Where The Gloom Becomes Sound
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90
With Where The Gloom Becomes Sound, Tribulation have delivered an album of top-tier rock songs, litanies sealed with a baroque gothic tongue.
1mo
90
Overall the album continues Tribulation’s strong sense of grandeur with extremely strong compositions throughout.
1mo
90
For something so gruesome, Where The Gloom Becomes Sound is surprisingly accessible. Lower the lights, pour yourself a glass of red, and enjoy the gloom – there’s no better way to dream yourself out of the madness of modern lockdown living.
1mo
85
Where Gloom Becomes Sound is one of Tribulation's best albums and a classic in the making for goths worldwide.
1mo
80
Their latest release, Where the Gloom Becomes Sound, is unquestionably the record this band needs to cement their status as frontrunners in 21st-century heavy metal.
1mo
80
By the time you’re spun out by sprawling closer The Wilderness, it feels like you’ve chased dusk across continents, soaking in 1,000 terrifying and tragic, fetid and fresh sights and smells along the way.
1mo
EDIT: have listened more, it's kinda more boring than it felt on first listen but still pretty good
yeah this is pretty damn good. it's inconsistent, but when it hits it hits.
fave tracks: leviathans; dirge of a dying soul; elementals; inanna; funeral pyre; the wilderness
least fave track: hour of the wolf
yeah this is pretty damn good. it's inconsistent, but when it hits it hits.
fave tracks: leviathans; dirge of a dying soul; elementals; inanna; funeral pyre; the wilderness
least fave track: hour of the wolf
The new Tribulation album carries on the band's trademark black and roll assault and it's dare I say...catchy? Despite some aggressive riffing and thrashy bits, the band certainly knows how to make it's frigid sonic structures tuneful. The combination of raspy vocal fry with gothic, death rock overlays still has not worn out it's welcome. While I would not say that this album is better than Down Below or The Children of the Night, I have to say Tribulation's unique Castlevaniacore sound is ... read more
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Track List
- In Remembrance
- Hour of the Wolf
- Leviathans
- Dirge of a Dying Soul
- Lethe
- Daughter of the Djinn
- Elementals
- Inanna
- Funeral Pyre
- The Wilderness
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Added on: November 11, 2020