Genre: Experimental black/death
Origin: Australia/Canada
FFO: Impetuous Ritual, Tetragrammacide, Ulcerate
Description: Portal and Rites of Thy Degringolade make for a fittingly chaotic split, pairing Portal’s more riff-driven, death metal–leaning versions of material later refined on Swarth with Rites of Thy Degringolade’s frantic, percussion-focused black/death assault rooted in drummer Paulus Kressman’s idiosyncratic style. The result is a disorienting but compelling snapshot of two uniquely unsettling approaches to extreme metal in the early 2000s.
Genre: Experimental black/death
Origin: Australia/Canada
FFO: Impetuous Ritual, Tetragrammacide, Ulcerate
Description: Portal and Rites of Thy Degringolade make for a fittingly chaotic split, pairing Portal’s more riff-driven, death metal–leaning versions of material later refined on Swarth with Rites of Thy Degringolade’s frantic, percussion-focused black/death assault rooted in drummer Paulus Kressman’s idiosyncratic style. The result is a disorienting but compelling snapshot of two uniquely unsettling approaches to extreme metal in the early 2000s.
