Tribulation

Tribulation is a Swedish death metal band from Arvika, Sweden, active since 2004. The band begins as a death metal act and later broadens its sound across gothic metal, gothic rock, heavy metal, rock and related metal styles.

Albums and musical development

The band releases its debut studio album, The Horror, in 2009. Its second full-length, The Formulas of Death, follows in 2013. In 2015, Children of the Night marks a clear move away from the death metal approach of the first two albums, drawing instead on traditional heavy metal, black metal, psychedelic rock, gothic rock, and themes linked to the occult and supernatural mythology. Down Below arrives in 2018 and continues the band’s blend of gothic and metal influences.

Line-up

The band’s listed members include Adam Zaars, Johannes Andersson, Joseph Tholl and Oscar Leander. Earlier and additional names associated with the group include Jimmie Frödin, Olof Wikstrand, Jakob Johansson, Jonathan Hultén and Jakob Ljungberg.

Style

Tribulation is associated with death metal, old school death metal, thrash metal and gothic metal, and is also described more broadly as a Swedish death metal band.

Other note

A separate Swedish thrash metal group has also used the name Tribulation, but the Arvika band is the active act identified here.