Portrait - The Blood Covenant (Official Video)

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For almost two decades, Sweden’s PORTRAIT has delivered their brand of heavy metal darkness to the masses. Following 2021’s critically acclaimed "At One With None", the band returns with their sixth album "The Host", their first ever concept album, set for release on June 21, 2024 through Metal Blade Records.
Founding guitarist Christian Lindell describes the new offering as “an occult tale of sword and sorcery, accompanied by some of the most passionate heavy metal ever recorded. The story takes place in seventeenth century Sweden and revolves around an unnamed protagonist who, because of his experiences with the injustice and hypocrisy of this world, decides to seek truth and strength through its ‘Adversary.’”
Although partly inspired by historic events, the story should not be mistaken for a history lesson. “No, definitely not. There do exist court documents from that era in which people who were forced to join the army stood accused of having made pacts with the Devil, asking for luck, strength in battle and so on. That is what inspired us to place the story in that particular setting. I just caught that ball -- or Baal -- and ran away with it. That being said, it is no fantasy tale either, and the ‘sword and sorcery’ part will be understood by everyone reading the lyrics.”
On the musical side, PORTRAIT’s co-founding drummer Anders Persson adds that the album “is a versatile entity, showing all sides of what has become our own style of heavy metal, identity, and sense of melody, yet with some new areas explored in several directions. There are songs that are our fastest and most ‘extreme’ so far along with songs of an almost semi ballad feeling. It blends perfectly together musically and fits the dramaturgy of the story. There are songs that will make you cry and songs that will make you shit your pants.”
Elaborates Lindell, "This is the opening track of the album, in which the story's main character enters an unbreakable pact and sets foot upon a path of no return. Musically, this is one of the fastest songs on the album and a straight-forward true PORTRAIT banger."
"The Host" Track Listing:
1. Hoc Est Corpus Meum (Intro) 
2. The Blood Covenant 
3. The Sacrament 
4. Oneiric Visions 
5. One Last Kiss 
6. Treachery 
7. Sound The Horn 
8. Dweller Of The Threshold 
9. Die In My Heart 
10. Voice Of The Outsider
11. From The Urn 
12. The Men Of Renown 
13. Sword Of Reason (The Steel Of Revenge) 
14. The Passions Of Sophia 
PORTRAIT:
Per Lengstedt - vocals
Christian Lindell - guitars
Karl Gustafsson - guitars
Fredrik Petersson - bass
Anders Persson - drums
#heavymetal #swedishmetal

[@steliosfr]

Portrait have produced some of the finest true metal albums out there, criminally underrated.

[@norsecrafts5433]

The boys are bringing the speed on this one! I do approve, hoping for some more rippers in the same vein on the album. Also, the production sounds great here on KZbin. Sounds like a muddy mess on Spotify for some reason. Anyway, great track! Portrait levererar i vanlig ordning.

[@griffin1146]

Totally rocking cool Dude! 🤘🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@thrashmaster1357]

Somje of the guitarrythems sound like Death Metal sometimes. Together with the blasts it is a good addition for the sound. But it still sounds like Portrait. Love it \m/

[@Mutumaniac]

sounds fucking awesome, great blend of different styles

[@gothicfriar]

Damn Portrait! This is a banger! Love this track! Summer can't come fast enough. Want to hear more!

[@KevinTarrant-by3fi]

Great track!

[@user-gp8ub8jl9c]

The new album 1 hour 14 minutes long! Wow!

[@thrashmaster1357]

I hope its not to long. Best lenght of an HM Album is 45-50min.

[@jntdhome]

Just discovering Portrait. All I can say is...wow.

[@thvaan]

Another absolute killer track!

[@DrZorrow]

I think I see a Hamer Vector KK there. That’s awesome! And great song too, by the way, up there with the best classic metal. 🤘

[@samanthagreenwood9698]

Cool!!!

[@PRO-mf2jf]

Power-Black?Powered Black? Blackened Power? Metal!

[@jovannaolivares2274]

Magnífico video excelente tema ♥️🇻🇪

[@MrAipod]

Heavy Metal Is The Law🤙✌🤘💥

[@emilrexcruz1380]

Did Per lose weight?

[@matteopozzi2605]

The Portrait of a great band

Perfect and toally rocking old school style speed metal song with some excellent modern style production.

[@KorrusStoneHammer]

Sound engineer really loves that snare

[@PumpinggainzNartistic]

You can hear everything too

[@richmcd]

atomic bomb snare

[@derviscountvonouropreto4308]

FUCK! A great, Mercyful Fate inspired band turned into a some ordinary speed of light Power Metal.

[@craneoC]

Tremendo saludos from Argentina!!!

[@deamon2107]

This is a masterpiece of a song!

[@adrianac3258]

AWESOME !!

[@308reloader5]

now thats a deep vision u got there Nice keep it up

[@diogocarrijoa]

Wowww this is a great song! Fuc..ing Awesome!!!

[@imagicaband]

Great track

[@stefanocamusi2325]

Killer song. A great album is coming out in june, I suppose

[@PumpinggainzNartistic]

Sweeet vocals and all.

[@viktortheman]

Excellent🔥

[@Grindermetalhead]

Good stuff.

[@user-nq6lr7dx5x]

Awsome

[@alexperry4691]

At One With None was a great album and so is this track. Along with Attic these guys are flying the KD/Mercyful Fate inspired metal flag high!🤘

[@giovannicordova4803]

Mercyful Fate on stereoids.

[@notramesses4790]

My thoughts exactly 🤣

[@thomaszwingmann4157]

Exactly!😂👊🤩🤘🤘🤘😈

[@gianmarcobaudazzi9961]

❤ It

[@thrashernicaragua9793]

Absolute Power

[@msnrc]

Do I see a fretless?

[@TheMetaljoken]

Exzellent! This kicks some Bad Ass! 👊🤘

[@alessiocaporossi3690]

👍👍👍

[@Carbon66666]

🤍🩸🤍🩸🤍🩸🤍🩸

[@OfficialBloodrunner]

fuckin awesome.

[@casslean666]

🙌🏿💀🇧🇷

[@GARYBLONDER]

Enjoyable fast n' furious Power Metal that harks back to its NWOBHM origins. Imagine Venom fused with Dragonforce :D One for the playlist. My Score: Good 3*

[@SYNAPTIKMETAL]

I was like 666 I know it means nothing to anyone at all but I thought was cool. Ha ha ha. Welcome back Portrait. 🤘🏻🖤🤘🏻

[@pestesoidubutor8626]

Banger 🔥🤘 love this whole generation of Mercyful Fate-inspired bands, they wear their influences on their sleeve but pretty much all of them at this point managed to develop their own personality and style + mix it all with a whole painter's palette of other genres, colors & influences, as this killer song confirms ! Love when bands don't take a sound for granted or misstake it for a formula and when they dare to push it to other limits..

[@kallemydia]

five stars from Skåne

[@souperhart]

first

[@TheSpineSplitter1990]

Never heard of these guys, don't know if its just me but I read their logo wrong.. I thought it said PornTrout 🤣🤣🤣

[@laloelsalamanca]

Terrible drum mix

[@gianmarcobaudazzi9961]

❤I Hope Not , It' s A Slightly Extreme Album.

[@gianmarcobaudazzi9961]

❤ I Hope Not , It' s A Slightly Extreme Album.

[@toKsyKmosh]

Yeah, sounds like crap

[@deathdealer8185]

Too bad they went for that plastic sound... like so many other bands today. Meh..