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 with sharpened intent, deeper atmosphere, and stronger compositional confidence, literally 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, seriously darkened music, highlighted by otherworldly pitch of Per Lengstedt's voice, while the surroundings and skills of Necromorbus studio crew also affects the mesmerizing, spiritually charged outcome; recent German black-splattered golden vinyl edition with a pro-printed lyric inner sleeve and additional cover art print is limited to 250 hand-numbered units, copy #225