Bell Witch - Future's Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2020 . All Them Witches have built a career out of playing music that cannot be pigeonholed into one specific genre. Nothing as the Ideal was recorded in Studio 2 at the world-famous Abbey Road with the help of longtime mixing engineer Mikey Allred. The history and vibe of that setting laid the groundwork for what was to come. The band's signature psychedelic blues riffs, relentless drums, melodic bass lines and non-linear lyrics are all present. The resulting album is a thought provoking head banger that is the band's most cohesive album to date.

After eleven years of releasing albums and touring the world, Khemmis' 5th full length record is a dense, blood-infused honey for the ear. A grand spiritual celebration of heavy metal, a concept album framed as a ritual of musical freedom that starts with the pounding rhythms of InchInvocation of the DreamerInch and culminates with the starlit exaltation of InchBenediction Tones.Inch

On Stygian Bough Volume II, the collaboration between Bell Witch (Dylan Desmond, Jesse Shreibman) and Aerial Ruin (Erik Moggridge) enlivens it's unbodied presence resembling both collaborating projects as a conduit in it's own separate entity. In the course of an hour, four musical pieces set themselves apart from the catalogs of both individual bands and branch into new territory all the while threaded to the original encounter. Over the album a cyclical world unfolds in which different perspectives of how various forms of worship empower, eclipse, destroy and feed on each other is explored.InchWaves Became The Sky,Inch the opening track on Volume II, recalls InchRows (Of Endless Waves)Inch from Bell Witch's debut album Longing. It was here that Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin had initial contact, while InchKing Of The Wood,Inch quickly lurks into an abyss death-doom fans of Thergothon and My Dying Bride will find familiarity in. Track three, InchFrom Dominion,Inch opens to the power trio resembling the elements of Aerial Ruin's dark folk temperaments. With a voice one can imagine emerging from some forgotten dimension in ancient Albion, Moggridge pulls thread as much enchantment as song. InchThe Told And The Leadened,Inch the album's closer and longest track clocking in at just over nineteen minutes, is about the cycles of power and how they eclipse and prop each other up.The result is a commanding four songs steeped in mysticism, legend, and the examination of the connective threads that shape and influence the culture, mythology, and customs of all human societies throughout time in unique, localized ways.