Released 22 April 2011 Release date 22 April 2011 | Length 55:16 | |
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Recorded Mastersound Studios, Steinheim, Germany, 2010-2011 Similar Leaves' Eyes albums, Gothic metal albums | ||
Meredead is the fourth studio album by the German/Norwegian symphonic metal band Leaves' Eyes. It was released on 22 April 2011 on Napalm Records. The Deluxe Edition of the album contains a bonus DVD with five songs from a live performance recorded at the Metal Female Voices Fest, in Wieze, Belgium, on 24 October 2010.
Contents
Leaves eyes meredead
Title
The title is inspired by the Old English compound noun meredēað, literally "sea-death", which is attested (in the genitive plural meredēaða) in the passage rodor swipode meredēaða mǣst, literally: "the greatest quantity of sea-deaths scourged the skies", in Exodus, the second poem of the Junius manuscript, in the section telling the story of the Crossing of the Red Sea. Alternatively, meredēað could be translated as "sea of death" or "deadly sea" in view of a later passage in the same text: meredēað geswealh, literally "sea-death swallowed". On her website, Liv Kristine explicitly recommends Marsden 2004, and quotes the explanation for meredēað given in the book, saying that Meredead could be translated as "dead by the sea".
Track lists
All lyrics written by Liv Kristine Espenæs Krull; all music composed by Alexander Krull and Thorsten Bauer, except where noted.
Leaves' Eyes
Additional musicians
Production
Songs
1Spirits’ Masquerade6:31
2Étaín3:58
3Velvet Heart3:42