Band info
Band: Halizth
Album: Halizth
Released: March 10th, 2025
Genre: atmospheric black metal, cosmic black metal
Location: France
Review 
Black metal is “anywhere out of the world” to use Dead Can Dance‘s song as a reference. Escape from the confines of the material or the earthen is a common tendency that expresses the transcendental aesthetics of the genre, and is one that creates artistic value, at the same time as contributing to some of its issues, no doubt. One of the subgenres of BM that very literally expresses this is space black metal (or cosmic black metal, as the band self-identifies), to which Halizth belongs, as you might easily guess from the beautiful hand-drawn cover. What a pleasure it is then to find bands that may choose distance aesthetically, but not politically, like this one-man project from France, whose self-titled debut album we present today.
Divided into four ten-minute tracks, among which three are entitled “Debris” and one “Reconstruction“, Halizth combines atmospheric black metal with dark ambient and drone elements, as well as electronic synths and sequencers which appear throughout the metal tracks, creating diverse and sometimes complex soundscapes.
Halizth definitely knows its electronic stuff well, which helps avoid the common pitfall of using just pads with sounds we have heard a lot of times in this style. The album flows well with an interjection of almost an equal number of metal and ambient/electronic parts, and we’re left to want for more in the end. Unfortunately, a note on Bandcamp says that “Halizth is no more, but we will rebuild“. We await the next step, whatever it is, from the inspired mind that came up with “Halizth“.
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