Vexovoid

pitchfork

The fourth album from Australian heavy metal abusers Portal is their shortest to date, but parsing it should take you the better part of this calendar year. Initially forceful and ultimately complex, Vexovoid redirects the image of death metal through a dervish funhouse.

fantano

Australian death metal outfit Portal has a sound that impenetrably thick and noisy, and they use it to bombard listeners with an ever-changing series of riffs and dismal melodies.