Passions Mortelles
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We're in December 1988. Six school friends are boring to death on sundays afternoon. All of them want to play music. Each instrument is assigned randomly... I get the bass guitar. Bad (or good) luck, my parents have made a little mistake, and have bought me 6 strings guitar... A premonition ! I was already destined to play multiples instruments.
After a few chaotic rehearsals, settings, headaches, the fisrst songs finally are born. Christophe, the most (and only real) "musician" composes most of the songs with his guitar. Xavier hardens the sound, without imposing his metal influences. Bertrand's keyboard contrasts this raw rock sound. Vincent sings dark, poetic and rebel texts of his to darken the whole thing. Eddy, who had already played drums in a band, ensures a relative "stability" to the songs. Believe it or not, the band's playlist is quiet homogeneous ! After hours of discussion, the band is finally named Passions Mortelles
A first demo tape called : Sur la croix is born the next year. The recording, which is 100 % live and hand-made-in-one-day, has a modest but authentic sound. The global "rock-wave" sound shows how young the 6 musicians still are... Friendly encouragement, a few "not-so-bad" press chronicles and a growing confidence lead us to go on.
Then, a darker style (not every members' cup of tea) grows up naturally inside the band. Rehearsal are harder... Everyone has to make sacrifices, to spare for guitar lessons or to buy material... All of this is too heavy for half of the members that leave. Vincent, Christophe and I, now equiped with a drum machine (that learns us to play regularly) go on composing new songs All of these new titles undoubtedly have an "cold-wave" sound. A new demo tape called Artifices is born in 1990, still recorded in our "la cave" cellar studio. Attached to the demo is a booklet including Vincent's lyrics ... And yes, it's dark ! ;-)

After that, everyone's influences are more numerous and divergent. It's not possible to play on together. However, I've promised to Olivier Paccaud, who is compiling songs for the second record of his now famous L'Appel de la Muse, a clean recorded version of the song called She Cared Neither For God Nor Man. So, I entered a recording studio alone, and played all instruments (including the voice, for the first time). I didn't know at that time, that this would give me desire to do it again !

Passions Mortelles' adventure was over, Act Of Cruelty's one had already started without me...

In year 2000, after a (rare !) free time period, or a 80's revival, or just a clean up crisis, I found some Passions Mortelles live recordings. I artificially compiled these songs on a CD logically called Phoenix.

Times fly ! 25 years since my first rehearsal ! This deserves a little "25 years anniversary" cover ... There it is ! Happy Birthday PM :-)
Download the song Fear or listen to it on the radio.