TOW Demo

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:01:05 -0700

TOW (The Old Wind) is Tomas Liljedahl from Breach, and it doesn't say who else (maybe it's just Tomas). So with some trepidation and a lot of anticipation involved, I checked out the myspace page expecting something ok-but-not-quite-as-good-as-Breach. "In fields" start really nice, dissonant guitars showing that Tomas does this quite well without Niklas Quintana and Anders Ekström, whose presence I was expecting to miss. But I do not! This sounds sludgy, dissonant, but crisp. When the vocals kick in I'm home. Tomas, you have direct access to my spine with your voice from my adolescence listening to Breach constantly on my freestyle (it was like an iPod but with cassettes). "Raveneye" continues the sludgy heavy dissonant vibe, throwing in a violin (is it a violin?), and "Reign" does the same. It quickly sinks in that this is some good shit right here. The lower production values and slower tempo remind me of "It's me god"-era Breach (greatest record ever) and a little pre-, like "Old songs vs new beats"-era (also a really good slice of Breach). Tomas shows here how much of his presence defined what Breach was, and what a great scream he has. This would be nostalgia, but since no 'good ole days' ever came Breach's way, this is really a second chance for the world to catch on. You hear that World! Catch the fucking fever already!!

Bear in mind that these are rough un-mastered cuts from the recordings of, hopefully, a very promising new album.

New music from TOW (ex-Breach)

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:41:00 -0700

TOW, the new band from Ex-Breach vocalist Tomas Liljedahl, is streaming three new demo tracks at myspace: http://www.myspace.com/theoldwind

IT'S A TRAP! Scandinavian Music Journal

TOW Demo

New music from TOW (ex-Breach)