Bell Witch announce new album ‘Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate’

BELL WITCH have announced a new album!

Titled Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate, the upcoming album from the American doom metal band is the follow-up to 2020’s Stygian Bough Vol. 1 and 2017’s Mirror Reaper, and is scheduled to be released digitally this Friday and physical releases in June, via Profound Lore.

Like 2017’s 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 bassist Dylan Desmond of the triple album. “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.”

While traces of organ and synthesiser hovered over Mirror Reaper and their 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 drummer Jesse Shreibman. The band reunited with their longtime producer Billy Anderson as they began negotiating these new compositional weights. 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.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. The Clandestine Gate

Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate is set for release on April 21st (digital) and June 9th (physical) via Profound Lore. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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