Description

Black vinyl

Stockholm-based Tribulation once again aspire to greater heights and stranger things on their 2024 album, Sub Rosa In Aeternum. Whereas the prior album was cast in Italian marble under a wolf moon, this time, Tribulation conjure new beasts: Part psychological horror of Italian cinema, part gaunt British goth, and part Art Deco opulence, Sub Rosa in Aeternum is a blazing torch upon a cloudy, skeleton sky. Of course, no Tribulation album is complete without oblique references to fangs, blood, women, and Roman Empire-like decadence: Tholl’s fascination with water and oceans come through in Hungry Waters, as does Zaars’ infatuation with religion, cults, and mystery on “Saturn Coming Down”. Andersson gets in on the action by paraphrasing American poet Emily Dickinson and citing both book/film The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco/Jean-Jacques Annaud, respectively Poison Pages; there is mystery to Murder in Red. Sub Rosa will be a big surprise for some as it comes with a new sound, a new look and clean vocals. Sub Rosa will show a band that has ventured totally into the luxuriant goth phase. Maybe their most inspired era yet atleast if we listen to the members themselves; It’s a taste of the new musical areas we’ve charted that’s taken us to places we’ve never ventured into before.

Track list:
1. The Unrelenting Choir
2. Tainted Skies
3. Saturn Coming Down
4. Hungry Waters
5. Drink The Love Of God
6. Murder In Red
7. Time And The Vivid Ore
8. Reaping Song
9. Poison Pages
10. I Takt Med Otiden