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Release Date Friday 14th November 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
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.
"Waves Became The Sky," the opening track on Volume II, recalls "Rows (of Endless
Waves)" from Bell Witch's debut album Longing. It was here that Bell Witch and Aerial
Ruin had initial contact, while "King of the Wood," quickly lurks into an abyss deathdoom fans of Thergothon and My Dying Bride will find familiarity in. Track three, "From
Dominion," opens to the power trio resembling the elements of Aerial Ruin's dark folk
temperaments. With a voice one can imagine emerging from some forgotten
dimension in ancient Albion, Moggridge pulls thread as much enchantment as song.
"The Told and the Leadened," the album's closer and longest track clocking in at just
over nineteen minutes is about the cycles of power and how they eclipse and prop
each other up.
The result is a commanding four songs steeped in mysticism, legend, and the
examination of the connective threads that shape and influence the culture,
mythology, and customs of all human societies throughout time in unique, localized
ways.
Tracks: Waves Became The Sky / King of the Wood / From Dominion / The Told
and the Leadened
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