We are very excited to announce our first show in India: On February 7th, 2010 we will play the Alcheringa Xtreme Festival in Guwahati/India! Visit www.alcheringa.org for more informations!
- Eluveitie
We are very excited to announce our first show in India: On February 7th, 2010 we will play the Alcheringa Xtreme Festival in Guwahati/India! Visit www.alcheringa.org for more informations!
Here you go:
As you can imagine we are currently planning a big ass touring cycle for our upcoming album "Everything Remains (as it never was)", starting with Paganfest Europe in February 2010. And since we thought you might wanna get involved you'll find a brand new eventful widget in the touring section on our Myspace page at www.myspace.com/eluveitie - just click on "Demand it!" and enter your city or directly visit www.eventful.com/eluveitie!
Of course we can't promise to make it to every city but as always we do take your input seriously and your help & feedback is much appreciated!
As promised we have just uploaded "Thousandfold", a first song off the upcoming album "Everything Remains (As It Never Was)" plus the video for the song, shot in Poland by Grupa 13 (Behemoth, Sonata Arctica, www.grupa13.com) on our Myspace page (www.myspace.com/eluveitie). Please enjoy & let us know what you think about it!
ELUVEITIE - Thousandfold
ELUVEITIE - the new wave of folk metal | MySpace Music Videos
Read Nuclear Blast's statement below:
"Swiss folk metal superstars ELUVEITIE set up an artwork contest for their upcoming radio / club single „Thousandfold" and therefore ask their fans to come up with some killer art! The winning artwork will be printed on the cardboard sleeve of the new single + the winner will get the chance to meet ELUVEITIE on the upcoming Paganfest tour and will of course receive a copy of the single!
Send your artworks to eluveitie@nuclearblast.de until January 3, 2010 the latest - the winner will be announced on January 4! Please submit .jpg-files, 300 dpi, 15x15 cm minimum!!! Please make sure, the file is no bigger than 15 MB!!! Also please keep the original .psd files including layers etc. if needed!
Commented mainman Chrigel Glanzmann: „"Thousandfold" is about the ambivalent character of Orgetorix, a Helvetian lord and freedom fighter who lived in times of the Gaulish war." version" of the occurances drafted later by the roman emperor in „De Bello Gallico" which can primarly be labeled as political propaganda. We tried to figure out what really could have occured. So give your creative vein full scope, give it a go and draw the beste artwork fort his song! The best one will be the cover of the clubsingle! We're looking forward to all your submissions! This will be really exciting!"
„Thousandfold" comes off the brandnew ELUVEITIE album „Everything Remains" which will be released on February 19, 2010 via Nuclear Blast Records! The song including its video clip will debut at the bands MySpace profile (www.myspace.com/eluveitie) on December 23, 2009!"
...We are looking forward to see your submissions!
As you might have seen in the second Youtube-trailer for our upcoming album we will premiere the first song off "Everything Remains (as it never was)" as well as the new video for the "Thousandfold" on our Myspace page on the 23rd of December!
The next chance to hear some new stuff will be at our two headlining shows in France next weekend:
...we hope to see you there!
As you can see the design of our website and our myspace (still under construction) have been changed to fit the artwork of our upcoming album "Everything Remains (As It Never Was)". Also some of the contents have been updated. We hope you enjoy the new graphics & check by regularly for further updates on the new album!
Also don't forget to get your tickets for the upcoming doubleshow next weekend - after all it'll be the exclusive first chance to listen to the complete album after both shows!
11/12/09 - Eluveitie Show & Album Prelistening, Bad Bonn Club, Düdingen / Switzerland Tickets: Starticket
12/12/09 - Eluveitie Show & Album Prelistening, Bad Bonn Club, Düdingen / Switzerland Tickets: Starticket
Back from our successful run through the US & Canada we thought it's about time to do something special here in Switzerland. So what we thought of is the following: On December 11th & 12th Eluveitie will play two shows at the Bad Bonn Club in Düdingen (between Bern & Fribourg), featuring two different very special sets as well as some extras:
-> Tickets for the first Show: http://www.starticket.ch/0showlist.asp?Language=D&txtSearch=badbonn
-> Tickets for the second Show: http://www.starticket.ch/0showlist.asp?Language=D&txtSearch=badbonn
And, as if that wasn't enough yet - on BOTH nights our NEW ALBUM WILL BE PLAYED IN FULL LENGTH after the show, and during that exclusive pre-listening you will of course get your chance to chat with the band, get your stuff signed, and be the very first ones to let us know what you think about the new material.
www.badbonn.ch
Some of you might have heard some rumours about it already... and it’s true, we’re heavily working on our new album!
Since since 2,5 weeks already we’re in the studio, recording our next sword blow. Drums and most of the guitars are already nailed!
And as yet we are really, really satisfied. I mean really! :) We’ve decided to record our upcoming album in the famous Swiss Newsound studios, owned and run by none lesser than Coroner mastermind Tommy Vetterli (also Ex-Kreator and former live guitarist of Vodoo Cult)!
And so far it is hell of a pleasure to work with him, engeneering and recording the album! It’s great to profit of his enormeous experience (both, as producer/engeneer, as well as musician) on one hand, but also to work and have a good time with him as a very likeable and down-to-earth guy on the other hand.
And judging after how the so far recorded tracks sound, this album will definitely cleave your heads open!
The album will be mixed by the british soundforge god Colin Richardson (Behemoth, Machine Head, Kreator, Sepultura, Carcass, Slipknot, As I Lay Dying, Trivium and many more).
And this brings me to the next thing to mention: Yes, after an acoustic release we’re thoroughly up for a massive metal album again! So “Evocation I” kinda became the well known “calm before the storm”.
Some of the songs on this album I began to write quite a long time ago, some others developped in a very short time during the last couple of months. All in all I think that this album becomes our most dark and severe release so far - brimmed with mystical, convoluted and partly insanely fast celtic folk melody lines, but at the same time with pure, juggernautish metal. The album’s probably more ‘metal’ than any other release we did so far.
So stay tuned!
I wish all of you some great and pleasant autum weeks! We’ll be back with more news in a while... but for now I have to go ‘back to work’ and prepare some angry and nasty vocal recordings.
Cheers from the studio
Chrigel
After the unfortunate cancellation of our slot on the last run of Paganfest USA we told you we'd be back to make up for it, so here you go - starting in Worcester, MA on the 3rd of November we will headline the Heathenfest America tour, presenting both metal and acoustic songs on 21 shows in North America & Canada.
Check out the dates below and visit & add myspace.com/heathenfestusawhere you will also be given the opportunity to pre-order your tickets within the next few days. Other bands on the billing are Belphegor, Alestorm, Vreid & Kivimetsän Druidi.
Check out the dates below & we hope to see you at (at least) one of the shows!
HEATHENFEST US & CANADIAN DATES:
Nov 3 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
Nov 4 Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
Nov 5 Montreal, QC @ Le National
Nov 6 New York, NY @ The Gramercy Theater
Nov 7 Cleveland, OH @ Peabodys
Nov 8 Detroit, MI @ Blondie's
Nov 9 St Paul, MN @ Station 4
Nov 10 Chicago, IL @ Jaguar Club
Nov 12 Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
Nov 13 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
Nov 14 Orlando, FL @ TBA
Nov 16 San Antonio, TX @ Warehouse Music Venue
Nov 17 Ft Worth, TX @ Ridglea Theater
Nov 18 Albuquerque, NM @ Launchpad
Nov 19 Tempe, AZ @ The Sets
Nov 20 Hollywood, CA @ The Roxy Theater
Nov 21 San Marcos, CA @ The Jumping Turtle
Nov 22 San Francisco, CA @ DNA Lounge
Nov 23 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theater
Nov 24 Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
Nov 25 Vancouver, BC @ Red Room
More infos & updates will follow on a regular basis from now on, so stay tuned.
SEE YOU THERE! CHEERS!
We are very glad to announce that our new Album "Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion" (Nuclear Blast / Warner) hast entered the swiss album charts on Nr. 20 as well as the german charts on Nr. 60 in the first week of sales. Thanks!
Furthermore we'd like to remind you of our official RELEASEPARTY tomorrow! This event will take place tomorrow, May 1st, at the Sounddock 14 club in Dietikon / Switzerland (www.sounddock14.ch) and feature an almost 2-hour long Show including an acoustic set as well as a signing session and of course meet & greet with the band. Support will be done by Cruszt (who will also celebrate the release of their new album) and Schwarzlicht, new Merchandise as well as of course the new Album will be available at the location! Doors will open at 7 p.m., the shows start at 8.
We hope to see you all there!
Tomorrow, April 24th, Eluveitie will play a very special 20-minute showcase for Radio Chablais at the "Pont Rouge" Club in Monthey, Switzerland. Entry is FREE! This short set will only include acoustic songs off the new album "Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion" (Nuclear Blast / Warner) and will be aired live on Radio Chablais (www.radiochablais.ch). Here's the schedule for the evening:
20:00: Underschool Element (acoustic rock)
20:30: Eluveitie (acoustic showcase)
21:00: Water Lily (electro rock)
21:30: Phoniques (alternative post rock)
30 Minutes after the show the band will be available for meet & greet and a signing session. New Merchandise as well as the new Album will be available at the location!
The venue's Adress:
Pont Rouge
Avenue de la Plantaud 122
1870 Monthey 1
We hope to see you all there!

Eluveitie
Hails!
First of all we'd like to thank all the people that showed up and partied with us last weekend at the Kiff in Aarau and the Salzhaus in Winterthur (the first shows we presented a couple of Evocation tracks live)! You guys rocked like hell! Likewise a phat "thank you!" goes out to our friends from Tribes Of Caïn - once again it was a huge fuckin feast with you guys! Cheers!
Meanwhile we're happy to finally announce you that it worked out after all to arrange a proper Evocation-release party (thanks to Rock Rainbow), after the release got postponed at last minute!
On may 1st we'll throw a double release party at Sounddock 14 together with the death metallers from Cruszt, who also release a new album!
We'll bring along our new CD of course and also new merchandise... an probably one or two surprises!
So we hope to see many of you on may 1st and to feast with you!
Cheers!
Finally some news again!
First of all we have to announce that in the CD press facory some things went wrong, the press master had some defects. So, the complete press master had to be fabricated again. Unfortunatly that entailed that the announced release date (april 11th) cannot be kept! We are sorry for these awkward circumstance.
The release of “Evocation I – the arcane dominion” is now officially set to april 17th (one week later).
But meanwhile we will already give you a foretaste on our acoustic album during our two upcoming shows:
There we will already present you a couple of acoustic tracks off “Evocation I” – the very first live appearances of these songs!
So, we hope you show up there and feast with us! Tickets can be purchased here, by the way: starticket
Furthermore there's another reason to pop the corks: Metal Hammer turns 25!
Note: This album is only be available with the next issue of Metal Hammer and won't be purchasable otherwise!
Cheers & see you soon!
Your Eluveitie camp
We are very sorry to announce that we will not be able to make it to this years edition of Paganfest USA after all. Below you can find Rock The Nation's official statement! We would like to make clear that this was in no way the decision of the band and that we all were looking forward to do this tour a lot. Also we are working on a replacement tour within 2009 where we'll hopefully also be able to play a special showcase featuring songs off our upcoming acoustic release "Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion" (due April 11th). We will be back for sure 'cause you guys truly rock and we did not forget the warm welcome we've received on Paganfest I & Death By Decibels!
Read Rock The Nation's statement here:
"Hello to all Pagan folks out there!
We’re almost here for the second edition of PaganFest America and are very excited for this years tour. With the anticipation continuing to mount, this will be THE tour to attend this year, we promise! On a related note, there have been some changes to the tour line up. Unfortunately, Swiss folk band ELUVEITIE will no longer be able to make it on this edition and we’ve decided that it would be wiser to wait for the band to return in the fall since they’ve already played during PaganFest America 2008’s touring cycle. On the bright side, ELUVEITIE will return on a new tour we are currently working on (yes…we’re working on something very cool for this Fall) where ELUVEITIE will play an acoustic and a full metal set and it will be worth the wait. Stay tuned for more info to come!
With this being said, we have increased the playing times of all the bands on PaganFest America and whether you come for your favorite or for all of the bands, you will get the set time you and the bands deserve!"
...good news at the new years dawn! :)
As some of you might know, we’re in the studio right now, nailing our upcoming accoustic album Evocation I - the arcane dominion! More news will follow during the next two weeks!
But before this year’s over, we’d like to come up with a couple of pretty nice news!
First of all we’re happy and proud to announce our new webshop! From now on, we have our own little webshop, filled with our albums of course and as well our own exclusive merchandise! After a while diverse merch articles, snips and goodies will be added. So, klick at “market square” in the frame check it out!
So... there’s nothing else to say than: See you on the road again!
And until then we wish all of you a happy and metallish new year!
cheers
your Elu-camp
Hails!
Finally again some news! The longer radio silence wasn't because we were lazy of course, but because we're terribly busy at the moment - heavily working on the production of our upcoming acoustic album Evocation I!
However: First of all we really apologize we had to cancel our appearance @ the Brainstorm Festival. Merlin's doing better again and we will for sure play the upcoming Rock'N'Iasi Festival in Romania!
Furthermore: Just last week we came back home from the Heidenfest tour… which turned out to be one of the most amazing tours we ever did. A tour together with awesome bands, awesome musicians and awesome friends - and on top absolutely great crowds!
It was a heathen FEAST for sure and from all our hearts we hail and thank:
- Finntroll, Primordial, Equilibrium, Catamenia & Manegarm for being who you are
- the crew: Günther & David the great (tm/booking), Malta, Shymon & Kate (sound) and Nick and Oana (merch) for great company and incredible jobs!
- and the crowds: All of you who joined the Heidenfest! It was great to feast with you!
We definitely look forward to share stage and beer again with you guys!
cheers!
Hails!
Finally some news again! First of all we’re happy to announce (even if we’re a bit late ;)) the release of our first live album!
As a little foretaste of our upcoming European tour a special release our album Slania is now out in stores: Slania tour edition!
A noble boxset including two CD’s: The regular album plus the live album "live @ metalcamp 2008"!
A first review of the album you can find here (german only).
Check it out!
Furthermore we’re just recovering our jet lag. :) Yesterday evening we came back home tired but safely from the “Death By Decibels” USA/Canada tour!
Looking back to a successful tour through the “new world” and one month of lots of work, lots of fun and a shitload of rock’n’roll, we’d like to salute and thank:
- Maurizio & Kataklysm, Keep Of Kalessin, Dying Fetus, Arsis as well as all local support bands
- Meloul & every single one of the tour crew
- David the great ;)
- Nick (merchandise)
- Tom & Alex (probably the greatest Tourbus drivers in the world!)
At the moment we’re enjoying having Swiss ground on our feet again, but nevertheless we’re more than ready and looking forward to foray Europe again and kick your asses @ the Heidenfest tour, which starts in only three days!
So... see you on the road again!
Cheers!
ELUVEITIE
And once again we'll hit the road of rock'n'roll!
While it was rumoured during the last few weeks and on diverse websites several concerts have been announced already, we’re happy we can now officially confirm it: We’ll travel through Canada and the USA again this year, before we’ll sally forth to lay waste Europe’s cities on the Heidenfest Tour 08 in November!
In late September we’ll gather together with our Canadian friends from Kataklysm, the Americans death metal & grindcore beasts Dying Fetus and melodic black metal whizkids Keep Of Kalessin from Norway to raid the “new world” again! On some dates, the US death metallers from Arsis will join the tour.
On our tour last may we had to cancel the Canada shows unfortunately – yet here we have a little “reparation” for our Canadian fans now: On the Death By Decibels Tour 2008 we’ll play the Canadian shows as co-headliner and bestow you a fat kick-ass set!
Click on the flyer to check the dates:

So... see you there!
Cheers
Eluveitie
Soon Summerbreeze is here!
Summerbreeze is not just a great festival, which we're looking forward to play at again. But it will also be the premiere with our new line-up! The first show with Kay on bass and Päde on whistles and bagpipes!
You will also have the opportunity to sound the two fellas out, for on Friday the 15th of August between 4:00pm and 5:00pm we'll visit the booth of metal.de for a signing session! So don't forget to show up!
We're looking forward to a great fucking feast with all of you and also to once again see some familiar faces and drink some beers with you... until everything gets dark. ;)
During the last couple of weeks we received many applications for the two vacant positions in our band. We’d like to use this opportunity to thank all musicians who contacted us for their messages, efforts and interest in our band. We read all applications assiduously and thought a lot about the whole thing.
Now we are very pleased to announce that we have decided for two new band members! And we are as confident to have found two awesome musicians and as we’re proud and happy to introduce them to you:
Päde Kistler
Playing diverse kinds of bagpipes, as well as whistles and acoustic guitars, Päde is a multi-instrumentalist and especially an experienced piper!
To some of you (especially the folk interested guys) Päde might not be unfamiliar: He used to proof his abilities as musician and also as disarming performer in the Swiss folk band Branâ Keternâ, where also Meri and Chrigel used to play. So we esteem Päde since a couple of years, both as great musician as well as a fantastic guy and friend.
Kay Brem
Being a long-time rock’n’roll bastard of the Swiss metal scene, Kay makes a very skilled bass player that will for sure kick your asses as hell. Kay formerly played with the Swiss metal machines Cataract and Tribes Of Caïn and honoured or rather ravaged countless stages all over Europe. As Päde, we also got to know and esteem Kay as a great musician and person quite a while ago.
Hails from the Eluveitie-Camp!
Unfortunately we have bad news for you:
Due to an recent injury of our drummer Merlin we are forced to cancel our appearance at the "Rock am Härtsfeldsee". We'd like to apologize to our fans, to the organisators and everyone else involved. We only take measures like this in the worst possible case.
We wish all the visitors and organisators of the “Rock am Härtsfeldsee” even without us a supercool festival!
Merlin has to save himself at the moment, but he's on the mend. We'll play all further shows as announced. So, see you at Metalcamp!
Cheers Eluveitie
After a long time playing together with us, Sevan (flute, whistles, bagpipes) and Rafi (bass) decided to leave Eluveitie. Both of them came to this desicion due to personal reasons.
Both, Sevan and Rafi, were longtime members. Sevan was with Eluveitie from the very beginning on. So their step was kind of a shock for us. Yet we also understand and accept their desicion. We won't forget the years we spent together and we wish Sevan and Rafi all the very best on their future musical as well as personal ways! "Thank you both for your dedication and for the time we spent together the last four years! Take care & horns raised!!!"
Hails everybody
Finally our website is working again - thanks to our webmaster Michi!
Meanwhile the Paganfest tour 2008 is over!
Contently we look back at a very successful tour and good eight weeks filled with fucking great moments. If you’re interested - we wrote a tour diary during the European part of the tour. You can check it out here:
Paganfest tourdiary
Since the Paganfest tour ended now, we’d like to use this opportunity to say thank you and until the next time to Týr, Korpiklaani, Moonsorrow, Turisas and Ensiferum! Well, words actually can’t express... just thank you for all the precious moments we shared! It really rocked to be on the road with you guys. Especially we raise our horns to fucking Terji Skibenæs from Týr who replaced our guitarist Simeon during the US tour! You rocked as hell!
And also we’d like to cordially thank the whole tour crew:
Without you guys working in “the backround”, this tour would not have been possible! Thank you so much for everything!
And speaking of tours… there are some pretty good news (as some of you already might know):
We’re happy to announce we’ll hit the road again during the Heidenfest tour 2008 in November, together with Finntroll, Primordial, Equilibrium, Manegarm and Catamenia! Be prepared!
Click on the tour logo below to see the dates:

So… see you there again!
Horns raised
ELUVEITIE
Hails everybody!
When we'll come back home from the Paganfest USA tour, we won't be lazy but keep on feasting with you on Europes summerfestivals! Germanys Rock am Härtsfeldsee and Helvetias Rocksound Festival are the latest additions.
So far confirmed are:
- 06.06.08 Rocksound Festival / Switzerland
- 07.06.08 Fiesta Pagana / Switzerland
- 22.06.08 Hellfest / France
- 28.06.08 Rock am Härtfeldsee / Germany
- 07.07.08 Metalcamp / Slovenia
- 19.07.08 Kaltenbach Openair / Austria
- 26.07.08 Rockin Field Festival
- 14.08.08 Summerbreeze Openair / Germany
- 15.08.08 Bloodstock Openair / UK
Regarding our upcoming US tour we sadly have to announce that our guitarist Siméon Koch isn't able to come with us, due to several organisational reasons. We'll definitely miss him during those weeks.
Yet we're glad that we've found a worthy replacement for him in Týrs TERJI SKIBENAES! Terji will friendly step in for Sime during the US dates of the Paganfest tour.
So we raise our horns to the Faroese Islands! ;) And we're glad we can also reward Týrs helpfullness: Since Týrs drummer Kári Streymoy isn't able to join the tour due to an injury, our thrashing bastard Merlin Sutter will step in and play with Týr accessorily during the US tour.
Cheers
Eluveitie
Hails everybody
Beside everything else we've been pretty busy doing interviews during the last few months. We will from times to times now update our interview-section. Check it out! Here comes first article from Germanys Metalhammer online - checkt our interview-section. out or visit ! Metal Hammer online .
Cheers
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The new Forum is online!
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15 days to go... And we got more stuff for you!
First we've been busy the last days producing a nice "EPK" for you... Watch the result on our Myspace page now! The short video includes previews of "Samon (acoustic)", "Primordial Breath", "Inis Mona", "The Somber Lay", "Bloodstained Ground", "Gray Sublime Archon" & "Slanias Song"!!
And second we've also uploaded our new Video for "Inis Mona".... Enjoy!
Hails!
We're happy to announce two special events related to the release of our upcoming album!
First of all, there will be a release party live show at the Gaswerk in Winterthur (www.gaswerk.ch) on Saturday the 16th of February 2008! Further details about special guests, support acts and surprises will be announced soon!
Furthermore we'll have the pleasure to visit Zürich's Knochenhaus (www.knochenhaus.ch) - Helvetias finest musicstore for metal! - on Saturday the 23th of February! Between 14:00 and 16:00 we'll be there for this special little release fest - to have some good time with you and share some mead or beer-filled horns! :D
Finally, all the dates for the US-leg of our upcoming Paganfest Tour are confirmed! The latest & last additions are:
May 8, House Of Blues, Hollywood / California May 9, Fat City, San Francisco / California May 13, The Launchpad, Albuquerque / New Mexico May 19, The Masquerade, Atlanta / Georgia May 20, Volume 11, Raleigh / North Carolina May 21, Crocodile Rock, Allentown / Pennsylvania
Also we are glad to hear that SUIDAKRA will join the Tour from May 5 to May 10 - visit their space at www.myspace.com/suidakra!
...And last but not least:
The tickets to the PaganFest USA Tour are on sale now!
If you haven’t already purchased your tickets, look at the list below, and do it NOW!
April 25 - The Opera House
Toronto, ON - CANADA
Purchase Thru: TicketMaster.com
April 26 - Le Medley
Montreal, QC - CANADA
April 27 - The Palladium
Worcester, MA
April 28 - Jaxx
W. Springfield, VA
Purchase Thru: TicketMaster.com
April 29 - Peabody's Down Under
Cleveland, OH
Purchase Thru: TicketMaster.com
April 30 - Harpo's Concert Theatre<
Detroit, MI
Purchase Thru: TicketMaster.com
May 1 - The Pearl Room
Mokena, IL
Purchase Thru: TicketMaster.com
May 2 - Station 4
St. Paul, MN
Purchase Thru: TicketMaster.com
May 3 - Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom
Denver, CO
Purchase Thru: TicketMaster.com
May 5 - Studio Seven
Seattle, WA
[w/ special guests, SUIDAKRA (Germany)]
May 6 - Hawthorne Theater
Portland, OR
[w/ special guests, SUIDAKRA (Germany)]
May 7 - The Boardwalk
Orangevale, CA
[w/ special guests, SUIDAKRA (Germany)]
May 8 - House of Blues
Hollywood, CA
[w/ special guests, SUIDAKRA (Germany)]
Purchase Thru: TicketMaster.com
May 9 - Fat City
San Francisco, CA
[w/ special guests, SUIDAKRA (Germany)]
May 10 - The Vault 350
Long Beach, CA
[w/ special guests, SUIDAKRA (Germany)]
Purchase Thru: WaveSoundTickets.com
May 11 - The Cell Block
Phoenix, AZ
May 12 - Chic's Bar and Billiards
El Paso, TX
May 13 - The Launchpad
Albuquerque, NM
Purchase Thru: HoldMyTicket.com
May 14 - Crush Lounge
Tulsa, OK
May 15 - Ridglea Theater
Ft. Worth, TX
Purchase Thru: FrontGateTickets.com
May 16 - The White Rabbit
San Antonio, TX
Purchase Thru: DetourTickets.com
May 17 - Java Jazz
Houston, TX
May 19 - The Masquerade
Atlanta, GA
Purchase Thru: TicketMaster.com
May 20 - Volume 11
Raleigh, NC
May 21 - Crocodile Rock Cafe
Allentown, PA
Purchase Thru: TicketMaster.com
May 22 - BB Kings Blues Club
New York, NY
That's right:
Germany / Switzerland / Austria: February 15th, 2008
Rest of the World (except the USA): February 18th, 2008
USA: March 11th, 2008
We've just uploaded another preview for you.... Enjoy a short edit of "Bloodstained Ground", one of the faster Songs on the Album, on our Myspace now!
Furthermore we're very glad to announce that on Tuesday, January 29th, our new video for "Inis Mona" will face it's premiere on YAHOO's Hellfest (www.yahoo.de/hellfest)! Don't miss it....
A LOT more updates & of course more album previews will follow within the next days... Stay tuned!
2008 is near - and the release of our new album Slania is coming closer!
While you've probably been enjoying your holidays we haven't been lazy, so here you go with some goodies for the start of the new year... first of all:
Tonight, at 00:00 CET, we will upload a first song out of our new album Slania, called "Inis Mona" to myspace.com/eluveitie
Check out the new new wave of folk metal on our newly designed Myspace-page!
...while some notes on the new song as well as even more good news will follow up tomorrow!
Furthermore we’re happy to reveal the final cover artwork for Slania done by Manuel Vargas:
We wish all of you a happy new year! Horns raised!
Chrigel
Some nice news on winter solstice day!
We're pleased to announce this day that another date for the US Paganfest-Tour is confirmed:
08th May 08 House of blues; Hollywood CA
Furthermore Eluveitie's confirmed for the Summerbreeze openair 2008! See you there!
Regarding our forthcoming album Slania we'll come up with some good news and teasers in some few days! So stay tuned!
Have a nice feast!
Chrigel
Two more shows for the US leg of our upcoming Paganfest-Tour have been confirmed: On the 3rd of May 2008 we'll play the Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom in Denver, Colorado and on May 14th the Crush Lounge in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Furthermore there's a little goodie for our french fans and everyone else that can make it to the Cernunnos Pagan Fest in Paris next Sunday - This very special Concert will be the first occasion ever (and the only one this year) to hear 3 brand new Songs live on Stage! Make sure you get a ticket if you don't have yours yet ;)
A few more dates have been confirmed for the upcoming Pagan Fest Tour in April / May 2008:
Apr 2 Tivoli - Bremen - Germany
Apr 30 Harpo's - Detroit, Michigan - USA
May 1 The Pearl Room - Chicago, Illinois - USA
May 6 Hawthorne Theater - Portland, Oregon - USA
May 7 The Boardwalk - Sacramento, California - USA
May 17 Java Jazz - Houston, Texas - USA
May 22 BB King's Blues Club - New York City - USA
Unfortunately the date in Slowenia (April 15th) has been cancelled... We are sorry about that & hope to know more about a replacement date soon!
...But we are happy to announce that Eluveitie has been confirmed for Hellfest Open Air 2008 in Clisson / France! For more info's check www.hellfest.fr...
More dates will follow soon... Hope to see you on Tour & stay tuned!
Finally we'll hit the road of rock'n'roll again!
We're very pleased to announce our upcoming spring tour through Europe, Canada and the USA.
We’ll gather together with Ensiferum, Korpiklaani, Moonsorrow, Turisas and Týr to raid your country on this crusade and feast the Paganfest with you! Please also check myspace.com/paganfest and if you’re from the states myspace.com/paganfestusa.
Here you go with the dates. Note that many dates more (especially in the USA) will be added during the next days and weeks!
So... see you there!
Horns raised
Eluveitie
Here you go with some news about our upcoming full lenght album Slania, to be released on 15th of February 2008 on Nuclear Blast Records!
First of all you may have noticed our websites brand new dress! This is a pretaste of what the new albums artwork will look like... Right these days graphic artist Manuel Vargas is about to accomplish the album cover, which we might reveal during the next few weeks.
Also you find a new rubric in the menu “band”: “new album”. Therein you’ll find further informations about Slania on a regulary basis. Beside it may be announced, that we’re finally be able to relaunch a proper forum soon!
Furthermore we can now reveal the tracklist of the new album:
Expect an album brimmed with the finest blend of mystical tunes of Celtic heritage and razing metal surges!
Read Nuclear Blasts statement about Slania here:
“Musically it´s the perfection of the first album, but still there is enough room to give some new influences a chance. Expect nothing less than a masterpiece of hellish heavy folk metal with an x-factor!”
Furthermore we are happy to announce that we have been confirmed for the BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR 2008 ! More news about Shows & Tours will follow within the next few days, so, once again:
Stay tuned!
Great news we have for you these days! While being busy finishing up the production of Slania and working on our Evocation-concept, we still found the time to travel to Donzdorf in Germany for a few beers & a talk with the people of Nuclear Blast Records (nuclearblast.de / nuclearblastusa.com)...
Not only did they make us drunk as hell, but they also impressed us with a great artist roster, 20 Years of incredible work (happy birthday Nuclear Blast!) and their professional but still very "metal" staff.
So we did what had to be done - we came, we saw and we signed. We are looking forward to many years of great work together with one of the worlds biggest record companys in metal and are glad to announce that our new full-lenght record Slania will join the legions of legendary albums released by Nuclear Blast at FEBRUARY 15th, 2008!
Now you'll probably remember a news-entry of some weeks ago, telling you about Evocation I & II on Twilight Records... You remember right, and no: We weren't drunk. ;) But we are very happy that Twilight and Nuclear Blast decided to join forces, so Twilight will take care of our back-catalogue (Spirit is being re-released by Twilight these days & our first EP Vên will follow in Spring 2008 - check www.twilight-vertrieb.com!) while Evocation I (that's right: it's gonna be two full albums!) will be released through NB in Winter 2008.
We are very happy with where things were going now, and you can expect to hear a lot from us & about our new album within the next few weeks... stay tuned!
Horns up & slaínte!
Eluveitie
We are sorry for the long silence - the reason is we have been quite busy the last weeks, and here's the result:
Firstly we have to announce that the release of our album "Slania" will be delayed. It is now definitely postponed to next year!
But don't be disappointed, for we have some damn good reasons for this: As we notified good two months ago, we were also working on purely accoustic folk material. This project - originally intended as an MCD only - has grown into something much larger during the writing process, so we are happy and proud to announce that twilight records will release one complete full-length album brimmed with mystical celtic folk music as well as an additional MCD with some new waves of folk metal!
Both releases - belonging together conceptual - deal with ancient Gaulish mythology. Lyrically the songs dip from the source: Diverse ancient Gaulish texts that have been discovered as stone carvings, metal engravings, etc. These two conceptual releases are an in-depth voyage through the Celtic soul!
"Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion" (album) & "Evocation II - Visions" (MCD) are both to be released through twilight on the 15th of February 2008 and also include performances of several renowed guest-musicians - during the next weeks more will be revealed bit by bit. Stay tuned!
Here you go already with some first details of the Evocation artwork that is done by Manuel Vargas Lepiz, who has so far worked for artists like Mortiis, Fanoe and others. Enjoy!
Furthermore we can announce that twilight records will also re-release our current album Spirit within the next weeks. As some of you may have recognized Spirit has been sold out a few weeks ago and wasn't available anymore due to some unlucky circumstances. hereby we would like to thank the pople from fear dark records for their great work during the last years... Without you guys we wouldn't be where we are right now! We apologize to the ones of you that tried to get their hands on Spirit in during the last weeks.
For further info on the Evocation-releases, news about Slania and big news about upcoming tours stay tuned. There's a lot coming up!
SF2 (2nd Swisstelevision)
Sa, 01.09.2007,
01:55 - 02:25 Uhr
Musicnight: Eluveitie
Rock Sound Festival Huttwil 2007
Don't miss it!
-Sevan
On Saturday the 17th August we’ll play @ the Barther Metal Openair in Germany.
Right after that we’ll head for Sweden to start our recording works in the Fascination Street studio. Due to the travelling circumstances, we were unfortunately forced to leave very early on Saturday evening... and so we had to switch our show at the Barther Metal Openair to an earlier slot! We fortunately could change our slot with the German Death Metal band Golem , which would have played earlier. We really thank Golem as well as Heiko/BMOA for their flexibility!!!
So, now our show will start at 6 o’clock in the evening!
See you there! Horns raised!
- Chrigel
Hails!
We're back from a exhausting but also very exciting weekend - playing @ Switzerlands Rocksound Festival, the Summernights Festival in Austria and the Graspop Metal Meeting in Belgium.
Remains to say THANK YOU to the organisators, especially Günther @ Summernights Festival and Bob @ Graspop! You guys really did hell of a job!
Also thanks and cheers to all the bands we shared stage and beers and had good times with!
And most of all: Thanks and raised horns to the amazing crowds, especially the several thousands, that made into the Graspop Marquee to see our show! You all rocked as hell!
Cheers!
- Chrigel
Hails!
These days we’re heavily busy with the pre-production of our new songs. Guess, things sound promising so far. :)
Expect an album brimmed with the finest blend of mystical tunes of Celtic heritage and razing metal surges... be prepared!
During the following weeks we might be able to reveal first artworks for the album! Later we'll come up with a track list. Also some news concerning our upcoming Folk-MCD will follow!
Horns raised!
Chrigel
Hails once again!
Firstly we'd like to announce a campain of the Earthshaker Fest, where we'll play in July: From now on the Earthaker Fest regularly gets chat-hours with bands playing at this years edition going! On thursday the 19th of April it will be our turn. So - anybody who's interested: Join the Earthshaker chatroom tomorrow between 9.00 and 10.00 pm and talk with us! :)

We stocked up on professional autograph cards (format A5; photo-quality). Furthermore we'll only give away autograph cards at our concerts - you'll regularly find us at the merch boot shortly after the show! So, sorry to all those that already placed "orders", which we couldn't fulfill anymore. Hope you understand. Just visit one of our upcoming gigs! :)
Horns raised to all
Chrigel
The work on our next releases is advancing! So, it’s time for another update for you!
Ardently we disclose the title of our upcoming album: Slania
The artwork will, by the way, be realised in cooperation with Manuel Vargas. He’s already done our current bandpictures and lately also worked for acts like Mortiis, Excruciation, Der Eremit, Fanoe and more.
Chrigel
Hails everybody!
...after sunday evening at the Ragnarök Festival in Germanys Lichtenfels and gazillions of beer, all became dark suddenly. ;) Meanwhile we awoke again and look back to a huge party!
So... thanks to Ivo (organisator) for a great festival and most of all to all you freaks in the crowd! You've been an amazing audience and rocked as hell! Horns up! Check out the gallery-section for some impressions of the gig!
Slaínte!
- Chrigel
Hail you barbarians & daredevils! ;)
Contently we come up with probably the last summerfestival update for this year – and announce our performance at Italy’s Eternity Of Rock Festival, the Dong Openair, as well as at the Ultima Ratio Festival (okay, not exactely summer ;)) in Germany and also (finally :)) a home match at the Rocksound Openair!
31.03.07 Ragnarök Festival / Lichtenfels (Germany)
26.05.07 Hellraiser Festival / Leipzig (Germany)
08.06.07 Eternity Of Rock Festival / Prad (Italy)
22.06.07 Rocksound Openair / Huttwil (Switzerland)
23.06.07 Summernights Festival / Strasswalchen (Austria)
24.06.07 Graspop Metal Meeting / Dessel (Belgium)
13.07.07 Dong Openair / Neunkirchen (Germany)
20.07.07 Earthshaker Fest / Rieden (Germany)
21.07.07 Metalcamp Openair / Tolmin (Slowenia)
17.08.07 Summerbreeze Openair / Dinkelsbühl (Germany)
18.08.07 Barther Openair / Barth (Germany)
03.11.07 Ultima Ratio / Oberhausen (Germany)
Horns raised! - Chrigel
We say “thank you” to Helvetia's metalheads!
Metalfactory.ch – one of the most important swiss metal zines – launched the Swiss Metal Polls 2006. We made it into four different ranking lists:
- “Best Swiss band 2006”: 1st place
- “Best Swiss album 2006”: 3rd place
- “Best concert in Switzerland 2006”: 9th place
- “Best newcomer 2006”: 1st place
Eluveitie will headline this year's Fear Dark Festivals! 3 Gigs in Holland together with Immortal Souls (FI), Thy Majestie (IT) & Whispering Gallery (NL) are already confirmed, two more in Germany will follow soon...
These gigs will also be our farewell-shows to our ex-Label Fear Dark Records, make sure you don't miss some very special evenings!
Furthermore our belgian fans already got a first impression of our new material at our gig in Genk... Next chance to hear the new song "Primordial Breath" will be our headlining show at the Sounddock 14 in Dietikon/Switzerland!
- Merlin
Finally the studio is booked! We’re more than happy to announce that we’ll record our upcoming releases at the Fascination Street Studios in Örebro/Sweden (Amon Amarth, Katatonia, Bloodbath, Soilwork, Opeth, and many more), where we’ll also produce the album together with Jens Bogren!
Good news for our Belgian fans: At our gig next Saturday (10th of March) in Genk/Belgium we’ll present a song from the upcoming album for the first time – “Primordial Breath”, the first song written for the new album!
@ all tattoo interested freaks among you: Check out our interview-section. A German webzine published an article about tattoo art in the metal scene, featuring our bassist Rafi Kirder with an interview (the interview's available here in english and german; the whole article is available in german at the webzine).
- Chrigel
Surprise ;) Tomorrow, 14.02.07, Eluveitie will play a show together with Morrigu (feat. Merlin of Eluveitie) at Dynamo Werk 21 (5 Mins from Zurich HB) - entry is FREE!! Doors open at half past 7, you should be there around half past 8 (begining: Morrigu). We hope to meet as many of you guys and girls as possible at this special evening!
- Merlin
I'm glad to announce that Imperial Arts (www.imperialarts.org, check out their work!) has started work on our new Website which will be online within the next 2-3 Months! With the new Website also our Street- and E-Team will start - You will find application Forms both on the Site and on a new Streetteam-Myspace.

Furthermore we got sad news from Andre of Trolleve Communities, where our official Forum is hostet - unfortunately his Site is going down, a new Forum will be integrated in the new Website. Thanks to Andre & Trolleve for the great work & support!
- Merlin
We are glad to announce ELUVEITIE is confirmed for GRASPOP METAL MEETING 2007! We hope you can make your way to Belgium and we're looking forward to play this legendary Festival... See you there!
- Merlin
Hails barbarians!
Good news! Already mentioned lately, we'd like to finally disclose it a bit more detailed: We're intensely working on our new releases! Right now we're tied up with pre-productions.
This is also the reason, why we'll downsize our live activity until autum (beside some summerfestivals) - we want to fully consecrate ourselves to the work on our new material.
At this moment we're about to book a studio for late summer!
We'll record a new full-lenght album and furtheremore a mainly acoustic MCD, which will moreover include some specials (whereat we won't blab out too much yet ;))! It is planned to release both in late autum - yet no release dates are set so far.
During the next months we'll update you now and then about the progress, revealing titles, artworks, ect. :) Stay tuned!
Horns raised to all of you!
- Chrigel
Eluveitie got a Profile on Purevolume.com! We're Still working on it, but those of you that have a profile there can start adding us ;)

Also our Song "Your Gaulish War" entered Metal Contest at www.garageband.com (currently 105 in Metal Charts) - If you're a reviewer keep reviewing and support us!

Furthermore we're working on a Streetteam which will be launched in a few weeks - please let us know if there is any interest from your (the most important, of course) side at all! Please write us through Myspace, our Forum or Purevolume..
Your support is always appreciated, and we'd like to thank all of you for the ongoing support!
In exchange we're heavily working on new music and you can expect some insights in the upcoming releases sometime soon!
- Merlin
Hails all together!
And once again we come up to announce another summerfestival! :)
We're looking forward to feast in Strasswalchen/Salzburg (Austria) at the Summernights Festival on 23th of June 2007!
See you there! :)
Horns raised!
Chrigel
Hails all together!
As promised, we come up with another festival again! We're happy to announce that we'll play at this year's Metalcamp Openair in Tolmin/Slowenia!
Like for the Earthshaker Fest, it's not yet definitely confirmed, on which day we'll play - we'll keep you up to date!

We're happy to announce that we'll play at this years Summerbreeze Openair in Dinkelsbühl/Germany. Summerbreeze celebrates it's 10th anniversary - nothing more to say than "Happy birthday & horns raised"! We'll feast along like hell! :)

Hails!
We hope you all had some recreative and canny days round solstice!
So far we're happy to announce that we've signed the international booking agency Rock the nation (Behemoth, Kataklysm, Wintersun, Equilibrium & many more)! We're looking forward to a good cooperation!

Furthermore we're also proud and pleased to herald some new endorsements! Our guitarist Ivo is now endersed by Madison Amps (Deicide, Behemoth, Crytopsy & many more) as well as by Schecter Guitars (Nevermore, Deicide & more)!


We wish you all a very happy new year! ...and probably we'll see some of you in Düdingen or Pratteln?! :)
Back again in Switzerland, we want to send some greetings to Belgium and France! You were f***ing great, we'll be back for sure!
vous étiez magnifique! vive la france et belgië, vive les metalheads de la france et belgië!!
- Rafi & Sevan / Eluveitie
After a very succesful year, we would like to say thank you very much to all our concertvisitors and promoters. It is always a great pleasure to play in front of such an awesome audience.
Very special thanks go to our cooperators in the background. Without their help and support, our band would not be able to work!
thank you very much, Melanie! (busdriver)
thank you very much, Gian! (sound engineer)
thank you very much, Katrin! (merchandising)
thank you very much, Tanja! (manager)

- Eluveitie
Hails!
Proudly we announce that we’ve signed a contract with the German label Twilight (Koldbrann, Endstille, Master, Stoneman, Disparaged, ect.)!

We’re really happy about signing to Germanys “big small” label and are looking forward to a prosperous cooperation!
So we can now as well announce that we’re heavily working on new songs! We plan to enter the studio next summer and release “Spirits” successor album in autumn 2007. You can expect a massive Celtic swordblow! Furthermore we plan to release a MCD containing some surprises, also in autumn 2007. Be anxious to it! Also an expanded European tour is planned after the release of the album. But well, we’ll not blab and divulge too much so far! Stay tuned for good news during the next 9 months! ;) For this reason we’ll cut down our live activity in spring & summer 2007. Besides our performance at some big Summerfestivals (tba) we won’t play too much shows – so that we can consecrate ourselves to the new album all out!
At the same time our “era” under the banner of Fear Dark comes to an end. In May 2004 we signed to the Dutch label. Now, that the time for a “step forward” has come, we look back at 3,5 years of close and intense teamwork with our fellows from Holland. Through lots of “forging plans” together, so many good laughs, also heatedly discussions and many, many shared beers (including some “dirty” excesses as result! Remember, Kim? lol) we became good friends with Fear Dark. It was a good time!
So, we now just want to say: “Thank you, guys! You’ve done a lot for us! Thank you for all your support and for believing in us. We wouldn’t have come far without your help – and we won’t forget that! Sincerely we wish you all the best for your future ways – as an ambitious label and also as persons! Our horns are solemnly raised and a fervent ‘hail!’ is shouted!”
- Chrigel
We're happy to present you our new merchandise!

There's a new "Spirit"-shirt inclucing new (yet unpublished!) artwork from Travis Smith!
And another new one with a Kernunnos-motive!
Both shirts will be available this month. Check out our Market square!
Furthermore there are some few tourshirts (Spirit of the ancient tour 2006 - with Odroerir) left!
Soon we'll let you know more about this on our Space.
- Chrigel
Finally the new Design of our Space is up and almost finished! Also the adress has changed to www.myspace.com/eluveitieofficial - Take a look, let us know if you like it, and don't forget to place our Banners at your Websites and Spaces!
Furthermore we have good news for our US and UK Customers: Germany's Twilight Vertrieb (www.twilight-vertrieb.de) has made Contracts with UK's Shellshock Distribution as well as Century Media Distribution US! "Spirit" should be available there shortly!
And last but not least: Within the next Months we will announce first confirmed European Summer Festivals for 2007 - Stay tuned!
- Merlin
Good news for our fans on the other side of the globe: "Spirit" will be released in Japan through Soundaholic. The CD will also contain a new booklet - including japanese translations of our lyrics!
Reizu Goburetto! Horns raised! ;)
Chrigel
Hails!
Eluveitie is confirmed as headliner for a two day Metal Festival at Bad Bonn in Düdingen (Switzerland) on 29th of December 2006. More infos will be added. Check our concert agenda!
Furthermore we'll play at the "Pagan Black Festival" in Paris (France) on 16th of December - together with Negura Bunget, Aes Dana, Heol Telwen & others!
Also for next year we'll perform at some festivals - such as the Ragnarök Festival on 30th and 31th of March 2007 in Lichtenfels (Germany). More Festivals will be added soon!
Finally, our Video for "Of Fire, Wind & Wisdom" is online!! Take a look at the Video-Section on this website!
-Merlin
HAILS!
...already our tour with Odroerir through Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Austria is over.
In a while we'll come up with more about it - pics, a tour diary, reviews and more.
So far we'd just like to say "thank you" from all our hearts to our thuringian mates from Odroerir (who took us with them on tour!) - it was truly a pleasure to share the last two weeks with you guys and girls!!! Also huge thanks to: Kim from Fear Dark (who was with us as tourmanager), Gian (our soundguy), Kelly (the light engeneer), Kai (the merchandiser), Ingo (the busdriver), Melanie & Tobias (transport), Olaf & Einheit Produktionen, Fear Dark, all support bands, all promoters and zines that have supported us on tour and last but not least all the people that visited our shows! Horns raised!!!
Furthermore I'd like to apologise to all people that tried to contact us at info@eluveitie.ch during the last two weeks. There were not too much opportunities to check mails during the tour, so our mailbox completely overflew. However: NOW it's working again.
We also want to apologize to all the people on Myspace! Sorry to those who had to wait...
- Chrigel / Merlin
ELUVEITIE's "Spirit Of The Ancient Tour" together with Germany's ODROERIR will start on Friday, September 8th, at the "Kallewerk" Club in Bad Salzungen (GER).
Following Dates/Countries are confirmed:
8.09.2006 Bad Salzungen / Kallewerk (GERMANY)
9.09.2006 Leipzig / Hellraiser (GERMANY)
10.09.2006 Berlin / K17 (GERMANY)
11.09.2006 Stavenhagen / Tankhaus (GERMANY)
12.09.2006 Hamburg / Markthalle (GERMANY)
15.09.2006 De Gloppe / Leeuwarden (NETHERLANDS)
16.09.2006 Hasselt / De Witte Non (BELGIUM)
17.09.2006 Baroeg / Rotterdam (NETHERLANDS)
18.09.2006 Goudvishal / Arnhem (NETHERLANDS)
19.09.2006 Frontline / Gent (BELGIUM)
20.09.2006 Rock City / Uster (SWITZERLAND)
21.09.2006 Manoir / St. Maurice (SWITZERLAND)
22.09.2006 Culture Factory / Lustenau (AUSTRIA)
23.09.2006 Mnchen / Titanic City Germany (GERMANY)
We are looking forward to have a huge feast with you (as we always have) and hope you can find a City near you on the list...
To the swiss Fans: At the two Gigs in Switzerland (Rock City Uster / Manoir St. Maurice) we just got so called "Doordeals" and and therefore appreciate your support even more.
- Merlin

The works of the videoclip to "of fire wind & wisdom" (from the album "spirit) are in the end game! The videoclip should be released during the next weeks - watch out!
Furthermore a reminder - don't miss the "Pagan & Viking Metal Festival" on 1th of September in Alphen (Holland)!!! Prepare for a huge, barbarious fuckin feast full of dancing, mead and barbarianism! :)
See you there!

Chrigel
Finally the official Eluveitie Forum is online again on www.trolleve.net!
Horns raised to Andr! Thanks for your efforts!!!
For all interested in Last.fm: Eluveitie Fanclub
You can now download "Spirit" for $ 9.99 at Metal-Downloads.com. They have also our first EP "Ven" available for $5.99.
Transactions are handled by Paypal.
Furthermore our Forum is still down because of some turkish wannabe-hacker-kiddies... Here's what Andre from Trolleve Communities has to say about that:
"Stay Tuned for the All New Trolleve Communities. If everything goes as planned it should be ready within the next two weeks. - Andre (August 06,2006)"
Well. Let's hope he's right!
-Merlin

-Meri
The Pics of the video shooting for "Of Fire, Wind & Wisdom" as well as some Impressions of the Gig in Chiasso are online!
Furthermore the Running Order for the "Baden in Blut" Open Air next Saturday (22.7.06) in Lrrach (Germany) was announced: Eluveitie will enter the stage at 5.15 pm!
- Merlin
The videoclipshootings were a success, so was the weather! Soon the pictures from the videoclipshooting will be online!

- Sevan
I guess it's time to provide you with some updates again...
This Weekend we are going to shoot a Video for "Of Fire, Wind and Wisdom"... Be curious! You can expect some impressions from the Set in a few days.
Furthermore some more Cities for the Tour in September are fixed:
08.09.06 Bad Salzungen (D)
09.09.06 Leipzig (D)
10.09.06 Berlin (D)
11.09.06 Stavenhagen (D)
13.09.06 Hannover (D)
17.09.06 Rotterdam (NL)
18.09.06 Arnhem (NL)
22.09.06 Innsbruck (A)
23.09.06 Munich (D)
And last but not least: On July 7th, 2006 the first Gig with our new hurdy-gurdy player Anna Murphy will take place in Chiasso (CH) at the "Chiasso Folkin' Rock" Open Air! See you there.

- Merlin

On Friday, June 2nd, the Release Party for "Spirit" took place at the Salzhaus in Winterthur (CH), with live appearances of Eluveitie and Odroerir (www.odroerir.com) as well as some specials... It was a huge feast, and we'd like to thank the over 300 People that made it to Winterthur! "Spirit" is now available in Europe through Shops, Mailorders & Distributors - For a list of all distros selling "Spirit" visit the Links-Section of this Website!
As our Label Fear Dark Records just signed to a new US Distributor (www.theendrecords.com), it will take a few more weeks until Spirit is available in the US as well. We are sorry about that! In the meantime US Customers can order directly at Fear Dark (www.fear-dark.com, info@fear-dark.com) - the People at Fear Dark can also lead you to some Underground Distros/Shops that already have "Spirit" in their catalogue.
Furthermore the first 6 Gigs of the upcoming European tour together with Germany's Odroerir are now confirmed:
08.09.06 Bad Salzungen (D) / Kallewerk
09.09.06 Leipzig (D) / Hellraiser
10.09.06 Berlin (D) / K17
11.09.06 Stavenhagen (D) / Tankhaus
17.09.06 Rotterdam (NL) / Baroeg
18.09.06 Arnheim (NL) / Goudvishal
(Further Countrys we'll visit are: Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Austria & Italy)
- Merlin
We got back home safely from our little tour of the Fear Dark Festivals in Holland, Germany and Switzerland.
It was truly a great time and we'd like raise our horns to the bands we had the pleasure to share the stage with: Royal Anguish, Taketh, Morphia, Dark Fortress & Saphena. Also we thank sincerely the Fear Dark guys, Bert Bonestroo (Morphia soundguy), the soundguy at the LKA Longhorn in Stuttgart (sorry, forgot your name ;) but you did a great job!), Aga (for the extra-beer in Aarau! ;)), also huge thanks to our "bitches": Gian (soundguy), Meli (driver), Ezra (thanks for the changeover help in Holland!!!) and most of all: Thanks to all the people that visited the festivals - you've been a great crowd! Horns raised to all!
Eluveitie is now confirmed for the german "Zwergenaufstand" Open Air! We'll play at Sunday, June 4th. More infos are tba...
Furthermore i've updatet our official myspace page. There are now two complete Songs and two Samples online, so you cant get some first impressions on the upcoming Album...
- Merlin
On 02.09.06 we will play at this years Occultfest (Open Air) in Hoogeveen/Holland.
Other Bands are: Contradiction (DE), Sinister (NL), Elexorien (NL), Portall (NL) und Monastery (NL). Eight more will be added.
You can find more infos on this Festival here:
Furthermore we can already announce, that the day before (2006-09-01) we will also play in Holland at a Pagan & Viking Festival in Alphen a/d Rijn with Tr (FR) & Natan (BE) & two bands tba!
Further infos: Het Kasteel
- Chrigel
Well, the first three Fear Dark Festivals are over... And i guess i speak for all of us when i say that the dutch crowd was simply amazing! Thank you all for coming and we hope you had as much fun as we did! Also we had a great time together with all the other bands, especially the crazy americans (don't worry Matt, we'll meet again in two weeks ;) )...
So, it's definitely worth visiting one of the next Festivals in Germany/Switzerland - Not at least because of the possibility to get "Spirit" already before the official release there!See you there!
- Merlin
The release of "spirit" is coming closer! On June 2th 06 we'll celebrate a Release Party in Winterthur (CH)! Prepare for a rackety and barbarious feast! As special guest the german folk metallers Odroerir will visit us on this evening and play their first show in Switzerland! You will find further infos and a flyer in the concert agenda.
Furthermore we're happy to announce that we'll be on european tour in September - together with Odroerir! In the concert agenda you will find further infos during the next weeks.
- Chrigel
Well, we have to announce a change in our band line-up (once again ;)). With regret we announce that Linda (fiddles, vocals) and Sarah (Hurdygurdy, Shalm, Crummhorn, Zugerrgeli and vocals) will leave Eluveitie.

Linda will still play with us in Winterthur (03.02.06). After a longer time of thinking it over, she came to decide to leave us, because of her lack of time. Almost a year ago she began to study at a university of arts and playing with Eluveitie just became to much. We really regret her descision, but are also happy for her, that she made it into the university. We really wish her all the best on her further ways! Thanks for all, Linda! We've decided to not replace Linda, but to move on with only one fiddle in future.
As well for a actually joyous reason Sarah leaves the band. She's (obviously, hahah) found the man of her life... which unfortunately (in our point of view ;)) lives in southern France. Sarah will still stay with us for a couple of months and leave for France in summer . Of course - even if we're happy for her and her future husband - we'll miss her as person and as brilliant musician. As well: Thank you, Sarah, for all!
- Chrigel
As you might have noticed, there is now a official Eluveitie-Forum! We have joined Trolleve.com - a plattform dedicated to Folk & Pagan Metal. So check it out to get latest news, get to the bottom of speculations, ask questions and simply talk with the bandmembers!
Thanks to Andre from Trolleve at this place!

- Merlin
We updated our concert agenda! A nice crop of shows in Helvetia, Germany and Holland are already booked - check it out!
- Chrigel

The recordings of the new Eluveitie album were finished in the last week of December 05. In the first week of January we travelled to Germanys Klangschmiede Studio E again, to do the mixing together with Markus Stock (The Vision Bleak, Dornenreich, Tenhi, Green Carnation, Secrets of the moon, Mourning Beloveth and many others), from where we just came back home now.
It's planned to master the CD at Mailmen Studios, Utrecht/Holland again. A release-date is not fixed so far.
- Chrigel
Finally it's getting in range of vision! Most of the new arias are forged! In December we'll enter the studios and record our new album. A release-date is not appointed so far, but we expect it in early 2006.
Until then we will provide you here with news about the album every now and then and bit by bit we'll disclove some little secrets about album-title, songs, artworks and other features. And of course there will be studio-diaries!
Furthermore our website will be completely reworked somewhen in autumn - including artworks from the new album!
- Chrigel