PORTRAIT Signs With IRON KODEX RECORDS

March 18, 2008

Iron Kodex Records has announced the signing of Sweden's traditional metal hopefuls PORTRAIT. The band's self-titled debut album is scheduled for release on April 3.

According to a press release, "Portrait" will feature eight songs of highly energetic traditional metal in the vein of bands like SAVAGE, MERCYFUL FATE, early IRON MAIDEN and WITCHCROSS and come with an exclusive cover artwork by renowned Bulgarian artist Dimitar Nikolov.

Founding member Christian Lindell commented on the debut album: "If our previous stuff sounded more like Sledgehammer, you can compare our new album a lot more with IRON MAIDEN. As a whole the album is more worked-through. We paid more attention to the fine-tuning of the songs. Some of the tracks, [such as] 'Hell' and 'A Thousand Nightmares', are faster than our previous material. Both tracks remind more of BATHORY or MOTRHEAD than anything we did earlier... with a very Danish touch, though, in the vein of WITCHCROSS, EVIL, KIM SIXX... In some places we have acoustic guitars and one long, epic piece titled 'The Adversary'. You will definitely be able to recognize, that you're listening to PORTRAIT, but you will also find things, which differ from our earlier material."

Two songs of the new album have been made available on the label's MySpace page.

PORTRAIT was named "Best Unsigned Band 2007" in a readers' poll in Sweden Rock magazine and has played numerous shows and festivals all over Europe, among them Keep it True IX.

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