"Where Gloom Becomes Sound" is the fifth album by the Swedish metal prides TRIBULATION. The album is also the second big album release for 2021 that I review here at Tune Of The Day and BANG!! what a freaking release this is, I'm blown away! TRIBULATION never ceases to fascinate and enchant.
"Where Gloom Becomes Sound" contains ten tunes with forty-eight minutes of playtime that is executed in the best possible way, greatly balanced, darkly atmospheric, and remarkably consistent record. Big and razor-sharp melodies, an enchanting soundscape that is created with both heart and soul, really well crafted accurate composition with a magnific flow which makes you shake and fire up with excitement that small pearls bubbling up on your forehead. "Where Gloom Becomes Sound" opens the doors of "In Remembrance" and the quartet invites you to dive in an electrified double-door to the boiling cauldron of myths, magic, and mystery, the death grunts in Johannes Andersson vocals makes you hold tight and light a candle, the first lines in the opening tune is in Swedish.
"Det är som mörkast före gryningen,
De alla har slutat andas och luften står still,
Ur stålet strömma en motståndskraft,
Som brutit fasornas sigill"
So powerful and frightening,
these lines could be translated as ("It's darkest before dawn, They have all stopped breathing and the air stands still, From the steel flows a resistance force, Which has broken the seal of the horrors")
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The bombastic drumming of Oscar Leander is magnific throughout the whole album and works well with Johannes Andersson bass playing that gives a warm surface. Oscar Leander stands out a little extra at the end when he sweeps like a crazy bull in "Funeral Pyre" and in "Daughter Of The Djinn". The fifth tune "Lethe" is a short piano instrumental played by Jonathan Hultén, a really delicious piece, its Beethoven-Esque sonata evocations providing some brief breathing space. Adam Zaars and Jonathan Hultén's guitars are marvelous, a true sublime display of beauty and strength straight true the whole piece. Listen to the opening part of "Hour Of The Wolf", goosebumps. The euphoric darkness of "Leviathans" is a true gem where they finger a little on the other side of the border to shoe-gaze. The neoclassical guitars in "Dirge Of A Dying Soul" are so beautiful that I melt into a big meat pile. "Inanna" shows that they really know their stuff, so nicely done. The catchy driven piece "Elementals" have so much stuff embedded in itself, and the guitar solo... incredible experience. The closing "The Wilderness" is another beauty that breaks boundaries in their musical craftmanship and the guitar playing, drumming, bass, vocals, just fabulous.
That this will be the last record from guitarist and songwriter Jonathan Hultén, who dropped out of the band after the recording of the album. I would say, it is in a way his "swan song" (farewell, goodbye) and that makes the listening all the more sentimental. The replacement is Joseph Tholl (VOJD, ENFORCER, DEATH BY FIRE, ROBERT PEHRSSON) a great guitarist so I think they are in good hands, and how it will work out remains to be seen. "Where Gloom Becomes Sound" is a remarkably consistent album.
In this musical genre, TRIBULATION is probably the best we have in Sweden, so today I am really proud to be Swedish.
Sum: "Where Gloom Becomes Sound" takes you on a journey unlike any other.
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| My copy of the album ✌ |
TRIBULATION line-up:
(From left to right on the photo!)
Johannes Andersson - vocals, bass
Adam Zaars - guitars
Joseph Tholl - guitars
Oscar Leander - drums
Today's tune "Leviathans", taken from "Where Gloom Becomes Sound", enjoy!
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