Portrayal of Guilt の新作

Portrayal of Guilt
...Beginning of The End

...Beginning of the End

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ALBUM REVIEW: ...Beginning Of The End - Portrayal Of Guilt - Distorted Sound Magazine

PORTRAYAL OF GUILT have continuously shown a disregard for genre convention and being pigeonholed. Their last record, 2023’s Devil Music, saw the band contorting screamo, black metal, and sludge into unrecognisable shapes on the album’s first half, and then reprising these songs in the album’s second half with chilling chamber string arrangements. On their latest, …Beginning Of The End, the band swirls and meshes genres and sounds with wild abandon, maintaining a thrillingly evil atmosphere while keeping things consistently fresh.


There is a slippery slope with this type of genre blending to slip into novelty or, at the very least, lack of cohesiveness. However, PORTRAYAL OF GUILT maintain a sinister tone held together by the focal point of frontman and guitarist Matt King’s sinister raspy vocals. While the guitars switch from dissonant to melodic, the drums from pounding to fluttering, the bass from grinding to chugging, King’s vile vocalisations provide an anchor, a true figurehead maintaining cohesion through his identifiable tone amid the chaos.