Tribunal

Tribunal

In Penitence And Ruin

20 Buck Spin

Tribunal returns with their sophomore album, In Pentinence And Ruin, an elegy most grievous and forlorn, descending deeper into the solemn abyss of woe. 2023’s debut The Weight Of Remembrance set a high bar for the Canadians becoming one of the year’s most notable and praised doom releases, leading Decibel Mag to include the band’s new album in their annual list of most anticipated releases. Tribunal took their time and crafted an opus of enormous scope to echo evermore through halls long abandoned.Having expanded into a fully fleshed out five piece band and live unit, In Penitence And Ruin has a wider lens of cohesion and maturity weaving together the widow’s wail of doleful strings, chilling keys and percussion that tolls like the iron bell of fate. These elements ornament the monolithic foundation of crushing dirge and funereal melodies hewn from the marrow of sorrow itself. The duality between the wistful, impassioned singing of vocalist / cellist Soren Morne and agonized growls from guitarist / vocalist Etinne Flinn bind with resolute tread and stride forth into darkness, traversing a path lit only by the pale glow of distant lament.Tribunal hath wrought a requiem most dire where beauty and ruin become one and in doing have forged a second album beyond expectations, progressive in its embrace of the penitent and eminently listenable as a scripture of loss. Like ivy upon the tombstone, In Penitence And Ruin winds slowly but inexorably towards spectral grandeur and eternal oblivion.

Tribunal

The Weight Of Remembrance

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***NOW ON LIMITED AMETHYST MARBLE VINYL!!! The Vancouver duo Tribunal may yet be unknown to the wider world, but spellbinding debut album The Weight Of Remembrance is poised to immediately change that. Steeped in the black velvet finery of Gothic doom metal, Tribunal weave dark tales of ultimate judgement, never-ending rain and forsaken despair. Featuring classically trained cellist / bassist / vocalist Soren Mourne and guitarist / vocalist Etienne Flinn, the duo’s brick heavy classic doom riffage borders on death metal heaviness, like My Dying Bride filtered through a colossal stained glass edifice. The sound is instantly familiar with nods to the ’80s and ’90s but never sounds retro or like mere homage. Rather, The Weight Of Remembrance evokes the feeling of a painstakingly composed orchestral movement fit for a crumbling cathedral overgrown with moss. The duo frequently trade off vocals alternating between haunted wailing cleans, scathing black-metal style shrieks and dread-filled death calls. Tribunal’s debut is an essential addition to the modern doom canon, one which can expand in infinite musical directions from a base of crushing tragic heaviness and forlorn purpose. In that sense, The Weight Of Remembrance has the accomplished atmosphere of a band beyond their years in the scope and execution of its vision.