Black Brick Road is the sixth studio release by the gothic metal

Gothic metal

Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...

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Lake of Tears

Lake of Tears is a Swedish band, generally considered to play gothic metal and doom metal. However, their sound has evolved considerably over the course of their career, expanding to include psychedelic rock, progressive metal, and, most recently, death metal....

. It was released in 2004, after the band's reunion and signing to Noise Records. The album brought back the gothic sound of their earlier work, combined with some progressive elements present on their previous album The Neonai

The Neonai

The Neonai is the fifth studio release by the gothic metal band Lake of Tears. It was released in 2002, being finished off by Daniel Brennare alone, with little help from the other band members. The album was hastily completed to honor the band's contract with Black Mark Productions...

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Track listing

1. "The Greymen" - 4:45
2. "Making Evenings" - 4:22
3. "Black Brick Road" - 4:01
4. "Dystopia" - 3:48
5. "The Organ" - 4:41
6. "A Trip With the Moon" - 3:56
7. "Sister Sinister" - 4:11
8. "Rainy Day Away" - 4:44
9. "Crazyman" - 4:41

All songs written by Lake of Tears, except "Sister Sinister" written by Lake of Tears and Stina Rebelius. All lead guitar composed by Magnus Sahlgren

Magnus Sahlgren

Magnus Sahlgren is a Swedish musician. He was the lead guitarist of the metal band Lake of Tears, whom his name is most associated with, until 2009. He also played with Dismember from 1998 to 2003 and with Tiamat during the recording of the acclaimed Wildhoney album in 1994...

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Line-up

• Daniel Brennare - vocals, guitar
• Mikael Larsson - bass
• Johan Oudhuis - drums

Additional musicians

• Magnus Sahlgren
  Magnus Sahlgren
  Magnus Sahlgren is a Swedish musician. He was the lead guitarist of the metal band Lake of Tears, whom his name is most associated with, until 2009. He also played with Dismember from 1998 to 2003 and with Tiamat during the recording of the acclaimed Wildhoney album in 1994...
  
   - lead guitar
• Dan Helgeson - organ
• Stina Rebelius - vocals
• Ulrika Silver - vocals
• Jörgen Cremonese - guitar

Credits

• Christian Silver - production, engineering
• Manne Engström - engineering
• Henrik Lycknert - engineering assistance
• Björn Engelmann - mastering Cutting Room Studios
  Cutting Room Studios
  Cutting Room Studios is an audio mastering studio located in Stockholm, Sweden since 1980. Cutting Room was founded in the 1970s by Peter Strindberg and is currently owned by Björn Engelmann. Sitting in a five studio location they have dedicated three of them to audio mastering...
  
  
• Björn Gustafsson - artwork and layout
• Anton Hedberg - photography

External links

• Lake of Tears's official website
• Encyclopaedia Metallum bands by letter - L - Lake of Tears - Black Brick Road (retrieved 8-18-07)