Down Below

AlbumJan 26 / 201810 songs, 50m 19s95%
Gothic Metal Heavy Metal
Popular Highly Rated

On their fourth album, Swedish goth metallurgists Tribulation explore the underworld with their most thrilling and cohesive package yet. Picking up where 2015\'s *The Children of the Night* left off, songs like \"The Lament,\" \"Nightbound,\" and \"Lady Death\" combine soaring guitars, vintage horror-movie ambience, and frontman Johannes Andersson\'s ghostly death-metal growl with postmortem themes to create something truly awe-inspiring. Meanwhile, \"The World\" and epic closer \"Here Be Dragons\" deliver rich cinematic triumph via strings, darkly elegant guitars, and chilling glockenspiel melodies.

8.0 / 10

Traditionalists no more, the Swedish band spend their fourth album exploring the divide between metal’s underground and mainstream.

B

Nils Frahm reaches exciting new dimensions on All Melody, while No Age go bigger and brighter than ever on Snares Like A Haircut. These, plus Tribulation and Nightmares On Wax in this week’s notable new releases.

7 / 10

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With Swedish metal band Tribulation, conversation often orbits around genre and how to classify them. Whether you subscribe to their classif...

10 / 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc9GUgzkVP0 Like many long time listeners of Tribulation, Sweden’s blackened goth rockers, it was the band’s second album, The Formulas Of Death, that really caught my attention. The Horror, their debut, was an explosive Blackened Death album I still love, but Form

4.5 / 5

A review of Down Below by Tribulation, available January 26th worldwide via Century Media.

Tribulation deliver the album to beat in 2018.

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Tribulation - Down Below review: With Down Below, Tribulation seem to have finally perfected their current sound.