Mike Torok- Guitars and Bass
-Bryan Erickson- Vocals,Keys and Guitar
Influences
The bands influences:
From the 60's and 70's- Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, Heart, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Kiss , Aerosmith, Thin lizzy, Alice Cooper, Grand Funk, Mountain, Free, Rush, The Who, Foreigner, and the Rolling Stones...
From the 80's- Whitesnake, Tesla, Badlands, Uli Jon Roth, Van Halen, Skid Row, Lynch Mob, Zakk Wylde, Husker Do, Guns & Roses, Replacements, Kate Bush, Metallica, T-ride, Soul Asylum, Queensryche, Mr. Big, Black Crowes, and Def Leppard...
From the 90's thru today- Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Sass Jordan, Brother Cane, Pride and Glory, Sevendust, Cry of Love, Black Label Society, Audioslave, Melissa Ethridge, Snake Pit, Annie Defranco, and the new Tony Iommi/Glen Hughes CDs....
Sounds Like
The first CD "Silence" is Techno/Hard Rock. It was recorded using Drum machines and loops. Its still hard rock but its a little quirky...
The second CD "Binge & Purge" is more organic. It was recorded live, one take with very few overdubs. It somewhere between "Kiss" and "Black Sabbath".
The new stuff is more melodic but still very organic along the lines of "Audioslave"... The new CD is available now here at the Torok Myspace page, also at Torokmusic.com and Nightmare records...
Order Son of Eric's debut release Epiphany by clicking the link below!!!!
Order "Addiction of Fools" just click on the add to cart button....
TOROK: Addiction of Fools
Melodic guitar riff driven hard rock with soaring vocals, blending the styles of early Van Halen and Deep Purple .
Tap on the add to cart button to order a copy of "Silence" Torok's 1996 release....
Tap on the add to cart button to order a copy of "Binge & Purge" Torok's 2001 release....
Torok CDs are also available at Nightmare Records....
Torok has been playing the Midwest region for roughly the past 10 years. Torok has released three CDs in that time "Silence" 1996, "Binge & Purge" 2001 and "Addiction of Fools" 2006/7. Torok features Bryan Erickson from "Son of Eric" on vocals/keys, Mike Torok original lead guitarist for shock rock kings "Impaler".
Torok's sound has elements of 70s giants "Led Zeppelin" and "Deep Purple" a bit of 80s rock heroes "VanHalen" and "Badlands" with just a taste of today’s production qualities thrown in for good measure. The basic formula here is blues based, funky, hard rock grooves with finger twisting guitar riffs capped off by chest pounding, soaring vocals.....Torok's music was recorded to be played Fcking loud!!!!!!
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Hi Torok, Heaven & Earth is on hiatus now as Stuart Smith and Richie Onori have joined forces with bassist Steve Priest to reform "Sweet". For those of you unfamiliar with the band, Sweet originally formed in the early 70s and went on to sell over 40,000,000 albums with 11 International Top Ten Hits such as "Ballroom Blitz", "Little Willy", "Love is Like Oxygen", "Fox on the Run", "Teenage Rampage", "Action", "Blockbuster", "Hellraiser" and many others. This reincarnation of the band reformed last year, playing their first show in June, and went on to play festivals throughout Canada and the States and had played to over 300,000 people before the year was out. During this tour last year they recorded a live CD available on Amazon entitled "Sweet, Live in America" which has received rave reviews - pick up a copy and please Add Sweet As Your Friend On Myspace! http://www.myspace.com/thesweetband Also, check out our friend Red Hot Chili Pepper Chad Smith's new band, Chad Smith's Bombastic Meatbats and their iTunes Top 10 Funk/Jazz debut release, "Meet the Meatbats"! http://www.myspace.com/bombasticmeatbats
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Thank you for your support and for your friendship!
The CRASH THE SYSTEM debut album "The Crowning" out on July 3rd in Europe and on August 11th in the USA, Japan to follow...
featuring top hard rock vocalists Göran Edman (Ex-Yngwie Malmsteen, John Norum, Brazen Abbot, etc), Mats Levén (Ex-Yngwie Malmsteen, Treat, etc), Thomas Vikström (Ex-Talk Of The Town, Candlemass, etc) and Björn Jansson (Ex-Ride The Sky, Tears Of Anger, etc). The album also features the members of "The Murder Of My Sweet" and on additional guitars: Manuel Lewys (Machinery, Elwood, etc).
Have a great week!
Sören CRASH THE SYSTEM www.myspace.com/crashthesystemproject www.frontiers.it
This is it! THE show of the year. we are celebrating the release of our new cd "ANNO MMIX" with a FREE show. we have gathered our closest friends in CWN ANNWN, URN and RISINGFALL to celebrate with us.
PLUS - we will be selling metal vinyl, videos, dvd's and cd's from the ROOT OF ALL EVIL empire! so even if you don't like the bands, come to shop!
this will be the last show til the winter so DON'T MISS IT! It's FREE for fup sake!
