Portal

Portal

AVOW

Profound Lore

AVOW is the sixth full-length album from the mysterious influential avant-garde Australian death metal surrealists Portal. AVOW is the follow-up to 2018’s acclaimed album ION.

Portal

Hagbulbia

Profound Lore

Hagbulbia is the seventh Portal full-length album and serves as the paranormal companion piece to AVOW. Hagbulbia sees Portal at their most abnormal and spectral.

Portal

ION

Profound Lore

***CHECK STOCK!!!  Received a 7.8 rating from Pitchfork.  ION is the fifth full-length album from enigmatic Australian avant-garde death metal surrealists Portal. This is the band’s most intense and experimental release to date, an album not for the faint of heart and / or mind.

Portal

Vexovoid

Profound Lore

***NOW AVAILABLE AGAIN ON VINYL AFTER BEING UNAVAILABLE FOR ALMOST 2 YEARS!!!!  Black vinyl, printed inner sleve, printed insert all encased in a poly bag.  Received an 8.0 rating from Pitchfork.  No death metal band in the history of the genre is as bizarre, unique and aesthetically engaging as Australia’s Portal. Unfolding a singular vision through polarizing music, distinct imagery and otherworldly live shows, Portal has slowly set a new standard within the underground over the course of a decade—indeed, giving a new meaning to the term “death metal” itself. The band has spread their sonic plague via three full-length albums to date, the last of which, 2009’s Swarth, brought them their highest level of recognition and praise yet. Portal’s surreal psychosis sounds like a Lovecraftian nightmare manifested; weird rhythms and perplexing musical structures twist together in a cinematic soundscape of sheer terror and madness. Vexovoid takes their artistry to new levels, delivering their biggest and most dense sounding album of their career. Comprised of seven harrowing tracks, it proves once again why Portal is the harbinger of the coming new dreadful age of death metal.

Portal

Swarth

Profound Lore

***AVAILABLE AGAIN ON CD!!! An enigma within the realm of death metal, Australia's Portal have defined themselves, over the course of two full-length albums and a handful of demos and EPs, as a bizarre and frightening entity with a unique and unparalleled sound. No other band currently in existence has such a polarizing effect on the underground metal scene--they are regarded as either pure geniuses or incomprehensible noisemakers. Their madness and chaos is the soundtrack to a F.W. Murnau film gone terribly awry. Profound Lore Records brought Portal the attention of the worldwide metal underground by reissuing their limited 2003 debut album, Seepia, and releasing its follow-up, Outre. Swarth, their highly anticipated new album, slowly crawls under the listener's skin and penetrates the psyche. This eight-track monolith combines the off-kilter dynamics of their debut with the surging atmospherics of Outre, taking their sound to new ungodly levels. No other album released this year is as unique or frightening as Swarth. Portal is the future of death metal.

Portal

Outre

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***“Australia's enigmatic PORTAL have undoubtedly released their most oppressing work of art yet. Christened Outre, the new album sees the band take their unconventional sound and take it even more towards the beyond than what they conjured up with Seepia. With more of an emphasis on atmosfear and ambiance, this whirlwind of vortex-like surreal death metal terror is not for the weak at heart or for those who like their death metal safe, triggered, clean, sterile, and ultimately standard and boring. In what will go over the heads of the majority of trendy death metal fans today, Outre will once again prove that Portal are indeed outcasts in such a genre. And want nothing to do with it whatsoever... It's time to get back to the ugliness and the filth.” Beautifully packaged in hard cardboard/hardcover stock-like gatefold sleeves, with a designed CD inner-sleeve and a specially crafted pseudo-leather bound and gold stapled booklet.