Down Below
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.
Traditionalists no more, the Swedish band spend their fourth album exploring the divide between metal’s underground and mainstream.
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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
A review of Down Below by Tribulation, available January 26th worldwide via Century Media.
Tribulation - Down Below review: With Down Below, Tribulation seem to have finally perfected their current sound.