Lake Of Tears- Forever Autumn (1999)

Sweden's Lake Of Tears offer up a dreamy set here for their new album. Like many other death metal bands, the band has given up the death side of them and released a great hard rock album. From the opening violin of "So Fell Autumn Rain", you can hear that this CD is going to be mellow and mellow it is. The band actually comes off with a very Pink Floyd-ish sound to them. In fact, the first line of the title track sounds excactly like the first line is "Wish You Were Here".....the lyric is "so, the season of the fall begins....". However, do not quote me as saying that Lake Of Tears is some Pink Floyd rip-off. The band shows amazing skills and diversity on songs like the folky sounding "Homecoming", the instrumental that tells a story of a rainy day complete with sound effects right down to the best track on the album, the 9 minute closer "To Blossom Blue" that shows the bands very bluesy side with a somber violin ending the whole album. The band does have a heavy side as shown on tracks like "Pagan Wish" and the heaviest track on here "Lily Anne". Great album to mellow out to but the heavy tracks remain few in number.