“The Lament” opens the record with dreary, barren chords that echo into the distance. A brief silence falls over the song, shattered by a sinister twin lead and upbeat drumming that juxtaposes the ...

Sweden's Tribulation are on the forefront of a burgeoning new sound that's sprung up in recent years, fusing blackened elements with more traditional heavy metal and goth rock. With Down Below set to ...

Sweden’s Tribulation returned earlier this year with the great Down Below, which picked up where The Children of the Night‘s blend of black/death metal and classic rock left off, and also went even ...

Everyone’s favorite Swedish goth metal act, Tribulation, is back! The band released their latest single “Tainted Skies” and announced their new album Sub Rosa In Æternum which is due out on November 1 ...

Swedish metal greats Tribulation have announced a North American tour in support of their goth rock-tinged 2024 album Sub Rosa in Æternum, and they’ve lined up two other goth rock bands to join them, ...

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 ...

Tribulation recently released their new album Where The Sound Become Gloom, which was their final effort with guitarist and songwriter Jonathan Hultén. Hultén quit the band in 2020 and has since been ...

Once when I was 9, my Mennonite mother busted me for reading during a spectacularly dull sermon that looped around and around like one of those Hindenburg bees. I had smuggled in a tasty book from the ...