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Origins World Tour
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Metsatoll took up their places, opening the night with their Estonian folk metal. Not only are all their lyrics in Estonian, giving a real folky feel to the tunes, but vocalist and multi instrumentalist Lauri "Varulven" Õunapu self taught himself many traditional Estonian folk instruments. From the goat horn and various little flutes, to the more eccentric mouth harp and kannel, each song brought forth a different folk sound that I found truly interesting. Adding heavy and fast drums with melodic guitar riffs and even heavier/thrashier bits here and there, Metsatoll gave a powerful performance that left me wanting more.
Much to the delight of fans, TYR took the stage next opening up with a track off their new album “Blood of Heroes.” It always surprises me when a band can play a song in their own language and have a room full of English speaking fans chant the lyrics along with them. Such was the case when they went into popular tracks in their own native Faroese like “Tróndur Í Gøtu, ” ”Ramund Hin Unge,” “Sinklars Vísa,” and “Grindavísan.” Such is the power of TYR that it made me want to go home and immediately learn the Faroese lyrics. Fans got treated to some TYR must-have tracks like “Flame of the Free” and “Hold the Heathen Hammer High.” Voices were raised and fists were clenched from front and centre to the far back for the chorus of “By the Sword in my Hand” and TYR finished off their set with “Shadow of the Swastika,” ending their set all too soon. |
Next up were the headliners, the celtic folk metal Eluveitie. With a large entourage of 8 touring members, Eluveitie crowded the stage and filled the Phoenix with powerful folk metal. Opening up with some new tracks off of Origins such as “King,” “From Darkness,” and “Carry the Torch,” we got a taste of the new Eluveitie sound. We were then treated to plenty of Eluveitie classics that got the moshpit going and the chanting fans fist pumping such as “Thousandfold,” “AnDro,” “Omnos” and “Kingdom Come Undone.” Fans got to pick which one of the four Swiss languages Eluveitie’s first single off of Origins, “Call of the Mountain,” would be played in, German, French, Italian and Romansh, or English. Toronto picked the native Swiss German but we got treated to the English lyrics for the last chorus in which fans all around got to sing along to “The Call Of The Mountains! Ooooh! Oooh! Oooh!” in the most metal way. Thanks to the large number of members, there wasn’t a lot of movement on stage except the off beat headbanging of the two Eluveitie ladies and Patrick Kistler. Kistler was the only one with the ability to roam around the stage and onto the amps. But aside from some minor position changes, the band pretty much stayed stationary. However, Eluveite made up for the lack of stage presence with fan favourite tracks such as, my personal favourite, “Quoth the Raven” based on Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The Raven and filled with Anna Murphy’s awesome growls, and of course, “A Rose for Epona,” “Havoc,”and an encore of “Helvetios” and “Inis Mona.” |
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Metsatoll Markus "Rabapagan" Teeäär – Vocals, Guitars Lauri "Varulven" Õunapuu - Vocals, Torupill, Flutes, Kannel, Instrument of Angst, Mouth Harp, Goat Horn, Acoustic Guitar Raivo "KuriRaivo" Piirsalu – Bass, Vocals Marko Atso – Drums & Percussion, Vocals Label: Spinefarm Records http://www.metsatoll.ee |
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TYR Heri Joensen – Vocals, Guitar Terji Skibenæs – Guitar, Backing Vocals Gunnar H. Thomsen –Bass, Backing Vocals Amon Ellingsgaard – Drums, Backing Vocals Record Label: Metal Blade Records http://www.tyr.fo/ |
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Eluveitie Merlin Sutter - Drums Chrigel Glanzmann - Vocals, Mandola & Mandolin, Tin & Low Whistles, Bagpipes, Bodhràn Anna Murphy - Hurdygurdy, Vocals, Flute Nicole Ansperger - Fiddle Ivo Henzi - Guitars Rafael Salzmann - Guitars Patrick Kistler - Tin & Low Whistles, Bagpipe Kay Brem – Bass Record Label: Nuclear Blast Records http://www.eluveitie.ch |
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