PORTRAIT

Release Year: 2021
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: energetic mysterious occult heavy metal

at the recording time of the third longplay [2014] solid and mysterious five-piece from Kristianstad reinvents their dark arts, bringing intricate and quite complex music to heavy metal crossroads where the genre originates as such - it was never a topic for discussion, as Portrait are traditional metal band since the beginning, yet with these eight haunting and remarkable numbers they re-discover the magic of composing, putting the skill and class into trademark minor and darkened music, highlighted by otherworldly pitch of Per Lengstedt's voice, while the surroundings and skills of Necromorbus studio crew also affects the mesmerizing outcome; recent German black 180g vinyl edition comes with a pro-printed lyric inner sleeve and art print