Bell Witch – Mirror Reaper (2017)

March 11, 2021

I’ve read a lot of hype about this Mirror Reaper record over the last few months, especially when looking for new metal music. Can’t say that I am familiar at all with the works of Bell Witch, so going in blind I was expecting something in the vein of Sleep’s Dopesmoker. Colour me surprised then, when I found that this album was a more ambient affair. Mirror Reaper swells and builds, from the smallest sound to the largest slab of crushing doom. In a perhaps off-hand comparison as I recently listened to it, this is what Dragged Into Sunlight’s Widowmaker record should have sounded like, if you swap the doom for the death.

Anyway, this is crushingly heavy and not afraid to go over a few set boundaries. Mirror Reaper is deserving of its reputation and I look forward to hearing more material by Bell Witch.