[22/12 - 2003] - Recording update
Daniel: "The recordings of 'Black brick road' will start at Friday the 13th of February and hopefully be finished around late April or early May. The release will probably take place in August.

We will play at least three festivals next year ...

Sweden Rock (Sweden) in June (10-12)
With Full Force (Germany) in July (2-4)
Summer Breeze (Germany) in August (19-21)

That's that ... take care."


[8/12 - 2003] - More festivals!
Yesterday Lake of Tears was revealed as band number seven in Summer Breeze's christmas-calendar. The 2004 version of the festival will take place between 19-21 August in Abtsgmünd, Germany. The Summer Breeze site.


[5/12 - 2003] - Sweden Rock
Lake of Tears has been confirmed to play at the Sweden Rock Festival 2004! (Many of you already knew this...)
The swedish rock/metal festival has established itself as one of the best metal-fests in Europe, getting bigger each year. SRF 2004 is set to be held June 10-12, 2004 in Sölvesborg, hosting over 18.000 visitors.
Other acts on the bill (so far) include Judas Priest, UFO, Nightwish, Children of Bodom, Exodus, Entombed and Opeth amongst many more. Check out www.swedenrock.com for more info.

Hey, the forum is getting really active! Take me there.


[28/11 - 2003] - The new album
Fresh from the forum:

"Hello friends!

Here is what we know at this moment ...

Recordings of the next album will probably start in February or March next year. It will be titled 'Black brick road'. So, we're currently 'hard' at work with 'finding' some new songs.

We will play some festivals during next summer. Not much is official yet so I can't give you any more info on this (but if you against all odds really believe that LoT is worth seeing live you should be in Germany this summer).

And again I'd like to thank you all ... take care. /Daniel"


[2/11 - 2003] - Compo winners
The eight lucky winners from the single competition are:
Vitaly A. Kootin(Russia), Marcus Nilsson(Sweden), Jake Godziejewicz(USA), Matthias Bubenzer(Germany), Nik(Belarus), Fernando Ugalde(Mexico), Marcus Barkman(Sweden) and Alexander (Russia).
Congratulations! The prizes will be sent out to you shortly.

The correct answers were:
1. 1997
2."Upon the highest mountain", "The path of the gods", "Raven land", To die is to wake", "So fell autumn rain" and "Otherwheres"
3. A lot of different answers came in here... Cemetary, Freternia, Rising faith, Beseech, Crystal Eyes, Zonata etc. All of them are correct.

The tabs for "Burn fire Burn" (Headstones) is up.


[8/10 - 2003] - Lake of Tears has signed with Noise Records!
"We are proud to announce that successful band Lake Of Tears has signed with Noise. The original line-up has come together again to prove that they're still one of the most impressive bands in the modern metal scene. Recordings for the next album are scheduled for early 2004." /Noise Records

Check out the Noise site.

The band has received several gig proposals after the reunion news, but has decided not to play any gigs until the new album is finished.


[6/10 - 2003] - Getting closer...
"We're currently in the end of the signing contract process. This is with alot of mixed emotions. Theese guys seem really good, honest and supportive so we're really looking forward to work with them ... but to put your name on a bunch of papers again, huh, that hurts."
Read Daniel's latest post in the forum.

Competition!

We have four copies each of the "Lady Rosenred" and "Sorcerers" singles to give away! These rare collectibles will find their way to eight persons that sends in the correct answers to the following questions:

1. What year did Lake of Tears play at the Wacken festival?
2. What songs is the outro on "the Neonai" based on?
3. Name two other famous metal groups except Lake of Tears, that comes from the city of Borås, Sweden.

Mail your answers to bjorn@lakeoftears.net with the subject "Singles competition", and remember to write your postal adress and your preferred single.
The winners will be picked randomly from the correct entries. The competition ends on October 31st. Good luck!


[5/9 - 2003] - Lake of Tears continues!
After doing some rehearsals Mikael, Daniel and Johan have decided to go on with LoT! "Rehearsing has been very fun ...really rusty, but very fun and special", says Daniel.
The band is also negotiating with a well-known label about a possible contract, more on this later...


[4/8 - 2003] - LoT news!
Cut from the forum:
"I, Mikael and Johan have discussed playing together again and we will probably try it out in next week (if we can get our things together). It's been like four years so it will be really interesting. Anyway, if the feeling is there again (I think it may be, now when Black Mark is gone and all) ... there may be a record out next year (and hopefully some shows). Let's see ..." (Daniel Brennare).

Read it here!


[22/7 - 2003] - The rise of the ravens!
It's been quite a while - I know. After the the release of "the Neonai" and being aware of the fact that LoT had quit as a band, I somewhat lost the spirit to go on with the site. I mean, what's there to tell when there's no band anymore? Around the same time I also got an employment, with all that's coming to it; late nights, working weekends etc, and soon the site unconsiously more or less fell into oblivion...

"What the hell!", you say. "You selfish bastard! What about us? At least we could get some news updates now and then, just to so the online LoT-community wont rot and die completely."

You're damn right.

This new site will mainly focus on NEWS. News about LoT related things, news about Brennare's upcoming projects etc. As you probably understand, the news updates won't come as frequent as before (erhm...), but when I get hold of some new information I will post it here as soon as possible.

As you can see the number of sections on the site has been stripped down to six. I've tried to keep it very simple and clean this time, without too many elements needing constant updating. If you need anything from the old site, like interviews or reviews, it's still available to browse through here.
Lyrics, soundclips and tabs have merged into one section simply called "media" . Check out some new tabs from "the Neonai" there.

The old message board (hosted by ultimatemetal) became a commercial service and since I don't have the budget I had to close it down. The new forum is hosted by me here at my work and should not go down until I loose my job...
It's definitley as good as the old forum, if not better, so I hope we can get some discussions going again. I beleive forums are one of the most vital sections on all band sites.

Anyway, enough rambling. Enjoy the site and please mail any comments to me at bjorn@lakeoftears.net

PS. There's some new pics up in the gallery section!