Portals to Canaan

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Portals to Canaan
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Studio album by
Deeds of Flesh
ReleasedJune 25, 2013
RecordedAvalon Recording Studios
Genre Technical death metal
Length42:27
Label Unique Leader
Producer Deeds of Flesh
Deeds of Flesh chronology
Of What's to Come
(2008)
Portals to Canaan
(2013)

Portals to Canaan is the eighth studio album by Californian death metal band Deeds of Flesh. It was released on June 25, 2013 on Unique Leader Records. This is the last album to feature Erik Lindmark before his death in 2018.

Track listing

  1. Amidst the Ruins - 4:32
  2. Entranced in Decades of Psychedelic Sleep - 6:39
  3. Rise of the Virvum Juggernaut - 4:13
  4. Celestial Serpents - 5:36
  5. Caelum Hirundines Terra / The Sky Swallows the Earth - 1:47
  6. Xeno-Virus - 5:30
  7. Hollow Human Husks - 4:09
  8. Portals to Canaan - 4:35
  9. Orphans of Sickness (Gorguts cover) - 5:26

Personnel


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