Portal – Seepia LP Colour:Cloudy Brown When Nespithe arrived in 1993

When Nespithe arrived in 1993

– Brandon Hill (Cloud Rat / Fantastique / Starved Relations)

Australia quintet

Ast Voldur

there is no escaping the brooding mood of the opening track in all of its suffocating glory

Portal – Seepia LP Colour:Cloudy Brown When Nespithe arrived in 1993Portals debut full length Seepia remains one of the most bizarre and arresting statements in death metal history. Released in 2003, it captures the band at their most primal yet conceptually rich stage. What unfolds across these tracks is not a conventional extreme metal album, but a corrosive spiral into surreal horror, channeled through broken riffs, unsettling production, and a disfigured sense of structure that pushes music into something closer