Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate (Single Review)

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Daylen DeKeyrel

Bell Witch’s new 83-minute long single is outstanding yet again. It marks the same beats as their 2017 sensation Mirror Reaper, but adds a whole new layer to an epic song.

An 83-minute behethom of an album that is only one track. A very similar song to Bell Witch’s iconic masterpiece Mirror Reaper, but is not just a standalone track. It is in fact part one of a trilogy. A song so long alone that it cannot be on CD, and the only way you can listen to this single physically is by vinyl. I had in mind that I would eventually review Mirror Reaper. Fortunately and unfortunately this track is very much a redux and if not a continuation to Mirror Reaper.  This does create a clash of opinions for what I should consider in this review. If this wasn’t Bell Witch I would have a problem. It has all the right new blends of genres to obfuscate my expectation into thinking this is Mirror Reaper. The savoring of the climatic build up for this and Mirror Reaper give are the pinnacle of drawing it out perfectly. You cannot listen to this song without experiencing every second from beginning to end. The song builds with a very, very similar composition to Mirror Reaper and dies for a minute after twenty-four minutes in. The song transforms into an almost darker tone into the clear vocals that are worth the thirty minutes to get to. The guttural vocals don’t appear till halfway through the song. This may be even better than Mirror Reaper in its diversity and tone that persuades me to give it another relisten. This incredible resemblance to Mirror Reaper that somehow takes the best twist and turns to stand alone as its own unique track. Bell Witch’s single is available on most platforms. So give it a spin and enjoy the funeral doom to its fullest with this one single song.

 

8/10

Another dark, magnificent piece filled to the brim with musical ambiguity.