[17/12 - 2004] - Russian minitour
For the first time ever, Lake of Tears will visit Russia to play two shows!
The cities & dates are:

March 5 - St. Petersburg, Russia (Port Club)
March 6 - Moscow, Russia (Point Club)

For details, check the promotors site: www.alive-concerts.ru

[8/12 - 2004] - New merchandise
The Metal Merchant has just released some fresh Lake of Tears clothing on their site! Besides the regular black T-shirts, the print is also available on b/w longsleeves (baseball style) and black hooded sweatshirts. The front carries the LoT logo and the back has this print. The Metal Merchant delivers worldwide.

[10/11 - 2004] - Interviews
There's a bunch of new interviews to read at:

Metal Eagle, Panzer Magazine, AOR Dreamzones, Vampster (german), Powermetal.de (german), & Darkside (russian).

For the first time since the ACC period there'll be some new LoT merchandise... Hopefully before this year ends!

The live dates are still being worked on, stay tuned.

[30/9 - 2004] - Site update
Finally the new site is online... with an new design and quite a lot of new content: live-pictures, member profiles, newsletter, compilations and more. More stuff will be added gradually and hopefully we'll have some autumn/winter live dates to present soon too...

Not much more to add: hope you'll like it - take your time to browse around and send us your comments and bugreports (using the forum or the new fancy contact form...), and remember to sign up for the newsletter. Huge thanks to Torsten & Po for helping out with the code!

PS. It's recommended you view the site in at least 1024x768, with a reasonable new browser.

[2/9 - 2004] - Interviews
There's a couple of interviews with Daniel at Lords of Metal and Vampire Magazine, talking about the new album and his thoughts about the future.

Sorry for being a bit tedious but there's more great reviews for the new album: "Album of the month" by Whiskey Soda and a 92/100 rating in the Lords of Metal zine.


[30/8 - 2004] - European release
Today sees the European release of the new Lake of Tears album "Black Brick Road"! Check your local record store or try some of the online shops to get your hands on a copy. Read the latest reviews from Metal Inside and Walls of Fire here (in german).

At Klangewitter.com there's some more photos from the great Summer Breeze gig.

Things are hectic now but this site will get some new nice functions and an updated design as soon as possible!


[27/8 - 2004] - Summer Breeze
"Playing at the Summer Breeze was fantastic. The whole area was crowded, maybe 8.000-10.000 thousand people... screaming and surfing... the place was boiling. Sure we did a couple of mistakes and had some technical problems... but it was a night when the negative things didn't stand a chance to get the upper hand ... it was simply magical." /Daniel

The setlist:
Boogie bubble
Cosmic weed
Raven land
The greymen
Pagan wish
Hold on tight
The shadowshires
The organ
Crazyman
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Headstones

Check out some great photos from the gig at Photopit.com!

Only 2 more days to go now...


[13/8 - 2004] - Cover design
Many of you have probably seen it in reviews and web shops already, but here's a more hi-res version of the cover design for Black Brick Road.

There's a couple of new reviews up in the review pop-up (Metalius 10/10 and Adl.at 4/5). Thanks for sending them in & keep them coming!

Online stores like Amazon.de, Ginza.se and CDON.com have now started to take pre-orders on Black Brick Road!


[4/8 - 2004] - BBR - Album of the month!
So far Black Brick Road has been given really great receptions! Spotted online reviews so far (paper magazines will follow):

Metal Reviews 90/100 (Album of the month!)
Shadowshire Webmagazin 9,5/10 (Album of the month!)
Metal Storm 100/100
Tombstone 8/10
House of Noizz 10/10
Letsmakesomenoise.com 4/5

Read the complete reviews here!


[22/7 - 2004] - First two reviews
Great reviews for Black Brick Road so far! Read the first ones here!


[19/7 - 2004] - BBR track listing
This is the full track listing for Black Brick Road:

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The Greymen (mp3)
Making Evenings (mp3)
Black Brick Road
Dystopia
The Organ
A Trip With the Moon
Sister Sinister
Rainy Day Away
Crazyman
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The promos has just been sent out to the press, now we wait for the first reviews to drop in... (seen one/written one? Mail bjorn@lakeoftears.net).

Photos from the recent festival gigs are coming, some minor problems like hard drive crashes have to be solved first. Until then - take a look at the excellent new fan site Lotturkey.org for photos and info on the Istanbul gig, and Revelationz Magazine for a live review and some pictures from the Sweden Rock Festival!


[18/6 - 2004] - Release date & SRF report
The release date for Black Brick Road has been set to August 30!

The gig at the Sweden Rock Festival last week was a sucess! It was the first gig in seven(!) years and the band was overwhelmed by the great audience (~3000 people). Daniel: "We would like to thank everyone who attended the gig... we had a fantastic time and it was all thanks to you!".
After being called in a second time to play "Headstones" as the encore, the band met up with the fans in front of the stage for a short signing/photo session. Worth mentioning is that it was the first time Magnus Sahlgren played with the band live.
Photos from the gig coming up next week!

Setlist:
Boogie Bubble
Cosmic Weed
Making Evenings
Crazyman
Hold on Tight
Pagan Wish
The Greymen
Encore:
Headstones

Hope to see you on the upcoming shows in Germany and Turkey! See the live section for dates...


[4/6 - 2004] - Samples from the Black Brick Road!
Two song samples from the upcoming album is now availabe for download - take a listen to: The Greymen & Making Evenings.
Both are 2:40 long, ~3mb MP3s - just right-click and download... hope you'll enjoy!


[15/5 - 2004] - Misc
There's a couple of fresh photos up in the gallery (the first ones since the promo shots from Forever Autumn actually) - take a peek!

It's time to break that forum record again, May 30 at 12PM GMT is the date and time to get online! Check the record thread for more info.

There's a new nice looking russian fansite at http://lotunofficial.russia.webmatrixhosting.net - keep up the good work!

More news about the upcoming release will follow...


[22/4 - 2004] - Alive
Added a "Live Dates" button to the left, now that more dates are dropping in. For booking inquiries contact Dragon Productions!


[13/4 - 2004] - Short update
The recording of "Black Brick Road" is now finished except for some keyboard parts. The mixing will begin this weekend and continue until the 28th(April), then the mastering on the 29th.

Great news for all turkish fans: LoT will play at the Rock the Nations Open Air festival in Istanbul 2 July! Other acts on the bill are, among others; Katatonia, Sentenced, Marduk, Hatebreed. UDO, Destruction, Malevolent Creation, Blaze, Pain of Salvation and Paul Di'Anno. Check www.rockthenations.net for more info.


[1/4 - 2004] - "Some guys have all the luck..."
The three winners of the Metal by Metal competition are... (snare drum): Mikael Jonsson (Sweden), Aleksey Donov (Russian Federation) and Mads Jakobsen (Denmark)! Congratulations, you will receive your discs in a week or two.
Seems like most of you knew that Magnus Sahlgren has played with Dismember and Tiamat (and also the less known group Celeborn),or at least found out after some research - we got more than 100 correct answers this time!

Thanks for participating, hopefully we'll have another one soon...


[19/3 - 2004] - Win the Metal by Metal DVD!
To make the wait for the new album a little easier we have another competition to occupy your minds with...
Three persons who send in the correct answer to the question below will get the new Metal by Metal DVD from Black Mark (Incl. the "Devil's Diner" & "Ravenland" videos):

- Magnus Sahlgren has appeared on records by two other famous Swedish groups except Lake of Tears. Which are these two?

Mail your answers to competition@lakeoftears.net, and remember to state your postal adress! The winners will be randomly picked from the correct answers on April 1.


[9/3 - 2004] - Short report from the studio
The guys are in the middle of the recording and has so far recorded all the drums, bass and most of the rythm guitars. The basic vocals on five tracks is also finished, as well as the keyboards on some of the tracks. Host of the recording this time is Studio Mega, Sweden (the Crown, Sator, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Beseech etc). The mastering is set to April 30!


[11/2 - 2004] - A little bit of everything...
Some news about the upcoming album, "Black Brick Road":
The album cover will be done by the brilliant artist Kristian Wåhlin, who has painted all of the previous Lake of Tears covers except "Forever Autumn".
Finished songtitles so far; "The greymen", "Black brick road", "Making evenings", "Crazyman" and "A trip with the moon".
The band is entering the studio this friday to record their sixth album to date, and their first under the Noise label. Read Daniel's latest post in the forum.

There will be an attempt to break the record of "most people on the forum at the same time" this Sunday! Check this thread. Be sure to pile up some coffee...

A new LoT site has recently seen the light of day at www.lakeoftears.nl. At the moment it's in dutch only, but according to the webmaster there are plans on making an english version soon. Good work anyway! If anyone else has made a site about LoT, let me know!

A new competition is coming up... now all we need are some devilish questions! ]:)