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  • Ehnahre “The Man Closing Up”

    Remember the first time you listened to Rune’s The End of Nothing, and felt utterly overwhelmed by its 10 ton hammer of dreadful depression, smashing down your genitals like a jackhammer to cement? Or the first time you heard anything from Portal, with their wall of sound cacophony and eldritch ambiance?Ever imagine what those two [...]
    http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/ehnahre-themanclosingup/

  • Misery’s Omen “Hope Dies”

    Australia has quite many kickass metal acts foaming at their collective mouths. You have Portal’s bizarre brand of obscure death metal, Stargazer’s esoteric and mystical, blackened take on technical death metal, and a grind scene that makes most countries’ scenes look like a Hannah Montana concert. Misery’s Omen is yet another band to contribute to [...]
    http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/miserysomen-hopedies/

  • Portal & Rites Of Thy Degringolade “Split”

    Both of these bands are/were acts that have unfortunately been criminally overlooked in the world of metal. Australia’s Portal plays an occult breed of harsh, dark death metal that is insanely technical to the point of utter insanity, invoking a strange avant garde version of the "wall o’ sound" effect. It takes several sittings just [...]
    http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/portalritesofthydegringolade-split/

  • Portal “Outré”

    To say that Portal’s second album Outr is one of my most anticipated releases of 2007 would be an understatement. After being exposed to their obscure and baffling breed of death metal on Seepia and their split with Rites of Thy Degringolade, then hearing the promising new material on the Lurker at the Threshold demo [...]
    http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/portal-outre/

  • Portal “Lurker at the Threshold”

    Portal is without a doubt one of the best death metal bands coming out of Australia currently. They play a form of harsh death metal that possesses the technical weirdness and intensity of Gorguts, yet has the aesthetic feel of the most nihilistic, inhumanly fast black metal acts, and still finds time to mess with [...]
    http://www.teufelstomb.com/reviews/portal-lurkeratthethreshold/