Moving into the darker regions of the seasonal spectrum we welcomed a truly despondent tour last month. Among a house hold name we were able to speak to Tribulation. Currently making waves all over the Metal scene with their essential brand new album Children Of The Night we spoke to guitarist mastermind Adam Zars on their slight downtime in London before their fantastic show at Koko. Speaking to the guitarist we were able to find out a little more about how the writing of The Children of The Night went about, what themes are explored on the new album and how they assimilated a sound of the seventies to form this nocturnal vampiric Doors sound. Listen to the full unedited interview on our Soundcloud below this excerpt.
Personally I sort of feel that there is a slight seventies vibe in the Tribulation sound, do you think that is right?
Well yeah, I think it’s right. Partly because we like bands from the 60’s and the 70’s of course but also, especially on the new one, The Children of The Night. I think it’s been because of the sound as well, we don’t have the typical extreme metal drums and guitars. We like to have the guitar actually sound like guitars and drums to sound like drums. We can do whatever we want around that of course, we use a lot of effects and stuff like that. I think that we are using some of the effects, which is the way that we get the music across in sort of a seventies style in a sense. I’m not really surprised to hear that.
Do you feel that is from the way that you approached the recording?
Yeah, well I guess so in a way. Especially on this new album, we recorded the drums in one studio and we did it just because of the room.
Really?
Yeah, because it had a great sound apparently and it did. We were really pleased with that and then we moved onto another studio for guitars, bass and the vocals and then we moved to another one for all of the pianos. It’s an actual piano! It’s not digital and that might also be the case that it sounds..
Analogue haha!
And we used the mood and the organs and that’s also quite seventies.
Tribulation are currently touring the US with Deafheaven but their brand new album The Children of The Night is out now via Century Media.
