Portal - Vexovoid (2013)

   Since their debut, Portal kept going on the path of their experimenting concept, and album by album they tried to introduce their complex style from a slightly different perspective.
   These changes they applied mainly by different sound on each album, and since the importance of the variations of noisy sound highly increased from the late' 00s, it's not an exaggeration to say that Portal counts as one of the heralds of this tendency in the underground scene. Compared to their previous albums, 'Vexovoid" had the most distorted sound, and therefore probably this record reflected the most obscure impression as well. From this aspect, by heaviness "Vexovoid" is comparable to Impetuous Ritual, but the same time maybe this album is somehow easier to go into. And that's because their endeavor to switch between harmonic and disharmonic elements isn't so usual this time how it was used to be. The song structures are similar, the simple, repetitive leading noise is still there, and this time it's maybe even more pulsating than before, but there are less radically chaotic disharmonic elements, and therefore the album sounds more unified than previously. However, "Vexvoid" is still light years away from being audience friendly, but for those who prefer distorted, down tuned sound, it might give a very familiar, easily relatable impression. This also made the music more enjoyable, and even though it's basically a different alternative to create unified sound, the album still fits well next to the band's previous works. Just another seemingly double paradox formed to high quality excellence by Portal.