Oh, yet another band calling themselves something with folk even though their music has nothing to do with folk music, justifying it by using violins and bagpipes. This is getting a bit weary.
These were my first thoughts about Swizz band Eluveitie (pron. el-vey-ti), though I would like to excuse this mistake with the fact that, first of; I was miss-informed, I thought they would be pure folkmetal, when they in fact announce themselves as folkmetal / melodeath metal. Secondly; the sound-setting was very bad, and this resulted in a cacophonous chaos. This, of course, meant that all the finer details of the music were completely lost to me.

Well then, sound aside, how was the show?
Well, the band was certainly going at it. Especially the twin-brothers Sevan and Rafi Kirder (flutes, whistles, bagpipe / bass) caught my attention with their good connection to each other and especially Sevan had a good grip on the audience as well. Sadly, I have later found out that this was to be their last show with the band, as they have both left due to personal reasons.
And the rest?
The rest of Eluveitie wasn't lacking anything in showmanship either; they were all giving a great and extremely lively show. After getting over Christian 'Chrigel' Glanzmann's grim vocals (they weren't bad, just not what I had expected) I thought he did a terrific job as frontman, and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing him with his little mandola in hand, headbanging away.

There was a very good turnout in the crowd as well, and just as the band, they were really going at it with everything they had. Then again, I think Eluveitie were one of the more popular bands at Metalcamp this year, seeing as how I had seen very, very many people sporting their shirts throughout the whole festival and not just on the day of their concert.

Oh, and one last thing I can't go without mentioning; at one point Sevan Kirder wanted to teach us all an important lesson in languages. He insisted that we'd learn how to say "Pretty girl, bring me a beer" in Celtic. If someone else is better at this than me, then please correct me, but I think it went something like this; "Natur impi curmida."