Portrayal Of Guilt Devil Music

Plunge deeper into the deranged world of PORTRAYAL OFGUILT with DEVIL MUSIC, the latest EP from the Austinbased trio. In the wake of releasing two full-length recordsin 2021 - We Are Always Alone and CHRISTFUCKER - theyfollowed up 2022 with a year of relentless touring. In themiddle of their frantic schedule, the band took time to craftthe five new songs that would make up Devil Music with VivaStudios' Matt Michel (Majority Rule) in Virginia. They thentook their creative vision to the next level with Ben Greenberg(Uniform), by tracking alternate versions of each songwith orchestral arrangements in place of the three piece'sstandard instrumentation.On Devil Music, Portrayal of Guilt's goal is to create avisceral listening experience. On either version of thesesongs, whether it be the a-side's more familiar heaviness orthe orchestral b-side takes, the band is determined to dragthe listener with them through what feels like a reckoning.Lyrics on songs like the opener "One Last Taste of Heaven"feel burdened with a sense of finality - "I've carried this bodyfor miles_ I lay the angel on the wooden pyre / before takingone last Tate of heaven" feels as heavy as the blackenedguitar riff refraining throughout the song. Through othersongs like the intense "Burning Hand" (complete with it'shypnotizing post-punk bridge) or the epic title-track closer,the imagery of King's lyrics is an unapologetically grotesqueexamination of loss, exhaustion and suffering - brought fullyto life by illustrator Ben Robert's cover art for the release.These songs are yet another example of Portrayal of Guiltpushing the limits of their sound into more extremes. Sincetheir inception they have been challenging the boundaries ofgenre, taking elements from screamo, blackened metal, grindand industrial music to make something uniquely unsettlingand expertly-crafted. Devil Music feels like the soundtrackto a future-less future, one where either path you tread isdestined to lead toward...