The Danish band Town Portal may not be on your radar, but over the last 10 years, the trio has attracted a devoted fan base with extensive European tours and rave reviews by critics at music websites, such as Stereogum and Invisible Oranges.

Town Portal’s new album, “Of Violence,” just came out and it features the band’s mix of metal and melody. It’s easy to think of the band’s music as a soundtrack for discordant times.

"It's not as such like meant to be a political record," says guitarist Christian Henrik Ankerstjerne. "It's more like perspectives going on. Violence is a key word that you can explode into a lot of different angles. It somehow seemed fitting for capturing a lot of the thoughts we'd had."

Ankerstjerne, drummer Malik Breuer Bistrup and bassist Morten Ogstrup Nielsen recorded their new album at Copenhagen’s Black Tornado Studio.

You can take the ferry back and forth to that part of the city, an old industrial area that used to be home to shipbuilding. In fact, the building that houses the studio used to be a school for the children of workers who built the ships, Ankerstjerne says.

The old industrial area, which is now attracting other artists and is the home of the world famous restaurant Noma — the Danish word for food — seems appropriate for the music Town Portal is creating. It can sound dark and foreboding, but at other times, Ankerstjerne's guitar chimes.

The title of Town Portal's new album reflects their thoughts about violence in the world today, Ankerstjerne says. It may be overt, or it may be changing shapes. "Archright," one of the songs on the album, is a reference to the rise of nationalism around the world, Nielsen explains.

"It was a way of trying to get at this notion of someone having a birth-given right that others don't have," he says. "And adding this prefix, arch, made it feel ridiculous in some way. It's pretty much an empty prefix. What is an arch anything?"