LAKE OF TEARS - A Crimson Cosmos LP (Black Vinyl)

Black vinyl, limited to 500 hand-numbered copies.
Gatefold jacket, 8-pages booklet, 180 gr.
First time on vinyl.
New mastering, new artwork.

The third time was the charm for Lake of Tears who shot themselves into the spotlight with the album reviewed here. A big critical and commercial success, it was a logical culmination of their early more metallic period which started with the highly inspired, but sloppily produced “Greater Art”, and also features the excellent sophomore “Headstones”, epic doom metal at its finest. The band used the opportunity to rise on top of the doom metal movement in their homeland provided that the leaders Candlemass were struggling with a creative cul-de-sac with Edling not quite sure whether to join the progressive power/doom metal wave that he single-handedly created with “Chapter VI”, or to continue raising the flag of epic doom metal. Said wave (Memento Mori, Fifth Reason, Memory Garden, Veni Domine, etc.) was fully operational at the time, but with the exception of the female-fronted gothic/doom metal outfit Left Hand Solution there weren’t many full-fledged doom metal formations roaming the field in Sweden…