Stygian Bough is the intensive collaboration between the funeral doom metal band BELL WITCH (Dylan Desmond, Jesse Shreibman) and AERIAL RUIN, the dark folk project of Erik Moggridge:

Ever since Bell Witch's debut album Longing (2012), Moggridge has been a constant guest in the sound world of Bell Witch. This long-standing connection ultimately resulted in an independent project: STYGIAN BOUGH. The name refers to James Frazer's hugely influential anthropological comparative study The Golden Bough and hints at the conceptual aspiration - music as a magical bond that inextricably links listener and sound. With Volume I (2020), the trio presented a masterpiece that fused doomy heaviness with fragile melody. An epic chunk of music, a deeply moving journey through dark dreams and landscapes of epic violence, Volume II is now imminent and promises to explore this alchemical connection even deeper.

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