Review Tomorrow's Dream
Music Review by Sarah Herrera - bass/vocals for The Tommy Lasorda Experience, bass/vocals for Pancreatic Cancer, solo artist.
Tomorrow's Dream
Bellmore, NY
March 8, 2025
I was able to catch Tomorrow's Dream down on Long Island recently
From the beginning, I almost felt like the music was inside me. I was absolutely pounded from one side by the guitar, I was rammed with bass for the other side, the drums assaulted me from the back, and the vocals violated me from the front. It really felt like I was taking it all in from four different directions at the same time.
The bass player really stroked the fretboard, I could tell he knew what he was doing. The drummer laid down a beat that just slammed me again and again relentlessly. I could tell he knew how to handle a stick, and the rhythm just vibrated right through me. The guitar player slammed me over and over again with his licks, and the vocals just inserted themselves in my ears, first one and then the other. There was no break in the pounding I was taking, there was no respite, these guys just went at it over and over, giving me all they had.
I could tell they were pretty spent at the end of the show. They went at it hard, they gave it all they had, and I was really able to take it all in.
I spotted members of the "brutality metal" band Chaka there, and they were really engaged, participating heavily, and when they started yelling and screaming, it made me start doing it too.
When the band finally tapped out, I could tell that they were just limp from exhaustion. They were completely wiped out from giving me everything that they had. I definitely hope to catch another show, and have each of them inside my ears again, pulsating and vibrating with their performance.
I drove home, took two showers, and got into bed, but I couldn't stop thinking about the aural pounding I had taken. I was lying there in ecstasy, all alone under the soft sheets, still vibrating with pleasure. My senses were overloaded - these guys had really slipped it into me, and it had stayed in. I lay there as the memory of the show gently caressed me, making my body shiver.
A few downsides: I had really hoped they would play Cornucopia. It would have felt personal, like it was my own cornucopia being right there on stage, being worked on. The didn't play Into The Void. I would have been very receptive to that, almost as if I were going into a void myself, or as if the band were entering mine. They could have played A Hard Road, that is a song I really could have wrapped myself around. Orchid is another song that really would have hit me, it's a hard song and would have really hit me down low. Moving to the Dio-era, they really should have played Over and Over, that's a song with a pounding beat that I would have really internalized. Some Gillan-era, just for variety, would have been nice, perhaps Keep It Warm, and Hughes-era Turn To Stone would have seen something I would have liked to see the band do. Tyr is not that great of an album, but the standout track Feels Good To Me would have been nice to have wash over me. And finally, Get A Grip could have been added, I feel like that would have really worked on me.
In short, go see Tomorrow's Dream, I highly recommend them. Having briefly played in a Sabbath tribute band myself (Bronx’s own JESUS CHRIST, ME FUCKIN’ FINGERS! THAT HURTS!), I know what it’s like to be on stage working the crowd.
This band is absolutely my jam!