CYNIC 17 years after "Portal" demos will finally be released officially

This is some piece of news that CYNIC fans have been dying to read for years: the famous, much sought-after Portal demos will finally be released officially! 17 years after, CYNIC masterminds Paul Masvidal and Sean Reinert decided to share the 10 songs they recorded as Portal with guitarist Jason Gobel, bassist Chris Kringel and female vocalist Aruna Abrams on a worldwide scale.

"I never thought this day would come", Masvidal comments. "A couple demos we'd record after 'Focus', under the name 'Portal', would develop a life of their own, and somehow become part of CYNIC's larger discography. As an artist, it's an amazingly unpredictable journey, to see these quiet labors of love, find their way, in their own time."

"The Portal Tapes" will be released on next March 23rd (March 27th in North America), in strictly limited editions of 5000 digipak CDs and 1000 vinyl LPs.

Chrome Leaf Records To Release Limited PORTAL Picture Disc

Chrome Leaf Records will unleash a limited edition picture disc 7" from Queensland, Australia's unfathomably intense, technical black/death metal assassins PORTAL this May 11th.

The Lovecraftian-based Lurker At The Threshold 7" bears two tracks; two of the three songs found on the original 2006 demo cassette release of the same name (the third track on the original a noise track). This 7" version will be available as a full-color, 70-gram, 45rpm picture disc in a limited run of 500 copies. The detailed artwork for the platter was commissioned by Chimere Noire [http://www.myspace.com/chimerenoire]. Check out the layout to the 7", live footage from PORTAL and more here:http://www.earsplitcompound.com/site/?p=476

PORTAL will also arrive on American soil for the first time this May to pillage several cities on the east and west coasts in preparation for their appearance at this year's Maryland Death Fest.

PORTAL U.S. Live Actions:

5/14/2010 Oasis Club - Los Angeles, CA

5/15/2010 Thee Parkside - San Francisco, CA

5/18/2010 Club Satyricon - Portland, OR

5/19/2010 The Funhouse - Seattle, WA

5/23/2010 Now That’s Class - Cleveland, OH

5/24/2010 Mohawk Place - Buffalo, NY

5/25/2010 Great Scott - Boston, MA

5/26/2010 Knitting Factory - Brooklyn, NY

5/27/2010 Kung Fu Neck Tie - Philadelphia, PA

5/29/2010 Sonar - Baltimore, MD @ Maryland Death Fest

Digital promos of Lurker At The Threshold are available to the media now via the Earsplit Compound.

http://www.myspace.com/the-portal

http://chromeleaf.org

Portal - Glumurphonel

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