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In the Green Isles, the summer magic is waning. The evil Icelord encases the lands in a permanent frost. An old wizard prepares one last defense, hurrying to Eyes Like Leaves his inexperienced apprentice, to awaken the Summerlord, the newfound mage gathers allies, including a young woman—and time is running out. This early Charles de Lint novel—previously unavailable in a paperback edition—is a stirring epic fantasy of Celtic and Nordic mythology along with swords and sorcery. Snake ships pillage the coastal towns, and the Eyes Like Leaves Icelord encases the verdant lands in a permanent frost. A mysterious old wizard prepares to mount one last defense of the Isles, hurrying to instruct his inexperienced apprentice in the art of shape-changing. In a desperate race to awaken the Summerlord, the newfound mage gathers a few remaining allies, including a seemingly ordinary young woman and her protective adoptive family. But the revelation of a family betrayal leads to new treachery—and time is running short for the Summerborn. It is a must for de Lint completists and, actually, for all high-fantasy and folkloristic fiction fans. The result is a delightful old-fashioned group quest…. Charles de Lint shows signs of the bardic gift in his ability to make scenes come alive…. New Eyes Like Leaves de Lint and like high fantasy? You should certainly give it a try. For fans this will be a delight well worth seeking out, but teen readers who have a chance to read it should not pass it up…. No one Eyes Like Leaves it better. Visit the Charles de Lint website. Tarn knew him for a wizard, the tall greybeard, calm as a tree, with the wisdom of longyears patterning his sky-blue eyes. They met on the streets of Tallifold, a large port on the south coast of Fairnland, dhruide and streetsinger, Puretongue and Tarn. I have a task that reaches beyond my lifetime—in you I will see it fulfilled. Are you willing to learn what I can teach you? They left Tallifold that day, journeying north to where autumn touched the summer woods of Avalarn. The wind teased their cloaks with curious fingers. The sky dreamed blue above them. The woods whispered wise about them. Salt and the sharp odours of fish and fish-smoking, the smell of nets drying, for Codswill lived by its fishing trade. Its small boats timed their comings and goings to the tides. It was almost midnight, in the late spring of the yearas reckoned by the Dathenan calendar. Tarn was exhausted, but sleep eluded him tonight. Snatches Eyes Like Leaves memories flitted Eyes Like Leaves fireflies through the greyness of his fatigue. He listened to the sea murmur against the wooden pilings of the wharves, distant, but clearly audible in the quiet that wrapped the town. Closer, the inn Eyes Like Leaves to itself in the darkness. But that had been before he met Puretongue. His form shimmered in the firelight, grey hair and cloak feathering, shifting, changing The raven cawed once, a harsh, impatient sound, then the dhruide faced Tarn once more. Forms are fluid when named, he remembered, so he named it: raven. He sought his Eyes Like Leaves inner silence where the power lay hidden. He saw his fingers shimmer, feather. His head ached as he reached for the shape. Eyes Like Leaves quantity. Part One: Gathering the Threads These are the mythic times when sages get Eyes Like Leaves say, who sing like firebirds from the ash, whose deeds are legendary A tremor of strangeness stole over him, fear mingled with bright wonder. Listening, watching, Tarn began his lessons. Almost he felt the change Then it was gone. Eyes Like Leaves - Tachyon Publications

Best viewed without Internet Explorer, in x resolution or higher. As the album begins, soft acoustic guitar is played along with melancholic keyboards until the highly distorted electric guitars kick in along with the drums. The verse is very melodic and leads into an equally melodic and absurdly catchy chorus before leading into yet another verse. The song repeats this formula a few times and eventually stops. Lovelorn is very light for a metal album. Because of this, her voice is placed at the center of the album as the guitars and the drums play in the background. Problems arise, however, when these choruses fail to land because the backing music in the verses of the album is not enough to support Eyes Like Leaves songs on its own. Despite this issue, the rest of the album is able to successfully write in this style and ends up sounding similar to bands such as Lacuna Coil. Her vocals are very calm sounding and fit with the beauty of the synths that back them up. As far as other band members go, both Mathias Roderer and Thorsten Bauer handle the guitar work on the entire album. Aside from this, there is some acoustic guitar work that is pretty atmospheric and also some occasional soloing that is solid, albeit, underdeveloped. Overall the guitar work is tight, but for such a simplistic album, it is not a standout. The drumming on Eyes Like Leaves album is handled by Martin Schmidt who performs quite well throughout its duration. Schmidt plays a ton of double bass on the album which is cool to hear on lighter music such as this. The bass on the album is handled by Christian Lukhaup, and it Eyes Like Leaves almost completely inaudible making it pointless to even try to analyze. Lastly, the album actually does contain some harsh death growls courtesy of Alexander Krull who appears on a few of the songs. In the end, Lovelorn is a solid Eyes Like Leaves album from a band that went on to make a few other solid albums that many people enjoy. The album is not a masterpiece, as evidenced by a few bad cuts, and it fails to live up to the back catalogues of Eyes Like Leaves artists that played on it, but if the listener Eyes Like Leaves able to put such things behind them while listening, Lovelorn is a good album. The only problem is, for the average metalhead, the album could be a tough sell. Originally written for www. Leaves' Eyes Like Leaves among bands like Within Temptation, Epica, and After Forever was one of the first bands I'd heard of when doing my deep dives into the gothic metal genre. And being the inexperienced ten year old that I was, I took what people said about this band at face value: Leaves' Eyes is a gothic metal band Maybe it was just me trying to feel like my tastes were expanding past the first dozen or so bands that grasped my attention, but I always saw them as a symphonic folk metal act especially in their later work, which is what I am more familiar with. But then came the Eyes Like Leaves where I actually purchased a copy of their debut album Lovelornand Eyes Like Leaves was only then that I realized Leaves' Eyes was indeed a gothic metal band. It's actually kind of jarring, not just based on the band's progression since this release, but within the band's own context. I mean, look at the artwork. Bright sandy colors that invoke the feeling of sunshine, Liv Kristine is wearing literal fishnets as though she is an interpretation of an island goddess. Nothing about the band's aesthetic invokes dark, atmospheric, moody music. And to be fair, the band only seems half way committed to that concept in general. At the time, the Norwegian gothic doom pioneers claimed creative differences for splitting with Kristine, which comparing Theatre of Tragedy's progression towards metallic electro-pop, and this album released a year later, Eyes Like Leaves claims were probably on hundred percent true. That being said, Leaves' Eyes was clearly meant to be a project that revolved around not just Liv's voice, but her identity as an artists and songwriter. Therein lies the problem I don't want to place the blame for this indecision solely on Liv Kristine, her then-husband Alexander Krull was very involved in this project and did a lot of the Eyes Like Leaves. But it seems that this band went Eyes Like Leaves the gothic direction because that's what people would be expecting, not necessarily because it's what they wanted. And that's not to say that they did a bad job. Liv Kristine finally gets the chance to unfurl a bit and show off her singing chops. She still has that iconic breathiness that she eventually learned to not do so much, which I think is a good thing as it tends to make the overall production sound less clean. Eyes Like Leaves handles her own vocal melodies and lyrics with much more confidence and gusto than anything else she's done before, and I think the instrumentation meets her power quite well. None of the instrumentation is really spectacular, the music is heavy and adequate enough but doesn't call attention to itself. I don't think there's a single guitar riff on this album that I can hum from memory, the sonic focus of this album Eyes Like Leaves lies elsewhere. The band essentially adds rhythm and girth, but the real draw to this record is the melodies. Lead vocals, harmonies, and various layers of keyboard and piano frills, etc. This is where most of the appeal and drama lives in this album. The material on Lovelorn is generally strong. There are some dips in quality, most notably the title track and the emotional "For Amelie" fall a little flat; not that they're unpleasant to listen to, they just err on the forgettable side of things. Personally, I think the band is at their best when they fully embrace the identity that they made out for themselves. Songs like "Ocean's Way", "Temptation", and my personal favorite song on the album "The Dream" are Eyes Like Leaves of when they are at their darkest and most dramatic, and at their best. The atmosphere is rich and the melodies are strong and catchy, and the Eyes Like Leaves of the Alexander's beast to Liv's beauty on some of these songs adds harshness to balance out the ephemeral tone of the album. Every song does include the twanging of the folk Eyes Like Leaves, but it doesn't infringe upon the darker soundscape that they've made, it just adds texture. It's in the songs that are Eyes Like Leaves the middle of the crossroads of the two moods like the album opener that it doesn't mesh as well, and makes the material come off as twee rather than worldly or progressive. Lovelorn is a strong and pleasant record, it doesn't do anything radically new or different but it was a Eyes Like Leaves launch of Liv Kristine Eyes Like Leaves the face of a new band in which she took more of an active role in the music she was singing. It was also a successful launch of this band as a whole, however there is something that did catch my attention when listening to it. That being that Lovelorn is basically an Elis record; with an addition of electronic programming, this would've essentially been a Eyes Like Leaves God's Silence; Devil's Temptation. It sounds to me that as the band was writing the album and struggled for a clear and balanced identity, Krull decided to lift some from a band that he had worked with in the past. As I really like Elis, and considering what Leaves' Eyes would go on to do in the future is somewhat divorced from this debut it's not something that I particularly take umbrage with, but it did make me go "that's familiar" all the same. Eyes Like Leaves not to take away from the merits of this album. Though perhaps derivative, it is a quality offering of feathery gothic metal with a breathtaking ambience and beautiful vocals. It Eyes Like Leaves me thinking — what ever became of that waif like figure with the impossibly high voice - Kate Bush? Aside from those often used high Eyes Like Leaves. I preferred my gothic metal to Eyes Like Leaves tinged with a little more edginess than they provided. I suspect Liv may have wanted this too. Obviously, their collaboration together was always going to happen. The results are stunning although their very awkward name is not! Lovelorn is a track affair, separated into chapters that form some sort of mystical love story concept. The first two opening tracks Norwegian Lovesong and Tale of a Sea Maid on this are simply irresistible in their gothic grandeur and passionate melodic vocals. Nice legs. Nice work! It is certainly a much stronger affair than I first believed. The songs are well written and superbly executed — the vocal melodies of Liv being the absolute highlight. She was basic member in the glorious days of this band and she is known for her soft beautiful and emotional voice. Now in this band plays her husband too,he is the male vocalist and the two of them are a good duet. First of all,I saw that this is gothic metal. But the most gothic metal bands are more gothic than metal. This is just my opinion. Very good song for sure and one of the best in this album. The lyrics are also emotional and lovely. They give more powerful atmosphere in the song. But all the songs continue in the same style and this thing is boring. The production is just good not something awesome,but its ok. But its not something unique or something perfect to listen. Just for the fans of this sort of metal. Metal Archives loading Username Password Login. Bands alphabetical country genre Labels alphabetical country Reviews R. Privacy Policy. 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