Electronic press kit

Bio

Belle Morte is a musical project from Minsk, Belarus, now based in Poland, playing dark symphonic metal with a gothic/progressive flavor and a melancholic vibe. The band’s debut EP “Game On” was released in 2018.

In 2021 the band signed a deal with the Italian label Wormholedeath to release their full-length conceptual album “Crime of Passion”, inspired by John Fowles’s “The Collector”. The album tells a coherent story that begins with an unhealthy obsession and stalking and ends in murder, told from the side of both the murderer and his victim.

Crime of Passion is one of those albums that will drag you to darkness, take you to another world and captivate all your senses once and for all, just the way we like it in Gothic music, and let’s hope Belle Morte and her amazing crew can keep embellishing the airwaves with more releases like their excellent new album for all eternity.

Gustavo Scuderi, The Headbanging Moose

The second band’s album  “Pearl Hunting” marks a bold new direction, incorporating a diverse range of ethnic instruments and musical traditions from across the globe. The album features collaborations with musicians from 12 different countries, integrating instruments like the Ukrainian bandura, Japanese shamisen, Celtic bouzouki, and Mongolian morin khuur, creating a rich fusion of symphonic metal and world music. While some tracks explore familiar combinations of symphonic metal and folk influences, like Northern and Celtic sounds, others push the boundaries with more experimental and unconventional fusions, incorporating instruments such as the Armenian duduk and Indonesian suling and gamelan.

Its both exhilarating and impressive when bands experiment with different sounds and constantly reinvent themselves. Belle Morte proves to be a force of nature with all their creative endeavors.

Metal Lair

At the core of Belle Morte’s art is the exploration of contrasts and dualities. The band invites listeners to see the beauty in disturbing things and the darkness in seemingly beautiful ones. Through their music, lyrics, and visual imagery, Belle Morte challenges their audience to look beyond the surface and find the beauty in the unexpected. Whether exploring the bleak landscapes of the Finnish tundra, the steppes of Mongolia, or the deserts of the Middle East, Belle Morte invites listeners on a journey through the shadows of the human experience.

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Reviews

• LP review by the Headbanging Moose EN
• LP review by Science of Noise ES
• LP review by riffofmetal ES
• LP review by metalepidemic EN
• LP review by rocknforce FR
• LP review by metalwave IT
• LP review by versacrum IT
• LP review by Book of Metal IT
• LP review by Metal Temple EN
• LP review by Almost anything media EN
• EP review by valkyrianmusic.com EN
• EP review by nneformat.ru RU
• EP review by spirit-of-metal.com FR
• Mercy single review by heavymetaltshirts.net EN
• EP reviews on metal archives EN