{"id":17521,"date":"2018-02-09T01:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17521"},"modified":"2022-01-06T19:49:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T00:49:22","slug":"album-review-leaves-eyes-sign-of-the-dragonhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/?p=17521","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Leaves&#8217; Eyes &#8211; Sign of the Dragonhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epic symphonic power metal is one of those genres where all the bands can sometimes run together.\u00a0 After a while they all sound the same but every now and then a band stands out from the pack for me and captures my attention.\u00a0 The first time I saw Leave\u2019s Eyes was on their last North American tour with Sabaton.\u00a0 I was totally impressed and captivated by the commanding presence on stage and the dynamics between vocalists Alexander Krull and Elina Siirala.<\/p>\n<p>After the show I went home to check them out but all I could find was material recorded with former vocalist Liv Kristine.\u00a0\u00a0 I found myself not really liking this stuff so I hoped that a future album with Siirala would maybe offer up something I could connect with.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the deal with these kinds of bands.\u00a0 I have found that the older I get, the less I find myself actually liking or enjoying this kind of music.\u00a0 When I first heard this kind of stuff, it was so different and exciting to me so of course I dove right into it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/reTG0JJdG5Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For a while, I felt that Epica reigned supreme doing this kind of music but even then, after a while, they got to be too bombastic, too fast, and too intense for me to really enjoy.\u00a0 With the release of Sign of the Dragonhead, Leave\u2019s Eyes has taken this genre of music that I find to be overplayed and sometimes heartless and made it completely enjoyable.\u00a0 Their vocalists are absolutely outstanding.\u00a0 The dynamics between Krull and Siirala are so enjoyable to hear and, in my opinion, they seem to take something that Epica once did really well only to have perfected it and made it better.<\/p>\n<p>Musically, Sign of the Dragonhead is a dynamic and truly fun listening experience.\u00a0 With the epic power metal opener of \u201cSign of the Dragonhead\u201d, the marching epic \u201cAcross the Sea\u201d, and the absolutely gorgeously dark and haunting Nordic instrumental \u201cRulers of Wind and Waves\u201d, Leave\u2019s Eyes showcase their ability to not only cover lots of different ground musically and to touch on many different elements of their influences ranging from classic Nordic music to the power metal that they do so well.<\/p>\n<p>The magic of Sign of the Dragonhead is all in the sequencing which allowed Leave\u2019s Eyes to create a truly great listening experience.\u00a0 Leave\u2019s Eyes is definitely a band that rekindled my love and appreciation for this kind of music.\u00a0 Even after going back and listening to some of the other bands of the genre, as of right now I have to say that with Sign of the Dragonhead, Leave\u2019s Eyes is doing it better than anyone out there and I can only hope that with Siirala, Leave\u2019s Eyes will continue to thrive, grow, and release music that is every bit as captivating as this album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic symphonic power metal is one of those genres where all the bands can sometimes run together.\u00a0 After a while they all sound the same but every now and then a band stands out from the pack for me and captures my attention.\u00a0 The first time I saw Leave\u2019s Eyes was on their last North American tour with Sabaton.\u00a0 I was totally impressed and captivated by the commanding presence on stage and the dynamics between vocalists Alexander Krull and Elina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1813],"class_list":["post-17521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-leaves-eyes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19642,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17521\/revisions\/19642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}