– Could eighth, 2024 –
“The Blood Covenant” Video/Single Now Enjoying + Pre-orders Out there
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Watch/stream PORTRAIT’s “The Blood Covenant” HERE
For nearly twenty years, Sweden’s PORTRAIT has delivered their model of heavy steel darkness to the plenty. Following 2021′s critically acclaimed At One With None, the band returns with their sixth album The Host, their first ever idea album, set for launch on June twenty first by way of Metallic Blade Data.
Founding guitarist Christian Lindell describes the brand new providing as “an occult story of sword and sorcery, accompanied by a few of the most passionate heavy steel ever recorded. The story takes place in seventeenth century Sweden and revolves round an unnamed protagonist who, due to his experiences with the injustice and hypocrisy of this world, decides to hunt reality and power by way of its ‘Adversary.’“
Though partly impressed by historic occasions, the story shouldn’t be mistaken for a historical past lesson. “No, undoubtedly not. There do exist court docket paperwork from that period by which individuals who had been compelled to affix the military stood accused of getting made pacts with the Satan, asking for luck, power in battle and so forth. That’s what impressed us to position the story in that specific setting. I simply caught that ball — or Baal — and ran away with it. That being mentioned, it’s no fantasy story both, and the ‘sword and sorcery’ half might be understood by everybody studying the lyrics.“
On the musical aspect, PORTRAIT‘s co-founding drummer Anders Persson provides that the album “is a flexible entity, displaying all sides of what has turn into our personal fashion of heavy steel, id, and sense of melody, but with some new areas explored in a number of instructions. There are songs which can be our quickest and most ‘excessive’ up to now together with songs of an nearly semi ballad feeling. It blends completely collectively musically and matches the dramaturgy of the story. There are songs that can make you cry and songs that can make you shit your pants.“
As a precursor to the report’s launch, at the moment the band unsheathes their first single, “The Blood Covenant.” It’s on this observe that the soldier at midnight on Midsummer’s eve enters a pact with the Satan, asking for power in battle and future abundance in alternate for the sacrament, which is to be stolen from church.
Elaborates Lindell, “That is the opening observe of the album, by which the story’s fundamental character enters an unbreakable pact and units foot upon a path of no return. Musically, this is without doubt one of the quickest songs on the album and a straight-forward true PORTRAIT banger.“
Watch PORTRAIT‘s “The Blood Covenant” video at THIS LOCATION.
PORTRAIT‘s The Host, the primary album to characteristic guitarist Karl Gustafsson as a part of the band’s lineup, was recorded in JFK Studio in Sweden. Mixing and manufacturing duties had been dealt with by singer Per Lengstedt at his personal Perilous Productions Studio. The report might be launched on CD and digital codecs in addition to vinyl within the following colour variants:
Multicolored Splatter – Ltd. 200
White Black Marbled – Ltd. 300
180-gram Black
Burgundy Pink Marbled
Discover pre-orders at: metalblade.com/portrait
The Host Observe Itemizing:
01. Hoc Est Corpus Meum (Intro)
02. The Blood Covenant
03. The Sacrament
04. Oneiric Visions
05. One Final Kiss
06. Treachery
07. Sound the Horn
08. Dweller of the Threshold
09. Die in My Coronary heart
10. Voice of the Outsider
11. From the Urn
12. The Males of Renown
13. Sword of Motive (The Metal of Revenge)
14. The Passions of Sophia
PORTRAIT Stay:
6/29/2024 Pitcher – Düsseldorf, DE
6/30/2024 Bambi Galore – Hamburg, DE
7/07/2024 Time To Rock Competition – Knislinge, SE
7/31/2024 Wacken Open Air – Wacken, DE
9/27/2024 L’ Homme Sauvage Competition – Auzas, FR
Tickets: linktr.ee/heavymetalportrait
PORTRAIT:
Per Lengstedt – vocals
Christian Lindell – guitars
Karl Gustafsson – guitars
Fredrik Petersson – bass
Anders Persson – drums
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