Description

Official 2026 pressed Greek music cassette. Limited 200 copies

Lake Of Tears fifth album, The Neonai, shows a band that has gone through a drastic evolution from depressive doom metal to spacy, post-Pink Floyd goth rock without compromising the quality of their music, something other respectable bands like Paradise Lost and Tiamat have failed miserably at. Brought home by the album’s fantastical, psychedelic artwork (a bright, colorful, mirror-opposite of the dark collages often used by Cathedral), the truth is that there’s little left in Lake Of Tears sound that even resembles heavy metal. Sure, the guitars are usually heavy in tone, but were it not for the group’s general propensity for complex, often minor-chord-based songwriting, cuts like The Shadowshires and Solitude could very well pass for straight-up rock n roll. Even further away from metal, the quasi-ballad Leave A Room and the dreamy Sorcerers (containing flute-like synthesizers and rampant psychedelics) take full advantage of guest vocalist Jennie Tebler, while the pop-tastic Nathalie And The Fireflies is reminiscent of Jellyfish. The driving Can Die No More (perhaps the album’s most metallic track) strikes an effortless balance between heavy rock and pulsing techno effects, but even here, Brennare never sets himself to screaming, nor barely raises his tone above a melodic croon.

Track listing:
1. Intro
2. Return Of Ravens
3. The Shadowshires
4. Solitude
5. Leave A Room
6. Sorcerers
7. Can Die No More
8. Nathalie And The Fireflies
9. Let Us Go As They Do
10. Down The Nile
11. Outro