Helvetios is the fifth full-length album by the Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie. Being the band’s first concept album it focuses on the Gallic Wars from a perspective of the ancient Helvetians. 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 Read more on Last.fm.
