搬運(yùn)自：微信公眾號【評論搬一堆】（在原文基礎(chǔ)上添加了英語原文與排版調(diào)整）

原文鏈接：https://pitchfork.com/features/laists-and-guides/the-200-best-albums-of-the-2010s/?

翻譯：Ming Kwok

校對：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世紀(jì)以來，一部分死亡金屬樂隊(duì)融入了數(shù)字技術(shù)及其帶來的清晰感; 想象一下，你使用高清音頻技術(shù)正聽著一臺手提鉆在混凝土中破土而出。然而這種現(xiàn)代化的清晰感在Portal的爆發(fā)式音樂中是完全找不到的，相反，其更新了老式的死亡金屬，讓他們的音樂聽起來不像是一場海嘯，而是幾十場海嘯。這個澳大利亞樂隊(duì)成功地所有的樂器融合成一種集成式的爆發(fā)：由主唱The Curator發(fā)出的緩慢喉音咆哮，鼓手Ignis Fatuus敲打出低沉的鼓聲。（所有的樂隊(duì)成員都匿名而且蒙面演出。）專輯中也閃爍著我們熟悉的金屬元素的光芒——史詩般的吉他獨(dú)奏，科幻的致敬歌詞——但是將這些元素熬煮后，變成一種持久的、來之不易的佳釀，Portal將金屬音樂帶回到了原點(diǎn)，回到那個恐怖、新穎又令人振奮的金屬音樂年代。