Portal

The 15 Most Elusive Figures in Music History

PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2022

Diane Luckey's obituary was unspectacular. Appearing in the Asbury Park Press on July 30 of this year, readers were notified of the 61-year...

Portal 'Avow' Extreme Metal Aberration on Their Sixth Album

PUBLISHED May 26, 2021

Everyone acknowledged Portal as trailblazers once they dropped Swarth in 2009 and Vexovoid four years later, but these Australian maniacs h...

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ION

PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2018

Portal are not a band — they are scientists experimenting with the limits of death metal and the constitution of their audience. Since thei...

Portal

Vexovoid

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2013

Heavy metal, as a genre, embraces and encourages strangeness. Works based upon eldritch, Lovecraft-ian evil are almost commonplace. Profoun...

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Lurker at the Threshold

PUBLISHED May 12, 2010

Australian death metal outfit Portal have reissued their 2006 cassette demo, Lurker at the Threshold, on picture disc seven-inch vinyl. And...

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Swarth

PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2009

Australia's Portal bring forth a form of death metal that's unique and unorthodox, but the band somehow manage to have a classic sound that...

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The Vast Expanse Diminishing

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2003

If I were to judge this record purely on the musical talent of its involved parties, the complete sound of the disc or the surface pieces t...