I do have a real thing for a well-made goth album. This is superb. It is sumptuously atmospheric but also packed full of that immediate dark pop sensibilities that made Goth such an enticing commodity. For many years Tribulation have been metamorphosing from a black metal band into something entirely different. This is the culmination of that transformation as “Sub Rosa In Æternum” has very little left in his DNA that would identify it as metal.

What we are left with then is an exquisite record full of high-quality dense passionate anthems laced with the romantic melancholy that we associate with goth. It is brilliantly done and perfect music to sip a pint of snakebite and black to.