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2010/02/07 10:03 Extreme metal/Eluveitie

"Omnos"

Guide Review

The song comes off the band’s upcoming acoustic/folk album, “Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion”, which is scheduled for release on April 11 via Nuclear Blast Records. The album will contain 15 folk songs, most of them written in ancient gaulish language.

After having recorded two albums and an EP of their own special mix of folk and melodic death metal, Swiss band Eluveitie decided that is was time to switch gears and drop the metal elements on the third album, Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion.

A few weeks before the release date of said album, the band released this two-song single featuring the first song off the album to receive a video, Omnos, as well as another song, Brictom.

+ "Omnos," the video from Swiss folk metal pioneers Eluveitie, can be viewed on YouTube.

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Brand New ELUVEITIE Video 'Omnos' Available

As was previously mentioned, Eluveitie’s newest recordings aren’t really metal anymore (we’ll see if this is just a phase or part of a larger-scale evolution) but rather a sort of acoustic folk music. Omnos is an excellent example of the new style adopted at this point, starting with a series of acoustic melodies driven by an original mix of flutes, bagpipes and other unusual instruments (unusual outside the folk metal genre, of course).

The acoustic melodies here are already very catchy by themselves before being augmented by hurdy gurdy player Anna Murphy’s vocals. She’s responsible for nearly all the vocals on the song, augmented by a few well-placed but very rare shouts from regular vocalist Chrigel Glanzmann.

The lyrics in both songs are in Gaulish and as such I can’t grasp even a single word of what is said, but the way they’re sung by clean vocalist Anna Murphy makes the language appear particularly beautiful. This single contains two tracks which also appear on the full-length album and as such it’s probably much better to just get that album (something I haven’t yet gotten around to do as of now, the day this review was written), which, if it sounds like these two songs, is definitely something both you and I should get around to buying right now.