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Kalaratri
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US funeral doom metal band Bell Witch will release their fourth full length, Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate digitally on April 21 and physically on June 9 through Profound Lore. From the press release:

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Nothing's bigger than life. All vastnesses -- expanding space, infinite time -- crouch inside of consciousness. On a historical scale, to say nothing of a cosmic one, the individual human life vanishes, and yet it's the only aperture any of us get into reality. It's barely there, and it's all there is.

That's the paradox Bell Witch drives at. For more than a decade, the Pacific Northwestern doom metal band has sent tides surging over the seawalls of the song form, unravelling conventional expectations about the ways music stations itself in time to absorb a listener's attention. Rather than seek catharsis, the duo's songs heave themselves through time at a glacial pace, staving off resolution in favor of a trancelike capsule eternity. Invoking both boundlessness and claustrophobia in the same charged gesture, Bell Witch cultivates a sense of time outside of time, an oasis inside an increasingly frenetic media culture.

For their new album, The Clandestine Gate, 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. "Eventually, the end of the last album will be looped around to the first to make a circle," says Desmond. "It can be continuously looped, like a day cycle. This would be dawn. The next one would be noon. The following one would be sundown, with dawn and sundown both having something of night."

Bell Witch began tracing the sequences that would form Future's Shadow in live performance while on tour with Neurosis and Mono. At first, Shreibman and Desmond planned to release each chapter in the sequence as they completed it, touring each album in between. Then, in early 2020, pandemic restrictions forced them to step back from that timeline. Locked out of their rehearsal space, they worked on what would become The Clandestine Gate at a slower burn than any of their previous projects. The album germinated over the course of more than two years, a pace that allowed their music to evolve organically to a state of more focused, grounded minimalism.

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. "We started experimenting with letting more of the elements shine on their own," says Shreibman. The band reunited with their longtime producer Billy Anderson as they began negotiating these new compositional weights. The record begins with an eight-minute organ passage that builds slowly, like the susurrations of dawn, before Desmond's distortion-choked bass cleaves it open. Throughout their new material, Shreibman and Desmond also took the opportunity to implement new vocal strategies. "I wanted the vocals to be more active, rather than being on top of the soundscape," notes Shreibman. 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 expansive scale of Future's Shadow gave Bell Witch more leeway to plumb themes that have long percolated throughout their work. The concept of eternal return -- that time doesn't end and death doesn't punctuate life, but both go on forever in an infinite loop no one can remember -- inflected the development of The Clandestine Gate after Desmond encountered the idea in Nietzche's book The Gay Science. "I read the eternal return concept and was like, 'oh, yeah, all of our songs have been about this all the while," Desmond says. "Anything could be applied to a cyclical point of view. The sun comes up every morning. Spring comes every year, winter comes every year. Everything has a cycle: a life, a death, an existence, a non-existence."

The films of 20th century Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky similarly supplied a framework for the movements of The Clandestine Gate and Future's Shadow as a whole. Tarkovsky's movies creep glacially, powered by the performances of his actors, which imbue his weathered landscapes with a tumultuous interiority. Simple actions -- carrying a candle across a room, tossing a metal nut into an overgrown field -- carry life-and-death weight, a strategy echoed in Bell Witch's suspension of minimal melodies across planetary expanses. "Tarkovsky's intention of poetry through visuals has a strong parallel to ours through sound," notes Desmond. "His drawn-out scenes are similar in execution to what we're doing musically, and his films are a big inspiration for this album and triptych."

The immense gravity of a work like The Clandestine Gate allows these 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. As both the beginning and end of the Future's Shadow triptych, The Clandestine Gate opens a new chapter in Bell Witch's macroscopic minimalism: the start of a yawning orbit around an increasingly massive core.


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1. The Clandestine Gate (1:23:15)


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PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2023 8:41 am 
 

Stoked for this. Mirror Reaper was obviously exceptional and the description here only increases my anticipation. And only a three day wait at that too
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Can't go wrong with more Bell Witch
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2023 9:48 am 
 

Kalaratri wrote:
Tracklisting:
1. The Clandestine Gate (1:23:00)

Oh boy, I'll need a few drinks and some snacks with me when I listen to this. It's going to be good, but definitely taxing. :D
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The Tarkovsky reference definitely makes me curious. I bought Mirror Reaper years ago but it's been a while since I truly listened to that one. Interesting band anyway.
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I have only listened to Mirror Reaper and I have mixed feelings. It's obviously an expansive journey in the soundscapes, but it's also bordering on too minimalistic in its presentation. It's very bare bones. My best experience is listening to it in total darkness with a beer or something.

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It can’t come here soon enough. Massive fan of this band.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 18, 2023 11:47 pm 
 

Got into this band after first listening to Mirror Reaper just last year, but I've been binging their entire discography heavily over the past couple months. Already pre-ordered the new album and I can't wait for Friday.

According to someone on Reddit who interviewed Dylan recently (https://www.reddit.com/r/doommetal/comm ... _are_live/), Stygian Bough Vol. 2 is going to come out next, followed by the next two parts of Future's Shadow... Good time to be a Bell Witch fan.

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Full album now up on YouTube
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This is good but kinda peculiar how it sounds like a near-identical continuation of Mirror Reaper (right down to it literally being a single second longer) when it’s going to be the first in a whole trilogy. Makes me wonder how the rest of it will compare.
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Twisted_Psychology wrote:
This is good but kinda peculiar how it sounds like a near-identical continuation of Mirror Reaper (right down to it literally being a single second longer) when it’s going to be the first in a whole trilogy. Makes me wonder how the rest of it will compare.



I really hope the trilogy doesn't have so much instrumental work at the beginning. That's what is really throwing my off. Doom of a funeral nature needs the vocal work to weave in much sooner.

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I already listened to the whole thing last night. Thought it was incredible and preordered the 2 cd.
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The cover art looks awesome. I’ll be checking it out soon.

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Got around to hearing the album yesterday. I actually like it a lot more than I thought, and I'm seriously considering preordering the CD.
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I saw them live playing this album in its entirety. It was a crushing experience.

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It's 33 seconds shorter than Mirror Reaper... total step back

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Goatfangs wrote:
It's 33 seconds shorter than Mirror Reaper... total step back

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Where's the hidden content, I keep clicking, but nothing.

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I've only listened to it a couple of times but right now I don't think it holds a candle to Mirror Reaper. Feels more one-note and that note isn't as engaging.

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thewrll wrote:
Goatfangs wrote:
It's 33 seconds shorter than Mirror Reaper... total step back

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Where's the hidden content, I keep clicking, but nothing.


You have to quote it to reveal it, but even when you quote it it still appears as hidden in the post itself.

But it says "I haven't listened to it yet I plan on doing that when I have more than 83 minutes of driving ahead of me"

Essentially whenever I do a hide-tag after a joke it is to include a non-joke statement. Here I lamented on this album being exactly 33 seconds shorter than their previous masterpiece. Now that the joke is explained, proceed to laugh harder.
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About 20 minutes in, sounds about on par with Mirror Reaper to me. Regal, imposing, atmospheric... they have an interesting style for sure.

Surprised how easy this is to listen to. Talented guys.
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Listened to the new album a few times already. After my first listen, I was a bit disappointed, as it seems more disjointed/less cohesive than Mirror Reaper, and with far less of that album's emotional impact. A couple listens later, I began to appreciate the ways in which this album is different from MR, such as the heavy use of organ (I love the opening drone).

I think I need some more listens for this thing to fully sink in, but as of now it might be my least favorite Bell Witch release. Still, I'm looking forward seeing what they do with the next two parts of the trilogy.

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This sounds and feels like a continuation of Mirror Reaper, which is good. Having said that, I saw Bell Witch, or rather, Stygian Bough, for the first time back in October opening for Incantation and WITTR (what a weird lineup that tour was), and now I think that the studio albums are not very good in capturing how utterly crushing the band sounds live. They ripped harder than any atmospheric funeral doom band has a right to, and I was caught completely off-guard by it. I will be seeing them again this September at Killtown Deathfest and they are one of my top priorities for this festival now.
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I keep thinking it's a Boris album.

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Even if it's one song, they should break it into different parts for separate tracks for practical reasons - like they did on the last album.

Having a single 80 minute tack is pretentious and annoying.
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GreatWhiteSnake wrote:
Even if it's one song, they should break it into different parts for separate tracks for practical reasons - like they did on the last album.

Having a single 80 minute tack is pretentious and annoying.

It's a 2CD and the web version is just one track just like the last album.

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Mirror Reaper is also one long song on all the streaming services, don't see why this new album would be treated any different. If anything it makes little sense for it to be broken up, there aren't any particular sections that I would want to listen to on their own. It only makes sense as one cohesive piece.

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Where are the "short attention span" arguers when you need them?

This album works perfectly as one piece. Looking forward to Part 2.
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Should be interesting seeing them try and do a half hour set at Northwest Terror Fest this month. Are they just going to play a third of a song?
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Tried with this band many times, can't help but feel that they're mega lame. Still need to try this newest one to see if it changes my mind.
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doomicus wrote:
Tried with this band many times, can't help but feel that they're mega lame. Still need to try this newest one to see if it changes my mind.


"Mega lame" is crazy. Y'all don't even put thought in your criticisms anymore lol.

Just say the music isn't your thing and keep it moving.
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doomicus wrote:
Tried with this band many times, can't help but feel that they're mega lame. Still need to try this newest one to see if it changes my mind.


"Mega lame" is crazy. Y'all don't even put thought in your criticisms anymore lol.

Just say the music isn't your thing and keep it moving.


That's kind of exactly what I did. Mega lame = not for me.
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Gravetemplar wrote:
GreatWhiteSnake wrote:
Even if it's one song, they should break it into different parts for separate tracks for practical reasons - like they did on the last album.

Having a single 80 minute tack is pretentious and annoying.

It's a 2CD and the web version is just one track just like the last album.


The last album with Aerial Ruin had 5 tracks. That was more practical than the single track on Mirror Reaper.

Sometimes maybe you want you some Bell Witch and don't want to sit around for 80 minutes for it to play through. So you have to forward through the song, or you're listening to the beginning over and over. This is lame. No reason they couldn't have broken it up into different tracks.
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GreatWhiteSnake wrote:
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GreatWhiteSnake wrote:
Even if it's one song, they should break it into different parts for separate tracks for practical reasons - like they did on the last album.

Having a single 80 minute tack is pretentious and annoying.

It's a 2CD and the web version is just one track just like the last album.


The last album with Aerial Ruin had 5 tracks. That was more practical than the single track on Mirror Reaper.

Sometimes maybe you want you some Bell Witch and don't want to sit around for 80 minutes for it to play through. So you have to forward through the song, or you're listening to the beginning over and over. This is lame. No reason they couldn't have broken it up into different tracks.


Have you actually listened to the album? That wouldn’t make sense.
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cultofkraken wrote:
GreatWhiteSnake wrote:
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It's a 2CD and the web version is just one track just like the last album.


The last album with Aerial Ruin had 5 tracks. That was more practical than the single track on Mirror Reaper.

Sometimes maybe you want you some Bell Witch and don't want to sit around for 80 minutes for it to play through. So you have to forward through the song, or you're listening to the beginning over and over. This is lame. No reason they couldn't have broken it up into different tracks.


Have you actually listened to the album? That wouldn’t make sense.


It makes perfect sense. I don't do drugs.
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GreatWhiteSnake wrote:
It makes perfect sense. I don't do drugs.


You didn’t answer the question, so no I don’t see how you could break up that album into tracks. Instead of being a dickhead maybe you could elaborate more and make a real argument rather than an unfounded opinion.
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cultofkraken wrote:
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It makes perfect sense. I don't do drugs.


You didn’t answer the question, so no I don’t see how you could break up that album into tracks. Instead of being a dickhead maybe you could elaborate more and make a real argument rather than an unfounded opinion.


That'll be enough of the name calling.

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Sometimes maybe you want you some Bell Witch and don't want to sit around for 80 minutes for it to play through. So you have to forward through the song, or you're listening to the beginning over and over. This is lame. No reason they couldn't have broken it up into different tracks.
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You still didn't answer his question. There is no real way to break an album like this up into tracks, you'd essentially be picking arbitrary starting and ending points for each "track". The album is meant to be experienced as a whole and not cut up into segments. Bell Witch aren't going to change that because some people might have short attention spans. Funeral doom isn't a genre for the impatient, it is what it is.

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Kalaratri wrote:
You still didn't answer his question. There is no real way to break an album like this up into tracks, you'd essentially be picking arbitrary starting and ending points for each "track". The album is meant to be experienced as a whole and not cut up into segments. Bell Witch aren't going to change that because some people might have short attention spans. Funeral doom isn't a genre for the impatient, it is what it is.


I don't understand why you people are melting down over a Bell Witch song. I have a job. I work out. Those fucking hippies can cram it up their ass if they think I have 80 minutes every time I want to hear a song.

I like what you wrote there, though - the part about arbitrarily breaking up the song into tracks. That's what I want. And you unemployed druggies can listen all the way through if you want, or I can skip from track to track as time permits. Everybody is happy that way.
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GreatWhiteSnake wrote:
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You still didn't answer his question. There is no real way to break an album like this up into tracks, you'd essentially be picking arbitrary starting and ending points for each "track". The album is meant to be experienced as a whole and not cut up into segments. Bell Witch aren't going to change that because some people might have short attention spans. Funeral doom isn't a genre for the impatient, it is what it is.


I don't understand why you people are melting down over a Bell Witch song. I have a job. I work out. Those fucking hippies can cram it up their ass if they think I have 80 minutes every time I want to hear a song.

I like what you wrote there, though - the part about arbitrarily breaking up the song into tracks. That's what I want. And you unemployed druggies can listen all the way through if you want, or I can skip from track to track as time permits. Everybody is happy that way.


If anyone is melting down it's you, you're the one getting upset over other people simply stating their own opinions. Many of us don't see any sense in dividing an album that was written and always meant to be heard as a single piece into random tracks, or any workable way that it could actually be done and still turn out well. As far as the band is concerned, I doubt they're losing sleep over complaints that it's too hard to listen to an 80 minute song in one sitting. If someone doesn't want to listen to it because of that it's their choice and no one's going to fault them for it.

Also calling people you don't know unemployed druggies is a real bold move, especially considering it's not that difficult to hold a well paying job and still find free time to listen to this album. I think that's the funniest thing I've probably read on this forum in a long time.

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PostPosted: Wed May 10, 2023 8:36 pm 
 

Kalaratri wrote:
Also calling people you don't know unemployed druggies is a real bold move, especially considering it's not that difficult to hold a well paying job and still find free time to listen to this album. I think that's the funniest thing I've probably read on this forum in a long time.


Thanks. Then would you mind featuring me in your signature?
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cultofkraken wrote:
You are a sad embarrassing little man and you contribute nothing worthwhile. Off to the block list you go cretin..

TheMysticWombat wrote:
you're full of shit, you're stupid, and fuck you

kazhard wrote:
Fuck you scumbag.

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