Available exclusively via Profound Lore prior to its impending Oct 20th official release date, the latest work of death metal psychosis from Australias PORTAL, Swarth is the death metal release that invokes the end of the world and is Portals most surreal, disturbing, and irregular offering to date.
The approach to Portals style of death metal has always treaded the fine line between sheer madness and the intricately artful. Cinematic in scope, like a death metal interpretation of The Cabinet Of Dr. Cagliari or the death metal soundtrack to an ancient silent arthouse flick gone terribly awry, Portal have pretty much transcended the interpretation of what death metal should portray, and simply inverted and twisted it to no end. Even moreso on "Swarth".
Almost serving as the missing link between Portals previous abominations (namely Seepia and Outre), Swarth continues to bring the bands aesthetic to new disturbing levels of unease. Musically, Swarth is very labyrinth-like, very claustrophobic and suffocating where twisted counterpoint and scathing dissonance merge with earth scraping atmosphere to unveil the inevitable rising chaos.
And as usual, with every Portal release, what is surely to divide and polarize death metal enthusiasts who either realize the substance, depth, and genius that Portal portray and the ones who simply cannot comprehend or understand the enigma that is Portal. And those who continue to be indifferent and cant seem to form any kind of opinion or expression because Portals music is so fucked, uneasy, and just wrong in a way that it continues to push and tear the boundaries of extremity within death metal like no other band can through the filth, mire, and the utter crawling chaos that unearths itself through each chapter that creates a Portal release as a whole. Nonetheless, no death metal band has created such debate and dialogue as Portal have, and surely with Swarth, such debate and dialogue will no doubt continue, confuse, and perplex. Nonetheless, this is how Portal's music, in a way, thrives.
Tracklisting for Swarth goes as follows:
1. Swarth
2. Larvae
3. Illoomorpheme
4. The Swayy
5. Writhen
6. Omenknow
7. Werships
8. Marityme
An MP3 of the track Larve can be heard via our MP3 section here: http://www.profoundlorerecords.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=14&Itemid=33
An MP3 of the track Omenknow can be downloaded via Brooklyn Vegans Metal Archives here: http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/09/this_week_in_me_51.html
Swarth is lavishly packaged in an almost digibook-like Stoughton created 5 x 5 sturdy gatefold sleeve, with a 16-page booklet, and a designed inner sleeve where the CD slides into. You can order your copy of Swarth here: http://www.profoundlorerecords.com/...atalog&task=viewcategory&id=2&Itemid=99999999
For more info etc.: info@profoundlorerecords.com, www.profoundlorerecords.com
