Spirit [Import]

Eluveitie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Format: Import
• Label: Fear Dark
• ASIN: B000EZ52RC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #383,613 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

01. Spirit 02. Uis Elveti 03. Your Gaulish War 04. ...Of Fire, Wind & Wisdom 05. Aidû 06. The Song Of Life 07. Tegernakô 08. Siraxta 09. The Dance Of Victory 10. The Endless Knot 11. AnDro Total Running Time: 50.50

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally.., November 20, 2006

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Svipdag "jesus_rides_dragons" (Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spirit (Audio CD)

Spirit, the debut full lenght from Eluveitie, can be hard to describe. The album, in my opinion, suffers few, if any, flaws. The flutes, the whistles, the pipes, the accordions, the hurdygurdies, the whatever-other-obscure-folk-instruments are all perfect. Good folk metal is something hard to truely achieve (most of the good ones are mainly viking/scandiavian metal bands, i.e. Odinir, Korpiklaani, Finntroll even). But enough for Scandinavian Folk...we needed some good celtic metal. I'm sorry, but Cruachan and Skyclad (and many others) have all failed to make an amazing celtic folk metal album, one of the standards of Spirit. This album manages to be original and complex in a genre of music (I mean metal here, not just folk metal) that leaves little room for something different. A mind blowing work and a must have. Spirit is one of the best metal albums, ever.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mindblowing pagan metal..., June 22, 2006

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Niels van der Plas "Discipvlvs" (The Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spirit (Audio CD)

This is quite some mindblowing stuff concidering that 'Spirit' is actually Eluveitie's debut album... The quality of their EP of 2004 was OK, the songs were good, and now with 'Spirit' they are perfected... Violins, accordions, fluits, whistles, bagpipes (or whatever) give their very recognizable and distinct sound to the rough metal Eluveitie makes... Eluveitie means 'I am an Helvetian', a continental Celt... Some songs are sung in Celtic, others in English... All are about Celtic culture and wars...

I love Chrigels voice! His clean vocals and his screams are both awesome...

You've got to hear this band playing live! It's a party every time I see them...

This is one great band and this is definately one of the best releases I know of...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Progression from Vên but Still No Slania, March 14, 2009

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Anti - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spirit (Audio CD)

As I stated in my review of Eluvietie's first EP Vên, I have no knowledge of this band's lineup changes so I will note the changes in sound soley on the album alone.

Spirit is one of those albums where you can really hear positive and quality change from a previous release. Everything on this album is much better than on Vên and you can definatley see that Eluvietie has found their sound!

On this release the folk elements actually fit right into the music without sounding misplaced or gimmicky. It actually sounds like there is a full celtic folk band rather than a single instrument playing along. The folk "portion" of the band plays what could probably be standalone songs this time around, weaved very well (not quite Slania quality) into the "metal portion" of the band.

A complaint of mine for the last EP was how the death metal style drumming felt too fast for the music - much of that is corrected, the drums now keep an excellent and more tame beat for the songs. This doesn't mean that the old style is forgotten as they make a thunderous appearance on tracks like "The Song of Life" and the later half of "Siraxta" among others.

Vocally this album is leagues above Vên. The singer now has a higher pitched death growl which has good control and texture while still maintaining the emotion found on the first EP. He does however occassionaly seem to weave his old style into the background - I am not sure if this is to vary his deleivery or maybe it's a new singer with the old one doing guest vox. Either way it sounds much better this time around. Female vocals are also used on certain songs on Spirit which work really well to contrast the more "BRU" vocals. She is a capable singer and adds good dimension and atmosphere. I do wish that the male vocals were turned up a little more as they become drowned out occassionally by the music; intentionally or not.

The production is still a bit raw, which I find to be very good this time around. There isn't alot of polish but just enough to make you feel like you are hearing a more refined album/band. Good work on this part.

This is a definate recommendation from me, everything has a very epic feel without losing edge. BUT if you can only purchase one album from Eluveitie, then you may want to make it 2008's Slania, as it is what I beleive is a master work.