BELLADONNA on CD Baby!!... a VERY SPECIAL for-3-days-only offer!!!!...


BELLADONNA's second CD "The Noir Album" is now available as a mp3 download on the leading indie US online store CD Baby!!...

In order to properly welcome and celebrate the addition of our record to CD Baby's very distinguished catalog we are doing a VERY SPECIAL offer: for 3 days only you'll be able to download the whole "The Noir Album" in mp3 for ONLY $4,99!!!!...

Click here to go to "The Noir Album" CD Baby page and take advantage of this awesome offer NOW while it lasts!!!...


BELLADONNA's "The Noir Album" front cover

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BELLADONNA's "A Manhattan Tale" on RADIO RAI 1!!!...


We have just come back home from 2 incredibly exciting shows with legendary artists like Nine Inch Nails, Korn, Mars Volta and Duff McKagan's Loaded to discover to our utter disbelief that "A Manhattan Tale" a murder song off our latest CD "The Noir Album" has been added to the playlist of Italy's biggest radio station, Radio Rai 1!!!...

With a certified 7.000.000 (yes, an amazing 7 million!!) daily listeners, Radio Rai 1 is by far Italy's most popular radio station, and Belladonna is the first unsigned, DIY and self-produced band ever to be added to its official playlist!

An unbelievable honor for us, and once again the proof that there's still people out there - even in massive media outlets like Radio Rai 1 - that choose to refuse to blindly appease major record labels and that are not afraid to take the mad chance of supporting a band like Belladonna, a band that thrives exclusively on the sheer support, love and word-of-mouth of its friends and fans, a band without any corporate financial backing or high-level connections in the music industry.

Hats off and a big, big, BIG thank you to all the Radio Rai 1 people that made this possible!!...

And, once again a MASSIVE THANK YOU to all the Belladonna friends, fans and Family out there: without you all this would have never happened and - even if it did - it would have meant nothing. THANK YOU!!!!...



BELLADONNA's "A Manhattan Tale" on the Radio Rai 1 playlist

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BELLADONNA live with DUFF McKAGAN's LOADED, MARS VOLTA, KORN & NIN: a road report!!...

Two days ago - Thursday the 25th of June - we all got in our band van very early in the morning. Our destination was the infamous rock club RockPlanet, close to Rimini on the Northwest coast of Italy, right by the sea. We were booked to play a show as Special Guests to the legendary Guns n'Roses/Velvet Revolver bass player Duff McKagan's band Loaded and our spirits were really high when while we were driving on the highway our Dani received a call on his cellphone.

We turned the car stereo right down (we were listening to our own CD "The Noir Album" incidentally!) and listened to Dani going "WHAT??? Are you kidding me?? I don't believe it!!! Yes, yes!! Ok!! Great!!!"... it was our awesome booking agent Livio, he was in a car too with Duff and his band driving to the venue, and he had just received a call from his agency's office: a band (Killswitch Engage, it then turned out) could not make it to the next day's open air show on Milan with Duff McKagan's Loaded, Mars Volta, Korn and Nine Inch Nails... ...and Belladonna had been chosen as substitutes and added to the bill!!... :-O

It is utterly impossible to now convey on the written page the awesome thrill we've felt when it eventually sank in that we were going to play in such a big event with such legendary bands... Our thoughts went of course to all our Friends and fans that in these crazy 3 years since we've opened our MySpace profile have been supporting our quest to keep Belladonna free, unsigned and self-produced so that our music could stay totally free from any corporate, record company, commercial pressure.

Yesterday we really felt you were all on that open-air show stage with us: our band is your band, our songs are your songs, and when we started playing we just knew we were not alone!!... And when we closed the show and we felt the crowd roar we were just so filled with total gratitude towards you that made it all possible: THANK YOU SO MUCH WITH ALL OUR HEARTS FOR EVERYTHING!!!!...

Click here to see a slideshow of some GREAT pics of Belladonna, Loaded, Mars Volta, Korn and Nine Inch Nails by the awesome Luigi Bagatella!!


LUANA, singing in yesterday's open air show in Milan with Mars Volta, Korn and NIN
Pic taken Luigi Bagatella (c) all rights reserved.

TAM and ALEX, noir-rocking away in yesterday's open air show in Milan with Mars Volta, Korn and NIN
Pic by Luigi Bagatella (c) all rights reserved.

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BELLADONNA live with DUFF McKAGAN's LOADED!!...


After having played last Monday with US million-selling band STAIND, next week BELLADONNA will share the stage with another major US rock act, DUFF McKAGAN's LOADED, the band put together by Guns'n'Roses and Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan!!...

We've just been confirmed as their Special Guest in their 25th of June show at RockPlanet, a major rock club in Pinarella di Cervia, Italy.

Duff is a true rock hero and absolute legend so it goes without saying that it's a real thrill and honor for us to be featured in the same show as his band!!...

For all the details on this show, click here!


Duff McKagan's Loaded

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BELLADONNA back in the USA!!... Live in L.A. in October!!...

We are proud to announce that Belladonna has been added to the line up of major music event Hitweek, a showcase of the best new Italian music that will take place in Los Angeles in October!!!

It will be our return as a live band in the USA after our showcases at L.A.'s Key Club and at Austin's SXSW and we truly cannot wait!!...

We are in the Hitweek line-up with fellow Italian bands like Negrita, Le Vibrazioni, Piero Pelù, Afterhours, all names that won't mean anything to a non-Italian rock fan, but they are all major league and major label's artists here in Italy, so please believe us when we say that it's a real thrill for an UBC (Unsigned By Choice!), DIY, self-produced and new band like Belladonna to be featured alongside those long-established and successful Italian acts!...

We are scheduled to play several shows during Hitweek's week - the main one will be at the legendary Fonda Theater - and as soon as we'll have the confirmed details we'll publish them here, so stay tuned and keep the Rock Noir volume loud!!...


BELLADONNA in tour in the USA, March 2009: in some airport somewhere in Texas.
Pic taken by our Alex with his camera's self timer!
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Per i nostri amici e fans italiani!!...


ITALIANO
Un breve messaggio per tutti i nostri amici e fans italiani: ci sono arrivate molte vostre mail che ci chiedono se è possibile trovare il nostro ultimo CD "The Noir Album" nei negozi di dischi italiani.

La risposta è SI, "The Noir Album" è distribuito in TUTTI i negozi di dischi italiani, da Feltrinelli, Messaggerie, FNAC fino al vostro negozio alt-rock di fiducia!

Se il CD non fosse disponibile in un certo negozio perchè esaurito (sappiamo che già è andato esaurito in molti negozi) potete facilmente ordinarlo dando al negoziante nome della band, del CD e del distributore, che nel caso del "The Noir Album" è la Venus. Il negoziante provvederà senz'altro a ordinarlo e a farvelo trovare in negozio nel giro di pochi giorni!!

E cogliamo quest'occasione per ringraziarvi di tutto cuore per l'ENORME supporto che ci state continuando a dare e per l'entusiasmo con il quale avete voluto accogliere questo nostro nuovo album!! ... GRAZIE!!!!!... :-)))

La copertina di "The Noir Album"


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A brief message for all our Friends and fans that live in Italy: we've received lots of e-mails asking us if our latest CD "The Noir Album" is available in Italian record stores.

The answer is YES, "The Noir Album" is distributed in ALL Italian record stores, from the biggest mega-stores to your smallest fave local alt-rock record store!

If the CD is sold out in any given shop (we know it's happened in many stores already) you can easily order it telling the store the band's name, the album's title and the distributor's name, which in "The Noir Album"'s case is Venus. The store will order it and it'll available for you within a few days.

And, while we are here, we'd like to extend you our most heartfelt thanks for the truly AWESOME love & support you are keeping on giving us, and for the enthusiasm with which you have received this latest collection of songs of ours!!... THANK YOU!!!!... :-)))

The "The Noir Album" front cover


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LACUNA COIL and BELLADONNA on the cover of MUEN Magazine... and backstage!!...

Belladonna has just been given the awesome honor of being featured the front cover of US alt-rock mag MUEN Magazine alongside Italy's biggest rock band ever, Lacuna Coil!!...

The MUEN Magazine front cover - May 2009

We've always rated Lacuna Coil very, very highly (need proof? click here and read the Blog post our Dani wrote about them back in September 2006) so this was a real thrill for us - but it was a much bigger thrill when Lacuna Coil's frontman Andrea Ferro turned up backstage at our recent club show in his hometown, Milan!!...

A very down-to-earth, mega-cool and absolutely super-lovely rock'n'roller, Andrea spent some time with us before our show, enthralling our band with his self-effacing attitude and awesome road stories!... It's often been said that a true star shines for his/her human qualities, not for any silly'n'fake "rockstar" stance, and Andrea is a living proof of this: a real diamond guy!!...

We're now totally looking forward to seeing him again and to keeping on seeing his awesome band rise to new r'n'r heights!!... :-))


Luana and Andrea backstage - Milan, 1st of June 2009


Belladonna and Andrea backstage - Milan, 1st of June 2009


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"Till Death Do Us Part" enters the Virgin Radio chart!!...

Belladonna's "Till Death Do Us Part" has entered the Virgin Radio chart!!...

The song is currently at n°19 - the only song in the chart from an Italian band - aside from Lacuna Coil's great new single "Spellbound"!

"Till Death Do Us Part" is the first single off Belladonna's second CD "The Noir Album", and it has been already been featured as Single Of The Week on Virgin Radio, an unprecedented honor for and unsigned, self-produced, DIY band like Belladonna!

Virgin Radio is Italy's most popular Italian rock'n'roll radio station, with almost 2 million daily listeners.

"Till Death Do Us Part" is now available on iTunes: click here for its iTunes page!


"Till Death Do Us Part" in the Virgin Radio Chart

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"The Noir Album" now available on Amazon!!...

Belladonna's much-awaited and critically-acclaimed second CD "The Noir Album" is now available online on Amazon!!...

Click here for the CD's Amazon page, where you'll be able to download it for only $8,99!!... :-))


The "The Noir Album"'s Amazon page
            

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"Till Death Do Us Part" is SINGLE OF THE WEEK on Virgin Radio!!...

Virgin Radio - Italy's biggest rock radio station, over 1,500,000 daily listeners! - has just given Belladonna the ultimate honor by making "Till Death Do Us Part" this week's "The Rocket", which in Virgin-speak is the Single of the Week!!!...

This means that the song will be broadcast at least five times a day for a full week!! Every time the song comes on Marco Biondi (Virgin Radio's "Head of Music") announces it by calling it "Virgin Radio's strongest new song this week", an accolade that we are absolutely thrilled and honored to hear!!...

Click here for the feature on Belladonna published on the Virgin Radio's website - don't forget to bring out your automatic translators, it's written in Italian!!... :-)

"Till Death Do Us Part" is now available on iTunes: click here for its iTunes page!



            

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BELLADONNA live in L.A.: the Greg Allen pictures!

US superstar photographer and graphic designer Greg Allen (he's done work for Miles Davis, Elvis Costello, k.d.lang and The Stooges amongst countless others) has just published on his personal website a few awesome shots that he's taken at Belladonna's recent live showcase at L.A.'s legendary Key Club!!...

Click here to check them all out!!...


Dani at L.A.'s Key Club photographed by Greg Allen

        

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BELLADONNA on the Virgin Radio homepage!!...

Italy's biggest (over 1,500,000 daily listeners!) rock radio station, Virgin Radio, has featured Belladonna on their website's homepage, click here to check it out!!

In the feature it says that Belladonna has "a sensual, mysterious sound, halfway between Edgar Allan Poe's tales and Led Zeppelin. A unique mix christened by the music press as "Rock Noir", a brand new musical genre of which Belladonna are considered the world's prime movers and main artists."

Needless to say it's a great, great honor for us to receive these accolades and especially so when they come from the biggest rock media in Italy. Also, the fact that Virgin Radio has chosen to champion Belladonna - a totally independent, unsigned, self-produced and DIY band - goes a long way to show how this awesome radio, despite its size and influence, steers free from the usual hidden corporate deals with major labels and suchlike, and feels free to programme the music they love, regardless of who makes it and where they come from!!...

And we cannot think of a more rocknoir'n'roll attitude than this!!... Our deepest thanks go to them and of course to all our Friends and fans worldwide that with their awesome support have made this previously-deemed-impossible-to-happen event possible!!!...   :-))



            

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"Till Death Do Us Part": a Tale of Love/Hate

We've just uploaded on our MySpace profile "Till Death Do Us Part" the first single off the brand new Belladonna CD "The Noir Album"!!...

A tale of love/hate, deadly rage and schizophrenia, "Till Death Do Us Part" is one of those rare one-riff-song, with only one gritty guitar phrase that repeats itself obsessively throughout the whole song, a fitting rock noir bed over which Luana's anguished and on-the-edge vocals relate the passion of a love/hate that never dies, the struggle of that inner war with oneself that can never be won while alive. A war we are all going through, in a way or another.

Play "Till Death Do Us Part" at maximum volume, add it to your own profiles and don't forget to send in your comments!!...




Till Death Do Us Part

I’m in hate - I am darkness
Homicidal I predate
She the prey – She the prayer
I the Evil incarnate

And her God - He will save her
Only when it’ll be too late
I’m in hate - I am Herod
And the innocent awaits

She looks at me
A sneer of sheer contempt
She looks like me
And a sudden shiver chills my heart
We’re forever - Till Death Do Us Part
            

I’m insane - torn asunder
Suicidal my checkmate
Am I her doppelganger
Or is she my duplicate?

She looks at me
I wait for her to blink
She laughs at me
And a sudden shot bolts through my heart
We are One - Till Death Do Us Part

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"The Noir Album" enters iTunes album charts!!...

AWESOME NEWS!!!... :-))

The Belladonna second CD "The Noir Album has just entered the iTunes album charts!!!...  

A few hours ago (see pic below) it was sitting rather confortably at position n.54  of the rock album charts here in Italy, an absolutely unprecedented event for a self-produced band like ours!!...



This is of course only thanks to all our wonderful, wonderful fans that have always supported us and to the multitude of new friends that are contributing to spread the Belladonnamania all over the world: to be acknowledged by you all is for us a truly awesome honor.

Click below to watch the "Till Death Do Us Part" (the first single from "The Noir Album") video, click here for the "The Noir Album" iTunes page and, once again, thanks SO MUCH to you all!!!... :-)))

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New BELLADONNA video online NOW!!...

The video of "Till Death Do Us Part" - the Belladonna second CD "The Noir Album"'s first single - is online NOW!!...

The video has been directed and edited by our Dani - with more than a little help from Belladonna's former bass player and great friend Cherry as camera operator - and it's a very noir affair, featuring our ever-luscious Luana, a double-bed and a videocamera... "sex, noir and videotape"?

Click below to watch it click here to get the song on iTunes and don't forget to send us your comments!!!... :-)))

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