🔥Bell Witch Albums Ranked🔥

🔥Bell Witch Albums Ranked🔥

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4:37 Album Ranking/Final Thoughts
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A melancholic metal duo based in Seattle, Washington, Bell Witch have developed a potent, minimalist vein of doom, sludge, and post-metal. Named for a folkloric poltergeist, the band's slow, heavy music is all-encompassing; it is by turns melodic, sorrowful, and brooding unto malevolence. Reviewers regularly commented on the juxtaposition of emotional power and brutal physicality in their sound.

Founder/bassist Dylan Desmond claims the band's M.O. from day one was to compose and play aural ghost stories. A listen to their earliest recordings, such as their 40-minute long-playing demo, underscores this impression; by the time they released 2018's Mirror Reaper, a single 87-minute track composed while in mourning, they'd come to embody that M.O.

Formed around the talents of drummer/vocalist Adrian Guerra and bassist/vocalist Dylan Desmond in 2010, the duo released an eponymous, album-length demo. Comprised of short intro and outro bookends, at its heart were two excruciatingly molasses-like extended-length jams that offered their now-trademark brand of glacial melancholy and foreboding. Received with great enthusiasm in the metal press and online, they signed to Profound Lore for their debut album, Longing, in 2012, mixed by Brandon Fitzsimons. Plodding, serpentine, and crushingly heavy, two of the album's six tracks were over ten-minutes long, and one was over 20.

In 2016, while composing music, Guerra passed away in his sleep due to a heart attack. He was 36. Desmond and Shreibman basically stopped playing, uncertain of how to proceed given their crushing sense of loss. They eventually reconvened in 2017, completing the group's third studio long-player, Mirror Reaper. Released at the end of October, the 87-minute single track was recorded as an homage to Guerra and used his scratch vocals throughout. Reviews proved overwhelmingly positive, garnering the band high-profile touring dates all over the globe. In 2018, an archival gig recorded in 2015, Live at Roadburn, was issued, featuring one of Guerra's final performances.

One of the contributors to Mirror Reaper (and indeed much of Bell Witch's catalog) was Erik Moggridge, the singer and principal musician behind Aerial Ruin. Given his long association with Bell Witch, the intention for a collaboration between the two acts was for each to showcase songs of the other's. That idea was pushed to the wayside in favor of an actual collaboration, which made sense given Aerial Ruin and Bell Witch's similar thematic musical concerns with the loss of self as a requirement for a redemptive spiritual journey.

Now the lineup is as follows
Current
►Dylan Desmond Bass, Vocals (2010-present)
►Jesse Shreibman Drums, Vocals (2015-present)

Past
►Adrian Guerra Drums, Vocals (2010-2015)
(R.I.P. 2016)
Past (Live)
►Erik Moggridge Vocals (additional)

Alright so lets get into the ranking now shall we?
►#4-Bell Witch(Demo Released in 2011 Independently)
►#3-Four Phantoms (Released in 2015 On Profound Lore Records)
►#2-Longing (Released in 2012 On Profound Lore Records)
►#1-Mirror Reaper (Released in 2018 On Profound Lore Records)