The Children of the Night

By their third album, Tribulation had completed their transition from a brilliantly talented Swedish death-metal band into something less easily classifiable. *The Children of the Night* saw the band fully embracing the gothic tendencies that began emerging on 2013’s *The Formulas of Death* while threading black metal and darkly infectious rock. Sinister and elegant, the album’s dazzling guitar acrobatics, eerie piano melodies, and mystical atmosphere—contrasted by the sepulchral vocals of bassist Johannes Andersson —helped the young Swedes become a unique entity.

The glorious third album from the Swedish metal band Tribulation is a sprawling, compulsory tale that doesn’t turn dull. Psych, prog, thrash, and classic rock commingle, bearing echoes of not just Mercyful Fate and At the Gates but Led Zeppelin and Hawkwind, the Doors and dub.

A review of The Children of the Night by Tribulation, available April 20th in Europe and April 21st in North America via Century Media.