Portals Presents: Benthos, Maebe, This Be The Verse

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Benthos and Maebe are playing a few shows around their performances at RADAR Festival this year and we're delighted to host them in London! Milan's Benthos fuse progressive metal, mathcore, post-hardcore, and psychedelia into a sound where chaos meets precision and melody spirals into madness. Electrifying live shows have won them crowds across Europe, from supporting Between The Buried And Me on their 2025 summer tour to Euroblast Festival, cementing their status as one of modern prog's most compelling new acts. With 2025's From Nothing (Inside Out Music), they've crafted a world both brutal and beautiful, earning worldwide acclaim and a spot on Loudwire's Top 11 Prog Metal Albums of the year. FFO: The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Mars Volta, Arcane Roots Post-rock, math, prog, shred: Maebe celebrates instrumental rock in all its forms, with a triple-guitar wall of sound and hooks that will rattle round your skull for days. Second album, Rebirth. Relive. Repeat., was released in 2023, and ranked among Prog and Total Guitar's albums of the year. FFO: And So I Watch You From Afar, Plini, Thrice Formed in 2014, This Be The Verse are an alternative industrial rock band from London. The brainchild of vocalist, guitarist and producer Cyrus King. The band released their debut album in 2016 and have played shows with the likes of Idles, Tiger Cub, Employed To Serve and Palm Reader.