BELL WITCH

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, unraveling 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 Dylan Desmond and drummer 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 long form albums, collectively called Future's Shadow.

Past Shows


Oct
17
th
2023
Turf Club
Oct
17
th
2023
Turf Club

BELL WITCH

with Spirit Possession and Aberration
Nov
16
th
2019
Turf Club
Nov
16
th
2019
Turf Club

MONO

with BELL WITCH
Aug
18
th
2019
7th St Entry
Aug
18
th
2019
7th St Entry

BELL WITCH

with False and LUNGS
Jul
10
th
2018
Turf Club
Jul
10
th
2018
Turf Club

YOB

with BELL WITCH and FORMER WORLDS
Dec
16
th
2015
7th St Entry
Dec
16
th
2015
7th St Entry

BELL WITCH

with Wrekmeister Harmonies and Livid

More Shows

Aug
9
th
First Avenue

Old 97's

Jul
21
st
Fine Line

Unwound

Sep
14
th
The Fitzgerald Theater

Julian Lage

Jul
6
th
First Avenue

jxdn

with GUNNAR and LØLØ