Review: Music Review: Eluveitie - Slania

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There has definitely been something strange going on in Gothenburg and that something is ‘The New Wave of Folk Metal’. Eluveitie (spell check nightmare) are at the very front of the movement and their second full length album Slania was released in February 2008 on Nuclear Blast Records. That earlier description, lifted from the band’s website, doesn’t quite capture the whole thing though. How about pagan-metal? Or melodic death-metal? Or how about gothic-folk-pagan-metal-Gothenburg style?

Whatever you call it, Eluveitie have been around since 2002, having been formed by...