Bell Witch – Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate 2LP 10" Vinyl When the founder of Chinese

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and then the recruitment of Brendan Sloan (Convulsing) to fill the void on bass and vocals — cementing the band as a force to be reckoned with once more

anchored by blast beats and bellowing guttural vocals

apparently percolating since 2015 as a loosely-conceived score for an actual meatspace guitar quartet

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Bell Witch – Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate 2LP 10" Vinyl When the founder of ChineseLike 2017's lauded Mirror Reaper, The Clandestine Gate is a single 83 minute piece of funeral doom 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. While traces of organ and synthesizer hovered over Mirror Reaper and Bell Witch's 2020 collaboration with Aerial Ruin, Stygian Bough Volume 1 The Clandestine Gate drew those