| Meredead | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Leaves' Eyes |
| Cover: | Meredead.jpg |
| Caption: | Cover art by Stefan Heilemann |
| Released: | 22 April 2011 |
| Recorded: | Mastersound Studios, Steinheim, Germany, 2010-2011 |
| Genre: | Symphonic metal |
| Length: | 55:16 |
| Language: | English, Nynorsk |
| Label: | Napalm |
| Producer: | Alexander Krull |
| Prev Title: | Njord |
| Prev Year: | 2009 |
| Next Title: | Symphonies of the Night |
| Next Year: | 2013 |
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.
The title is inspired[1] 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.[2] 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".[3] 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".[1]
| Chart (2011) | Peakposition | |
|---|---|---|
| German Albums Chart[4] | 32 | |
| Ultratop Belgian Chart (Flanders)[5] | 97 | |
| UK Indie Chart[6] | 37 | |
| US Top Heatseekers[7] | 37 | |
| US Independent Albums | 134 |