Sink into Portrayal of Guilt's pummeling "Total Black" single -- the final preview ahead of their experimental new album "…Beginning of the End" which sees its release this Friday via Run For Cover. Their fourth studio album embraces both the groove and avant garde, revisiting the raw, teeth-gnashing intensity of their previously revered work while toying with nu-metal, alternative rock, trip hop, dark ambient and other disparate influences. The latest effort feels like a band that has traversed every shadowy corner of heavy music, distilling their decade of innovation and knowledge into a singular show of force, recalling moments of greatness found on releases from Deftones, Massive Attack, Dystopia, Deathspell Omega, Celtic Frost and Cursed among many others.
Portrayal of Guilt have toured the world over, creating their own musical eco-system and released three seminal full-length albums that have seen the Austin trio consecutively reinvent themselves. They've done it in a manner that avoided compromise, welcomed free experimentation and avoided labels outside of "menacing," “compelling” and “must hear.”
They made an immediate impact in underground circles with their debut Let Pain Be Your Guide by mixing nihilistic hardcore, black metal, classic screamo, and imaginative textures. We Are Always Alone and CHRISTF*CKER LPs followed in 2021, the band’s breakout body blows that corroded the band’s commitment to genre, nodding at industrial music, post-metal, sludge and even post-hardcore, all while cementing the band’s tendencies toward experimentalism. Their fearless spirit reimagined their own sound as classical (Devil Music EP) and EBM / goth (CHRISTF*CKER II) on more recent efforts. And though the pacing of releases and the band’s evolution has remained steady, Portrayal of Guilt’s execution has kept their audiences hungry for the band’s ever-evolving sound.
"…Beginning of the End" was recorded and mixed by Phillip Odom between March-June 2025 with mastering handled by Will Yip.
Get the album:
https://pog.lnk.to/ecstasy
"…Beginning of the End" Track List:
1 - Backstabber
2 - Human Terror
3 - Heaven’s Gate
4 - Under Siege
5 - Ecstasy
6 - Death From Above
7 - God Will Never Hear Me
8 - Chamber of Misery Pt. IV (Feat. Slim Guerilla)
9 - Total Black
10 - Object of Pain
11 - The Last Judgement
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