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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Austin metal band Portrayal of Guilt features five tracks with guitars and bass and the last five tracks featuring orchestral strings, acoustic bass, and brass instruments.
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- Record Label: Run for Cover Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal
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May 1, 2023It’s not as seamless a blend as last year’s Ashenspire, but both idea and execution are exquisitely fresh among the extreme scene. Portrayal of Guilt always had the potential to craft a definitive album, and if Devil Music is not it, then they sure are on the right track.
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Jul 27, 2023Swirling strings and thudding guitars compare more than they contrast, brilliantly revealing that the band's "normal" music – a prowling, rhythmic churn that moves like sludge metal but strikes with blackened ferocity – is actually pretty avant. ... You'll marvel at how scrubbed of obvious influences they've become.
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May 1, 2023Artistically, well, it skirts as close (and intelligently) to blasphemy as a 21st century project could – and Portrayal of Guilt indulge in this act with glee and artistic sensitivity. That it may remain a ‘minor’ work in their discography seems unjust, but then anything that blossoms from the seeds laid here will likely be even more garish, more haunted, more graceful than this black mass.
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May 1, 2023It’s dirty, smudged music, bitter with the terroir of suffering.