Rating: 8/10 Release: 17 August 2012 Label: Nuclear Blast And suddenly they were there; Eluveitie. They were at various Pagan- and Heidenfests, grew steadily in popularity up until today, where they’ve become one of the biggest bands in the folk-metalgenre. Yet it has been a long way to the top. … Continue reading →
Location: Loreley, Duitsland Photography: Laurie Roijackers Besides the traveling series of concerts like Paganfest and Heidenfest, Rock the Nation is working on their own touring festival called ‘Metalfest’. Biggest concern of this was that there weren’t any plans for this festival to come near Holland. This changed with the coming … Continue reading →
The last years, Eluveitie is doing well. A new album and a headlinerposition on Paganfest result in Eluveitie settling more and more between the great bands in the Folk-metalscene. Folk-metal.nl talked to Chrigel about the new album, the extensive touring and the dress-up parties which are common within the scene. You can read the full conversation below.
Continue reading →Rating: 8/10 Live Registration Concert Tilburg 202 Together with ConcertLive, Eluveitie releases one of their concerts recorded during Paganfest on CD. They’ve chosen for their gig in Tilburg, and below you can find a review from this live-registration. An immediate plus is that the design looks really neat. Artwork based … Continue reading →
Location: 013 Tilburg We have a fixed value in the folk-metalscene for over a couple of years now, it’s called Paganfest. This years also the whole company travels through Europe, and also this time they have a varied line-up. Unfortunately due to some interviews we had with Eluveitie and Equilibrium … Continue reading →
Rating: 6/10 Release: 10 February 2012 Label: Nuclear Blast Eluveitie, who doesn’t know them by now? After their strong debut ‘Spirit’ and the possibly even better ‘Slania’, the breakthrough of Eluveitie was a fact. Due to extensive touring with big tours like the ‘Heidenfest’ and ‘Paganfest’, this band is one … Continue reading →
Neckbreakers Ball Location: Metropool, Hengelo 13 November 2011 Photography: Metalshots.com Within a month of day Heidenfest was within our borders, there’s another Rock the Nation event, this time it’s ‘Neckbreakers ball’. The party went on in Hengelo, which was a somewhat drive than our usual places to go to like … Continue reading →
Schloss Broich, Mülheim an der Ruhr (DE) Cumulo Nimbus We’ve got a nice rest and very good breakfast, and then it’s time to got to the castle, we parked the car, I attached some armour plating and we’re ready to go inside. We’re staying in the shadow for awhile on … Continue reading →
Location: Turbinehalle, Oberhausen (DE) 13 March 2011 Photography: Metalshots.com (Paganfest Tilburg) Wow! What a lineup, paganfest has in store this year. By far the best since 2008, when I first went to this annual tour. When we entered the venue, we received a fistful leaflets and even a cd with … Continue reading →
Burgfolk 2010 Location: Schloss Broich, Mülheim an der Ruhr (DE) 27 August 2010 Photography: Feenstaub Entertainment Burgfolk Mulheim guarantees a fun party. The common thread in the program is folk influences but in a broad sense. The festival began this year with a very nice Versengold, which plays real medieval … Continue reading →
