Tribulation Archives

A look ahead at the season’s most promising new albums

Plus High Vis and Tribulation

Hear new song “Tainted Skies”

Hear the band’s first new single with guitarist Joseph Tholl

Every band is playing. All of them.

The year in heavy.

10 albums to start the year off right

The Swedish gothic metal greats take a step into a bigger arena on their fifth album.

An overview of some of the albums that might offer some of the best sounds of 2021.

Check out the second single from ‘Where the Gloom Becomes Sound’.

Hear the first single from ‘Where the Gloom Becomes Sound’.

New album due out in January.

The 50 albums we agreed whipped the most ass this year.

Our favorite tracks from the past year.

Twenty-five albums that hit the hardest from the past 12 months.

Two metal heavyweights on tour together this fall.

The records that made the first six months of the year worth remembering.

Celebrating a label that helped to change the metal landscape.

Hear our Album of the Week, and one of the best metal albums of the year so far.

A densely layered metal triumph that’s also a lot of fun to listen to.