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Helvetios
Sign in to saveHelvetios is the fifth studio album by Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie. The album was released 10 February 2012 through Nuclear Blast. The CD was recorded at New Sound Studio in Pfäffikon, a municipality in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland, with producer Tommy Vetterli. It was the last album to include violinist Meri Tadić and guitarist Simeon Koch.
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- Album
- Artist
- Eluveitie
- First released
- 2012-02-10
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Eluveitie is a folk metal band from Winterthur, Switzerland. The founder of this band was Chrigel Glanzmann. The band formed in 2002 and their first EP, "Vên" came out in 2003. They describe themselves as "The new wave of folk metal". The band then released a full-length album, "Spirit" in June 2006. In November 2007, Eluveitie was signed by Nuclear Blast. The first product of the collaboration, "Slania", was released in February 2008. The album peaked at number 35 in the Swiss charts and number
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- Helvetios
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- Eluveitie
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- 2011
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- New Sound Studio, Pfäffikon
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- Folk metal, melodic death metal, Celtic metal
- Album.label
- Nuclear Blast
- Album.producer
- Tommy Vetterli, Eluveitie
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- Eluveitie studio album
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Helvetios is the fifth studio album by Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie. The album was released 10 February 2012 through Nuclear Blast. The CD was recorded at New Sound Studio in Pfäffikon, a municipality in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland, with producer Tommy Vetterli. It was the last album to include violinist Meri Tadić and guitarist Simeon Koch.
==Concept== Being the band's first concept album, it focuses on the Gallic Wars from a perspective of the ancient Helvetians.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Helvetios” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.