Portrait

There will be a new Portrait album in 2024 and we are currently in the final stages of the recording process. Beware!

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IN UNION WE STAND – A CALL TO ARMS

Dear Brothers of our beloved Underground Heavy Metal,

we, the ten festivals you see on the flyer, have united to make a call to arms. In these rough times, the Heavy Metal Underground Army is needed more than ever to keep our scene alive. These festivals are the heart and soul of the scene and need YOUR support by buying tickets in advance. Contrary to the huge mainstream events we run everything on our own and at our own risk. Lets unite fans and organizers to keep our scene alive and well. Since over 20 years many of us delivered so much joy, unique bands and comradery. Many lifetime friendships were born on our festivals.

We will keep on carrying the flame of Underground Metal but we need YOU to be the fire for it!

NOW is the time. Please share this and thank you all for your support!

The first 2024 festival show is hereby announced: come and witness Portrait at the mighty Time To Rock Festival. We look very much forward to this! Some of us have visited the festival several times and we can really recommend going there. This is the first batch of bands announced and it's already looking good, don't you think?

A HUGE thanks to the amazing Rock Hard Ride Free staff for organizing such a great event in Goleniów this weekend. We had a great time and were much impressed about how well-organized everything was. Thanks for taking care of us, we will come back any time!

It was a pleasure playing in front of all you Polish maniacs in the crowd, amazing energy during the whole set! And a pleasure meeting many of you afterwards as well.

Thanks also for sharing your photos with us. We want as many as possible from this weekend as it surely was a memorable one. Keep them coming! Metal and Hell!

”The quest for the grail, to Poland we sail… with our steel.”

This killer Crossroads patch drops tomorrow! Keep your eyes peeled at to get yours.

Our next show will be our first ever in Poland on May 13th! Who's coming and what songs do you want to hear?

Allright folks, it’s competition time. Below you’ll find a list of all(?) cover songs we have played live throughout the years.

The first person to list all the original artists in a comment will get a shirt and a place on the guestlist at the next Portrait show you want to go to. Let’s go!

Love gun
Dignitaries of hell
Halloween
Go to hell
Heart of a lion
Murder in the skies
Necropolis
Blood of my enemies
Blessed to be cursed
Phantom of the opera
Black funeral
Astral flyer

Imorgon är det dags! Vi lirar med Warhawk på The Abyss!

Warhawk går på kl 20, vi går på kl 21.

And it ain’t over till the fat lady sings!

Kom eller omkom!

We are sad to announce that we have cancelled our appearance at this year's Manorfest in the UK. The reason is that, despite several reminders, we did not receive the deposit payment which the promoter had agreed to transfer months ago in order for us to be able to book flights etc in reasonable time.

Our apologies to all UK fans for this. We were looking forward to this a lot and we really hope we can get over there soon!

In exactly one week we hit the stage at The Abyss in Gothenburg together with the splendid Warhawk! We highly recommend checking them out if haven't already....

We hope this will be a real metal feast so come and join our coven with the powers that be!

Til' then - Black Easter upon ye all!

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Om två veckor återvänder vi till Göteborg och The Abyss! Vilka kommer?

Our first show in Poland comes closer and we will be in good company!

METAL AND HELL

We are happy to announce this headline show in Poland on May 13th!

It will actually be our first gig on Polish soils, and we look much forward to it!

We are heading for the UK and ManorFest in May!

Be there and witness the glory of Heavy Metal Darkness!

We wish everyone of you a happy and heavy new year, and thanks for all your support during 2022! It was a good year for the band and 2023 will be even stronger!

Cheers!

Rest in peace Ruggero Deodato, and thanks for all the inspiration.

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Vi återvänder till fantastiska The Abyss i Göteborg den 15 april tillsammans med grymlingarna i Warhawk (som nyligen släppt en av årets bästa plattor, köp den). Missa inte detta och se till att fixa biljett i god tid!

We have some tour t-shirts left for those who did not get one at the shows.

25 EUR including shipping within the EU.
Sizes M-XXL.

Payment via Paypal to [email protected]

Don’t forget to state which size you want.

For orders outside the EU, send us an email to the same address and we will calculate the total.

It was such an honor for us to share stage with these guys through Holland, Belgium and Germany last week. We watched their show EVERY night and it was so inspiring to see them deliver the goods with such conviction throughout the whole tour. It was indeed a great match both musically and personally.

So Satan (Band), thank you for all shows, good talks and the general madness we experienced together. We will never forget it!

Thanks also to Patches O’ Houlihan (now you’re a man!) for being the best driver/roadie/merchguy in the world, to Dragon Productions for putting everything together, the promoters and crew at the venues, and to After All for killing it during part of the tour!

Last but not least, thanks to everyone who attended the shows. These are rough times but this tour proved that heavy metal cannot be stopped, no matter what this world and its’ insane leaders are up to.

You can’t kill rock ’n’ roll!

Hamburg… what can we say? You left us completely speechless last night and we could not have imagined a better way to finish off the tour than with this great crowd at the legendary Markthalle! Totally amazing.

Thank you so much, Berlin! Really amazing night and a fantastic crowd.

We are now heading of for Heavy Hamburg Halloween that will be the last show of this tour.

Seven down, two to go.

We are on at 22:15 tonight at the BRUTZ & BRAKEL "Stromgitarrenfest" in Berlin!

Short break in Kassel on our way to tonight’s show in Lichtenfels.

No schnitzel, no show!