portal clones

Manawydan · Joined: 06 Jan 2013 Posts: 127 Location: Oxford

ive noticed a few these guys for example since portal broke through ive noticed one or two bands dressing up and playing avant garde dm
http://abyssal-home.bandcamp.com/
the other blatent portal rip off is plague widow.
anyone else seen any?

GHOAT · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:33 am Post subject:

Plague Widow is a grind band, I think you're confused. Abyssal rules.
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Manawydan · Joined: 06 Jan 2013 Posts: 127 Location: Oxford

Aethyrvorous then for sure

Cale · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 4:56 am Post subject:

Abyssal and Aethyrvorous clearly have Portal influences but I wouldn't in anyway call them Portal clones. They sound very different.
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holy ghost · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 5:19 am Post subject:

I don't care if they take musical influence from the excellent band Portal, as long as they don't start wearing clocks on their heads.....
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Manawydan · Joined: 06 Jan 2013 Posts: 127 Location: Oxford

no the guy wasnt in portal but was in stargazer with people who were in portal if that makes sense
IR on he other hand is members of portal!

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Kapalika · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 2126 Location: Germoney

Labelling bands such as Mitochondrion, Aethyrvorous, Aevangelist or Abyssals as mere Portal clones is too easy as I think they all sound quite different.

They may have a similar or comparable approach to music but riffing and structure are different.

So far I haven´t seen a band that try to rip off the visual style, admittedly.
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holy ghost · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 7:04 am Post subject:

You can call them clones or just find that the sphere of Portals influence is huge, and I for one think that is a really good thing - taking inspiration from a band like Portal is better than a lot of other places you could be influenced by in death meetal. I'm just musing here, but if I was told a band sounded like Portal I'd be more inclined to see what they're doing with that evil twisted atmosphere than any other kind of band.... because I guess they're at most paying homage to an atmosphere than a specific style and emulating down to the most minute detail (see black metal clones, Swedish death metal clones, etc)
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nonwave · Joined: 22 Jun 2009 Posts: 1163 Location: Brookyn, NY

abyssal sounds good, BUT . . . the overproduction of their recordings is problematic. they could only be disappointing live because there's no way in hell to get that kind of suffocating, crushing sound live without a serious budget that bands like this will never have.
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Demoniarch · Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 4757

As for Impetuous Ritual and Aethyrvorous, can they even count? ...these bands are literally neighbors are they not, or share members or at least have ties of friendship between the bands or so I assumed from reading various threads over this forum.

To me a clone would be a band from a whole other nation or location, that would have little exposure to the band they copy other than have heard the album then they replicate it, but these days it's not hard to have good friends on the other side of the globe and share ideas instantly, so the whole thing is moot.

Carry on...

VnholyCvntz · Joined: 14 Jun 2012 Posts: 1408

Aethyrvorous and Abyssal are both boring.
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