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BELL WITCH
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Doors: 7pm
Tix: £20 (adv)

Formed by Dylan Desmond (bass, vocals) and Adrian Guerra (drums, vocals), Bell Witch released their first self-titled demo in 2011 and partnered with Profound Lore Records for their debut album, Longing, in 2012. The duo’s second LP, the acclaimed Four Phantoms (2015), was recognized as one of doom metal’s triumphs of the year. In 2015 Jesse Shreibman (drums, vocals, organ) replaced Guerra, and he and Desmond began writing the band's next record. In 2016 while still deep in the writing process, Desmond and Shreibman were met with the tragic news that Guerra had passed away. The loss would have a profound effect and they would pay homage to Guerra by featuring unused vocal tracks of his from Four Phantoms on a section of the epic Shreibman and Desmond were completing, 2017s Mirror Reaper. 

Mirror Reaper pushes the band’s sound further than it had ever gone before while retaining the monolithic heaviness of their previous releases. One continuous 83-minute piece unfolding as a single track, the body of work sees the band explore the more meditative, melancholy, and introspective aspects of their sound through the introduction of long, lonely organ passages and vocals from long time collaborator Aerial Ruin. Bell Witch furthered their work with dark folk elegist Aerial Ruin, fully integrating the two outfits for the five hauntingly beautiful, strikingly heavy songs that comprise 2020’s Stygian Bough Volume I.