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Devils x Jacob’s Ladder Commentary

Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 film by Adrian Lyne about a VIetnam War veteran slowly losing his sense of reality. Perhaps it's Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? Perhaps it's something more diabolic and sinister? This clip is made up of two scenes that I flipped from their original running order partially because I felt like the resolve of the chiropractor, a guardian angel archetype, was out of the greater context of the film for this clip. Quoting Meister Ekhardt, he tries to soothe Tim Robbins cha...

Devils x Jacob’s Ladder

Tour!

Our set at Roadburn on Friday was a powerful and emotional way to launch the touring around The Clandestine Gate. Now we look forward to the first wave of dates across Europe, The UK and North America. I hope I’ll get to say hello to some of you along the way. All festival dates are on sale now. Headline dates go on sale Friday April 28th at 10am local time, tickets will be available at bellwitchdoom.net/live

As alw...

An Animal

The Clandestine Gate Variants

We know some of you are disappointed there was not a Patreon exclusive LP variant of the new Bell Witch record. Unfortunately the band itself was only allocated two variants which went into our US and EU webstores. There will likely be limited edition represses in the future and we will do our absolute best to have one made for you guys.

Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate

It is with much excitement that today we announce our new LP - Future’s Shadow Part 1: The Clandestine Gate. All formats can be pre-ordered now, along with new merch designs here. The full record will be available to stream and purchase digitally everywhere this Friday, April 21st while physical copies will land June 9th.

The Clandestine Gate is the first installment in a trilogy of releases, collectively titled F...

An Animal x On The Silver Globe Commentary

This soundtrack to this clip of On The Silver Globe by Andrzej Zulawski marks the third and final installment of the series on Zulawski's use of doppelgangers, though many more could be done with his other films. In this particular clip the reference is more philosophical than visual as in the previous two- humans have landed and colonized a distant planet and the civilization's history on earth slowly begins to repeat itself. The alien interrogated exposes itself as a sort of twisted, fantas...

Tomorrow!

Friends -

Mark your calendars for 8am ET / 2pm CET tomorrow, April 18th. We’ll be announcing something big and don’t want you to miss out.

Until then!

An Animal x On The Silver Globe

A Tidal Wave

A Tidal Wave x Third Part of the Night Commentary

The Third Part of the Night is part two in my trilogy by Polish director Andreij Zulawski on doppelgangers. While last month's clip was set in London, this film is set during the second World War in Nazi occupied Poland. The protagonist is forced by the Nazi's to feed lice for Typhus research after he watches his family murdered by soldiers. In this clip we see him metaphorically traverse his subconscious into the depth of his mind in his descent through the hospital.

Entering, he takes...

A Tidal Wave x Third Part of the Night

March Video

Friends -

The March video clip will be coming early next week. Apologies for the delay this month, February’s shortness caught up with me and the Stygian Bough shows last weekend have me a bit behind. Wanted to keep you all posted. Stay tuned.

Thanks for being here,

Dylan.

Don't Open

Don’t Open x The Possession Commentary

This month's clip is from the film Possession by Andzej Zulawski. This will mark the first in a forthcoming series of various other films he directed, though perhaps not in a consecutive order, where he also incorporates and explores the doppelganger theme. Zulawski's style is erratic, terrifying, and oftentimes confusing, which ultimately leads to the unique sense of terror in his films. A theme of Bell Witch itself is positioned around conceptual ghosts, which can easily be seen to...

Don’t Open x The Possession

The Magus

Annual Subscription Discount Now Available

Friends -

Happy new year.

Today we’ve launched an annual subscription discount, if you move from monthly billing to annual you’ll receive one month free!

It has been an absolute joy for me to choose a film each month to pair an original composition with and writing these mini-scores has allowed me to test out new techniques, ideas, and instruments - many of which were incorporated into the writing for the new Bell Witch material. I hope you have been enjoying the content...

The Magus x The Shout Commentary

The Shout is a 1978 film by Jerzy Skolimoski based on a story by Robert Graves. In it, a man claims to have learned an ancient and mostly forgotten method of turning his voice into a weapon that kills all those in its projected path. A musician he befriends finds this claim doubtfully curious and asks to hear it. Grabbing a candle to secretly protect his ears, the musician sets out behind the determined man to test the claim. Heading towards an open spot without potential bystanders (an effor...

The Magus x The Shout

The Stowaway

The Stowaway x Alien Commentary

​​This clip is from the final scene in Ridley Scott's Alien. After all the discovery and destruction of the main ship and crew, Ripley believes she escaped the carnage by blowing up the main ship with the infestation and prepares to hibernate for the journey home on the escape pod. But escape is a fleeting fantasy- the wounded alien has stowed itself away on her escape pod! The scene sets us up for an acute fear that comes from its serenity as she undresses for hibernation after narrowly ...

The Stowaway x Alien

Webstore sales

Wanted you guys to be the first to know that starting Friday through Sunday, Nov 27th everything will be 15% off in our US and EU webstores with code EOTY2022.

Shop at these links:

US - https://www.districtlines.com/Bell-Witch

EU - https://evilgreed.net/collections/bellwitch

Bean Sidhe

Bean Sidhe x Oramunde Commentary

Oramunde is a film rendition of the theme from the opera Pelleas et Melisande by Maurice Maeterlinck about a forbidden love between the two title characters. Oramunde was filmed in 1933 and I was captivated the first time I saw it just months ago. The flowing white veil hints at innocence but is a somewhat macabre covering of the entire face and body, suggesting something more complicated; perhaps dangerous. As she dances through forest and seashore the veil becomes soiled and torn. Her expre...

Bean Sidhe x Oramunde

Food For Worms

Food For Worms x Chimes At Midnight Commentary

I've been wanting to do a battle scene for one of these and this clip from Orson Welles' "Chimes At Midnight" was perfect. I think the fast paced camera work and abundant violence pair symbiotically with both the softer and heavily distorted music to amplify both mediums. At first, I hated the ending dialog- Hotspur's grinning face as he delivers his last words is unconvincing and even cringy. But something in that grew on me. It feels like a misinterpretation of Shakespeare's intent at a "va...

Food For Worms x Chimes At Midnight