Bell Witch Releases ‘Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate’ + Announces Fall Tour

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For more than a decade, the renowned Pacific Northwestern doom metal band Bell Witch 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.

The newly released, Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate, like 2017’s lauded Mirror Reaper, 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.

Bell Witch have also announced an extensive Summer tours across U.K. and Europe followed by North America in the Fall. “We can’t wait to be on tour performing ‘The Clandestine Gate’ and for this piece to further blossom in the live arena,” tells bassist Dylan Desmond through a press release. Tickets go on sale TODAY at 10AM Local . See below for a full list of dates.

Bell Witch 2023 Tour Dates :

May 26: Seattle, WA – Northwest Terrorfest
Aug 11: Jaromer, CZ – Brutal Assault Fest
Aug 12: Regensburg, DE – Void Fest
Aug 14: Antwerp, BE – Kavka
Aug 15: London, UK – Oslo
Aug 16: Sheffield, UK – Corporation
Aug 17: Manchester, UK – Bread Shed
Aug 18: Bristol, UK – ArcTanGent Festival
Aug 20: Saint Nolff – Motocultor
Aug 22: Nijmegen, NL – Doomroosje #
Aug 23: Cologne, DE – Gebaude 9 #
Aug 24: Karlsruhe, DE – P8 #
Aug 25: Winterthur, CZ – Gaswerk #
Aug 26: Lonate Ceppino, IT – Black Inside #
Aug 27: Bologna, IT – Cinema Perla #
Aug 29: Wroclaw, PL – Stary Klasztor #
Aug 30: Leipzig, DE – UT Connewitz #
Aug 31: Berlin, DE – Lido #
Sep 01: Hannover, DE – Cafe Glocksee #
Sep 03: Copenhagen, DK – Killtown Deathfest #
Oct 11: Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre *
Oct 12: Calgary, AB – Dickens *
Oct 13: Edmonton, AB – The Starlite Room *
Oct 14: Saskatoon, SK – Louis’ *
Oct 15: Winnipeg, MN – Park Theatre *
Oct 17: St Paul, MN – Turf Club *
Oct 18: Milwaukee, WI – Turner Hall *
Oct 19: Iowa City, IA – Gabe’s *
Oct 20: Chicago, IL – Sleeping Village *
Oct 21: Detroit, MI – Smalls *
Oct 22: Toronto, ON – Trinity St. Paul’s Church Sanctuary *
Oct 24: Montreal, QC – La Sala Rossa *
Oct 25: Portland, ME – SPACE *
Oct 26: Boston, MA – Sonia *
Oct 27: New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge *
Oct 28: Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church Sanctuary *
Oct 29: Baltimore, MD – Ottobar *
Oct 31: Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle *
Nov 01: Atlanta, GA – Boggs Social & Supply *
Nov 02: New Orleans, LA – Santos *
Nov 03: Houston, TX – Black Magic Social Club *
Nov 04: Austin, TX – The Parish *
Nov 05: Dallas, TX – Texas Theatre *
Nov 07: Albuquerque, NM – Sister *
Nov 08: Denver, CO – Marquis *
Nov 09: Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge *
Nov 10: Boise, ID – El Korah Shrine *

# w/ Fuoco Fatuo
* w/ Spirit Possession