Death By Love unveil ‘Sellenno’ single and video from debut album ‘444’ on Distortion Productions
Death By Love
Transatlantic dark electronic duo Death By Love have released their new single “Sellenno” from the forthcoming debut album “444”, scheduled for 20 February 2026 on Distortion Productions.
Recorded as part of an 11-track concept album, “Sellenno” is according to the band a direct engagement with trauma and dissociation rather than a conventional breakup song. Written in autumn, described as “a season of decay and withdrawal”, the track was conceived to give form to long-buried childhood pain and the emotional numbness associated with C-PTSD.
The accompanying video was filmed inside the cold, cavernous interiors of the former industrial disused Heinz Ketchup Factory in Pittsburgh, USA.
Instead of framing the piece as catharsis, Death By Love describe “Sellenno” as a portrait of survival, where speaking openly about trauma functions as resistance to silence.
“Sellenno” follows a run of digital releases that introduced the duo’s sound in 2025. The three-track single “Strong Inside” appeared at the end of January 2025 through Distortion Productions, featuring the album version, an acoustic-leaning rework and a Kromproom Machine remix. In March 2025, Death By Love issued a Polish-language cover of Maanam’s “Krakowski Spleen”, accompanied by a video built from AI-generated visuals, with an English version earmarked for inclusion on “444”.
Pre-orders for “444” are open via Death By Love’s Bandcamp page, which offers the album in digital form and as a physical CD, with the track “In Unity” currently available to hear ahead of release.
Between these releases, the band contributed to COP International’s 75-track wildfire relief compilation “Los Angeles – From The Ashes“, which brought together industrial and electronic acts across multiple labels to raise funds for victims of the Los Angeles wildfires. Death By Love’s track on the compilation sat alongside material from labelmates on Distortion Productions and partner labels such as Metropolis Records, Infacted Recordings and Dependent Records.
About Death By Love
Death By Love is a Polish–U.S. dark electronic project that combines gothic, industrial and dark electro structures with trip-hop pacing and prominent Middle Eastern melodic inflections. The group’s core members are Polish singer-songwriter Inga Habiba and Polish-born, U.S.-based producer, multi-instrumentalist and remix artist Peter Guellard.
Habiba began performing in her teens with the new wave band Nizam and went on to front projects including Monev, Ahimsa and the Warsaw-based gothic rock group Lorien, alongside work with the folk-ethnic ensemble Habiarjan and electronic act NUN Electro, as well as her solo project CallMe.
Guellard’s trajectory runs through the Polish goth band Blitzkrieg and subsequent work in the U.S. dark-electronic underground, including involvement with projects such as MACE, The Electric Hellfire Club, Venus in Furs and Dichro. After Dichro dissolved, a remix commission for NUN Electro’s “Hide” led to deeper collaboration with Habiba on her CallMe material, which in turn developed into the dedicated Death By Love project.
The duo formally signed with Distortion Productions in January 2025. Their debut single “Strong Inside” followed at the end of that month, introducing their fusion of slow-building electronic arrangements, club-compatible rhythms and introspective lyrical themes. The band subsequently released the Maanam cover “Krakowski Spleen” in March 2025, before working towards “444” as their first album-length.
For live performances, Death By Love expand to a full band setup with guitarist Adrian Adioetomo and drummer Joe Palermo as key stage collaborators, next to guitarists Pam Simmons and Tomasz “Mechu” Wojciechowski.
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