Las Cruces Announce New Album Cosmic Tears out June 3
Word about a fourth long-player from San Antonio-based doom rockers Las Cruces isn’t new. A release date is. Cosmic Tears is the name of the album — it was previously noted as Altar of the Seven Sorrows, a title that still serves as the leadoff track — and it comes after years of intermittent news, some good, some bad, from the long-running outfit. It was in 2014 that the band first signed to Ripple Music, and they continued to play fests and other shows throughout the following years. In 2016, they announced original vocalist Mark Zamarron had rejoined the band, and in 2021, they marked the untimely passing of drummer Paul DeLeon.
They’ll play Ripplefest Texas 2022 in July, and since it’s been more than a decade beyond the release of 2010’s Dusk (review here), I have no doubt their new material will be greeted warmly in its newly-released live manifestation.
Kind of a soft-launch for Cosmic Tears on social media, but here’s what Ripple posted:
Las Cruces – Cosmic Tears
Look back into the distant reaches of doom’s heady primordial days of the late 90s and early 2000s, and amid the many pillars of the style whose names you know well, you might also come across one that’s less familiar, though no less majestic and impactful in what they created: Las Cruces.
This Texas doom powerhouse was like a lightning storm in the desert with their singular take on sludgy, melodic doom, boasting soaring vocals and bleak, earth-shaking riff power that was impossible to match. And yet, as significant and unforgettable as their incredible “Ringmaster” album was, the band seemed to mostly disappear back into the earth. They would resurface here and there with an occasional release or announcement of a reformation, but ultimately, the promise of “Ringmaster” was never seized… until now.
“Cosmic Tears” is the long-awaited re-emergence of a band with far more greatness in them than the world had yet to hear, and this album delivers it at long last. Prepare yourself for a new doom epic!
We are proud to have signed this band. Pre-order “Cosmic Tears” on Bandcamp today!
https://ripplemusic.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-tears
1. Altar of the Seven Sorrows
2. Cosmic Tears
3. Stay
4. Wizard from the North
5. Reverend Trask
6. Egypt
7. Holy Hell
8. Terminal Drift
9. Relentless
10. The Wraith
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