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Nazione:Svezia
Attività:dal 2005

Line up

  • Anders Persson: drums
  • Christian Lindell: guitars
  • Per Lengstedt: vocals
  • Fredrik Petersson: bass
  • Karl Gustafsson: guitars
The relentless, Swedish heavy metal monster known as Porttrait was born in the year 2006 and quickly became one of the most talked about acts in the underground metal scene.
After the demo tape "Welcome To My Funeral" took the underground by storm, and the release of an equally successful 7″ Ep "Into The Nothingness" (New Iron Age Records, 2007), Portrait agreed to a one-album deal with German underground label Iron Kodex Records.
The label then licensed the vinyl edition of the self-titled album to High-Roller Records.
Two years later, the self-titled debut album sold approximately 5000 copies, making it a high selling release for the label, who has also released albums from cult bands such as Manilla Road, Metal Church, Darkness, and Trouble.
The self-titled album received rave reviews in major magazines, including: Terrorizer (8.5/10), Rock Hard (8/10) and Sweden Rock Magazine (8/10) as well as in the underground press.

After the release of the self-titled album, the decision was made to work with a new vocalist. Vocalist Per Lengstedt (formerly Karlsson) stepped into the picture as he shares the same hardworking attitude as Portrait and his musical and vocal abilities are to par with the rest of the group.
Stronger than ever before, an 11-date European tour and additional festival appearances (including stops at Sweden Rock Festival, Hole In The Sky, Headbangers Open Air, Up The Hammers and Hell’s Pleasure) followed the joining of Per Lengstedt as Portrait set out in support of the group’s self-titled release.

In the autumn of 2009, the writing process for the follow-up to the debut full-length album had started.
Three songs were recorded in Berno Studio (Malmö, Sweden) in December 2009, of which two were released on a 7″ Ep titled "The Murder Of All Things Righteous", through High Roller Records in March 2010.
After joining the Metal Blade roster in the summer of 2010, Portrait finished the material for the band’s second full-length album, "Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae "and entered the studio in November 2010.

The album was released in May 2011 and received positive reviews in the press.
The album was only topped by the by then newly released Journey album in the charts of Rock Hard Magazine.
Following the release, Portrait appeared at festivals throughout Europe, including: Bang Your Head, Headbangers Open Air, Rock Hard Festival and Finland’s Hammer Open Air.
The band also supported Evile on a three week tour throughout Europe.

After some line-up changes in 2012, the band began to focus on the third album, entitled “Crossroads“.
The writing and recording process took about a year and again Tore Stjerna of Necromorbus Studio handled the production with the band.
The album is set to be released in April 2014.
In the year 2017 the band released the fourth album "Burn The World" and four years after the fifth album.
Now they are back with the new album "The Host".

Discografia

Copertina 9
The Host (Metal Blade Records / 2024) 

1. HOC EST CORPUS MEUM (INTRO) / 2. THE BLOOD COVENANT 04:14 / 3. THE SACRAMENT / 4. ONEIRIC VISIONS / 5. ONE LAST KISS / 6. TREACHERY / 7. SOUND THE HORN ...

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At One With None (Metal Blade Records / 2021) 

1. AT ONE WITH NONE / 2. CURTAINS (THE DUMB SUPPER) / 3. PHANTOM FATHOMER / 4. HE WHO STANDS / 5. ASHEN / 6. A MURDER OF CROWS / 7. SHADOWLESS / 8. THE GALLOW'S CROSSING ...

Copertina 7,5
Burn The World (Metal Blade Records / 2017) 

1. SATURN RETURN (INTRO) / 2. BURN THE WORLD / 3. LIKFASSN / 4. FLAMING BLOOD / 5. MINE TO REAP / 6. MARTYRS / 7. FURTHER SHE RODE (INSTRUMENTAL) / 8. TO DIE FOR / 9. PURE OF HEART

Copertina 6
Under Command (split w/ RAM) (Metal Blade Records / 2014) 

1. RAM: SAVAGE MACHINE / 2. RAM: WELCOME TO MY FUNERAL (ORIGINALY PERFORMED BY PORTRAIT) / 3. RAM: CREATURES OF THE NIGHT (ORIGINALY PERFORMED BY KISS) / 4. PORTRAIT: MARTIAL LEAD ...

Copertina 6,5
Crossroads (Metal Blade Records / 2014) 

1. LIBERATION / 2. AT THE GHOST GATE / 3. WE WERE NOT ALONE / 4. IN TIME / 5. BLACK EASTER / 6. AGELESS RITES / 7. OUR ROADS MUST NEVER CROSS / 8. LILY

Copertina 6
Crimen Laesae Majestatis Divinae (Metal Blade Records / 2011) 

1. BEAST OF FIRE / 2. INFINITE DESCENSION / 3. THE WILDERNESS BEYOND / 4. BLOODBATH / 5. DARKNESS FOREVER / 6. THE NIGHTCOMERS / 7. THE PASSION / 8. DER TODESKING

Copertina 4,5
The Murder of all Things Righteous EP (High Roller Records / Pure Steel / 2010) 

1. THE MURDER OF ALL THINGS RIGHTEOUS / 2. SON OF ALL GRAVES

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Portrait (Iron Kodex/High Roller / 2008) 

1. HELL / 2. A GHASTLY SILENCE / 3. VILLAGE OF THE FALLEN ANGEL / 4. CONSECRATION / 5. A THOUSAND NIGHTMARES / 6. BOW UNTO THE DEVIL / 7. BEWARE THE DEMONS / 8. THE ADVERSARY

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Into the Nothingness (New Iron Age Records / 2007) 

1. INTO THE NOTHINGNESS / 2. HIS GLOWING EYES

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Welcome to My Funeral (2006)  Demo

1. WELCOME TO MY FUNERAL / 2. BLACK HOLE OF DOOM / 3. PRISONER BEHIND THE COSMIC WALLS

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