{"id":184,"date":"2018-01-22T17:34:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T17:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2018-02-07T17:36:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:36:43","slug":"tribulation-album-review-for-treble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Tribulation album review for Treble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;185&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]Tribulation\u2019s <em>Down Below<\/em>, their fourth album and second for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centurymedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Century Media<\/a>, distills the diverse stylistic approach and melodic songwriting from their previous album down to a more potent solution. It\u2019s a little bit shorter than its predecessor, fitting on two sides of vinyl instead of three (that side four etching tho), and its hooks are sharper and more direct. And yet the band\u2019s sense of gothic grandeur hasn\u2019t abated. It\u2019s only natural that \u201cThe Lament,\u201d the album\u2019s opening track, end up the first single released from the album. Its stark plucks of guitar in its opening seconds arise like mist from an eerie moor, while its onslaught of heavy metal pummel ushers in an unabashed hedonistic quality that they don\u2019t just embrace but wholeheartedly own. It\u2019s spooky and campy and dramatic\u2014Tribulation encapsulated in five and a half amazing minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.treblezine.com\/reviews\/38402-tribulation-down-below-review-album-of-the-week\/\">Read more at Treble<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;185&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text]Tribulation\u2019s Down Below, their fourth album and second for Century Media, distills the diverse stylistic approach and melodic songwriting from their previous album down to a more potent solution. It\u2019s a little bit shorter than its predecessor, fitting on two sides of vinyl instead of three (that side four etching tho),&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,10,47],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-review","tag-treble","tag-tribulation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jeffterich.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}