Laurent Bellemare is a music enthusiast and musician from Montreal, Canada. He recently completed a master’s degree in Musicology at the University of Montreal, following a bachelor’s degree in that field and a two-year jazz drumming program at Cégep de Saint-Laurent. Outside of the academic milieu, he has primarily been active in extreme metal, experimental and non-western music as a drummer, percussionist and/or vocalist. Some of the projects he is involved with include Growlers Choir, Kumpa’nia, Chthe’ilist and Gamelan Giri Kedaton. Besides music, Laurent has interests in language, cinema, cooking and science fiction.