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Rating: I have listened to Portal's gut-wrenching masterpiece "Swarth" from 2009, a concentrate of frenzied and jagged rhythms that pushed Death Metal to new levels, other worlds of perversion, sonic annihilation, and claustrophobic devastation that only those with a troubled mind could bring forth with their demon-possessed music.
9 years later comes this "ION" preceded by the album "Vexovoid" and it’s like hearing the same homicidal madness of "Swarth" again, only conceived differently. "Nth" serves as a chilling prelude to "ESP ION AGE," an orgy of blast beats from another land with its frantic rhythms and uncontrolled guitar deviations; it's an orgiastic rite of black and death fragments never heard before. "Husk" transports us into the worst nightmares of the human mind, 3'43'' of repulsive death metal with the most abject and unhealthy counter-times and perversions.
"Phreqs" are five minutes of black, pestilential sludge with insane, inhuman speed restarts, the most blasphemous and sacrilegious thing one can do by plugging instruments into amplifiers, the ending is a nightmare of terror. "Crone" starts with a dark, sinister riff and then recreates that dense web of brooding, dark-hued themes, with the voice being a vortex of perversion and malice. "Revault Of Volts" is pure madness set to music, the black embracing the most shattering barbarism one could hear. Here and nowhere else dwell only Death and pestilence.
"Spores" is a burning brazier of damned corrosive death metal, and in its coils, we find only a killer storm of acidic and disturbing blast beats. "Phatom" is a black mass in music with its frantic rhythms and demonic cloudy drum counterpoints. Finally, we witness the satanic rite of "Olde Guarde," 9 demonic minutes, lightning-fast sonic assaults at breakneck speed like dark and annihilating plague, the ambient-noise finale is a plunge into the abyss of madness and depravity.
37 cathartic and shadowy minutes.
"ION" is the album that no one would ever have wanted to conceive, and for this reason, it sounds damnably Portal.
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