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 Post subject: 'Eluveitie - Slania (#4379)'
PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2008 9:23 pm 
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Eluveitie - Slania
Folk/Melodeath
Quoted: 84 / 100


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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2008 10:00 pm 
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Slania's Song is probably the best example of what the band were trying to go for here. It's here that the band do a proper attempt at mixing folk and melodic death metal, with the bagpipes and hurdy-gurdys feeling like an integral part of the music, rather than merely an addition to it.

Yes.

This band's biggest problem is that they don't blend the two elements very well. It just sound sosrt of thrown together, at least sometimes.
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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2008 11:53 pm 
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Radagast wrote:
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Slania's Song is probably the best example of what the band were trying to go for here. It's here that the band do a proper attempt at mixing folk and melodic death metal, with the bagpipes and hurdy-gurdys feeling like an integral part of the music, rather than merely an addition to it.

Yes.

This band's biggest problem is that they don't blend the two elements very well. It just sound sosrt of thrown together, at least sometimes.


Hey Radagast we were complaining about this a couple of weeks ago :)

Anyway thanks for this review James, I agree with the score and also agree with Radagast's comment.
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Misha
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Funny, this is actually the main band of the Forest Of Fog guy that you probably have heard me rant about for a long time.
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Stefan
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Funny, this is actually the main band of the Forest Of Fog guy that you probably have heard me rant about for a long time.

Wasn't I the one introducing you to FOF? :wink:
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Stefan wrote:
Misha wrote:
Funny, this is actually the main band of the Forest Of Fog guy that you probably have heard me rant about for a long time.

Wasn't I the one introducing you to FOF? :wink:

Hah, could be yeah. But I was the one ranting about it 24/7 :D
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Stefan
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PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2008 12:45 pm 
Misha wrote:
Stefan wrote:
Misha wrote:
Funny, this is actually the main band of the Forest Of Fog guy that you probably have heard me rant about for a long time.

Wasn't I the one introducing you to FOF? :wink:

Hah, could be yeah. But I was the one ranting about it 24/7 :D

That was when you were TROO GRIM KVLT! Now you've sold out and listen to gay music... :P :wink:
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Stefan wrote:
Misha wrote:
Stefan wrote:
Misha wrote:
Funny, this is actually the main band of the Forest Of Fog guy that you probably have heard me rant about for a long time.

Wasn't I the one introducing you to FOF? :wink:

Hah, could be yeah. But I was the one ranting about it 24/7 :D

That was when you were TROO GRIM KVLT! Now you've sold out and listen to gay music... :P :wink:

PFFFT!! I started listening fulfrontal Breakcore!! :D And I need a little gay music to compromise for all non-gay activities I have with my girlfriend. :dio:
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Stefan
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PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2008 1:22 pm 
Misha wrote:
Stefan wrote:
Misha wrote:
Stefan wrote:
Misha wrote:
Funny, this is actually the main band of the Forest Of Fog guy that you probably have heard me rant about for a long time.

Wasn't I the one introducing you to FOF? :wink:

Hah, could be yeah. But I was the one ranting about it 24/7 :D

That was when you were TROO GRIM KVLT! Now you've sold out and listen to gay music... :P :wink:

PFFFT!! I started listening fulfrontal Breakcore!! :D And I need a little gay music to compromise for all non-gay activities I have with my girlfriend. :dio:

Your HOT girlfriend as I've been told... :wink:
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Misha
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Not denying that.... :wub:
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Ness
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Good band. I need to check this one out, and FoF is amazing.
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RedHawk
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I know you guys told me this before on another post but the Forest of Fog guy is this band's guitarist or vocalist?
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Stefan
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 5:26 am 
Guitarist... And the bassist plays live with Forest Of Fog too.
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Radagast
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Forest of Fog are (is?) a lot better, but then it's a totally different sort of metal.
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The Evil Dead
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Every week it seems like there's a new raft of bands with slick, shiny, soulless cover art, a slick, shiny, soulless production job, and an album's worth of unused In Flames and At The Gates riffs.


No other style of metal has the issue of following in the footsteps of other bands in any way. At all. :)

That bit aside, the score is solid as is the album.
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The singer sounds uncomfortably like Anders, at times...
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