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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.

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Helvetios
Studio album by Eluveitie
Released	10 February 2012 (2012-02-10)
Recorded	2011
Studio	New Sound Studio, Pfäffikon[1]
Genre	Folk metal, melodic death metal, Celtic metal
Length	59:12
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer	Tommy Vetterli,[2] Eluveitie
Eluveitie studio album chronology
Everything Remains (As It Never Was) (2010) Helvetios (2012) Origins (2014)
Singles from Helvetios
"Meet the Enemy" Released: 17 January 2012

Concept

Being the band's first concept album, it focuses on the Gallic Wars from a perspective of the ancient Helvetians.[3][4]

Style

The album features melodic death metal combined with Celtic folk music instruments like fiddle, hurdy-gurdy, flutes, whistles, bagpipes, mandola, bodhran, and hammered dulcimer. Band member Anna Murphy has been more involved in songwriting and has been given more vocal parts than on previous releases.[3]

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[5]
Der Metal Krieger	[6]
Metal Hammer (Germany)	6/7[4]
Sonic Seducer	very favourable[3]
Stormbringer	[7]
Lambgoat	[8]
Peek from the Pit	[9]

Helvetios received favourable professional reviews in Germany with the Sonic Seducer magazine calling the album "pure efficiency (pure Effizienz)."[3] The German edition of Metal Hammer lauded the tracks "Meet The Enemy", "Neverland" and "The Siege" for their aggressive Metal style and concluded that Eluveitie's musical virtues were being continued on this album.[4] A review by the Austrian Stormbringer compared the track "The Siege" to Sepultura's style and called the album a "piece of art."[7]

Chart performance

The album reached the top ten album charts in Switzerland and the Top Heatseekers of the United States.

Charts	Peak position
SWI[10]	4
CAN[11]	73
GER[12]	27
FIN[13]	47
FRA[14]	81
Billboard USA[15]	143
Heatseekers USA[15]	3

Track listing

Personnel

Eluveitie

• Chrigel Glanzmann – harsh vocals, harp, tin & low whistle, uilleann pipes, mandola, bodhrán
• Anna Murphy – clean vocals, harsh vocals in "The Siege" and "Meet the Enemy", hurdy-gurdy
• Kay Brem – bass guitar, Caesar's voice in "Havoc"
• Ivo Henzi – rhythm guitar
• Simeon Koch – lead guitar, mandola
• Patrick "Päde" Kistler – bagpipes, whistles
• Merlin Sutter – drums
• Meri Tadić – fiddles

Guests

• Alexander Morton – voice in the narrations of tracks 1, 11 & 17
• Nina Macchi – recorder in track 12
• Christoph Pelgen – gwerz vocals in track 6
• Fredy Schnyder – hammered dulcimer in tracks 4 & 7
• Sarah Wauquiez – zugerörgeli (helvetic accordion) in track 3

References

На других языках

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[de] Helvetios

Helvetios (lateinisch für ‹(die) Helvetier› bzw. ‹(die) Schweizer›,[1][2] Akkusativ Plural) ist das fünfte Studioalbum der Schweizer Folk-Metal-Band Eluveitie. Es ist das erste Konzeptalbum der Band und behandelt chronologisch die Thematik des Gallischen Krieges. Ausgearbeitet wurde das Konzept mit Hilfe von Historikern über einen Zeitraum von gut zwei Jahren. Zusammen mit den Aufnahmen und der Produktion des Albums vergingen knapp fünf Jahre, bis das Album im deutschsprachigen Raum am 10. Februar 2012 auf dem Plattenlabel Nuclear Blast erschien.

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- [en] Helvetios

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[ru] Helvetios

Helvetios — концептуальный альбом швейцарской фолк-группы Eluveitie, вышедший в 2012 году. Стал пятым полноформатным альбомом коллектива. Признан лучшим в жанре фолк-метал в 2012 году по версии сайта Metal Storm[8].

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