搬运译Pitchfork评10年代200张最佳专辑第196名：Portal: Vexovoid (2013)

搬运自：微信公众号【评论搬一堆】（在原文基础上添加了英语原文与排版调整）

原文链接：https://pitchfork.com/features/laists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-2010s/ 

翻译：Ming Kwok

校对：Tyler Smith

推送：Lynn Liu

ome 21st-century death metal acts embraced digital technology and the clarity it brought; imagine listening to a jackhammer busting through concrete in hi-def. That modern crispness is nowhere to be found in the eruptive music of Portal, who instead update old-school death metal by making their music sound not like just one tsunami but dozens of them. The Australian group successfully shaded the lines of all instruments into one cumulative blast, with everything melting together: the slow, guttural growling of lead vocalist The Curator, drummer Ignis Fatuus’ rumbling percussive churn. (All the band members are anonymous and perform masked.) There are glints of familiar metal tropes—epic guitar solos, sci-fi-homage lyrics—but by boiling these elements into a tarry, punishing brew, Portal bring metal back where it started, as the sound of something terrifying, exciting, and new. –Matthew Schnipper

21世纪以来，一部分死亡金属乐队融入了数字技术及其带来的清晰感; 想象一下，你使用高清音频技术正听着一台手提钻在混凝土中破土而出。然而这种现代化的清晰感在Portal的爆发式音乐中是完全找不到的，相反，其更新了老式的死亡金属，让他们的音乐听起来不像是一场海啸，而是几十场海啸。这个澳大利亚乐队成功地所有的乐器融合成一种集成式的爆发：由主唱The Curator发出的缓慢喉音咆哮，鼓手Ignis Fatuus敲打出低沉的鼓声。（所有的乐队成员都匿名而且蒙面演出。）专辑中也闪烁着我们熟悉的金属元素的光芒——史诗般的吉他独奏，科幻的致敬歌词——但是将这些元素熬煮后，变成一种持久的、来之不易的佳酿，Portal将金属音乐带回到了原点，回到那个恐怖、新颖又令人振奋的金属音乐年代。