Funeral doom band Bell Witch stunned followers final week with an announcement that their new album, Future’s Shadow Half 1: The Clandestine Gate, could be launched that Friday (April 21). The album is the primary in a deliberate trilogy, comprised of 1 mammoth 83-minute track and it has had Twitter buzzing with all kinds of reactions ever since.
We will share among the finest reactions with you, however first…
Who Are Bell Witch?
Bell Witch are a funeral doom band primarily based out of Seattle, Washington, and it is solely pure that such a dismal group would come up from the realm of the U.S. recognized for gray skies and a number of rain. They fashioned in 2010, initially comprised of bassist/vocalist Dylan Desmond, who stays within the group, and drummer/vocalist Adrian Guerra, who died in 2015.
After issuing an eponymous demo in 2011, Bell Witch launched the six-track Longing full size in 2012, adopted by the four-song 4 Phantoms in 2015, each with Guerra. Within the wake of his passing, drummer/vocalist Jesse Shreibman joined in 2015 and was first featured in 2017’s epic Mirror Reaper, which was the primary Bell Witch document to solely function a track 83 minutes in size.
Considered an on the spot funeral doom basic, Mirror Reaper garnered tons of consideration when it got here out and followers have not stopped clamoring about Bell Witch ever since.
What Is This Album About? Are There Actually Two Extra Releases Coming?
“Ultimately, the tip of the final album will likely be looped round to the primary to make a circle,” prefaces Desmond, “It may be repeatedly looped, like a day cycle. This might be daybreak. The subsequent one could be midday. The next one could be sunset, with daybreak and sunset each having one thing of night time.”
In different phrases, if the opposite two installments are like this one, Bell Witch’s trilogy has the potential to push the four-hour mark.
This trilogy is centered across the concept of everlasting return, an idea Desmond picked up whereas studying The Homosexual Science, considered one of many works by influential German thinker Friedrich Nietzsche, who’s most regularly related to nihilism.
Wikipedia defines this idea as “time repeats itself in an infinite loop, and that precisely the identical occasions will proceed to happen in precisely the identical approach, again and again, for eternity.”
Bell Witch, “The Clandestine Gate”
What Is Twitter Saying?
There have been loads of combined reactions on Twitter. Some individuals are merely amused on the track’s runtime, whereas others have expressed how little endurance they’ve for such exhaustive, expressive works of aching, agonizing doom steel.
Regardless, it is not fairly often you see a funeral doom artist trending on Twitter, in order that they’re doing one thing proper, on the very least.
Try all of the reactions beneath and get your copy of Future’s Shadow Half 1: The Clandestine Gate here. You possibly can learn the lyrics to the track close to the underside of the web page as nicely.
The Humorous Reactions
Bell Witch Trending = Thoughts Blown
Individuals Who Assume They’re Too Cool to Pay attention Simply As a result of It is Lengthy
Followers Who Love It
Bell Witch, “The Clandestine Gate” Lyrics
Mirrored whisper of me, a drowned ruse
Shallow dug in a pulsing maze
Deafened foe
I see- glowing in a labyrinth of waves
The aired specter, deception of the sunshine
That I comply withSculpted vacancy of all issues
Held in shade, solid by the spark
Returning veil
Hole specter bleeding on the darkish,
The fleeting breath within the returning gentle
That I comply withIncessant wheel of Time, Daybreak’s our bodies
Formless waves frozen in night time
Immutable eyes
Stare infinite and squander sight
Gaze backwards however the waxing gentle,
That I comply with
The second’s fingers eluded by that which period astrays
Scorch the flames of tomorrows to ashes by as we speak,
A lifetime’s shadow
Beneath wingless wind to flight, unborn reminiscence array
That echoes in without end, decay bloomed of the sunshine
That I comply withThe best weight, the breathed wind blown gone
What innumerable shudders of the recurring previous
Open forward
What matter of a flown second shall unfold final
In blooming decay underneath the climbing gentle
That I comply withThe best weight, this recurring daybreak
The best weight, falling glass the rising gate
Of a sightless phantom,
Sullen butcher, the fleeing horizon that without end escapes
Crashing wave of chariots, arrows of the sunshine
That I comply with
The second, if ascent from the sinking blindness
Would take away the barbs from their maintain
Rising spring
A phantom forest rises within the daybreak’s chilly
Bleeding wounds pulse within the gentle
That I comply withIf water may stand, prehensive stone sea
An arrow loosed at without end will quickly crash
As blind waves
Climbing rain gentle throned, the wind shuts
Ten thousand gates- mirrored graves of daybreak
Blinded foe
I hear- in partitions ravens lead upon
Beneath the warless chariot of blinding gentle
That I comply with
Unhallowed ubiquitous grasp
Maintain all the things to the sunshine
That I comply withDaybreak shrouding the void to go
That when daylight comes- arrows of start free
And Loss of life rainsWithin the imbrued daybreak of springs wound
Worms pulse the breathless veins
Of permeation’s throne
Under and above the mountains reign
Enfleshing the spineless ribs of sunshine
That I comply withNo- however hanging life, dawns phantom reality
Climbing to darkness shedding the sunshine
That I comply withLoss of life’s waking crown a blinding shore
Breaking waves reaching above
The start
Of the tip of night time it grew of
Stone organ, purging within the gentle
That I comply with
Purging storm, clandestine gate, the glare escapes
Carving mountains, pulsing gale, the sunshine reappearsThe world’s worn
Pores and skin pile folds, within the distance start nears
In sinking blackness underneath waves of sunshine
That I comply withAn edge above time, heaven’s spire
The precipitous tip of Loss of life’s sight, quickly
Nonetheless air, unshadow the miser stone,
Time, wind into the world of mud
Falling, climbing
Maintain untouched a fleeting breath’s cusp
Of recurring eternity, the rising gentle
That I comply with(Tooth of predation)
The Down-stroking rapacious eye of doom
Within the diadem of waves by the sunshine
That I comply with
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