Tribulation’s last album, 2021’s Where The Gloom Becomes Sound, was the point at which the Swedish ghouls emphatically mastered the black-metal-band-does-goth-bops sound. If they’d had it nicely sewn up before, it was here that they delivered a definitive statement, the result of careful experiments in darkness. Sub Rosa In Æternum doesn’t try to copy. Instead, it sees Tribulation moving as they have always done, into whatever dark corners they can find in their music. Where that album had moments of flamboyance, here they’ve gone for something often more suited to autumnal solitude. Indeed, it often goes away from their more metalised gear entirely, going full mask-off Nick Cave fanboy at times (the dramatic, piano-led Reaping Song), or completely goth (Murder ...