Transatlantic project, DEATH BY LOVE has just unveiled ‘Sellenno’ – the new single & video from the forthcoming album, 444 due out on February 20th.
’Sellenno’ is not merely a song. It is an act of confrontation.
Written during autumn, a season of decay and withdrawal, the song emerged as an attempt to give form to pain that had long remained unnamed. As the external world faded into rust and cold, the song became a vessel for what could no longer stay buried: the psychological residue of childhood trauma and the emotional numbness shaped by C-PTSD.
At its core, ‘Sellenno’ explores dissociation: the state in which feeling becomes dangerous, and pain paradoxically turns into the only proof of being alive.
‘Sellenno’ stands as a portrait of survival rather than catharsis. It does not offer healing as spectacle, but as possibility, Speaking openly about trauma becomes, in itself, an act of resistance against silence. For a long time, the past remained locked away. With ‘Sellenno’ , that silence is broken.
The music video for ‘Sellenno’ was filmed on location at the historic Heinz Ketchup Factory in Pittsburgh, USA. Its vast, abandoned interiors – cold, dark, and cavernous provide an ideal visual counterpoint to the song’s emotional core, amplifying themes of dissociation, withdrawal, and inner desolation.
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DEATH BY LOVE weaves gothic, industrial, and trip-hop sensibilities into a singular sonic language, enriched by evocative Middle Eastern vocal textures. The project brings together Peter Guellard—whose decades-long presence in the U.S. dark-electronic underground includes work with The Electric Hellfire Club, Closterkeller, and Blitzkrieg—and Inga Habiba, whose distinctive, spiritually charged voice has been shaped by a multicultural heritage and a long career fronting gothic and new-wave acts in Poland.
A genuinely transatlantic duo, DEATH BY LOVE creates across continents through digital collaboration and embraces a multimedia approach to performance—pushing the concept of live presentation to its limits, even incorporating holographic presence on stage.
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