Tribulation Cement Their Status as Heavy Metal Frontrunners on Where the Gloom Becomes Sound
Published Jan 27, 2021
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Black metal is one of the most prolific metal styles in the world, but its general musical inaccessibility prevents it from being embraced by the mainstream metal world, save for a handful of bands like Dimmu Borgir and Carach Angren. Enter Tribulation this Swedish quartet have been at it since 2005, and in that time have released five studio albums, two EPs and a live record. They ve been on an upward trajectory for a while, seeming one right move away from becoming a true household name. Their latest release,
Tribulation Has Become Life: The Occult Magic of Where the Gloom Becomes Sound Tuesday, 26 January 2021
Photo: Ester Segarra
Johannes Andersson grew up in a fairytale. Born in the countryside, a mile away from the small Swedish town of Arvika, he was raised by a potter mother and painter father. There was a workshop in the barn out back and an easel in the master bedroom upstairs. While his parents created, his neighbour would take him fishing by the lake, or he’d pick wild mushrooms.
The people in his village told him stories. He heard about the piper down by the river who would play for young children only to then drown them. Out in the woods was Rånda, the succubus who lured men away, never to be heard from again. There were tales of fairies and magic everywhere.
Smile and the World Smiles With You (Self-released)
Gatecreeper isn’t the only Arizona band to unleash nastiness recently: on New Years’ Day, Phoenix trio Fluids dropped
Smile and the World Smiles With You, a three-track EP that cements them as the goregrind band to beat. While Mortician is an influence du jour in the underground now, their early efforts carried a “man discovers fire” energy, stumbling upon primitive brilliance that can’t be replicated by average dudes consciously dumbing themselves down. Fluids carry on what made Mortician enthralling – brickwalled, bass-heavy brutality and throbbing drum machine – and send it all into a smashing overdrive. This isn’t just lacking subtlety, this is beating subtlety into an unrecognizable pulp. Guitars are built thick and somehow get stretched into static, as in the case of “Gagged’s” slower moments. The trash can snares are deliberate, as no taste is worse than bad taste.
From The Forthcoming New Album
Where the Gloom Becomes Sound
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TRIBULATION will release their new album,
Where the Gloom Becomes Sound, via Metal Blade Records (in North America)//Century Media Records (worldwide excluding North America). For a preview of the record, a video for the new single Hour Of The Wolf (directed by
Gustav Ohman Spjuth/Fanny & Alexander Productions) can be viewed on
KNAC.COM
TRIBULATION commented: The Hour Of The Wolf is upon us! Feast your eyes on this, the second single of our upcoming album.
The previously released single, Leviathans , can be heard at: metalblade.com/tribulation - where