Sevan Kirder Rafi Kirder Siméon Koch Meri Tadić Patrick "Päde" Kistler Ivo Henzi Merlin Sutter Anna Murphy Shir-Ran Yinon Michalina Malisz
Website
www.eluveitie.ch
Eluveitie (/ɛlˈveɪti/el-VAY-tee; German:[ɛlˈfaɪ̯tiː])[1] is a Swiss folk metal band from Winterthur, Zürich, founded in 2002 by Chrigel Glanzmann. The project's first demo, Vên, was released in 2003. Vên was a studio project of Glanzmann's, but its success led to the recruitment of a full band. The band then released a full-length album, Spirit, in June 2006. In November 2007, Eluveitie was signed by Nuclear Blast.[2] The group rose to fame following the release of their first major-label album, Slania, in February 2008. The album peaked at number 35 in the Swiss charts and number 72 in the German charts.[3][4]
The band's style incorporates characteristics of melodic death metal combined with the melodies of traditional Celtic music. They use traditional European instruments, including the hurdy-gurdy and bagpipes, amidst guitars and both clean and harsh vocals. Their lyrics include references to Celtic mythology, particularly of Celtic Gaul. The lyrics are often in a reconstructed form of the extinct ancient language Gaulish. The name of the band comes from graffiti on a vessel from Mantua (c. 300 BC).[5] The inscription in Etruscan letters reads eluveitie, which has been interpreted as the Etruscan form of the Celtic *(h)elvetios (“the Helvetian”), presumably referring to a man of Helvetian descent living in Mantua.[6]
^Chrigel Glanzmann: "Eluveitie is a name in Gaulish language, which is an ancient Celtic language. Since it's not a living language anymore, nobody really knows how it's pronounced like. All we have today of this language is scientific reconstruction and in today's science it's pronounced as "El-Vey-Ti", but really, it's hard to know." :: Metalist Magazine :: Interviews :: Eluveitie
^"Eluveitie signs with Nuclear Blast Records". Blabbermouth.net. 14 November 2007. Archived from the original on 22 April 2009. Retrieved 4 December 2007.
^"Slania". Swisscharts.com. Archived from the original on 24 May 2008. Retrieved 27 July 2008.
^"NUCLEAR BLAST rocks German charts". Blabbermouth.net. 8 March 2008. Archived from the original on 23 April 2008. Retrieved 27 July 2008.
^Reproduction in Raffaele Carlo De Marinis, Gli Etruschi a nord del Po, Mantova, 1986.
^Stifter, David. "MN·2 – Lexicon Leponticum". An Interactive Online Etymological Dictionary of Lepontic. University of Vienna. Archived from the original on 6 November 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
Eluveitie (/ɛlˈveɪti/ el-VAY-tee; German: [ɛlˈfaɪ̯tiː]) is a Swiss folk metal band from Winterthur, Zürich, founded in 2002 by Chrigel Glanzmann. The...
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