Swiss folk metal pioneers Eluveitie have announced the departure of their long-time guitarist Simeon "Sime" Koch. The new guitarist will be Rafael Salzmann, who will play on the upcoming tours with Eluveitie as a live session guitarist.

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Source:	eluveitie.ch
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No, it is not a new full song from Wintersun, but the band just announced that they and Swiss folk metallers Eluveitie will co-headline a North American tour this winter. They will be joined by Varg as well. The trek will celebrate Eluveitie's 10th anniversary and serve as Wintersun's introduction to North American shores. See the dates below.

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
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"Your Gaulish War", the newly remastered song from Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie is now available for streaming below. The song comes off the band's new double-CD package named The Early Years, to be released on August 17th in Europe and September 25th in North America via Nuclear Blast.

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
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Swiss folk metallers Eluveitie have announced the release of a new double-CD package named The Early Years on August 17th, 2012. This package will include, as you may have guessed, songs from Eluveitie's early years. To be more exact, all titles from the very first EP Vên as well as the complete debut album Spirit, both of which have remained sold out for some time now.

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
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"Havoc", a brand new video from Swiss folk metallers Eluveitie is now available online and you can watch it below. The video was produced by Polish company Grupa13, who had worked with the band on the clip for "Thousandfold" from the last album Everything Remains As It Never Was and for "A Rose For Epona" from the upcoming album Helvetios.

"Havoc" comes off the band's upcoming album Helvetios, due out on February 10th (Europe) and February 28th (North America) through Nuclear Blast Records.

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Eluveitie

Swiss folk metallers Eluveitie have released a new video for the song "A Rose For Epona". You can watch it below. The video was produced by Polish company Grupa13, who had worked with the band on the clip for "Thousandfold" from the last album Everything Remains As It Never Was, but also worked with bands like Behemoth and Amon Amarth before.

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Eluveitie

"A Rose For Epona", a new track from Swiss folk metallers Eluveitie is now streaming online.

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Source:	eluveitie.ch
Band profile:	Eluveitie

"Meet The Enemy", a brand new track from Swiss folk metallers Eluveitie is now streaming online. Head over to the band's Facebook to listen to it or check it out below. The song is taken from their upcoming album Helvetios, due out on February 10th, 2012 (Europe) and February 28th, 2012 (North America) through Nuclear Blast Records. More album details here.

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Source:	eluveitie.ch
Band profile:	Eluveitie

Swiss Celtic folk metal act Eluveitie have revealed the cover art and tracklist of their upcoming studio album Helvetios. Take a look at them below. Helvetios is scheduled to be released on February 10th, 2012, in Europe and on February 28th, 2012, in the USA.

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
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Swiss folk metallers Eluveitie have announced that they have finished the work on their new album Helvetios, due out in 2012. The band posted this message on their official website: "We can finally say 'it's done'! The final mastering has been finished during the last week, and yesterday already a first prelistening-session for invited press representatives has taken place at Nuclear Blast's offices in Donzdorf, Germany. We believe it's our best work yet, and it seems we're not the only ones!"

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Source:	eluveitie.ch
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Posted on the band's official blog

Founding member Chrigel issues the following statement: "We are really happy and proud to announce we could win our desired candidate over for those parts: The brilliant scottish actor Alexander "Sandy" Morton (66). He might be known to you from some of his latest movies, such as Valhalla Rising or London To Brighton. With his deep, rough and orotund voice he's just perfect for Helvetios."

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Source:	eluveitie.ch
Band profile:	Eluveitie

After the cancellations of Opeth and Katatonia less than a month ago Turkey's Unirock Open Air Festival, set to take place on the coming weekend from 9th to 11th of September 2011 in Istanbul, has to suffer from two further high-profile cancellations. Sweden's power metal band HammerFall and Swiss folk metallers Eluveitie both report communication and logistic problems with the festival organizer which force both bands to pull out of the billing.

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Source:	eluveitie.ch
Event:	Unirock Open Air Festival

Swiss Celtic folk metallers Eluveitie are currently working on their fifth full-length album, Helvetios, due out in early 2012 through Nuclear Blast Records.

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Source:	eluveitie.ch
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Swiss Celtic folk metal act Eluveitie just announced the first edition of their very own festival, called Eluveitie & Friends. The festival takes place on December 30th at Volkshaus in Zürich, Switzerland.

The Eluveitie & Friends line-up look as follows: Eluveitie, Coroner, Korpiklaani, Excelsis, Blutmond and one more special guest to be announced.

Tickets are available at this location.

Comments the band: "After a long planning period we can finally announce the first edition of our very own festival for the end of this year: Eluveitie & Friends!

We will take this opportunity to introduce some well-know as well as newcomer bands that we have some kind of connection with and that of course we appreciate musically.

Blutmond will be joined by Anna Murphy on guest vocals, while Excelsis should be known to pretty much any Eluveitie fan in Switzerland by now. Münggu and his fellow warriors will surely put you in the right mood immediately! Following a special guest that will be announced at a later time, Korpiklaani will take the stage, and that those guys know how to rock the house we have seen ourselves plenty of times as we have shared a tourbus on many occasions during the past years.

We are however particularly proud to be able to present the thrash legends Coroner. After a break of 16 years the Swiss metal pioneers have reunited to show the metal community once more how it's done. Coroner guitarist Tommy Vetterli has also produced our latest album Everything Remains at his Newsound Studios and has since been considered a friend of ours.

Last but not least this will be our very last chance in 2011 to kick your asses, and really, what better way could there be to end the year?"

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Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Eluveitie
Event:	Eluveitie & Friends

Eluveitie has announced a US and Canadian tour next February. Joining them on tour will be 3 Inches Of Blood, Holy Grail, System Divide.

Eluveitie vocalist Chrigel Glanzmann had the following to say: "Since we've only been able to present a short set while supporting Amon Amarth in 2010 we have put some effort in this one and are very happy to be able to deliver all we hoped for and what we think our fans deserve: A full 90-minute headline show with some special stuff, a killer package, and as if this wasn't enough we and our partners have done all we could to keep the ticket prices as low as we possibly could so you'll have something left to spend at the bar, where as always we will be more than happy to join you for a drink or two!

We're really happy and looking forward to finally visiting the U.S. again to rock the living shit out of our fans! We plan on spoiling you with an extended set, an extended stage performance and some surprises! Also, we're proud to present you an absolute killer package, totally under the banner of pure fucking metal! We will return with no less than the Canadian berzerkers of 3 Inches Of Blood, our Californian true metal buddies from Holy Grail, along with System Divide, an amazingly talented young melodic death metal band! Well, there's not much left to say - horns up for a pure fucking metal massacre! See you there!"

Eluveitie, 3 Inches Of Blood, Holy Grail and System Divide:

02/01/11 - Theatre of Living Arts - Philadelphia, PA
02/02/11 - The Gramercy Theater - New York, NY
02/03/11 - The Palladium - Worcester, MA
02/04/11 - Cercle - Quebec City, QC - CANADA
02/05/11 - Le National - Montreal, QC - CANADA
02/06/11 - The Opera House - Toronto, ON - CANADA
02/08/11 - The Bottom Lounge - Chicago, IL
02/09/11 - Station 4 - Saint Paul, MN
02/10/11 - Granada Theater - Lawrence, KS
02/11/11 - Maquis Theater - Denver, CO
02/12/11 - Club Sound - Salt Lake City, UT
02/14/11 - El Corazon - Seattle, WA
02/15/11 - Rickshaw Theatre - Vancouver, BC - CANADA
02/16/11 - Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR
02/17/11 - Slims - San Francisco, CA
02/18/11 - The Key Club - Hollywood, CA
02/19/11 - Nile Theater - Mesa, AZ
02/21/11 - Backstage Live - San Antonio, TX
02/22/11 - Warehouse Live - Houston, TX
02/24/11 - State Theatre - Saint Petersburg, FL
02/25/11 - Firestone Live - Orlando, FL
02/26/11 - The Masquerade - Atlanta, GA

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Eluveitie
Event:	Eluveitie + 3 Inches Of Blood