Since the release of their self-titled demo in 2011, Seattle's Bell Witch has become one of the most talked about doom metal bands in the game. Conceived as a bass and drum duo, Dylan Desmond and Adrian Guerra made their two instruments sound inconceivably large, crafting long, dynamic, intensely heavy doom tracks across their demo and a pair of LPs. After 2015's Four Phantoms, Guerra left the band, with Jesse Shreibman taking over on drums. As the new duo was beginning the writing process for their first album together, Guerra tragically passed away, which impacted the album in a profound way. When such a devastating, monumentally personal event is intertwined with a record, it can become hard, even impossible, to extricate the two from one another. On October 20, Bell Witch returns with Mirror Reaper, the composition of which, the band says, "sought to match the complexity and weight of these events."
