Although the band have played part of Mirror Reaper live at previous shows, the full album has only been performed once in full, at this year’s Roadburn Festival – complete with visuals created by Taylor Bednarz, and vocals from Aerial Ruin’s Erik Moggridge. This full-scale performance will be replicated in its entirety at a number of special, seated shows across Europe at the end of the year.
The band comments:
“We performed the first half of Mirror Reaper this past April in much of Europe, and we’re very excited to return and perform the album in its entirety. This will feature Erik Moggridge of Aerial Ruin performing in the second half of the song with us. It’s humbling to have gotten such a positive reaction to this album from so many people.”
In late 2017, director, Taylor Bednarz, created a feature-length music video to accompany the Mirror Reaper album. The film is a video collage comprised of dozens of archival films. Each of these clips are woven together with the album to build a patient, heavy, and haunting narrative. The film aims to hold the viewer in the state of a lucid dream, feeling trapped as a spectre drifting through places of darkness.
All shows on the tour will be performed in front of the Mirror Reaper film. The trailer for the film is available to view below;
BELL WITCH European tour dates:
November 28 – Reykjavik IS – Gaukurinn
November 30 – London UK – The Dome
December 1 – Leeuwarden NL – Into Darkness Festival
December 2 – Sint Niklaas BE – Darken The Moon
December 3 – Wiesbaden DE – Schlachthof
December 5 – Leipzig DE – UT Connewitz
December 7 – Poznan PL – Sala Gotycka
December 8 – Berlin DE – Zukunft Am Ostkreuz
December 13 – Cork IE – Cyprus Avenue (click here for the official event link)
December 14 – Dublin IE – Thomas House (click here for official event link)
Oran O’Beirne
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