PORTRAIT - New Songs Available Online
March 18, 2008, 16 years ago
Iron Kodex Records have announced the signing of Sweden’s traditional metal hopefuls PORTRAIT and the release of the band’s self-titled debut album on April 3rd. According to a press release, "the album will feature eight songs of highly energetic traditional metal in the vein of bands like SAVAGE, MERCYFUL FATE, early IRON MAIDEN and WITCHCROSS and come with an exclusive cover artwork by renowned Bulgarian artist Dimitar Nikolov.
Founding member Christian Lindell on the debut album: “If our previous stuff sounded more like Sledgehammer, you can compare our new album a lot more with Iron Maiden. As a whole the album is more worked-through. We paid more attention to the fine-tuning of the songs. Some of the tracks, 'Hell' and 'A Thousand Nightmares' are faster than our previous material. Both tracks remind more of BATHORY or MOTÖRHEAD than anything we did earlier... with a very Danish touch, though, in the vein of WITCHCROSS, EVIL, KIM SIXX... In some places we have acoustic guitars and one long, epic piece titled 'The Adversary'. You will definitely be able to recognize, that you’re listening to Portrait, but you will also find things, which differ from our earlier material.”
Two songs of the new album have been made available on the label’s MySpace page.
