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Christian "Chrigel" Glanzmann is a vocalist in the folk metal

Folk metal

Folk metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. As the name suggests, the genre is a fusion of heavy metal with traditional folk music...

band Eluveitie

Eluveitie

Eluveitie is a folk metal band from Winterthur, Switzerland. The band formed in 2002 and their first EP, Vên came out in 2003. The band then released a full-length album, Spirit in June 2006. In November 2007, Eluveitie was signed by Nuclear Blast....

. He also plays mandola

Mandola

The mandola or tenor mandola is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola , a fifth lower than a mandolin...

, whistle

Whistle

A whistle or call is a simple aerophone, an instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means...

s and bagpipes

Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from...

in Branâ Keternâ.

Equipment

Throat/Shure SM58
Mandola (Decombe)
Tin & low whistles (Clarkes)
Uilleann pipes
Gaita
Acoustic guitar
Bodhràn

With Eluveitie

Vên
Vên
Vên is the demo by the Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie. It was first released on October 18, 2003 as a self-financed project. In August 2004, its remastered version was released under contract with Fear Dark Records...
Spirit
Spirit (Eluveitie album)
Spirit is the first full-length album by the Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie. It was released on June 1, 2006 by Fear Dark Records and re-released by Twilight Records in 2007.-Track listing:# "Spirit" – 2:32# "Uis Elveti" – 4:24...
Slania
Slania
Slania is the second full-length album by the Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie. It was released on February 15, 2008 through Nuclear Blast.-Track listing:# "Samon" – 1:48 # "Primordial Breath" – 4:19 # "Inis Mona" – 4:09...
Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion
Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion
Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion is the third full-length album by the Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie. It was released on April 17, 2009 through Nuclear Blast. Contrary to their previous works, this album is almost entirely acoustic. The vocals are primarily handled by hurdy gurdist Anna Murphy...
Everything Remains as It Never Was
Everything Remains as It Never Was
Everything Remains is the fourth full-length album by the Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie. Produced by Colin Richardson, it was released on February 19, 2010 through Nuclear Blast.-Track listing:# "Otherworld" - 1:57...

As a guest or session musician

I - Folkearth
Folkearth
Folkearth is an international music project created in 2003 by musicians playing folk and viking metal. The name symbolizes musicians from all over the world playing folk music...
Musik im Dornwald
Anthems - Roy
A tribute to Falkenbach

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