Belladonna (band)

[6] They have toured all over the world, performed at SXSW[7] and have supported Nine Inch Nails, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Mars Volta, and Dita Von Teese.

[8] Belladonna's music has been used in the trailers of major Hollywood films, including Minions, Split, My Cousin Rachel, Godless, The Dark Tower, Black Panther, and Fahrenheit 11/9.

[12][13][14] From September 2009 the album's first single Till Death Do Us Part received airplay on UK's BBC Four, where Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson aired it on his Friday Rock Show.

[15] In June 2009, Belladonna played a show as special guests to Guns N' Roses/Velvet Revolver bass player Duff McKagan's band Loaded, and in an open-air music festival in Milan with Mars Volta, Korn and Nine Inch Nails[16][17][18][19] In October 2009, Belladonna performed at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles alongside other well-known Italian artists such as Franco Battiato, Giovanni Allevi, and Afterhours.

[22][23][24][25][26][27] In December 2010, Belladonna released Let There Be Light, a single written in collaboration with English composer Michael Nyman and based on his The Heart Asks Pleasure First from the soundtrack of the Jane Campion movie The Piano.

The album features several musical guests, including Imani Coppola and Ruby Friedman, as well as spoken word contributions by British occultist Aleister Crowley and German psychologist Carl Jung[28][29] In May 2011, And There Was Light was released on iTunes worldwide.

[34] In March 2013, Belladonna released a cover of the Guns N' Roses track Sweet Child O' Mine and made it available on iTunes, and as free download on their SoundCloud page.

[38] On 26 February 2014, Belladonna played a headline show in London's legendary rock venue The Borderline[39] On 10 June 2015, Belladonna released Undress Your Soul a song written and produced in collaboration with renowned Italian film composer Pasquale Catalano, based on his music of Italian cult TV series Romanzo criminale – La serie.

The track's video is premiered on Italy's best-selling newspaper La Repubblica's website[40] In July 2015, the Belladonna single The God Below is used in the Fifty Shades of Yellow international TV spot of the animation movie Minions.

[47] In 2018, Belladonna's guitarist Dani Macchi was chosen by Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia to be the vocal coach of her team on the 2018 edition of the tv talent show The Voice of Italy.

[48] In August 2018 Dani Macchi is featured in the trailer of Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 11/9, performing a rock guitar version of "The Star-Spangled Banner".