PORTAL - Swarth (CD)

Portal’s Swarth is not so much a death metal album as it is a descent into some impossibly ancient engine of ruin, a machine fed by human anxiety and sculpted out of audible decay. If previous albums like Seepia and Outre marked Portal’s gradual slip into the chasm, then Swarth is the moment they vanish entirely beneath the surface—dragging the listener with them.