Review Fix Exclusive: Awaiting Eli’s Eric Tomes Talks ‘Unfiltered’ And More

Review Fix chats with Awaiting Eli’s Eric Tomes, who discusses his creative process, origin in music and the band’s latest effort, “Unfiltered.”

Review Fix: How did you get involved in music? 

Eric Tomes: I started playing drums back when I was kid. That transitioned over to guitar as the years progressed and then started writing songs. 

Review Fix: What performers inspire you the most? 

Tomes: Alice In Chains and STP, Filter, Limp Bizkit.

Review Fix: What’s on your musical bucket list? 

Tomes: Get out there playing them arenas and big festivals. Putting out inspiring and good messages to people. 

Review Fix: Goals for 2019? 

Tomes: Have successful launches of these new tunes and get back to some of our favorite cities and see some new ones.

Review Fix: What makes your music scene special? 

Tomes: We have a pretty descent group of talent in Omaha. It’s pretty nice from rock to Indie to country etc we got a lot of great artist. 

Review Fix: How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard you? 

Tomes: Alice In Chains and Filter mixed with Limp Bizkit with some new school production. 

Review Fix: Bottom line, what makes you special? 

Tomes: We have a great sound. Nostalgic feels but something fresh and new. All these songs are stories and they are as real as they get.  

Review Fix: What next? 

Tomes: It’s time to get out there and put on some great live shows playing these new tunes for people. 

Review Fix: Anything else you’d like to add? 

Tomes: Keep an eye out we got a ton of new stuff coming.  

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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