Artist: Tribunal
Title: The Weight Of Remembrance
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Cat #: SPIN168
Release Year: 2023
Duration: Album
Format: CD 
Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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 weaves 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.

Recommended if you like: My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, Draconian, Theatre of Tragedy, Tribulation, Woods of Ypres

Track Listing:

1.Initiation
2.Of Creeping Moss And Crumbled Stone    
3.Apathy's Keep
4.Remembrance
5.A World Beyond Shadow    
6.Without Answer    
7.The Path