Seattle Washington, U.S.A. based funeral doom metal warriors BELL WITCH are set to release the bands new offering "FUTURE'S SHADOW PART 1: THE CLANDESTINE GATE", due to be unleashed 4/21/2023 via PROFOUND LORE RECORDS.
BELL WITCH unleashed STYGIAN BOUGH VOLUME 1" (WITH AERIAL RUIN), 6/26/2020 via PROFOUND LORE RECORDS.
BELL WITCH unleashed "MIRROR REAPER", 10/20/2017 via PROFOUND LORE RECORDS.
FROM BELL WITCH:
Bell Witch and Roadburn Festival are thrilled to announce an exclusive live premiere of the new Bell Witch LP - Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate, this Friday, April 21st on Roadburn’s main stage at 3:30pm. This will mark the first time this 83 minute piece has been performed live and is currently the only planned full performance of the LP. We can think of no better way to celebrate the album’s release than to present it live in Tilburg.
FROM PROFOUND LORE RECORDS:
Pacific Northwestern doom metal monolith Bell Witch will see the release of their new album “Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate” on April 21st digitally followed by its physical release on 2LP/2CD/Cassette, June 9. The band have announced an exclusive appearance at this year’s Roadburn Festival on April 21th where they will perform “The Clandestine Gate” in its entirety.
Pre-orders, along with a short-making of video of the album are now live here: https://geni.us/ClandestineGate
For their new album, bassist/vocalist Dylan Desmond and drummer/vocalist Jesse Shreibman exploded Bell Witch's bounds. Like 2017's lauded “Mirror Reaper”, “The Clandestine Gate” is a single 83-minute track -- a composition that pulses and breathes on a filmic timeframe. It constitutes the first chapter in a planned triptych of longform albums, collectively called “Future's Shadow.”
While traces of organ and synthesizer hovered over “Mirror Reaper” and Bell Witch's 2020 collaboration with Aerial Ruin, “Stygian Bough Volume 1”, “The Clandestine Gate” drew those instruments closer to the center of its compositions. The band reunited with their longtime producer Billy Anderson as they began negotiating these new compositional weights. On “The Clandestine Gate”, Bell Witch's twinned voices build off of the chantlike textures of previous records while steering toward more developed melodic lines, structured harmonies, and rhythmic death metal growls.
The immense gravity of a work like “The Clandestine Gate”, which features exclusive stunning cover art by Jordi Diaz Alama, allows ideas to simmer in a way that feels profoundly and somatically intuitive -- not just a philosophical exercise, but an embodied truth. By slowing down both their creative process and the tempo of the music itself, Bell Witch digs even deeper into their long standing focus: the way life spills on inside its minuscule container, both eternal and fleeting, a chord that echoes without resolution.
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-
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