Style: Experimental death metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: the most straight forward the band has ever been, defined riffs and moments are scattered throughout the album
Thoughts: I'm not sure which way is up, or witch way is down. I have lost myself in a vortex of... something. The void has taken me, destroyed my sanity and removed my conscious self from my body. They now function independently of one another and yet somehow one controls the other. Welcome to the paradox that is Portal.
Avow is without a doubt a Portal album. There is nothing else on this planet that could have created these sounds. It's a horror ambient album that's only desire is to see you suffer. It's an obscure death metal album who's only aim is to see the listener tormented. It is both of these things at once, yet it is neither. This is the Paradox of Avow.
On the six songs contained in this record they are simultaneously an ambient album and an experimental death metal album in the style of Portal. They are both of these things yet none of these things. Sometimes the band will give us a riff that decays into ambience. Sometimes we get ambience that decays into a riff. Sometimes we have a riffing ambient or ambient riff or god knows what decaying into something else... the only thing that's real here is that there is audio happening and that it is in a constant state of decay. Nothing else is real, nothing else matters.
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