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Tribulation - The Children Of The Night



8.3 | 266 votes |
Release date: 20 April 2015
Style: Black metal, Death metal, Gothic metal

Owners:

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25 want it


Disc I
01. Strange Gateways Beckon
02. Melancholia
03. In The Dreams Of The Dead
04. Winds
05. Själaflykt
06. The Motherhood Of God
07. Strains Of Horror
08. Holy Libations
09. Cauda Pavonis
10. Music From The Other
11. One Hundred Years [The Cure cover] [bonus]
12. Laudanum Dreams [bonus]

Disc II [7inch] [Limited Boxset bonus]
01. The Motherhood Of God [demo]
02. Winds [demo]

The Best Death Metal Album Of 2015

Staff review by
X-Ray Rod
Rating:
8.4
The journey these Swedes have made is without a doubt one of the more interesting ones in the modern death metal scene.

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published 30.04.2015 | Comments (13)

28.04.2015
Perhaps less proggy, definitely less death metal-ly, definitely more concise. Definitely brilliant. Don't miss this gem.

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30.04.2015 - 17:51
Rating: 9
Mechaniacal
Written by Bardusk on 25.04.2015 at 00:45

Some of the best guitar melodies I´ve heard in long time. It really reminds me of those great tunes in old games, Castlevania type.

Exactly what I was going to post as well. The melodies stay with me all day. Definitely Castlevania-ish. One of the best albums I've heard this year.
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13.05.2015 - 12:55
Zap
Guest
Hadn't realized there was a cover of "One Hundred Years" here as a bonus track. I love it.
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14.05.2015 - 21:59
Rating: 8
Skl3ros
Haven't listened to any metal for almost 2 years even though I still regularly check new stuff here and this is the first album that sounds actually intresting new and fun to me.
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16.05.2015 - 21:42
Rating: 9
LeKiwi
High Fist Prog
This. Is. Bloody. Fantastical.
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18.05.2015 - 19:48
Rating: 9
MetalPath
Fantastic album
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23.05.2015 - 12:26
Rating: 8
Ace Frawley
The Spaceman
Enjoying this a lot. My favourite album of 2015 thus far.
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The sun shines over The Fool...
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21.06.2015 - 16:51
Rating: 8
Unhealer
Eclecticist
Didn't like their previous release a bit, but this is great. I'd really like to see these guys live.
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22.06.2015 - 12:33
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Elite
Written by Unhealer on 21.06.2015 at 16:51

Didn't like their previous release a bit, but this is great. I'd really like to see these guys live.



Strange that you didn't like their previous one at all yet think this one is great. There isn't that much difference musically between the two.
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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22.06.2015 - 23:53
Rating: 8
Unhealer
Eclecticist
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 22.06.2015 at 12:33

Strange that you didn't like their previous one at all yet think this one is great. There isn't that much difference musically between the two.


Yup, tried it again to make sure, but even though being stylistically similar the songwriting is a lot better in this one.
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28.07.2015 - 17:18
!J.O.O.E.!
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Haven't done much music exploration this year but this album is definitely my most listened to, really good stuff. Pyramids and Leviathan probably take the next two places, so far. I think I like it more than the previous now. I thought it was a bit sugary at first but it has a surprising amount of re-playability. I've seen a few people complain about the last track, but I really like it. Reminds me a bit of Waters of (Wat)Ain at points for some reason.

Written by Unhealer on 22.06.2015 at 23:53

Yup, tried it again to make sure, but even though being stylistically similar the songwriting is a lot better in this one.

To be honest this album is almost nothing like the previous musically so not surprised you like one and not the other. The last one was a sort of slightly proggy, psychedelic infused mixture of black, death and thrash, whereas this one is more of a straight up, melody oriented heavy metal / faux-metal hard rock album with a bit of a gothic touch here and there, and black-ish vocals of course. I love both, and they both have a similar signature sound to them, but they're extremely different in the end.
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28.07.2015 - 17:37
!J.O.O.E.!
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Written by Guest on 28.07.2015 at 17:33


You sure you didn't miss a genre or two there?

Tribulation are a bitch to describe in succinct terms =P which is odd because they're not even that complex.
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30.07.2015 - 05:42
Fearmeister
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This album is growing on me.
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30.07.2015 - 20:16
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Staff
Written by Guest on 28.07.2015 at 17:18
Reminds me a bit of Waters of (Wat)Ain at points for some reason.


Only Waters Of Ain is much much better.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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30.07.2015 - 20:21
!J.O.O.E.!
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Written by deadone on 30.07.2015 at 05:54

Great way to explain it.

This is why I can't get into this one. I can't find a vibe or get it's mood. It seems neither here nor there.


I think it was instant love for me, which worried me because usually albums like that get boring quite rapidly. It's both simple and deep at the same time, which is a pretty rare quality.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 30.07.2015 at 20:16


Only Waters Of Ain is much much better.

Possibly, it is one of the few post-Casus things I genuinely like =P
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30.07.2015 - 21:03
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Staff
Written by Guest on 30.07.2015 at 20:21
Possibly, it is one of the few post-Casus things I genuinely like =P

And what are you even doing here? Go back to your rock. I don't need you.








... You sweet bastard I miss you.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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02.08.2015 - 23:28
!J.O.O.E.!
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Written by X-Ray Rod on 30.07.2015 at 21:03

And what are you even doing here? Go back to your rock. I don't need you.

... You sweet bastard I miss you.

<3

I need to listen to new music so I can pop my head in more often then.

On topic... err, this album is great.
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02.08.2015 - 23:47
Rating: 6
Karlabos
Meat and Potatos
Written by Guest on 02.08.2015 at 23:28

Written by X-Ray Rod on 30.07.2015 at 21:03

And what are you even doing here? Go back to your rock. I don't need you.

... You sweet bastard I miss you.

<3

I need to listen to new music so I can pop my head in more often then.

On topic... err, this album is great.

You can visit the site even though you're not listening to anything new you know... Just like that guy Karlabos for instance

Average album by the way
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"Aah! The cat turned into a cat!"
- Reimu Hakurei
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03.08.2015 - 00:28
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Elite
Written by Karlabos on 02.08.2015 at 23:47

Average album by the way



Nope. This album is great. Only People with inferior J-Pop tastes might consider this average
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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27.08.2015 - 06:08
Fearmeister
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Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 03.08.2015 at 00:28

Nope. This album is great. Only People with inferior J-Pop tastes might consider this average


Luckily I have superior J-Pop tastes
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10.09.2015 - 04:44
Maco
Pvt Funderground
This is one fucking amazing cover. For a moment I thought it was an original song.

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Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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10.09.2015 - 09:35
X-Ray Rod
Skandino
Staff
I really didn't like it a lot when I first heard it. That is one of my absolute favorite the Cure song and they NAILED the instrumental part... but the vocals sound so out of place.
A+ for effort though.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29
Like you could kiss my ass
Written by Milena on 20.06.2012 at 10:49
Rod, let me love you.
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27.09.2015 - 13:42
Rating: 8
Deadmeat
Necrobutcher
Not a bad album, but not great too.. It still has that "feeling", but it lacks the energy and the awesome outbreaks their previous album had... It's less death metalish, which is a shame as they played Awesome death metal...
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Υou've sold your human essence to the cold world of dead and empty things... You're SOLD!
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09.11.2015 - 22:14
Rating: 8
raveneffect
This album is very very good, amazing blend of genres. The Motherhood of God is just a phenomenal track and one of the best songs i've listened the whole year. Great drive.
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20.12.2015 - 14:06
Constantine
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Amazing, such a unique sound.
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28.12.2015 - 18:08
LuciferOfGayness
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Written by Guest on 20.12.2015 at 14:06

Amazing, such a unique sound.


Lets not get carried away, I think it sound quite a lot like Dissections Reinkaos. Very, very good album though.
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29.12.2015 - 00:00
!J.O.O.E.!
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Written by Guest on 28.12.2015 at 18:08

Lets not get carried away, I think it sound quite a lot like Dissections Reinkaos. Very, very good album though.

Reinkaos was a pretty standard melodeath album, so I doubt it sounds much like it. I'd say Tribulation are unique soundwise, if not song / style wise.
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29.12.2015 - 15:48
LuciferOfGayness
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Written by Guest on 29.12.2015 at 00:00

Written by Guest on 28.12.2015 at 18:08

Lets not get carried away, I think it sound quite a lot like Dissections Reinkaos. Very, very good album though.

Reinkaos was a pretty standard melodeath album, so I doubt it sounds much like it. I'd say Tribulation are unique soundwise, if not song / style wise.


Send me a message if you want a tip on bands that sound like this.
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29.12.2015 - 15:56
!J.O.O.E.!
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Written by Guest on 29.12.2015 at 15:48


Send me a message if you want a tip on bands that sound like this.

Nah, it's fine. I would have heard them already if there were any.
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29.12.2015 - 15:57
LuciferOfGayness
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Written by Guest on 29.12.2015 at 15:56

Written by Guest on 29.12.2015 at 15:48


Send me a message if you want a tip on bands that sound like this.

Nah, it's fine. I would have heard them already if there were any.

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07.01.2016 - 22:52
Constantine
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Underrated masterpiece imo.
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