Friday, December 14, 2012

PORTAL: PITCHFORK POSTS NEW TRACK "CURTAIN"

PITCHFORK have posted a new track from Australian blackened death metal warriors PORTAL entitled "Curtain".

PORTAL shall unleash "Vexovoid" 2/29/2013 via PROFOUND LORE RECORDS. PORTAL shall embark on a winter 2013 Australian tour with MARDUK and ORDER OF ORIAS. 


FROM PROFOUND LORE RECORDS:

Australian surrealist death metal terror unit PORTAL have completed work on their anticipated fourth full-length album entitled “Vexovoid”, the four year follow-up to their “Swarth” predecessor.
Taking their sound of singular death metal psychosis by creating their darkest and most-dense sounding album to date, “Vexovoid” carries the tradition PORTAL have laid upon since their inception 18 years ago.  Through the band’s strange, unsettling, avant-garde, and polarizing take on death metal (on a musical, lyrical, visual, and aesthetical level), throughout the years PORTAL have shape-shifted and inverted the genre into multiple realms of dementia.  “Vexovoid”, as expected, is another dreadful and frightening observation of unorthodox death metal terror unparalleled.
To be officially released on Feb 19th (LP version to be released not too long after the CD version) and featuring artwork by Reverend Kriss Hades, tracklisting for “Vexovoid” goes as follows:
1. Kilter
2. The Back Wards
3. Curtain
4. Plasm
5. Awryeon
6. Orbmorphia
7. Oblotten


FROM SOUNDCLOUD:PORTAL: "CURTAIN":

ITP V.09 REVIEW: PORTAL: SWARTH:
http://spak-individualthoughtpatterns.blogspot.com/2009/10/itp-review-portal-swarth.html



FROM PITCHFORK: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/14675-curtain/

The three cavernous drum hits at the start of "Curtain" presage the song's size. Indeed, for the six minutes, as long-running Australian crew Portal twist time and again from death metal build to black metal blur to noise rock distortion, the song remains enormous and crushing. Portal seem to volley between those styles as if only to make each bit that much more daunting-- that is, the drum-led barrage feels that much heavier emerging from a wall of guitars and vice versa. While "Curtain" is a massive tangle, it's not a mess; Portal do this with veteran precision.
 Portal: "Curtain"

FROM PORTAL:
Fiends.


Sweden's kings of unholy black metal chaos MARDUK will be invading our shores, headlining the Serpent Sermon tour this summer. Joining them on the crusade will be Australia's own curators of the abyss PORTAL, and Melbourne's blackened horde ORDER OF ORIAS. Tickets are onsale now, and for the month of October they will be at the special price of $39.99 + BF:


Friday 11th January – Melbourne @ The HiFi Bar

Saturday 12th January – Sydney @ The HiFi Bar

Sunday 13th January – Brisbane @ The HiFi Bar

Tickets onsale 9am Oct 1st!
Buy tickets to MARDUK (SWE), The Hi-Fi - Melbourne | moshtix
www.moshtix.com.au
"Sermons of the Black" tour. Supported by PORTAL, Order Of Orias. Sweden's kings of unholy black metal chaos MARDUK will 

be invading our shores, headlining




Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l- 
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