Halo
Body Of Light

THE REVIEW

It is not easy to write a review about a group like Halo.
It's not simple music to explain in words, you have to listen to it and endure its full heaviness before you can express a judgment.

This Australian duo (Skye Klein: bass, synth, and vocals, Robert Allen: drums) debuted with Relapse (and who else...) in 2001 with "Guattari (From The West Flows Grey Ash And Pestilence)" after a past made up of self-produced records (which are also available for free download on their official site) in their country of origin.
In 2003, they released this monolith known as "Body Of Light", a dark, explosive, fearsome, and damnably sick album, where explosions of synths (used in place of guitars) counterbalance Klein's abyssal screams.

This is timeless music, the ideal soundtrack of a ruined planet, where machines govern, of a world where the few surviving humans are prisoners of the automatons they themselves created.
The tracks flow through the stereo crushing the unfortunate listener; here there is no trace of melody, the rhythm is slow, claustrophobic and obsessive, and the singer's screams, similar to invocations, are distressing.
The classification is difficult: Doom can be glimpsed in the slow progression of the tracks, electronics regarding the use of synths, and perhaps industrial for the various noise elements...

Difficult music to listen to, you either love it or hate it. Anti-Music, as they call it...