Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Tribulation - 'The Lament' from Down Below (2018)

I listened to the new Tribulation album Down Below while drawing the below draculoid and then decided to watch the video for the first single 'The Lament' afterwards as I hadn't seen it yet and happily it features one of my favorite ubiquitous gothic horror tropes of wearing a white nightgown, getting up out of bed and carrying a lit candelabra down some steps in a spooky mansion so that is awesome and even better the new Tribulation album feels like a big old fashioned rock release which it totally is. Hopefully this will inspire kids to buy Tribulation hoodies from Hot Topic and wear them while being sullen in the mall and later at convenience stores. Watching this video reminds me of what it was like to be 11 years old and watching the Heart video for 'These Dreams' which permanently altered me and although Tribulation is not really 80's Heart they are like 80's Heart because they have transformed into something appropriate to wander through misty interiors in diaphanous gowns to which is something we can all aspire to but not always achieve. I really wish there was a cable television station that did nothing but play cool videos from new and old albums because that would be pretty awesome. It would also be neat if there was like a 24-hour news station too that reported stuff that happened at all hours. Maybe someday. For now we have the new Tribulation album and it is really good. <3

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