2013/5/14 -SAMOTHRACE (us), BELL WITCH (us), THE C

“Landmark of modern American doom” – Kim Kelly in Pitchfork on Samothrace.

 “Bell Witch can take your mind to the highest planes of existence” – Cvlt Nation on Bell Witch

Discography:
Life’s Trade 2008
Reverence to Stone 2011

Links:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Samothrace/67987779185?ref=ts&fref=ts
http://www.myspace.com/samothraceproject
http://www.20buckspin.com

Bell Witch is a doom metal duo comprised of bassist / vocalist Dylan Desmond (also a member of Samothrace) and drummer / vocalist Adrian Guerra (from Lethe and Sod Hauler) based in Seattle. With only the bare minimum at their disposal, the pair crafts some of the darkest, heaviest and most dismal time-stretching doom in recent memory, and their first releases, a 2011 self-titled demo and a 12” entitled “Longing” has already garnered significant recognition from the underground scene. With a more sinister and enveloping sound, Bell Witch’s debut full-length Longing is a marathon-like exercise in extreme doom. Testing the thresholds of listeners who become engrossed in its overwhelming sonic experience, it’s a powerful statement from one of the most promising acts the American scene has to offer.

The bass and drum duo mount the lead of a tattered line of speakers and volley complex, introspective rhythm lines of sadness and grief. Being no hurry in a storm, the heaviness of the songs crush into multiple layers. There are somber, sustained choral chants reserved for dark cathedrals and aching funerals in contrast to the grimaced, even hateful shrieks and guttural harrowing that carry the eerie storm. Grimly, the drums of a war horde sire a march of dual melody lines played from two hands tapping bass strings with the roaring thunder and floral lightning of the mighty storm. There is shock when the eyes see two bodies where the ears believed five.

Discography:
Bell Witch – Demo 2011
Bell Witch – Longing 2012

Links:
www.bellwitchdoom.com
www.facebook.com/pages/Bell-Witch/136264673108884
www.profoundlorerecords.com

+ local support:

THE CANYON OBSERVER

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video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?..v=qKdGph62V6A
kapa: www.kaparecords.com

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Fajn napisana recenzija, se strinjam da je kvaliteta zvoka trpela pri americanih.. ampak ce se band sam u startu tko naglas naštela.. ne mores nic..

TCO so mel zame odlicen sound kot tudi nastop. Hudo dober slovenski band mamo! Pri drugem bandu Bell Witch, še vedno kul sound, ampak sta se kar precej navila na odru in je blo že ful naglas.. Samothrace so se pa tko nažgal gor na odru da je povozilo vokal in tonc ni mogu dobit vec vokala vn kot ga je.. in posledicno je tudi donelo.. Pa kljub temu da smo se o tem z bandom pogovarjali ker niso hoteli met tonske, ces da ni treba, da bodo naredili samo line check, medtem ko so Bell Witch in TCO naredili tonsko (pa ceprav sta se pol BW spet bolj odprla kot na tonski) mogoce tud to da so prvic v evropi in jim ni blo use cist jasno.. oz bo drugic bolje..

Js osebno sm itak cvikala za ta koncert (glede glasnosti), ker se je podobno ze dogajal, pri istem zanru in še posebno pri ameriskih bandih.. uglavnem, lahko recem to, da je bla res velika sreca, da sm mela res odlicnega tonca, da kljub taki glasnosti drugi dan ni zvonelo v ušesih.. in da zvok pri taki jakosti ni bil se bolj popacen oz razmazan. Pa sreca je bla tud ta, da se je bandu Samothrace skuril pretvornik, takoj po koncu zadnjega komada, ko so se odpravljali z odra.. ker prejsnji dan v Italiji jim je med koncertom sel (se skuril) kitarski box.. Tko da je pri nas koncert glede na use dobro uspel.

Ni use tako enostavno kot se mogoce zdi.. Hvala usem ki ste prisli na ta koncert. Se vidmo spet v novi sezoni koncertov :)