Swedish death metallers Tribulation plunge back into darkness with a blinding fifth album drawn from deepest night…
Words: Sam Law
An organ’s funereal drone steps down like a ghoul descending his basement stairs. The probing music-box tinkle of xylophone adds the ghostly playfulness of some poor lost soul. Guitars scrabble like nails against the inside of a coffin lid. Then the curtain drops and you’re slingshotted out into a jagged midnight landscape of dense forests, winding dirt roads, looming castles and distant snow-capped peaks.
This is In Remembrance, the opening track on Tribulation’s fifth album, and it only takes a minute to remind you why the Swedish terrors are, by a distance, the most atmospherically evocative outfit in modern metal.