Leaves' Eyes

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Leaves' Eyes
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Leaves' Eyes on July 25, 2007 at the executioner's festival in Stuttgart
Leaves' Eyes on July 25, 2007 at the executioner's festival in Stuttgart
General information
Genre (s) Symphonic Metal
Folk Metal
Viking Metal
founding 2003
Website www.leaveseyes.de
Founding members
Liv Kristine (until 2016)
singing
 Alexander Krull
Thorsten Bauer
guitar
 Mathias Röderer (until 2010)
Chris Lukhaup (until 2007)
Martin Schmidt (until 2004)
Current occupation
singing
 Elina Siirala (since 2016)
singing
 Alexander Krull
Guitar, electric bass
 Torsten Bauer
guitar
 Micki Richter (since 2019)
Drums
 Joris Nijenhuis (since 2013)
former members
Drums
 Moritz Neuner (2004-2007)
Drums
 Nick Barker (2008)
Drums
 Roland Navratil (2008–2012)
bass
 Alla Fedynitch (2007-2010)
Drums
 Seven Antonopoulos (2008-2010)
Drums
 Felix Born (2012-2013)
guitar
 Sander van der Meer (2010-2015)
guitar
 Pete Streit (2015-2019)
Live support
bass
 Niels Löffler (since 2010)

Leaves' Eyes is a German symphonic metal - band .

Band history

Leaves' Eyes was founded in the summer of 2003, before front woman Liv Kristine was fired from her former band Theater of Tragedy due to irreconcilable musical differences . The remaining band members come from Atrocity .

In 2004 the debut album Lovelorn was released , from which the single Into Your Light was decoupled with video. In the summer of the same year Leaves' Eyes and Atrocity played a joint tour in Germany. A year later, in May 2005, the second album Vinland Saga followed , which reached a position in the German album charts for the first time. In September the band toured with Paradise Lost in the United States, followed by several concerts in North America with God Dethroned , Nightrage , Atrocity and other bands in October . Also in October there was an appearance at the Metal Female Voices Fest 2005 in Wieze , Lebbeke in East Flanders before the band played as the opening act on the traditional Christmas tour of Subway to Sally in December 2005 .

In 2006, Legend Land was released, an EP that also made it into the German charts. Before that, the band played a spring European tour with Elis , and in winter Leaves' Eyes supported the Blind Guardian US tour . In between, Atrocity and Leaves' Eyes performed in April in Brazil and in September in Australia.

In the summer of 2007, Leaves' Eyes played again as opening act in the United States and Europe, this time for the American power metal band Kamelot . On October 20, 2007, a live DVD was recorded at the Metal Female Voices Fest in front of 3500 viewers and was released in February 2009. In November 2007 bassist Chris Lukhaup and drummer Moritz Neuner left Leaves' Eyes and Atrocity. In January 2008, Nick Barker was introduced as the new drummer for Leaves' Eyes and Atrocity. In August 2008 Leaves Eyes played at the Wacken Open Air. In 2010 Leaves' Eyes was back as the opening act for Kamelot on their European tour. Leaves' Eyes played again in 2010 at MFVF in Belgium. In spring 2011 Leaves' Eyes toured Germany with Tarja Turunen , and in April of the same year the new album Meredead was released .

On April 15, 2016, the band announced the split from Liv Kristine for personal reasons. Shortly afterwards Leaves Eyes presented the soprano and founder of the Finnish melodic metal band EnkElination , Elina Siirala , as successor.

style

Leaves' Eyes at Wacken Open Air 2018

The style of music is now and then reminiscent of the early Theater of Tragedy and is dominated by Elina Siirala's singing and growl passages by Alexander Krull. Typical songs are Elegy and Farewell Proud Men , whose lyrics tell of the life of the Vikings and the suffering of the wives left behind.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Vinland saga
  DE 62 06/13/2005 (1 week)
Njord
  DE 30th 09/11/2009 (2 weeks)
  CH 88 09/13/2009 (1 week)
Meredead
  DE 32 05/06/2011 (2 weeks)
Symphonies of the Night
  DE 49 11/29/2013 (1 week)
King of Kings
  DE 15th 09/18/2015 (2 weeks)
  CH 54 09/20/2015 (1 week)
Sign of the Dragonhead
  DE 21st 01/19/2018 (1 week)
  AT 69 01/26/2018 (1 week)
  CH 33 01/21/2018 (1 week)
EPs
Legend land
  DE 75 06/26/2006 (1 week)
DVDs
We Came with the Northern Winds / En Saga I Belgia
  DE 75 03/16/2009 (1 week)

Albums

  • 2004: Lovelorn
  • 2005: Vinland Saga
  • 2009: Njord
  • 2011: Meredead
  • 2013: Symphonies of the Night
  • 2015: King of Kings
  • 2018: Sign of the Dragonhead

EPs

  • 2005: Elegy
  • 2006: Legend Land
  • 2009: My Destiny
  • 2010: At Heaven's End
  • 2011: Melusine
  • 2016: Fires in the North
  • 2019: Black Butterfly

Singles

  • 2004: Into Your Light
  • 2015: Halvdan the Black
  • 2015: The Waking Eye
  • 2017: Across the Sea
  • 2017: Sign of the Dragonhead
  • 2018: Jomsborg
  • 2018: Riders on the Wind
  • 2020: Dark Love Empress

Video albums

  • 2009: We Came with the Northern Winds / En Saga I Belgia

Web links

Commons : Leaves' Eyes  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Quote from the Mastersound newsletter ( memento of November 20, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) of August 16, 2003.
  2. ↑ LEAVES 'EYES announce new singer. Liv Kristine, April 15, 2016, accessed April 16, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Leaves' Eyes announce new singer. Leaves' Eyes, April 15, 2016, accessed April 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH