Page 31 - Metal Hammer Issue 334 - UK (May 2020)
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JONATHAN HULTÉN



























































































              Naturally, Tribulation fans will be       extremely powerful, visually, along                               and picking up a guitar, I knew that
            among the first to check out his solo       with the other senses as well — smells,                           this was something that I would want
            album and asked how they might              wind in your face and a sense of                                  to do in the future. It’s a longtime
            respond, Jonathan only hazards              freedom in being one with nature.”                                dream and that it would turn out
            a guess. “I really don’t know what            Such emotive and compelling                                     exactly like this? I guess I had a hunch,
            they’ll think. It depends if they’re        songwriting will surely find much                                 but here we are and I guess it’s
            fans of the earlier stuff or fans of                                                                          something I couldn’t have predicted
            Tribulation’s latest stuff, because it’s    “THIS COULD END                                                   when I was 20. But right now it feels
            quite different. I guess you would not                                                                        like it came out the way it should have.
            appreciate Chants… as much if you           UP IN A REALLY                                                    What I’ve accomplished is that I’ve
            weren’t into goth rock or if you were                                                                         realised a really old dream of mine.”
            jump from goth rock to Nick Drake is   WACKY PLACE”                                                           album throughout March and April,
                                                                                                                            For now, Jonathan will be touring his
            strictly a metal-oriented person. The
            at least smaller than [2009 Tribulation                                                                       supporting Chelsea Wolfe. After that,
            debut] The Horror’s death metal to          acclaim among both critics and fans,                              nothing is currently booked, but the
            Nick Drake.”                                but regardless of opinion, Jonathan                               guitarist promises that Chants… is only
              It will help, he suggests, to listen to   has drawn deep satisfaction from the                              the beginning. “There will definitely be
         PRESS/SOILE SIIRTOLA  outdoors. “That’s the way to listen to   way it was going to take me,” he                  start with the new stuff! Ha ha ha!”
                                                        process. “I didn’t exactly know which
                                                                                                                          more,” he says. “I actually can’t wait to
            Chants… on a long, unhurried walk
                                                        explains. “I had been wanting to do
            music, really,” he says. “To be in nature
                                                                                                                          CHANTS FROM ANOTHER PLACE
                                                        an album like this for over 10 years or
            and to get that sort of synesthesia
                                                                                                                          IS OUT NOW VIA KSCOPE
                                                        more, even before I started singing
            of music marrying into something
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