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Official statement about my leave from Eluveitie (german and spanish version also available on my page)
So the latest news from the Eluveitie camp is spread for a couple of days now. In this time I got a huge amount of messages where i constantly get asked about the why and how. So instead of responding to each person seperately i would like to settle a statement myself about my leave from Eluveitie. Neither was it my desire nor my decision to leave the Band.
After incredible 6 and a half years of a with lots of experiences on the road, personal issues increased within the past 12 months in my life as well as in the Eluveitie hood. I have been going through some personal difficulties and changes in my life that also affected the relationship to some band members and my ability to fulfil the expectations (no, not an addiction problem
). My issues are solved in the meantime. So the difficulties within the Bamd got more exaggerated within the past stressful months of the album production and intensive touring. In the end the majority but not all of the band decided to expel me from the Eluveitie hood by a democratic vote, we're still very Swiss
Of course this isn't easy at all to get along with and more so to accept that those people I spent almost more time together throughout the past years than with any other person in my life, wanted me to leave. I have been dedicated to this project Eluveitie not only with spending a big amount of my attention, more so about all that makes Eluveitie unique and outstanding: the storytelling of history. Therefore I take the right to adjust Eluveities current album "Origins" epigraph: "We need to know were we come from to know who we are". In that sense I wish the project Eluveitie all the best for it's future and I hope that Chrigel can go on with his dream for a long time. Some others might have forgotten that a Band is not a "Blue-Chip" company with radical human resource politics, it's a Band that lives from the individuals, vibes and the dedication each one provides in it's very own way to the greater whole.
I would like to thank all the Fans around the globe for your incredible support you provided within the past years to make Eluveitie what it has become. Furthermore, all people that I got the chance to meet on the road, behind the stage, on stage, in the crowd or just by accident somewhere on the street or more likely in a coffee shop somewhere on this planet. Biggest pleasure has always been with Eluveitie that we had the chance to bring joy, satisfaction and transfer history and language to a lot of people all over the world; that has been my personal driving force to be part of Eluveitie.
My further plans are not made yet, nothing settled and lots of new shores to explore for me. I am very grateful that I got the chance to be part of Eluveitie and to do something many people never get the chance to experience.
In that sense I wish you all a life path full of experiences and love and light along your ways. Don't forget: "Everything remains as it never was!"
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