TOWER is a 5-piece Pure Heavy Metal band from New York City. This is their third full-length album and first since 2021. There a bunch of bands out there with the same name including a Sludge/Doom Metal band from St. Augustine, Florida but this is absolutely not the same band and quality! According to many, these guys literally stole the show at the Hell Heroes Festival in Texas a few weeks back including a good friend of mine that was there. The word powerhouse is a word thrown out way too much nowadays for a singer but Sarabeth Linden is definitely the utter definition of a powerhouse. She has some pipes like I haven't heard in such a long time fronting a band that has some promise and loads of potential. I always consider singers like Adrienne Cowan from SEVEN SPIRES or Britney Slayes from UNLEASH THE ARCHERS as the most complete female singers out there but anytime you get something wailing with such drive and emotion, you have the notice the talent and the goosebumps that come with it.

Definitely a band that is tough to categorize, you obviously have some influences from bands like COVEN, BLOOD STAR and a bit of WARLOCK yet you have the pure electric energy of a band like 3 INCHES OF BLOOD. One thing I tend to gravitate towards is a band that has so many influences and yet are able to use everything to their advantage instead of copying one aspect of a band and being short sided to say the least. Like on the first single ''Under the Chapel'', you have good old MOTORHEAD-esque Hard Rock meets Punk Rock attitude with the enchanting voice of  Sarabeth. Like a cross of early LACUNA COIL's Cristina Scabbia with the badass attitude of MOTORHEAD (or even GIRLSCHOOL) with some old school KING DIAMOND. Like I said it's a very difficult band to explain but it's always a good sign not to be able to obviously.

I have a whole lot of people talking about this band for years and I am kicking myself for not listening to them beforehand. There is so much bands out there and honestly, a lot of it is utter crap but sometimes there is a light in the dark and bands like these pop up and completely change your outlook on the future of Heavy Metal. I am glad to have discovered this band, before they get big because it will happen sooner rather than later. I am going to dig in their discography a bit more in the next few weeks and I already digging the song ''Blood Moon'' off of 2021's ''Shock to the System'' so I cannot wait to listen to their earlier stuff.

Cruz Del Sur Music are a label to lookout for in the near future because you got bands like TOWER and CHRISTIAN MISTRESS out there making slowly a dent in the Old School Heavy Metal music scene and might the next NIGHT DEMON and really breakout. The potential is there, the opportunities are getting there and slowly making the rounds of the different festivals like Hell's Heroes and Up the Hammers as well. It's not a question of if but when for them, that's something you can guarantee. Talent and a talented emotional frontwoman can go really far and will make some waves in 2025!