TOMORROW’S RAIN

Hollow

AOP

Israeli death/doom crew chart their struggles with a stellar guestlist

THE STORY OF Israeli death/doom sextet Tomorrow’s Rain makes for a convoluted tale fraught with personal struggle. They were formed as Moonskin in 2002 by singer Yishai Sweartz and producer Maor Applebaum who later moved to LA, establishing himself as a successful producer with a diverse roster of clients from Yngwie J Malmsteen to Mayhem. Sweartz remained in Israel, becoming a successful promoter. With personal circumstances taking him increasingly further from the band, it was on the advent of his 40th birthday that he finally scratched a lifelong creative itch with the release of Hollow. It’s a record filled with sorrow. Mournful to the last, with huge, vengeful riffs permeating ponderous gloom.

For a relatively unknown band, Sweartz’s professional’s protracted meander, only for another gothic heavy hitter, Paradise Lost’s Greg Mackintosh, to add his hushed menace to , which in its transition from baleful to enraged also boasts Rotting Christ’s Sakis Tolis and countryman Orphaned Land’s Kobi Farhi, as well as one of the most hair-raisingly epic solos you’ll hear this year.