Since you are interested in Portals, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
Opeth
Watershed [ Warner Music / CD - released 2/Jun/2008 ] Swedish prog metal band, Opeth return via their darkly majestic, 'Watershed' album. With highly appealing melodic vocal lines and impressive playing, this is their best yet! |
Despised Icon
Day of Mourning [ Century Media Records Ltd. / Magic Arts Publishing / CD - released 29/Mar/2010 ] A true lesson in violence is what you can expect of 'Day of Morning', the fourth album from Montreal's masters of brutality & hyper-technical deathcore. |
Mastodon
Leviathan [ Relapse Records / CD - released 31/Aug/2004 ] 'Leviathan' delivers 10 tracks that more than live up to the mammoth image suggested by the disc's Moby Dick-inspired cover art & lyrics. |
Poison the Well
The Tropic Rot [ Ferret / CD - released 20/Jul/2009 ] South Florida-based post-hardcore titans are back with their fifth studio album, rolling out a wide angle take on heavy music that's so fully realized in its boundary pushing, it makes it impossible to imagine the genre in any other way. |
Protest the Hero
Fortress [ Vagrant Records / CD - released 11/Feb/2008 ] PTH have certainly made their mark on the hard rock; hardcore; heavy metal; mathcore and post-whatever scenes, in part thanks to the progressive sounds of 'Fortress' - a metal symphony with structural complexity. |
The Red Shore
The Avarice of Man [ Roadrunner Records / CD - released 6/Sep/2010 ] 'The Avarice of Man' was tracked at Complex studios in Melbourne, Australia by guitarist / producer Roman Koester and mixed by Textures mastermind Jochem Jacobs at Split Second Studios in The Netherlands. |
Rolo Tomassi
Hysterics [ Phantom Sound & Vision / CD - released 19/Jan/2009 ] Being the the highly anticipated debut full-length from Sheffield, England's Rolo Tomassi, 'Hysterics' is a messy + wonderful wrecking ball of experimentative punk / hardcore / spazzcore / whatthehellisthat-core! |
Slayer
World Painted Blood [ American Recordings / CD - released 2/Nov/2009 ] Remaining true to Slayer's defiantly old school sound, 'World Painted Blood' carries the torch for pure thrash. |