ELUVEITIE - Origins (2014)
So here we are. The quick (by my standards) turnaround since my last Eluveitie post comes because I didn't need to get to know all these songs from the beginning (and because I've been blogging like a madman these past couple weeks... this rate of posting won't last, but I'm running with it for now). As noted multiple times Origins is the record that got me fascinated with Eluveitie, and now I get to find out in context of their career if it holds up. Personnel notes at a changing time in the band's career: Here Ivo is specifically credited for "rhythm guitar" whereas newbie Rafael Salzmann is "lead guitar." Nicole Ansberger joins as the principal fiddler/cellist (with some guest musicians providing additional strings), a musical partner to Chigrel and apparently soon to be a life partner with a complicated and messy personal relationship that I don't know nearly enough about to intelligently speak about; at this point she has no songwrit