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Product Identifiers
Record LabelPflo, Profound Lore
UPC0843563162804
eBay Product ID (ePID)7060447464
Product Key Features
FormatRecord
Release Year2023
GenreHeavy Metal
ArtistBell Witch
Release TitleFuture's Shadow Part 1: the Clandestine Gate
Dimensions
Item Height0.26 in
Item Weight1.04 lb
Item Length12.60 in
Item Width12.60 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks1
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 The Clandestine Gate 01:23:15
Number of Discs2
Sub-GenreHeavy Metal
NotesPacific Northwestern doom metal monolith Bell Witch is releasing their new album Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate. For this 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 it's compositions. The band reunited with their longtime producer Billy Anderson as they began negotiating these new compositional weights. On this latest, the band'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 it's minuscule container, both eternal and fleeting, a chord that echoes without resolution.