Portraits

🚨SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

We will be performing at Bar Loose, Helsinki on Thursday, December 28th alongside with Kaira and Lights To Remain.

See you there!

🚨SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

Portraits will be playing at Bar Loose, Helsinki on Saturday October 29th alongside with My Favourite Nemesis and Crucify The Faith.

Tickets for sale at TIKETTI.

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Fractures In A Crimson Sheet featured on No Echo.

Our vocalist, Tommi sat down with the wonderful folks over at No Echo to chat about the double-single we released few weeks ago and how Portraits came to be in the first place.

Portraits: Finnish Metalcore Band Returns with New Track, Killswitch Engage Cover | Features We chat with vocalist Tommi Astala about their love for a specific era of heavy music.

Today marks 2 years of At My Darkest.

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Portraits kunnioittaa Killswitch Engageä uudella tuplasinglellään - KaaosZine Tuplasingleltä löytyy bändin tulkinta "Fixation on the Darknessista".

FRACTURES IN A CRIMSON SHEET
Double-single out now

1. Fractures In A Crimson Sheet
2. Fixation On The Darkness

Produced by Jussi Riikonen

"As threads of life wear out, the final sentiments take over. Stuck in between the wavering longing of what used to be and the tiresome awe of what might be. The answer can only be found by pouring what’s at heart onto the pages and turning it into something real."

Portraits releases a follow-up for their debut album from two years back. Fractures In A Crimson Sheet seizes this conceit as a relief from the calamity. Sometimes the only way is to bleed out the part that’s suffering.

Portraits released their debut album, At My Darkest in the fall of 2020. The singles Hands of Guilt and Disbelief were added in various playlists among the major streaming platforms. The latter single, Disbelief quickly surpassed 100,000 streams and was also noted in KNOTFEST’s Pulse of Maggots: Unsigned Underground.

To follow up their debut, Portraits convened once again at the hands of Jussi Riikonen. Alongside the new original song Fractures In A Crimson Sheet, the band was striving to create something special. As a way of paying homage to what once started it all for the group of teenagers, Portraits recorded an interpretation of Killswitch Engage’s classic Fixation On The Darkness.

Fractures In A Crimson Sheet is available for streaming on all major streaming platforms.

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Portraits | Instagram, Spotify, Facebook | Linktree View portraitsofmypast’s Linktree. Listen to their music on Spotify here.

FRACTURES IN A CRIMSON SHEET
Double-single out September 15th

"As threads of life wear out, the final sentiments take over. Stuck in between the wavering longing of what used to be and the tiresome awe of what might be. The answer can only be found by pouring what’s at heart onto the pages and turning it into something real."

Portraits releases a follow-up for their debut album from two years back. Fractures In A Crimson Sheet seizes this conceit as a relief from the calamity. Sometimes the only way is to bleed out the part that’s suffering.

Pre-save:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/portraits3/fractures-in-a-crimson-sheet

Photo by Patrik Pesonen

FRACTURES IN A CRIMSON SHEET
Double-single out September 15th

Pre-save:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/portraits3/fractures-in-a-crimson-sheet

Disbelief hits 100K streams on Spotify!

We want to take a moment to thank each individual who has supported us on our journey as Portraits. We hope to be able to play Disbelief alongside with the rest of At My Darkest for you in 2021.

Photo by Tony Markus Photography

It has been three months since we released At My Darkest and we are more than thrilled for all the support it has gotten so far. Hopefully we will get to play these tunes for you in 2021. Thank you for everything! 🖤

Thanks to everyone who gave us their time to listen to our music in 2020.

Last Saturday through the lens of Patrik Pesonen Photography.

Thanks to everyone who showed up yesterday to our first ever live appearance as Portraits. Evenings like this are rare during these times and mean the world to bands and the local scene around you. Keep supporting small bands!

Big up Loose Mind Productions, On the Rocks, DIRT and Crucify The Faith for sharing the evening with us.

Photo by Tony Markus Photography

SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT

Portraits is playing their first ever show on November 14th at On The Rocks, Helsinki with DIRT, Crucify The Faith and Dead End Scene also in the bill. Due to the pandemic it is an early show with strictly limited capacity. Wear a mask at the show and stay at home if you aren't feeling well.

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Leftover t-shirts now up on our Bandcamp page. Limited quantities. Worldwide shipping.

Each order comes with a digital copy of At My Darkest.

https://bit.do/Portraits-Merch

IDIOTEQ.com featured a deep dive into our debut full-length, At My Darkest on their website.

"Finnish metalcore band Portraits have refined their sound of classic metalcore in the likes of Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying and Trivium, drawing from the base of heavy riffs and big, memorable choruses." - Karol Kamiński

PORTRAITS blend thunderous riffs with anthemic vocals to bring back the essence of metalcore on new album "At My Darkest" Finnish metalcore act drops new outrstanding LP; listen and see more details now on IDIOTEQ.com!

Tunes to start your weekend with.

Portraits - Haze (Official Music Video) HAZE off PORTRAITS' debut album, AT MY DARKEST. Order the album through Mark My Words Records. https://linktr.ee/portraitsofmypast/ PORTRAITS on Apple Music:...

AT MY DARKEST just broke 100,000 streams on Spotify! Thank you all for listening to our music and giving us your support. It means the world to us. 🖤

ICYMI, our debut album can be heard on your favorite streaming platform.

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"I roam inside these thoughts I found
That shouldn’t have ever seen the light
I’m drowning, my lungs are caving in
Reach out and pull me out again

Pouring my shadow into these words I lead
As if they were ever mine to keep
Bound to these winds, I come to see
All of this is turning into a memory

Something calls me with a voice I can’t resist
Rearranging my thoughts to lonesome bits
False idols, hollow names, all meant for something else

In the mist I see your vague face
I choke on the pain of my mistakes
There’s no hope left for me in this place
As your eyes disappear to the haze

In the mist I see your vague face
I wave goodbye as I fall from grace
There’s no hope left for me in this place
As your eyes disappear to the haze

This guilt has buried me
To a state of malcontent
But can I be healed?
Even if I try, nothing’s enough

The choice is placed into severed minds
And the distance between us
Keeps on growing even longer than I thought
Destination of this tale is yet to be defined
As my search for a purpose still carries on
Without a guide"

https://youtu.be/8ZBFsMtAFPs

"As I begin to thrive
in the cloud of forgiveness
It’s sharply stripped down
to a pile of nothingness

And how can I find solace
When everything has turned upside down?
I can’t help but to compare this to my past
All I know has become a black mass
Falling to my rest
Nothing’s like it used to be

But I keep holding on
I’m on my knees
Take it all away from me
But I keep holding on
And now I have a place to call my own

What did I learn from this?
Within myself I’m complete

And with clear conciousness
There comes a time
A time to feel like you just don’t belong
To be something you’re not supposed to be
And to feel alive
And I know I’m alive
Falling to my rest
Nothing’s like it used to be

And I keep holding on
I’ve found my peace
It won’t slip away from me
And I keep holding on
And now I have a place to call my own"

https://youtu.be/sQTrjCfQ-9k

"It’s written on the walls
It’s written on the walls
My frail destiny calls

I’ve fallen yet again, and turned it all dark
Choked down the flame I held
So I could be set free
But can I reach the end in time to make this last
When nothing has ever stuck on my grasp?

The silence overwhelms me
Inside my head I’m torn
Torn asunder while hoping to meet my kin
Forever, unspoken
From this I cannot heal
But still trying to progress
And finally see

What it’s like to feel alive
It is written on the walls

I see it all from above
And I’ve never felt like this
Is it the end for me or have I started to heal?

As above, so below
Written on the walls

There’s still a bleeding that I need to somehow kill
Gasping out for air as I’m falling to my knees
But can I reach the end in time to make this last
While being haunted by the portraits of my past?"

https://youtu.be/8dIxaLPmTPQ

"In the mist I see your vague face
I choke on the pain of my mistakes
No hope left for me in this place

In the mist I see your vague face
I wave goodbye as I fall from grace
No hope left for me in this place

The choice is placed into severed minds
And the distance between us
Keeps on growing even longer than I thought
Destination of this tale is yet to be defined
As my search for a purpose still carries on
Without a guide"

https://youtu.be/ZvMo_dcLcSI

"Broken & smashed into pieces
How did this all become pointless?
My life, the one that I’ve chosen
Fades away, turns to dust
I seek & seek for these answers
To finally see my true colours
My life, the one that I’ve chosen
Fades away, turns to dust

But I will never let this change who I am
This is the place where I lost my ways
But I will never let this change who I am
It’s time for me to make my peace

“Crawl through it all
You’ll live - just don’t give in”
I’ve been seeking the key in disbelief
These signs pointing me towards the light
I crawl, does this even matter at all?
I cannot do this anymore

Crawling slowly through it all
I cannot do this anymore
So what the f**k should I do?

Crawling through it all
Does this even matter at all?
Crawling through it all
I gave up hope"

https://youtu.be/Da1Nd9YJ9kQ

"Once more I shatter the pines
Ripping my wounds open wide
It all piles down to a sickening sight
Another wasted life

And it all just piles down.
I never knew
What it could do
This is the darkest blight.

I see the end,
And it's calling me again
I can't take the guilt,
How can I escape?
I see the end,
And it's calling me again
'Cause there's nothing left,
But my final breath
This has to be the end.
I hope you burn
As I'm strangled from the hurt.

And with these hands of guilt,
I sink into the depths
Of my darkest self.
And with nothing else to give,
These hands are ought to break
Leaving me in tears
As I fade away
We all suffer the same.

Bleeding from within.
Separating things I cannot feel
Bleeding from within
My true form is revealed"

https://youtu.be/FlTmC8p3EeE

"What has become of me
On my path I based on lies and greed?
When did I lose the pain
That once left me in shame?
A new direction, a new way out for me
I feel my shadow being torn
As my dark heart swallows it whole

Will I learn to forgive
Or am I stuck with all the blame?
Disguised
Will I learn to forgive
Or am I stuck with all the blame?
It will never be the same
Inside

Show me what I have done
I’ll try to make it right
‘Cause I’ve lost myself, will I ever be complete?
I know what I’ll have to be
And let go of this curse in me
Will it ever be the same?

Casting aside this burden of mine
Towards a brighter path and clarity, is there still more
time?
To break free from everything, to lose this burning
sight?
To feel something that might be real?
I must begin, the end is nigh

I’m feeling numb again
Will it ever be the same?
Disguised
Dead inside
It will never be the same"

https://youtu.be/wHdt1aUzm6Y

"Falling down
But what’s the reason in living like this?
To a point where we have lost ourselves
We’re all blind, fragile minds
A pack where no one survives

I am still searching for something new
I am still searching but it keeps holding me,
breaking me, pushing me against my heart

Are we forgotten on the burnt feathers of our wings?
Has this ignition been all down for nothing?
Washing away our legacy
Ending all suffering
This is the cleansing

And everything you’ll ever want it to be
This is the cleansing

The storm is closing in
And our fates are to be sealed
But my mind won’t settle down
While I’m able to go on

This is the cleansing
And everything you’ll ever want it to be
This is the cleansing"

https://youtu.be/1dUdIAu2_eQ

At My Darkest has been out for one whole week today. To give a little more insight, we are releasing a piece of the story song by song in a chronological order on the following days.

"And after this life of shame
I wonder if I could’ve changed
I sit back and rethink every choice I ever made

All the smiles I choked
All the pain I kept for myself
The mess of a man I had
somehow become

And it wasn’t all just for myself
I’m so sorry for you
I’m so sorry for the others
Who were hurt as I was lost in the pines
And I’ve never been so lost
So, as the silhouettes break
And the shadows turn into shades
All that is left is this broken heart
only I could have saved

This is a tale of forgiveness
This is my mortal frame
This is me at my darkest"

https://youtu.be/glHWBpQeChU

HANDS OF GUILT featured on Soundi demo reviews. Only available in Finnish.

Demoefekti 39/2020 - Soundi.fi Tällä kertaa Demoefektissä Portraits, Rujo Katras, Weg ja Heiskane.

New music video for the last track of AT MY DARKEST. HAZE concludes the story within the album with a one last glance inside the thoughts that should've had stayed buried from the start. Bidding farewell to your darker self as it fades away into the haze.

Video by Patrik Pesonen Photography

Portraits - Haze (Official Music Video) HAZE off PORTRAITS' debut album, AT MY DARKEST. Order the album through Mark My Words Records. https://linktr.ee/portraitsofmypast/ PORTRAITS on Apple Music:...

We are more than thrilled to announce that AT MY DARKEST - the debut full-length we have worked on for so long is now available everywhere! The album in its entirety was created out of nothing by us and few very close friends of ours. We would like to thank Jussi Riikonen for engineering and producing the album, Patrik Pesonen for the album layout and all the photography, and Toni Nisukangas for all the memories throughout the years.

The album itself forms a tale of forgiveness, consisting of stories spread throughout a journey of self-awareness and guilt. When the only escape seems to lie somewhere deep within, you start to shape your reflection in a new manner. Realising you cannot cast aside your darker self, you're forced to accept this co-existence and begin the struggle towards peace as equals. Learning to forgive, crawling towards a place you can call your own.

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