Way, way, way back, when I was a poor college student, I had the pleasure of sitting in on a number of open-mic Irish jams in Portland OR where I lived. Two of the members of the Bothy Band had moved to Portland during the violence in N Ireland in the late 70's/early 80's. (Kevin Burke and Mícheál O'Domhnaill) brought much of the Bothy's fervor and aggression to the Portland Irish scene ... jigs were not played, they were attacked... I broke more stings on my acoustic than I ever did playing electric. This song feels so familiar to me, tho we never played anything like it. By the way, the Irish pipes (the Uileann pipes (not in this song, nut definitely in Eluvietie's arsenal) are just as loud as their Scottish cousins. In contrast, the Hurdy Gurdy is a bit lower lever (volume) than a fiddle/violin... I think it's glorious that thegurdy's bowed sound is being brought into modern music. You're really getting the hang of setting the sound levels... this one was great. As always, it is a pleasure to watch you encounter new music. And you are right, this song leaves the first-time listener without words. If I were to play music in a band-setting again, I would opt for something like this... I'm not sure which instrument I would choose, tho the acoustic guitar (or Irish bouzouki) fit my talents the best. Playing this song, in particular, would be wild.

@SargonnasIncarnate

2 жыл бұрын

Imma call my next dog Rand Al Jones.

The instrument is a Hurdy Gurdy. It's a string instrument! Basically, players have to turn a wheel by hand, the wheel rub against the strings inside, and they have a keyboard to make the notes! 🙂 I recommand you to check more Eluveitie, they are fantastic! Here's some of my favorites songs : Thousandfold King Helvetios King Epona A rose for Epona Breathe Also, if you want more folk metal bands, here's a few ones : Korpiklaani Cruachan Svartsot Heidevolk In Extremo Saltatio Mortis Skiltron Hope you'll enjoy! 🙂

@PandoraPlaysMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I don't think I ever saw that instrument before! I wrote down your suggestions, thank you do much!

@fritsyt2090

2 жыл бұрын

Heidevolk is from the same region (Velua) where I live in the Netherlands. Eluveitie is one of my two favourite bands and in my opinion the best folk metal band, but I am going to check out some stuff from Heidevolk. I heared some songs of them and it's really strange to hear metal in my own language haha

@BabylonZeus

2 жыл бұрын

@@PandoraPlaysMusic For this band, they have a very good live event which is worth doing some reactions on. It is "Eluveitie live | Rockpalast | 2019". Excellent video and audio quality, and live show.

Eluveitie the best folk metal band on this planet. Nice to see you enjoyed my other favourite band also. Next recommendation for a reaction is "ELUVEITIE - Ambiramus (OFFICIAL VIDEO) with Fabienne in full vocal glory! Hope you do soon this one 😍

@NeonSprinklesTV

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite eluveitie song by far!

The instrument is a hurdy gurdy.

@PandoraPlaysMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Saw these guys live twice when they came to Australia. Folk metal at its best. Glad you checked em out. Eluveitie is amazing, their song Thousandfold has a great Hurdy Gurdy tone 🔥🤟

Please react to their songs Call Of The Mountains and A Rose For Epona. Thank you!

Welcome to folk metal. For a more mellow vibe checkout their song Call of the Mountains with an earlier lead singer. As mentioned below she is now in Cellar Darling.

React to their old songs...!! They'll blow your mind...!!

This song gives by far the best reaction vids on YT...

Good to hang out with you

I love Eluveite, and I love Loreena McKennitt too, Night Ride Across the Caucasus is one of my favorite songs ever

@narinthebeardedalien2994

2 жыл бұрын

Loreena McKinnitt is a gift to humanity. I love her so much and I wish more reactors would react to folky and new agey style stuff. Have you ever heard of Yaima? they are a folky new agey band that I also really enjoy the vocalist in :) if I had to recommend one song to start out with it would be 'The Sacred'. :) check it out and let me know :D

@Hellscream_9999

2 жыл бұрын

@@narinthebeardedalien2994 Thanks for the recommendation, I gave it a listen, and I'm into it, definitely a lot slower than anything that I've ever listened to, probably the new-age-y influence. Gonna try and check them out more, as the list of albums I have to listen to just keeps growing, lol.

@narinthebeardedalien2994

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hellscream_9999 they literally came out with a music video today, syncronicity :) kzread.info/dash/bejne/c6J216-odLPdXc4.html

@Hellscream_9999

2 жыл бұрын

@@narinthebeardedalien2994 Thanks, it was pretty good. Gonna have to periodically wander through their catalogue, strangely enough, the tiny local band that I listen to just announce their new album this week, must be that time of the year.

@kierondunn312

2 жыл бұрын

I love that song, first time I heard it was in the Kurt Russell movie - Soldier.

This was a very great reaction video. like it

One of my favorites. If you want to hear Fabienne, the female vocalist, in a little softer context, I recommend her side project ILLUMISHADE. Also, some members from an earlier lineup of Eluveitie formed a band called Cellar Darling, who create sort of prog mixed with folk. (As opposed to the death-metal mixed with folk that you hear here)

@PandoraPlaysMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm going to look this up! ❤️

Get deep diving . Not just on these guys ,. But Arkona , Kalevala, Korpiklaani , cruachan , etc . So much folk metal to listen too, all with their own vibe and instruments.

Great reaction Pandora, glad you liked them. The band is from Switzerland and are one of my favourite bands. Eluveitie (the English pronounciation is El-Vay-Tee, the "u" is silent) was an inscription on an antique pottery found at an archeological site in Mantua (northern Italy). Mantua was an Etruskian city and the inscription possibly means, that this pot belonged or was crafted by a Helvetian person, because "Eluveitie" means something like "The Helvetian". The actual official name of Switzerland is Confoederatio Helvetica. The band plays Celtic Folk Metal using tin whistle, low whistle, fiddle, bagpipe, celtic harp, mandola, bodhran and hurdy gurdy and is a combination of melodic Death Metal and Celtic Folk. Their main theme is Celtic history and culture from the antiquity. The Celts lived all over Europe and were a pretty dominant culture until they were subdued by the Romans who almost eradicated all Celtic culture on the european continent. Eluveitie mostly sing of the celtic tribe of the Helvetii who lived in the area of todays Switzerland, southern Germany and western Austria and was the first tribe that came under pressure when the Roman Empire started its expansion north and when the Gallic Wars (around 60-54 B.C.) started. The band had a lot of line-up changes during the years, the most impactful in 2016, when the previous female vocalist/hurdy gurdist Anna Murphy, drummer Merlin Sutter and guitarist Ivo Henzi left the band and founded "Cellar Darling" (check them out). Some songs from Eluveitie you could react to are: "King", "Tegernako" (live at Summerbreeze 2008), "Thousandfold", "A Rose for Epona", or "Quoth the Raven" (video recorded in the studio) with the previous line-up (pre 2016) or "The Slumber", "Worship", "Deathwalker" (live at Wacken 2019), "Breathe", "Ambiramus", "Ategnatos" with the current line-up. They have two pure acoustic folk albums too. Some of their acoustic songs I would recommend are "Omnos", "Brictom", "Desumiis Luge" (a curse of Helvetic women against some Roman leaders) from the album Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion and "Lugus" (god of Trade and craftsmanship), "Caturix" (god of war), "Artio" (bear goddess) or "Epona" from the album Evocation II: Pantheon. For "Epona" someone added Gaulish and English lyrics to the official video and at the end of this video there is a little explanation who Epona was. On these two albums the songs are sung in Gaulish, the extinct (since 500 AD) language of the continental Celts that could be reconstructed by using inscripions found at archeological sites from all over Europe and parts (grammar, pronounciation) of languages that are of Celtic origin that are still spoken today, like Gaelic, Welsh or Breton. You could check out the channel of Eluveities hurdy gurdist Michalina Malisz kzread.info/dash/bejne/g5qElNOSnLGolNo.html . She has done a lot of playthroughs of Eluveitie songs on the hurdy gurdy and before she was asked to join the band she did a lot of Eluveitie covers, so PLEASE avoid these covers and playthroughs until you have reacted to the specific song because you would ruin future reactions. But you could check her "5riffs" series where she plays 5 riffs from famous bands (like Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden) on the hurdy gurdy. She has done a great cover of "Martyr" by August burns Red too kzread.info/dash/bejne/f6qnlZuTlbTQoZc.html . There is also a great interview with Christian "Chrigel" Glanzmann (founder, male vocalist) and Fabienne Erni (female vocalist) which they did for the podcast of vocal coach Beth Roars: kzread.info/dash/bejne/q2Vo0qOyn6TPebA.html . Fabienne Erni and Guitarist Jonas Wolf also have a side project called "Illumishade" thats worth checking out.

Hurdy gurdy

That instrument is called Hurdy Gurdy and I suggest you to react at this cover: Pantera "Cowboys From Hell" - hurdy gurdy & drums cover - Guilhem Desq It's AMAZING!

Not bad would rather listen to older records with ivo, merlin, and Anna. Helvetios and origins are my favorite albums.

@timhutchinson8485

2 жыл бұрын

Have you checked out Anna, Ivo and Merlin’s new band, Cellar Darling?

@fritsyt2090

2 жыл бұрын

Best thing happend to Eluveitie was that Fabienne joined the band. They are harsher then ever, more metal without loosing their folk sound. I prefer the current line up. Ategnatos is my favourite album. But I love every single song of Eluveitie also with Anna and the others. This band is just out of this world!

hurdy gurdy and irish whistle

@PandoraPlaysMusic

2 жыл бұрын

I am a big fan of both ❤️

@MegaDog555

2 жыл бұрын

@@PandoraPlaysMusic you need to do Delain nothing left live with marco or masters of destiny official

I believe you may like Arkona. A kinda similar russian band.

Hey Pandora! One of my favorite bands. Try "Breathe" live (kzread.info/dash/bejne/mohhytahYtipgZs.html) or Deathwalker live (kzread.info/dash/bejne/m2uLrMaklM7do9I.html). In the latter, you can really see the hurdy gurdy. Michalina Mileisz is awesome!

First

Hi can you plzzzz react to Vintersea? progressive melodic black metal band! I suggest illuminated

If you want more hurdy gurdy, check Guilhem Desq 😉 Omen, wizard, Break tour crank, Vision and cowboys from hell (Panthera cover on hurdy gurdy) Your jaw will fall for sure By the way i'm french 😉

@PandoraPlaysMusic

2 жыл бұрын

French is my first language ❤️

@saidai76

2 жыл бұрын

J'ai eut un petit doute quand j'ai entendu le mot "répertoire" avec le R a la française mais guilhem 😵🤤

Pagan metal

If you react to Cellar Darling I'll sub. Anything will do. I recommend Insomnia Live at KZread studios.

@PandoraPlaysMusic

2 жыл бұрын

I'm subbed to their Channel, so that's definitely on my short list!

@narinthebeardedalien2994

2 жыл бұрын

@@PandoraPlaysMusic they are so artsy and i love it

i think this is too heavy for ur taste,. try more their lighter song, like "epona" . i really hope u can react to epona. (not rose for epona)

I like it, but it definitely wasn’t great.

I just don't understand all the harsh vocals you find nowadays. Take that out and this would be a decent song. I swear this wasn't a thing 20 years ago, I must be getting old. **checks calendar** Oh yea, I am old....

@artefakto.9yearsago301

2 жыл бұрын

I dig this. I like TW but this is my main kind of taste in music. These kinds of vocals have been around for over 20 years also.

@tattoos9246

2 жыл бұрын

You’re just an idiot, harsh vocals have been a thing for decades, especially in Europe where the metal scene is far beyond any other

@kenbean75

2 жыл бұрын

Complaining about harsh vocals in metal...Perhaps you should be listen to different genre.May i suggest pop music?

@NoSmokingDogs

2 жыл бұрын

@@kenbean75 Do you consider Metallica to have harsh vocals? I don't. Maybe it's the term harsh. It's really the growling and indecipherable yelling that I'm not keen on. There are plenty of acts that call themselves metal that have a vocalist that can actually sing.

I don't understand why Rebirth and King get always reacted to when they are some of Eluveitie's worst written songs

@dac2007

2 жыл бұрын

May I ask why? I don't know much of Eluveitie aside from the most popular songs

@brendo9672

2 жыл бұрын

@@dac2007 It sounds very broken like "here is the heavy, here is the folk" etc It just doesn't seem fluid or well written They have much better stuff!

@dac2007

2 жыл бұрын

@@brendo9672 that's good since I still liked this one ^^

celtics were everywhere in europe this time its switzerland helvetie ment part of switzerland here : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eluveitie