The Rising Storm is an American rock group that was active at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, United States, between 1965 and 1967. Their music is considered to belong in the folk rock and garage rock genres. The original members of the group were Bob Cohan, Todd Cohen, Charlie Rockwell, Tom Scheft, Tony Thompson, and Rich Weinberg.
The Rising Storm is most notable for their 1967 album, Calm Before, which is cited by rock and roll historian Richie Unterberger in Allmusic as being "one of the rarest and most respected garage band albums." Unterberger devoted a chapter of his 1998 book, Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll, to the Rising Storm. More than fifty years after the group's founding, mint copies of Calm Before can fetch four figure sums among vinyl record collectors interested in the garage rock era. In 2018, Calm Before was re-mastered and reissued on vinyl by Sundazed Records.
The notoriety of this rare album has been the subject of articles in the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, the Washington Post, Mojo Magazine, and a feature on NPR's All Things Considered.