ELUVEITIE - Ategnatos (2019)
Finally getting around to this. We're back in metal-land with the new guys and gals fully incorporated into the band. Sticking with the reported spirit of collaboration, Jonas Wolf (again - JONAS. WOLF. Still such a metal name...) is credited with production help and gets just tons of songwriting credits, including getting listed before Chigrel on occasion. Most of the others pitch in here and there too as co-writers, but it's mostly Chigrel and Jonas. Here's what they come up with on the band's longest release to date. Track One: "Ategnatos" Oh great, more Andrew narration. At least it's brief. An appealing flute figure that'll pop up a few times on this record * (and in our first bit of "this sounds like that other song," it sounds a lot like the tune also used as the basis for "The Nameless" - no wonder I keep wanting to sing "holy father in darkness" instead of the actual lyrics) leads us into an appealing Fab