Texan weirdos Portrayal Of Guilt have always had a uniquely bugged-out take on heavy music. The band came up through the screamo underground, but they don’t fit neatly into that genre. For that matter, they don’t fit neatly into metal, hardcore, or noise-rock, either, despite elements of all those things. Instead, they’ve come up with their own aggressive, expressionist style that creates its own context. For their latest record, Portrayal Of Guilt have pushed even further outside of the expected. If there’s another album that’s anything like Devil Music, I haven’t heard it.
The Texas band Portrayal Of Guilt made one of the best hardcore albums of 2021 with We Are Always Alone, one of the two albums that they released that year. Today, they’re announcing a new album called Devil Music, made up of five new songs on side A and an orchestral reimagining of those same songs on side B.
Portrayal of Guilt have announced that they will be releasing a new album. It is called Devil Music and will be out digitally on April 20 and physically on April 21 via Run For Cover Records. The band has also released a short film for Side B of the record (“I (One Last Taste of Heaven)”, “I.