METALLIAN - Glorior Belli

March 18th, Anno 22

O Laudate Dominvs - 2005 - Eerie Art
Manifesting The Raging Beast - 2007 - Southern Lord
Meet Us At The Southern Sign - 2009 - Candlelight
The Great Southern Darkness - 2011 - Metal Blade
Gators Rumble, Chaos Unfurls – 2013 - Agonia
Sundown (The Flock That Welcomes) – 2016 - Agonia
The Apostates – 2018 – Season Of Mist
Glorior Belli - 2025 - Dark Empire

Members

Vocals

Obscurus Advocam, Wolfe, 11 As In Adversaries>>INFESTUUS [JULIEN] [BILLY BAYOU]>>Obscurus Advocam, Wolfe, 11 As In Adversaries

Guitar

Obscurus Advocam, Wolfe, 11 As In Adversaries, Integrity, Under The Red Tide>>INFESTUUS [JULIEN] [BILLY BAYOU]>>Obscurus Advocam, Wolfe, 11 As In Adversaries, Integrity, Under The Red Tide - Temple Of Baal>>Alastor [Chris]>>Temple Of Baal, Dernier Souffle

Bass

Pogrom, Blackgod>>Nefastus>>Pogrom, Blackgod, Temple of Baal, Obscurus Advocam - Merrimack, Blackgod, Heol Telwen>>Dispater>>Merrimack, Blackgod, Heol Telwen, Hexen Holocaust

Drum

Antares>>Blackgod, Temple Of Baal - Dying Awkward Angel, Black Flame, Disiplin, Daemusinem>>M:A Fog>>Black Flame, Disiplin, Daemusinem - Bound By Entrails>>Mortaeus - Frostmoon Eclipse, Arcana Coelestia, Ad Hominem, Antares Predator, Kult, Aptorian Demon, Handful Of Hate, Hiems, Imposer, Nocternity, In Extremo Spiritu, Obscure Devotion, Silva Nigra, 11 As In Adversaries, Deathrow, Satanic Supplicia, Tumulus Anmatus>>G. [Gionata Potenti]>>Frostmoon Eclipse, In Extremo Spiritu, Kult, 11 As In Adversaries, Deathrow, Satanic Supplicia, Hobbs Angel Of Death, Tumulus Anmatus, Violentor, Αχέροντας, Blood Moon, Blut Aus Nord, Martröð, Shadows Ground, Chaos Invocation, Cultist, Liber Null, Nubivagant, Ritual Death

History & Biography

French Satanists Glorior Belli convened in 2002 as Mogradem and in a year released the Evil Archaic Order demo. The band’s debut album was issued in 2005 through Eerie Art with Satanic Propaganda Records taking care of a tape version. The group next made a pact with Southern Lord and issued Manifesting… in June of 2007. The band released its newest full-length album, Meet Us At The Southern Sign, on June 2nd, 2009 through Candlelight Records. Infestus had taken over the bass guitar. The band was forced to cancel its participation in the CIII tour in the USA and Canada with Absu, Averse Sefira and the US version of Sothis in the spring of 2009. The band could not obtain a US visa. The band soon announced the addition of drummer Gaël Barthelemy (Balrog, Svartcrown, Antaeus and Diabolic) to the band. Glorior Belli next recruited bassist Jay Newman and drummer Darren Verni both of Unearthly Trance. They join Chris (a.k.a. Alastor) and Julien (a.k.a. Infestvvs). Glorior Belli recruited drummer G. (Frostmoon Eclipse and Deathrow) in time for the recording of The Full Intrepid Experience Of Light album in 2010. The music being so different the group created an alternate band called 11 As In Adversaries to release the album. Metal Blade Records signed France's Glorior Belli in 2011. The band's next album, The Great Southern Darkness, was to be released in the autumn. G was on drums. He had played on every single album by every single band since forever. With every member leaving between 2011 and 2013 Billy Bayou became the sole member.

Glorior Belli, the project of Billy Bayou, announced the release of a new album for 2025. The self-titled record was available through the reconstituted Dark Empire Records in March 2025. There was a music video for Weltschmerz Wield Power. The album was recorded in 2021 shortly after Billy Bayou became the touring bassist for hardcore band Integrity.

Reviews

GLORIOR BELLI - MANIFESTING THE RAGING BEAST - SOUTHERN LORD
The US South is best known for a love affair with Jesus, all things fundamentalist and often called The Bible Belt for this reason. It is fascinating then that in such a neighbourhood a Southern Lord would become the entity to channel such praiseworthy Luciferian music.
Glorior Belli might sound like yet another delicate so-called power metal band, but look at the album’s name. That is the album’s title and music. This is a black metal band influenced by equal parts Mayhem and Dissection with a twist. Glorior Belli has a mean streak of doom running through its nefarious blood that is manifested in the feral beats, tempos such as the one found on opening track From Darkness There Springs Light or dominating the song Altered Verses. In fact, the rare guitar solo of the album which is heard on the latter song is uncannily familiar to something Solitude Aeturnus would play. Now that is irony. A special nod goes to drummer M:A Fog whose rhythm and sound remind one once again why every band need a human drummer with blood pumping in his veins. Be it heaviness, violence, fury or fullness of sound Glorior Belli is another tribute to the French metal movement. - Ali “The Metallian”

Interviews

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