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How Tribulation are bringing magic and folklore back to heavy metal
From the elemental magic of ‘space’ to Scandinavian mythology, Tribulation are reconnecting with the spiritual world for their new album Where The Gloom Becomes Sound
Words: Hannah May Kilroy
Growing up in Sweden, Tribulation guitarist Adam Zaars and vocalist and bassist Johannes Andersson heard stories of folklore, myth and the supernatural, from trolls in the forests to spirits like Näcken, who would lure children into the lake with the sounds of his fiddle.
“In old Swedish rural society, say the 17
th, 18
th century, a lot of supernatural entities of different kinds were very present in people’s lives, which is hard for us to understand today, but that was the reality,” Adam explains. “The notion that if they went out into the forest, they could meet a troll, or the lady of the forest.”