October 11th, 2023
Modified Ghost presents
Bell Witch
Spirit Possession, Grave Infestation
+19 (with 2 pieces of govt issued ID)
DOORS: 7:00PM
Seattle Doom Metal duo Bell Witch bring a night of sludgy riffs to the Rickshaw on October 11th with guests Spirit Possession and Grave Infestation!
Bell Witch
Nothing’s bigger than life. All vastnesses — expanding space, infinite time — crouch inside of consciousness. On a historical scale, to say nothing of a cosmic one, the individual human life vanishes, and yet it’s the only aperture any of us get into reality. It’s barely there, and it’s all there is.
That’s the paradox Bell Witch drives at. For more than a decade, the Pacific Northwestern doom metal band has sent tides surging over the seawalls of the song form, unraveling conventional expectations about the ways music stations itself in time to absorb a listener’s attention. Rather than seek catharsis, the duo’s songs heave themselves through time at a glacial pace, staving off resolution in favour of a trancelike capsule eternity. Invoking both boundlessness and claustrophobia in the same charged gesture, Bell Witch cultivates a sense of time outside of time, an oasis inside an increasingly frenetic media culture.