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Where the Gloom Becomes Sound. The fifth record from the band continues on the path's laid out across 2018's  Down Below and 2015's  The Children of the Night, which is one that is cinematic in scope and encompasses a variety of sounds from punk, goth rock, death metal and rock 'n' roll. Despite the band's penchant for blending these sounds so well, opposed to a cut-and-paste amalgamation, Zaars expressed he rarely finds genre mashing to be an attractive quality in the music he consumes and that Tribulation's outright songwriting aim was not to bring cohesion to so many influences. He also...

How Tribulation are bringing magic and folklore back to heavy metal From the elemental magic of ​‘space’ to Scandinavian mythology, Tribulation are reconnecting with the spiritual world for their new album Where The Gloom Becomes Sound Words: Hannah May Kilroy Growing up in Sweden, Tribulation guitarist Adam Zaars and vocalist and bassist Johannes Andersson heard stories of folklore, myth and the supernatural, from trolls in the forests to spirits like Näcken, who would lure children into the lake with the sounds of his fiddle. “In old Swedish rural society, say the 17 th, 18 th ...

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 wou...