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Review Leaves' Eyes - Fires In The North

Posted by Anoniem (niet gecontroleerd) op Tuesday, 18 October 2016

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Artiest: Leaves' Eyes

Album: Fires In The North

Genre: Symphonic metal

Label: Spinefarm Records

Score: 80/100

Eind 2016 brengt de Noorse symphonic metalband Leaves’ Eyes de EP ‘Fires In The North’ op de markt. De band noemt hun eigen EP ‘an epic rocker’. Het artwork van deze EP is gecreërd door Stefan Heilemann.

De EP van Leaves’ Eyes bestaat uit vijf nummers, waarvan er twee nieuwe nummers aan de luisteraar worden voorgesteld. De nadruk van deze vijf nummers ligt op de heruitvoering, aangezien deze worden gezongen door de nieuwe zangeres Elina Siirala. Deze zangers heeft haar live-debuut gemaakt op het Hammersonic festival in Jakarta op 17 april.

Het moment dat zangeres Liv Kristine met Leaves’ Eyes splitte, was geen genoegen van de symphonic metalwereld. Gitarist Thorsten ‘Tosso’ Bauer verklaart zich nader: "When Liv and Alex (co-zanger en Liv Kristine’s partner) split up personally early January, Liv wanted to leave the band right away. But Alex convinced her to stay with the band and they both made a very good agreement with each other for their private life and business. So the band situation seemed to be solved at that point of time. But since February her new fiancé/therapist tried to interfere in a lot of band matters. He talked very bad about Leaves’ Eyes and that shows, tours and interviews shouldn’t happen without him anymore. Her fiancé/therapist even told Live to step aside from the band."

"In March, things went far beyond after Liv moved to her engaged therapist and it became very clear to everybody in the band that we will go seperate ways in the future. Liv also wanted to be involved in picking the new singer for Leaves’ Eyes. We told her that we want to decide ourselves who will be our new singer in the band. So there was nothing been happening behind anybody’s back. Beginning of April, we had a band meeting to talk about how things go on. In the meeting, we decided together to go seperate ways immediately."

"Liv told us she is not able to fulfill her touring commitments with the band anymore for personal reasons. Moreover, Liv's lawyer wrote in a letter to Alex that a further cooperation including the live shows with the band is not possible for Liv anymore. So Liv was relieved not having to play any future shows with Leaves’ Eyes. As a result of the meeting, we also set up a press statement together with Liv, to inform the fans and media. To the surprise of everybody, this first press statement we set up together was attacked soon after by several additional posts and statements from Liv. Suddenly other people and 'trolls' started to spread nasty rumors and lies on the Internet. That was the reason for the confusion and anger in April."

"For myself I can clearly say, if anyone in the band would have treated Liv in the way some trolls in the internet tell, I wouldn't be part of this band anymore. Also, I can say that Alex is a single father at the moment, and since Liv and Alex separated from each other, their son lives at his place."

Met hun EP wilt Leaves’ Eyes nu laten zien dat ze ondanks alle problemen van het afgelopen jaar een juiste keuze hebben gemaakt door Elina als nieuwe zangeres te kiezen voor deze overweldigende band. In stem maar ook vooral in appearance hoeft de Finse zeker niet onder te doen.

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