Name: Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate
Brand: Bell Witch

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PFL299LP

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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-06-09

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843563162804

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Black LPx2

PFL299

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Artist

Bell Witch

Genre GB

Metal

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Profound Lore

Bell Witch is a Doom Metal band hailing from Seattle, Washington. With Dylan Desmond on bass and vocals, and Jesse Shreibman on drums and vocals, they create a powerful and haunting sound that captivates listeners. The band sadly experienced the loss of former member Adrian Guerra in 2016. Bell Witch's music is known for its dark and atmospheric qualities, making them a standout presence in the metal scene.

Newest Listed Items

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 centre 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.

Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate

Music GB