Forever Autumn

Lake Of Tears | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 10, 1999)
• Original Release Date: 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Plastic Head Distribution
• ASIN: B00000JON9
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,321 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. So Fell Autumn Rain

2. Hold On Tight

3. Forever Autumn

4. Pagan Wish

5. Otherwheres

6. The Homecoming

7. Come Night I Reign

8. Demon You

Editorial Reviews

Fourth album released in 1999 provides a mellower approach than previous albums, almost Pink Floydish but with the Lake Of Tears sound still present. 8 tracks. Black Mark.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent doom metal!, June 29, 2000

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"phaylon" (NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forever Autumn (Audio CD)

I, self-professed lover of power metal and Gothenburg more then anything, usually do not like slower moody doom style metal very much. It was therefore with some hesitation that I ordered this album based upon the excellent reviews it had been receiving. Up until this time I had only really listened to Black Sabbath as far as slower gloomy sounding metal went and for doing so nearly missed out on this wonderful album. It might be slow but truly, the pace of this album is perfect. Not once do you sit there and wish it would hurry up and get to the point. Also while it is very gloomy, in doing so it paints a near perfect soundtrack to an overcast autumn afternoon. Sad and depressing as that subject might be I could not help but feel slightly more cheerful by just how well it was done. The music switches off between more metal-esque songs like So Fell The Autumn Rain, Pagan Wish and Demon You/Lily Ann and quite non-metal but touching songs like To Blossum Blue and Forever Autumn. Fans and metal and non-metal alike should find this album enthralling and one of the most emotional works heard in a long time. While their record company might keep them down by not giving them money to tour it is a shame as Lake Of Tears deserve a LOT (pun not intended) of credit for creating such an album as this.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A band with sophistication to spare., August 5, 2000

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D. Mok (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Forever Autumn (Audio CD)

After listening to Forever Autumn, I feel it's almost unfair to call Lake of Tears "metal". The terms seems too restrictive for this band's music which, though ripping and electric-guitar-based on many songs, also contains elements of light and shade that remind me more of Led Zeppelin's folk/hard rock hybrids than the overamplified sludge of Black Sabbath. And many tracks on Forever Autumn (eg. "Otherwheres" and "Forever Autumn") show off a melodic sense and quiet pensiveness that provide the perfect foil for the fiery electric-guitar work on rockier tracks like "Pagan Wish". Unlike My Dying Bride (my first introduction to this sort of classical-music-influenced, strings-laden, moody metal), Lake of Tears sports a much better vocalist who opts to sing (albeit aggressively, with plenty of edge and snarl) instead of groan, and the band's arrangements and panache for dynamics are every bit as good as My Dying Bride's.

One writer called this "melodic death metal". Judging from the band's choice of arrangements and eerie imagery (reflected both in the lyrics and the album art, featuring a chaste woman apparently approached by a black-cloaked figure straight out of the cover of Black Sabbath's first album) that's like a twisted marriage of pastoral elegy and metal aggression, I think the term "death metal" isn't really fair in this case. But melodic it is, and an album that has the potential to please both headbangers and armchair listeners.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 'A cross between Metalica and Pink Floyd', February 10, 2000

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chris dobbs (canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forever Autumn (Audio CD)

When i picked up this album i did not know who LOT were, but after 20 seconds of the first track i was hooked.The sound on this album is truly amazing,crank this one up. Track 1 heavy crunching guitar medolic lyrics catchy chorus even a cello solo.Track 2 very Metalica like very slow but 'heavy'a great guitar solo great song.Track 3 the title track and this is some track this is where Pink Floyd comes in, this is one of the most addictive songs i have ever heard, this one will be in your head for ever.All the tracks are really good heavy,soft, instrumental, this album has it all and should have a government health warning ADDICTIVE give this one a listen you wont be sorry.