On last year’s Let Pain Be Your Guide, Austin screamo band Portrayal of Guilt pull off a rare feat, wearing their influences on their sleeves, while forging a distinct identity of their own. Over the last decade, the screamo genre has largely comprised bands recycling the same ideas, so it’s noteworthy that Portrayal of Guilt are able to pull from genre stalwarts like Majority Rule and Pageninetynine without sounding beholden to either of them.…
On last year’s Let Pain Be Your Guide, Austin screamo band Portrayal of Guilt pull off a rare feat, wearing their influences on their sleeves, while forging a distinct identity of their own. Over the last decade, the screamo genre has largely comprised bands recycling the same ideas, so it’s noteworthy that Portrayal of Guilt are able to pull from genre stalwarts like Majority Rule and Pageninetynine without sounding beholden to either of them.…