Everything Remains (As It Never Was)

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Everything Remains (As It Never Was)
Everything Remains As It Never Was.jpg
Studio album by
Eluveitie
Released19 February 2010
RecordedSeptember–October 2009
StudioNewsound studios, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
Genre Folk metal, melodic death metal, Celtic metal
Length47:03
Label Nuclear Blast
Producer Colin Richardson
Eluveitie studio album chronology
Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion
(2009)		Everything Remains (As It Never Was)
(2010)		 Helvetios
(2012)
Singles from Everything Remains (As It Never Was)
  1. "Thousandfold"
    Released: 24 January 2010
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Sputnik Music3/5 [3]

Everything Remains (As It Never Was) is the fourth studio album by Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie. The album was produced by Colin Richardson, [4] and released on 19 February 2010 through Nuclear Blast. [5]

Contents

The album spawned one single, "Thousandfold", which has gained over 14,600,000 views on YouTube.

Sound

Unlike Eluveitie's previous release Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion which was primarily a folk rock/acoustic folk album, Everything Remains returns to the band's roots and is a straight folk metal album.

Reception

Everything Remains generally received highly positive reviews. Pascal Stieler, writing for Metal1.info wrote that Everything Remains was "in all matters outstanding, varied album that simply has no weaknesses" and gave the album 9/10. Metal.de also gave the album 9/10.

The fanbase's reaction was generally positive, with songs like Thousandfold being played frequently on tour.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Chrigel Glanzmann.

No.TitleMusicLength
1."Otherworld"Glanzmann1:57
2."Everything Remains as It Never Was"Glanzmann4:25
3."Thousandfold"
  • Glanzmann
  • Ivo Henzi
3:20
4."Nil"Glanzmann3:43
5."The Essence of Ashes"
  • Glanzmann
  • Henzi
3:59
6."Isara"Glanzmann2:44
7."Kingdom Come Undone"Glanzmann3:22
8."Quoth the Raven"
4:42
9."(Do)minion"Glanzmann5:07
10."Setlon"Glanzmann2:36
11."Sempiternal Embers"Glanzmann4:52
12."Lugdūnon"Glanzmann4:01
13."The Liminal Passage"Glanzmann2:15
Total length:47:03
Limited Edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
14."Otherworld Set"2:34
15."The Liminal Passage Set"2:49
DVD
No.TitleLength
1."Video clip of "Thousandfold"" 
2."Making of the video clip of "Thousandfold"" 
3."A closer look at the lyrics" 
4."Making of the album" 
5."Recording of "Thousandfold"" 
6."Recording of "(Do)minion"" 
7."Recording of "Quoth the Raven"" 

Credits

Chart performance

Chart (2010)
  • Peak
  • position
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [6] 19
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [7] 8
French Albums (SNEP) [8] 110
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [9] 22
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [10] 31
Greek Albums (IFPI) [11] 23
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard) [12] 23

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