Tomorrow's Rain - Biography
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2011-
Biography
The story of Tomorrow's Rain started in 2002 as vocalist Yishai Sweartz and bassist Maor Appelbaum (childhood friends) found themselves out of the bands they led - for Yishai it was Death Thrashers "Nail Within" and for Maor it was Gothic act "Sleepless". They were both depressed, frustrated, and hungry for a new form of expression. Maor came up with the name MOONSKIN and the musical path of a Dark Doomier kind of metal. The soulmates started to experiment at home and wrote their first song, "Trees". The first line-up of the band had Matan Shmueli (Orphaned Land) on drums, Gil Barrel on guitars, Tal Galfky on keyboards, Raffi More (Distorted) on guitars and a female singer, Beyana Kliener, to add a soft kind of singing to Swearts's deep voice.
With this line-up the band rehearsed hard for a year and played a local show for friends. Shortly after Moonskin and Beyana parted ways as Moonskin felt they didn't want a sound similar to the male/female gothic metal thing. The band recorded a song called "Embraced by Words" for a tribute album to Chuck Schuldiner (Death) released by Areadeath Productions. While other bands simply covered Death's songs, Moonskin wrote a song ABOUT Chuck and his inspiration as a lyricist and artist. As far as it is known "Embraced by Words" is the only song in the Metal world written about Chuck.
A few months after Moonskin appeared on the At the Gates tribute album "Slaughterous Souls", released by Goi Music. The band covered "Raped by the Light of Christ" with the help of guests Dori Bar Or (Eternal Gray) and Kobi Farhi (Orphaned Land).
At the same time, while the creativity level reached new heights, Swearts and Appelbaum had to face some personal crises within the band: "Some of the band members became really ill. It had nothing to do with the band but rehearsals were insane as they had been isolating themselves from reality, driven by paranoia in its sickest form, which led to it being impossible for them to even leave home. It was clear that professional help was needed and we stayed friends and supported each other but it was a common agreement we had to go on".
In June 2006, still with this line-up, Moonskin played with EPICA in front of 800 Metalheads in Tel Aviv. Shortly after the band was put on ice by both Swearts and Appelbaum. "When we wrote the songs for what was supposed to be the debut album, we were both depressed and the writing was our process to clean our soul from the dirt and sorrow we had been through, but close to the EPICA show I got married. It was a happy time in my life. I could not lie to myself as an artist going on stage singing about feelings I don't feel anymore" said Swearts, "I lost motivation, Maor too. We kind of let it go. I tried to hide from those emotions, which was, in retrospect, a huge mistake".
Five years passed? Maor Appelbaum left Israel for Los Angeles and became one of the most famous mastering engineers on the Metal Scene, working on albums by Yngwie Malmsteen, Mayhem, Rob Halford, Therion and Faith No More. He became a father and got married. Yishai Swearts stayed in Israel, became a father, got divorced and made himself into a successful metal promoter in Israel, working with everyone from Paradise Lost to Megadeth and Sabaton.
But Yishai was doing some soul-searching for expression, salvation, aggression - let's call it Temptation? so in 2011 he called guitarist Raffi More and asked him to go on stage with a new line- up, supporting Swedish band DARK TRANQUILLITY in Tel Aviv.
The band renamed themselves TOMORROW'S RAIN, inspired by the song "Fragile" (STING), and put together a new line-up with both Swearts (vocals) More (guitars) and Shmueli (drums) and new members Elad Maidan (guitars) Alex Karlinski (keyboards) and ARAFEL's bass player Roman on bass.
Under the name TOMORROW'S RAIN the band played to a packed house with Dark Tranquillity and then disappeared into the unknown again?..
Four more years have passed? but the Rain keeps falling on the soul of original member Yishai Swearts. As he approached his 40th birthday, he felt he was missing great artistic expression in his life.
"With previous bands I played with, BETRAYER (1992-2000) and NAIL WITHIN (2000-2002), I had great times but I never felt the full sense of musical expression that I wanted to achieve. With MOONSKIN and later TOMORROW'S RAIN I felt it was there. I felt I was missing a big thing in my life and I felt that I had to make it a now-or-never thing".
In 2015 the guys were called to arms again, with his long-time friend and musical partner Raffy More on guitars, Alex Karlinski on keyboards, Yaggel Cohen on bass, Gal Schohat on drums and Itay Franklin on guitars TOMORROW'S RAIN were reborn - this time to stay.
On April the same year TOMORROW'S RAIN were supposed to play with Finnish Doomers SWALLOW THE SUN but felt that it was too early to hit the stage and they still needed a few more months in order to reshape the material, but Mikko Johannes, singer of SWALLOW THE SUN joined TOMORROW'S RAIN in the studio and recorded vocals on the band's song "In The Corner Of A Dead End Street" (written as MOONSKIN back in the day), which will appear on TOMORROW'S RAIN debut album.
"It was a great honor for us as SWALLOW THE SUN is a great band. In my opinion they released the best album in 2015 and they are great guys" said Yishai Sweartz.
On May 2016 it was announced that TOMORROW'S RAIN would play with Swedish band DRACONIAN in November.
2016 will be the year that things happen. The band is working on their debut album. Some song titles are "Trees", "Misery Rain", "In the Corner of a Dead End Street" and a few others, the band will play few selected local shows and some bigger shows and many things are to be announced later on?
This time the rain will fall?..
Artistic motto: "I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring" (David Bowie).
Musical Inspirations: Fields Of The Nephilim, Paradise Lost, The Sisters of Mercy, My Dying Bride, old Katatonia, old Anathema, New Model Army, Bauhaus, old Opeth, Joy Division, Nick Cave, old Tiamat, The Mission, Morrissey and others? ?. All blended and cooked in our personal way - we don't sound like any one of them but surely we are inspired.
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With this line-up the band rehearsed hard for a year and played a local show for friends. Shortly after Moonskin and Beyana parted ways as Moonskin felt they didn't want a sound similar to the male/female gothic metal thing. The band recorded a song called "Embraced by Words" for a tribute album to Chuck Schuldiner (Death) released by Areadeath Productions. While other bands simply covered Death's songs, Moonskin wrote a song ABOUT Chuck and his inspiration as a lyricist and artist. As far as it is known "Embraced by Words" is the only song in the Metal world written about Chuck.
A few months after Moonskin appeared on the At the Gates tribute album "Slaughterous Souls", released by Goi Music. The band covered "Raped by the Light of Christ" with the help of guests Dori Bar Or (Eternal Gray) and Kobi Farhi (Orphaned Land).
At the same time, while the creativity level reached new heights, Swearts and Appelbaum had to face some personal crises within the band: "Some of the band members became really ill. It had nothing to do with the band but rehearsals were insane as they had been isolating themselves from reality, driven by paranoia in its sickest form, which led to it being impossible for them to even leave home. It was clear that professional help was needed and we stayed friends and supported each other but it was a common agreement we had to go on".
In June 2006, still with this line-up, Moonskin played with EPICA in front of 800 Metalheads in Tel Aviv. Shortly after the band was put on ice by both Swearts and Appelbaum. "When we wrote the songs for what was supposed to be the debut album, we were both depressed and the writing was our process to clean our soul from the dirt and sorrow we had been through, but close to the EPICA show I got married. It was a happy time in my life. I could not lie to myself as an artist going on stage singing about feelings I don't feel anymore" said Swearts, "I lost motivation, Maor too. We kind of let it go. I tried to hide from those emotions, which was, in retrospect, a huge mistake".
Five years passed? Maor Appelbaum left Israel for Los Angeles and became one of the most famous mastering engineers on the Metal Scene, working on albums by Yngwie Malmsteen, Mayhem, Rob Halford, Therion and Faith No More. He became a father and got married. Yishai Swearts stayed in Israel, became a father, got divorced and made himself into a successful metal promoter in Israel, working with everyone from Paradise Lost to Megadeth and Sabaton.
But Yishai was doing some soul-searching for expression, salvation, aggression - let's call it Temptation? so in 2011 he called guitarist Raffi More and asked him to go on stage with a new line- up, supporting Swedish band DARK TRANQUILLITY in Tel Aviv.
The band renamed themselves TOMORROW'S RAIN, inspired by the song "Fragile" (STING), and put together a new line-up with both Swearts (vocals) More (guitars) and Shmueli (drums) and new members Elad Maidan (guitars) Alex Karlinski (keyboards) and ARAFEL's bass player Roman on bass.
Under the name TOMORROW'S RAIN the band played to a packed house with Dark Tranquillity and then disappeared into the unknown again?..
Four more years have passed? but the Rain keeps falling on the soul of original member Yishai Swearts. As he approached his 40th birthday, he felt he was missing great artistic expression in his life.
"With previous bands I played with, BETRAYER (1992-2000) and NAIL WITHIN (2000-2002), I had great times but I never felt the full sense of musical expression that I wanted to achieve. With MOONSKIN and later TOMORROW'S RAIN I felt it was there. I felt I was missing a big thing in my life and I felt that I had to make it a now-or-never thing".
In 2015 the guys were called to arms again, with his long-time friend and musical partner Raffy More on guitars, Alex Karlinski on keyboards, Yaggel Cohen on bass, Gal Schohat on drums and Itay Franklin on guitars TOMORROW'S RAIN were reborn - this time to stay.
On April the same year TOMORROW'S RAIN were supposed to play with Finnish Doomers SWALLOW THE SUN but felt that it was too early to hit the stage and they still needed a few more months in order to reshape the material, but Mikko Johannes, singer of SWALLOW THE SUN joined TOMORROW'S RAIN in the studio and recorded vocals on the band's song "In The Corner Of A Dead End Street" (written as MOONSKIN back in the day), which will appear on TOMORROW'S RAIN debut album.
"It was a great honor for us as SWALLOW THE SUN is a great band. In my opinion they released the best album in 2015 and they are great guys" said Yishai Sweartz.
On May 2016 it was announced that TOMORROW'S RAIN would play with Swedish band DRACONIAN in November.
2016 will be the year that things happen. The band is working on their debut album. Some song titles are "Trees", "Misery Rain", "In the Corner of a Dead End Street" and a few others, the band will play few selected local shows and some bigger shows and many things are to be announced later on?
This time the rain will fall?..
Artistic motto: "I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring" (David Bowie).
Musical Inspirations: Fields Of The Nephilim, Paradise Lost, The Sisters of Mercy, My Dying Bride, old Katatonia, old Anathema, New Model Army, Bauhaus, old Opeth, Joy Division, Nick Cave, old Tiamat, The Mission, Morrissey and others? ?. All blended and cooked in our personal way - we don't sound like any one of them but surely we are inspired.
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