Bell Witch

[Erik Blutaxt]

http://www.facebook.com/BellWitchDoom/

We are pleased to announce that our third full length album “Mirror Reaper” will be released on October 20th through Profound Lore Records.

Pre-order: geni.us/BWMirrorReaperPRE

The album was produced and mixed by Billy Anderson (Swans, Sleep, Neurosis) and contains a continuous 83-minute piece unfolding as a single track. This is our first recorded album with Jesse Shreibman (drums, organ), and again features honorary band member Erik Moggridge (Aerial Ruin). The artwork for "Mirror Reaper" was painted by Mariusz Lewandowski.

The title “Mirror Reaper” is indicative of the Hermetic axiom ‘As Above, So Below,’ written with two sides to form one whole. The song is both its own and its reflection, as an opposite is whole only with its contrary. Our focus as a band has always been the perception of ghosts and the implied archetype of the dichotomy of life/death therein. “Mirror Reaper" is a continuation of that concept.

During the writing process we were devastated by the loss of our dear friend and former drummer, Adrain Guerra. In love and respect to his memory, we reserved an important yet brief section in the song for him that features unused vocal tracks from our last album. This specific movement serves as a conceptual turn in the piece, or point of reflection. We believe he would be proud of it as well.

“Mirror Reaper” was the first collaborative writing project with the new lineup, and Adrian’s death during it brought extra emotional weight.

We sought to match the complexity and weight of these events within the composition of the piece.

[Erik Blutaxt]

fand das duo übrigens endgeil 2013 auf den heavy days in doomtown II in kopenhagen, also logischerweise 3 jahre vor dem tod von schlagzeuger adrian guerra.

witzig:

tfw when you've created your magnum opus: one 83 minute epic track, but have to release it as 2 CDs or 2 LPs.

wäre ja wirklich interessant. haben die einfach einen stop im song genutzt, oder wie wurde das dann aufgeteilt?

[psykosonic]

man muss sich nur einen zweiten plattenspieler kaufen, dann kann man sich das in ruhe anhören

ist bei dopesmoker zwar nur auf einer lp so, geht aber ohne den hörgenuss zu beeinflussen auch mit einem plattenspieler imo

[Erik Blutaxt]

Sleep dopesmoker

ich hab ja da die jerusalem (vermutlich eh 1998, weil sie als "gerade neu veröffentlicht" angepriesen wurde) bei house of pain auf fm4 in voller länge auf kassette damals mitgeschnitten; haben glücklicherweise brav die schnauze gehalten während der ganzen 52-minutennummer. musste die kassette natürlich auch wenden. tausendmal gehorcht. und dann später mal die dopesmoker auf cd gekauft. aber vinyl wäre da witzig, ja.