BELL WITCH & AERIAL RUIN Stygian Bough Volume 2 – Vinyl 2xLP (black)
33.00 €
Profound Lore Records
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Release date : 14 november 2025
Estimated shipping date : mid / end november 2025
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BELL WITCH & AERIAL RUIN Stygian Bough Volume 2 – Vinyl 2xLP (black)
Pressing info : First pressing on black vinyl 2xLP.
In our human minds, according to the Law of Contagious Magic as described in The Golden Bough by anthropologist James Frazer, contact between two objects creates an inseparable thread between them. A gift from a dead friend forever holds this magic like a scar reflecting a wound. Similarly, a piece of food that touches the floor is suddenly abject and rotten. Pairing this notion with the Law of Similarity Magic, as described by Frazer, where an object resembling another can share its power, a musical notion can be understood to serve as an unbodied conduit of such magics; an emotional contact between the music and audience wherein such sorcery threads an inseparable seam that, for a time, resemble each other.
Aptly named in reference to the aforementioned book, on Stygian Bough Volume II, the collaboration between Bell Witch (Dylan Desmond, Jesse Shreibman) and Aerial Ruin (Erik Moggridge) enlivens its unbodied presence resembling both collaborating projects as a conduit in its own separate entity. In the course of an hour, four musical pieces set themselves apart from the catalogs of both individual bands and branch into new territory all the while threaded to the original encounter.
Over the album a cyclical world unfolds in which different perspectives of how various forms of worship empower, eclipse, destroy and feed on each other is explored.
Recorded at Hallowed Halls & Jackpot Studio.
Mixed at Everything HZ, Portland, OR.
Engine-eared by Billy Anderson.
Mastered by Justin Weis at Trakworx.
Cover painting by Denis Forkas.
Design by Chimere Noire.
