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| Spirit | 
 enlarge | Label: Fear Dark
Category: Music
Buy Used: $19.97
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 157708
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
UPC: 614187940440
EAN: 0614187940440
ASIN: B000EZ52RC
Publication Date: 2001
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Product Description
01. Spirit02. Uis Elveti03. Your Gaulish War04. ...Of Fire, Wind & Wisdom05. Aidu06. The Song Of Life07. Tegernako08. Siraxta09. The Dance Of Victory10. The Endless Knot11. AnDroTotal Running Time: 50.50
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Finally.. November 21, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
Mindblowing pagan metal... June 22, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
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...
Resurrecting the sounds of rituals and celebration August 6, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Spirit is an intense musical alliance of the old and new. Eluveitie started as a project to reconstruct a helvetian(continental) celtic dialect. Resurrecting the sounds of rituals and celebration to bind up in union with the violent intensity of metal, Eluveitie has emerged as the champion of the field!
With enough instruments to make the Chieftains envy, this album is the standard for originality. The instruments are well balanced, the guitars don't claim any superiority but leave enough room for your ears to capture the sounds of flutes, pipes, horn, whistles, fiddles, mandola, hurdygurdy, gaita, and accordian.
Six of the eleven songs are sung in english.
The list is as follows:
-Spirit
-Uis Elveti (This track was on Ven)
-Your Gaulish War
-Of Fire, Wind, and Wisdom
-Aidu
-The Song of Life
-Tegernako
-Siraxta
-The Dance of Victory
-The Endless Knot
-An Dro (instrumental)
This is the second release from Eluveitie, the first was Ven.
I personally like the EP Ven over Spirit but I know most would disagree with me. I know all who have heard Eluveitie would agree with me that you should buy these albums while you can.
Quite a different sound July 7, 2007
I'll admit, I admire the folk music, but I can't say that I'm the biggest fan. I listen to more of the general rock music, ranging from the classics to the more aggressive modern metal/screamo combinations. But THIS, this is practically a class in itself. The mixing of folk and metal sounded very bizarre when I heard of the concept, but when I actually heard the music, I quickly became a fan.
Just the imagination and originality of it is phenonmenal. Not only that, there has to be a lot of talent required, considering that the artists need to be skilled not only with the folk instruments, but also with the modern ones as well.
what a hell of an album!!!!! January 18, 2008
Definately a first rate debut album...suprised me it was just a debut.
Pure celtic musicianship composing and mixing its sounds to one excellent piece of magic.....vocals are excellent, even the female vocals - all in all dont want to repeat other reviewers because its been said.....BUY this ABLUM......
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