SAMOTHRACE & BELL WITCH Announce Dates For UK Tour During May 2013
Future Noise and The Sleeping Shaman in association with Kill Town Booking are proud to present the coming together of 2 Seattle behemoths on UK soil for the first time ever!
SAMOTHRACE & BELL WITCH plan to hit these grim shores on Monday 6th May after their performance at the 2nd Heavy Days In Doomtown Festival which takes place over the weekend of the 2nd – 5th May 2013 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
The tour schedule is below and we still need to fill the Monday date, preferably in London/South/South East region and interested promoters should contact lee[at]future-noise[dot]co[dot]uk asap!
Mon 6th May – TBC
Tues 7th May – Star & Garter, Manchester w/ Black Magician [Info]
Weds 8th May – Scruffy Murphys, Birmingham w/ Black Magician & Grimpen Mire [Info]
Read on for more info about both bands
SAMOTHRACE (US) – 20 Buck Spin Records
Samothrace is a pacific north western atmospheric doom band with members and ex members of Bell Witch, Lethe, Book of Black Earth, Splatterhouse, Sentient and Septinomicon among others. Samothrace initially came together out of friendship made through involvement in DIY Punk/Hardcore/Metal community. Although currently based in Seattle, WA, their hometowns span from New Mexico, Kansas, New York City and Oklahoma. Their lyrics, albeit poetic, are rooted in the ideals of social change, political incoherence, and a bleak but positive outlook on life… intended for those who’ve taken back their breath and risen on their own and those who wish to do so. The band is named after a Greek island that is the home of the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, a site of important Hellenic and pre-Hellenic religious ceremonies. The most famous artifact from this site is a large, half-crumbled statue of Nike, the goddess of victory in ancient Greek mythology. Samothrace is an evolving beast. Keep it heavy… keep it underground. Heavy music for heavy times.
BELL WITCH (US) – Profound Lore Records
Bell Witch is a doom metal duo comprised of bassist / vocalist Dylan Desmond (also a member of Samothrace) and drummer / vocalist Adrian Guerra (from Lethe and Sod Hauler) based in Seattle. With only the bare minimum at their disposal, the pair crafts some of the darkest, heaviest and most dismal time-stretching doom in recent memory, and their first releases, a 2011 self-titled demo and a 12” entitled “Longing” has already garnered significant recognition from the underground scene. With a more sinister and enveloping sound, Bell Witch’s debut full-length Longing is a marathon-like exercise in extreme doom. Testing the thresholds of listeners who become engrossed in its overwhelming sonic experience, it’s a powerful statement from one of the most promising acts the American scene has to offer.
The bass and drum duo mount the lead of a tattered line of speakers and volley complex, introspective rhythm lines of sadness and grief. Being no hurry in a storm, the heaviness of the songs crush into multiple layers. There are somber, sustained choral chants reserved for dark cathedrals and aching funerals in contrast to the grimaced, even hateful shrieks and guttural harrowing that carry the eerie storm. Grimly, the drums of a war horde sire a march of dual melody lines played from two hands tapping bass strings with the roaring thunder and floral lightning of the mighty storm. There is shock when the eyes see two bodies where the ears believed five.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Samothrace/67987779185
http://www.bellwitchdoom.com
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bell-Witch/136264673108884
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