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