ELUVEITIE release “Ategnatos” cover; European tour dates announced

We all wade through archetypes. We all ARE archetypes. Distant echoes of a life both primeval and noble. To embrace these archetypes, to accept them not only as a part of life but as life itself is what some may call enlightenment, some peace of mind. ELUVEITIE call it Ategnatos. And by using their longest gap between two Metal albums to gather momentum, they just forged their strongest album around it. Ategnatos will be released on April 5^th 2019 via Nuclear Blast.

Today, the band revealed the stunning new album cover. This impressive artwork was created again by Travis Smith.

The band states:
“Ategnatos probably became our most organic album by all accounts. It is the result of a thoroughly intuitive process, where we gave creativity full scope. And during this process quite some back-to-the-roots developments emerged in diverse aspects. Many riffs off Ategnatos reminds on the guitar work on Slania. Following our gut feeling we brought the mixing duties back to Jens Bogren‘s Fascination Street Studios, where our Nuclear Blast debut was produced. And regarding the album artwork it soon became very clear to us, that we’d love to work with the fabulous Travis Smith (www.seempieces.com) again, who already created the front covers of our albums Spirit (14 years ago!) and Everything Remains As It Never Was. And we’re honestly excited with the result! The frontcover shows a spectacular scenery in central Switzerland, a so-called ‘vulva cave’, as it was sought to mark sacred rites of fertility and celebrations of life in ancient times! The artwork mystically and beautifully expresses the Ategnatos very core and essence! Once again it was a pleasure to work with Travis!”

And together with the revealing of the first album details , Swiss folk metal leaders ELUVEITIE also announce their European tour in support of this upcoming masterpiece.

ELUVEITIE will join forces with the legendary metal-act LACUNA COIL from Italy and the nu-metal-newcomers INFECTED RAIN from Moldavia.

ELUVEITIE states:
“Our last few months have been extremely intense, creating Ategnatos. Now we simply cannot wait to bring our new songs to the stages and to share our passion, pure fucking metal and heartfelt Celtic mysticism with you all! And all the more we’re excited to bring such great bands with us! We feel honored to team up with our fellows of the heavyweight institution called LACUNA COIL and also with the amazing wizkid that is INFECTED RAIN, whom we’ve shared festival stages with a few times already!”

LACUNA COIL adds:
“Transformation is a process and as life happens you need tons of new music! That’s why we are really excited to team up with ELUVEITIE and our buddies in INFECTED RAIN for this fantastic tour package. The bill is pretty diverse and interesting and we can’t wait to bring it around Europe. We will play some of our classic songs and introduce some new tunes! We know this tour is going to be rocking, and we know the fans are going to enjoy this as much as we are!”

TOURDATES:
02.11.              I           Bari – Demodè
03.11.              I           Rome – Orion
05.11.              I           Bologna – Estragon
06.11.              I           Milan – Live Club
08.11.              D         Stuttgart – LKA Longhorn
09.11.              D         Oberhausen – Turbinenhalle II
10.11.              B          Antwerp – Trix
12.11               GB       Manchester – Ritz
13.11.              GB       Glasgow – Garage
14.11.              IRL       Dublin – Academy
15.11.              GB       Bristol – SWX
16.11.              GB       London – The Forum
17.11.              NL        Utrecht – Tivoli Ronda
19.11.              D         Frankfurt – Batschkapp
20.11.              D         Hannover – Capitol
21.11.              D         Berlin – Huxleys
22.11.              D         Leipzig – Felsenkeller
23.11.              D         Munich – Tonhalle
24.11.              A          Dornbirn – Conrad Sohm
26.11.              F          Bordeaux – Le Rocher de Palmer
27.11.              E          Barcelona – Razzmatazz II
28.11.              E          Madrid – Mon Live
29.11.              F          Toulouse – Le Bikini
30.11.              F          Rennes – L’Etage
01.12.              F          Paris – Elysée-Montmartre
03.12.              D         Saarbrücken – Garage
04.12.              D         Nürnberg – Hirsch
05.12.             SLO      Ljubljana – Kino Siska
08.12.             A          Vienna – Arena
12.12.             LV        Riga – Melna Piektdiena
13.12.             FIN       Helsinki – Tavastia
14.12.             FIN       Tampere – Pakkahuone
15.12.             EST      Tallinn – Rock Cafe
17.12.             S          Stockholm – Klubben Fryshuset
18.12.             N         Oslo – Vulkan Arena
19.12.             S          Gothenburg – Trädgarn
21.12.             D         Hamburg – Docks
Tickets: www.eluveitie.ch

More Live-Dates:
31.01. – 04.02.            USA     Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, FL – 70000 Tons of Metal
09.02.              MEX    Mexico City – Circo Volador (w/ NE OBLIVISCARIS)
10.02.             CR       San José – Peppers Club (co-headline show with Overki
12.02.              CO       Bogotá            – Ace of Spades
14.02.             RCH     Santiago – Theater Cariola
15.02.             BR       Sâo Paulo – Carioca Club
16.02.             BR       Belo Horizonte – Mister Rock
17.02.             BR       Brasilia – Toinha Brasil Show
19.02.             BR       Curitiba – Teatro Bom Jesus
23.02.             D         Wacken – Wacken Winter Nights

05.04. CH Lausanne – Les Docks

13. – 15.06.     CH       Interlaken – Greenfield Festival
19. – 22.06.     DK       Copenhagen – Copenhell
23.06.             B          Dessel – Graspop Metal Meeting
25.06.             PL        Krakow – Mystic Festival
27.06.              I           Bologna – Sonic Park
10.07.             H         Dunaújváros – Rockmaraton
11. – 13.07.     A          Leoben – Area 53 Festival
11. – 14.07.     CZ        Vizovice – Masters of Rock
19./20.07.       S          Gävle – Gefle Metal Festival
01. – 03.08.     D         Wacken – Wacken Open Air *SOLD OUT*
02. – 04.08.     F          Saint-Maurice-de-Gourdans – Sylak Open Air
07. – 10.08.     E          Villena – Leyendas del Rock
11.08.              UK       Derby – Bloodstock Open Air
14. – 17.08.     D         Dinkelsbühl – Summer Breeze
15.08.             F          St. Nolff – Motocultor Festival
08.09.              D         Selb – Festival Mediaval

Recordings of Ategnatos took place in their beloved New Sound Studio with their engineer of choice Tommy Vetterli. “Yet it was radically different as we only had four weeks to record this time around – as compared to the eight weeks we had for Origins.” By taking mixing duties to the skilled hand of renowned studio wizard Jens Bogren in his Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden, ELUVEITIE returned to the very spot where they mixed their now legendary Slania album more than ten years ago.

With Ategnatos, the dedicated nine-piece not only worked with a real string quartet (a premiere!) and granted Fabienne Erni’s sublime mastery of the harp the room it deserved; they also undertook a holistic upgrade resulting in some of the most catchy, most aggressive or most epic tunes the Swiss Metal nobility has ever offered.