– June sixth, 2024 –
The Host Full-Size To See Launch June twenty first On Steel Blade Information
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Watch/stream PORTRAIT’s “From The Urn” HERE.
Following 2021′s critically adored At One With None, Sweden’s PORTRAIT returns with their sixth album The Host, their first ever idea album, set for launch on June twenty first by way of Steel Blade Information. Upfront of its official unveiling, as we speak the band reveals the newest single, “From The Urn.”
Founding guitarist Christian Lindell describes the brand new providing as “an occult story of sword and sorcery, accompanied by among the most passionate heavy steel ever recorded. The story takes place in seventeenth century Sweden and revolves round an unnamed protagonist who, due to his experiences with the injustice and hypocrisy of this world, decides to hunt fact and energy by way of its ‘Adversary.’“
On the musical facet, PORTRAIT‘s co-founding drummer Anders Persson provides that the album, “is a flexible entity, displaying all sides of what has turn out to be our personal model of heavy steel, identification, and sense of melody, but with some new areas explored in a number of instructions. There are songs which can be our quickest and most ‘excessive’ to this point together with songs of an nearly semi ballad feeling. It blends completely collectively musically and matches the dramaturgy of the story.”
Elaborates Lindell on the band’s newest single, “‘From The Urn’ is a music wherein the principle character of the story realizes that he has stronger connections with the realm of the useless than with any individual nonetheless alive. Lots of stuff happening on this one musically, showcasing a little bit of our progressive facet, however nonetheless stuffed with hooks that shall depart incurable wounds.”
Watch PORTRAIT‘s “From The Urn” video at THIS LOCATION.
Watch the band’s beforehand launched video for “The Blood Covenant” at THIS LOCATION.
The story of The Host takes place within the Swedish Empire throughout the Period Of Nice Energy, an period of fixed struggle. The church performed a central position in Swedish society in these days and the duty of selecting the boys that will be despatched out to struggle was given to the monks. All males above the age of fifteen had been summoned to the church hill yearly, the place the priest then determined who can be the “fortunate” ones (the rule of steering being that each tenth man was to be picked).
It was preached that the rationale for struggle was all sins dedicated by frequent man, and to be a part of the military throughout these occasions was to be thought-about one thing sacred. Biblical passages had been usually quoted as references as a way to legitimize the conquering of enemy territory, and as a way to set up a “worry of god” throughout the military, spiritual providers had been held within the army camps twice a day and anybody not attending can be punished.
However there are additionally courtroom paperwork from this period displaying that some troopers stood accused of getting made pacts with the Satan with the intent of receiving energy and safety in struggle, in addition to luck and prosperity, in trade for one’s personal blood and different choices. A central a part of this course of was the sacrament of the Eucharist. As soon as consecrated by the priest, the bread of communion turns into the Host or physique of Jesus Christ, elevated to one thing past its mere varieties and imbued with magical powers.
There have been totally different strategies to make use of the Host for sorcerous ends. One of the vital frequent methods was to easily conduct one’s magical rites after having partaken of the sacrament in church, because it was believed that one’s personal magical talents had been at their strongest by then. One other strategy was to steal it from church and provides it as an providing to the Satan or different spirits summoned for the work at hand.
The Host serves as PORTRAIT‘s first album to characteristic guitarist Karl Gustafsson as a part of the band’s lineup and was recorded in JFK Studio in Sweden. Mixing and manufacturing duties had been dealt with by singer Per Lengstedt at his personal Perilous Productions Studio whereas mastering was dealt with by Bart Gabriel. The file will probably be launched on CD and digital codecs in addition to vinyl within the following coloration variants:
Multicolored Splatter – Ltd. 200
White Black Marbled – Ltd. 300
180-gram Black
Burgundy Purple Marbled
Discover pre-orders at: metalblade.com/portrait
PORTRAIT Reside:
6/29/2024 Pitcher – Düsseldorf, DE
6/30/2024 Bambi Galore – Hamburg, DE
7/07/2024 Time To Rock Competition – Knislinge, SE
7/31/2024 Wacken Open Air – Wacken, DE
9/27/2024 L’ Homme Sauvage Competition – Auzas, FR
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PORTRAIT:
Per Lengstedt – vocals
Christian Lindell – guitars
Karl Gustafsson – guitars
Fredrik Petersson – bass
Anders Persson – drums
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