5th October 2025

5 Albums I Want To Be Buried With #16: Tribe Of Ghosts!

For the past couple of years, boundary pushing Industrial Post-Hardcore collective Tribe Of Ghost have been creating the kind of soul stirring music as they take a cathartic approach to exploring a number of intriguing themes. Weighty Post-Metal atmospheres are laced with distorted electronics and soaked in Hardcore intensity giving the band a sound full of depth, texture and contrast with a twin vocal attack able to combine haunting melodies and brutal screams. They survived festivals including Bloodstock, Summer Bash and Rabidfest and lived to tell the tale and so with new single “Forever Falling Upwards” recently released into cyberspace we caught up with vocalist and guitarist Adam Sedgwick and asked him about 5 albums he wants to be buried with!

The premise is simple: “Back in ancient Egypt they believed that the items their Kings were buried with would travel with them into the afterlife and so part of the burial ritual would see the mummified bodies surrounded by chariots, gold and more. Fast forward to now. If there were five albums that you’d want buried in the coffin with you to take to the afterlife, what would you choose?”

1. Cult Of Luna – “Vertikal”

“It’s a pretty common known thing that I’m obsessed with Cult Of Luna. I love them, and they’re one of the reasons Tribe exists to be honest… Hell, Mariner is the reason I asked Beccy to join the band back when we rebooted years ago!

For me, hearing Vertikal was the moment that it clicked about combining organic and electronic music together. I always loved both, always wanted to compose doing both but never felt like I had the courage to do it – Vertikal is the album that gave me that courage, and now it’s all I ever do!”

2. Old Man Gloom – “NO”

“As with COL, Old Man Gloom is another one of those bands that I’m obsessed with – At university and whilst I was a teenager, I’d heard friends talk about Converge, Isis (now Celestial) and Cave In, but I’d never listened to them. I vividly remember walking into HMV in Brighton and seeing the NO album artwork though and I couldn’t get it out of my head – I had no idea who Old Man Gloom were, I had no idea what they sounded like… I just remembered the artwork and thinking it was just mesmerizing.

I bought it, put my headphones on and whacked it into my laptop. I’m given 2 minutes of feedback modulation, noise, found samples and textures and I had no idea what I was listening to – just knew that I was entranced by it… What follows is 40 minutes of the most ungodly heavy music I had ever heard, as I felt like my head was being crushed by a tank the whole time. Never looked back after that!”

3. Faithless – “Forever Faithless”

“So this one is a bit nostalgic. As a kid, I was always shown new music by my parents, adults when I was doing stuff at Games Workshop (They used to have an album of bands like Metallica and Nightwish that were licensed to play in the shops – IT WAS SO COOL!) but this one comes with some really happy memories for me – I was about 11/12 at the time, and my Stepdad had bought this album for his car as he loved club music – I’d never really listened to electronic music at all, but when this came on the car speakers I fell in love with it. Was a moment that really solidified my bond with him and even nowadays we’re listened to club bangers together when I go visit!

The opening notes of Insomnia and God Is A DJ? Electronic music just became burrowed in my brain from then onwards.”

4. Nine Inch Nails – “Year Zero”

“I love Nine Inch Nails (Not really a surprise there) but this album really blew my mind as a budding musician. At the time, I’d just been introduced to recording software like Logic and Cubase, and dreamed about being able to produce and record my music in an enormous studio – The idea of seeing all these mics, the desk the size of a spaceship, the headphones… the whole shebang was a bit of a pipe dream for when someone might like what I’d do enough to record it.

Then after listening to Downward Spiral, With Teeth and The Fragile on repeat, that dream became more aspirational – Until I heard Year Zero. It was the most insane and intense album I’d ever heard at the time and then once I read it had been done on a laptop in the back of a tour bus? My whole view of recording turned upside down.

This album was the start of me becoming a producer and songwriter – so it better be buried with me!”

5. Sophie – “Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-insides”

“This album when I was introduced to it by Beccy was something that was something that I can only say was life changing. The music on this album is stunning and Sophie was a genius ahead of her time – The sounds and compositions blended all of those elements of Aphex Twin and Pop Music that I loved but never with the idea that either was better than the other. This album inspired a lot of the electronic ideas that appeared on our debut album CITY, and is still on everything we put together now! R.I.P SOPHIE.

Bury me with all these albums – I’m gonna have a banging playlist going with me!”