BAND: Leaves’ Eyes
TITLE: Vinland Saga
YEAR: 2005
MAJOR: Napalm Records

LINE UP:
Liv Kristine Espenæs Krull – voice
Alexander Krull – growl
Thorsten Bauer – guitar
Mathias Röderer – guitar
Alla Fedynitch – bass
Seven Antonopolous – drum

VOTE: 9/10

Tracklist:
1. Vinland Saga
2. Farewell Proud Men
3. Elegy
4. Solemn Sea
5. Leaves’ Eyes
6. The Thorn
7. Misseri (Turn Green Meadows into Grey)
8. Amhrán (Song of the Winds)
9. New Found Land
10. Mourning Tree
11. Twilight Sun
12. Ankomst

The second album for the band of Liv Kristine and her husband Alexander Krull, where she seems not at all to regret the achieved popularity by the Theatre of Tragedy, indeed this band has many chances to grow despite the proliferation of symphonic metal bands.
Vinland Saga brings us into a much discussed source angle in Scandinavian history, when the Viking equipage led by Lief Erikson (son of the legendary Erik the Red) came to the lands of Vinland, today called Canada. This story is presented by a woman waiting for her husband’s return from this ambitious expedition, as can be clearly heard in the passages of the chorus of Elegy “(…) Will I hold you in my arms again? (…)” Or in the recitative of Twilight Sun “(…) If you do not return, I will leave a message for you carved in stone (…)” and many other steps within the 13 tracks that make this CD very different from song to song, however, without resulting an “already-heard-product” or recycled from the first job.
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