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With “Lesy”, Thomas Bel returns to the inward-lit clearing where his art has long taken root, continuing the slow, deliberate ritual inaugurated by “La Ténèbre”. As the second chapter of a trilogy, this record does not seek rupture but in fact a further descent into the forest’s interior and solitude hardens into a form of truth. If its predecessor lingered more in experimental and ambient drifts, “Lesy” narrows its focus, sharpening its blackened blades while retaining the same contemplative breath, which results in a record that feels more corporeal and feral.

A subdued warmth permeates the record, an almost paradoxical comfort that only black metal rooted in languid sections can provide. The guitars coil in long, enveloping figures, neither ornate nor decorative, but insistently present as trunks repeating themselves in a dense stand of trees. Vocals sit lower in the register, worn and earthbound, emerging as murmured verdicts passed down by the woods themselves. Bass lines swell with a voluptuous, organic fullness, while the percussion embraces monotony as a trance-inducing device, its cycles not dull but ritualistic, induce such a state as time blurs and we sink inward. When acceleration arrives, it does so with sudden violence, it is brief but punishing, as a storm breaking the canopy before withdrawing into silence.

Neofolk elements appear sparingly, yet meaningfully, woven into acoustic passages that recall the presence felt on “La Ténèbre”, but here they serve a different function, not to open into abstraction, but tethering more firmly to a humane frailty.

“Lesy” seems to incorporate the sadness of forests, not as metaphor but as real condition, reinforced in the lyrics as the idea of an unending walk through familiar paths that nonetheless never lead to comfort. The forest observes, the forest remembers and the listener is implicated as both witness and participant, not romanticising nature, it recognises its indifference, its capacity to absorb human anguish without response.

Compared to the expansive, more experimental leanings of “La Ténèbre”, “Lesy” stands as a fiercer, more concentrated statement. Its free-spirited quality remains, but it is now tempered by a reinforced resolve, even unforgiving at times. The album smells of wet leaves and cold iron, of rain settling into soil, of breath fogging in the dark. It binds the body to the forest not as refuge, but as extension, suggesting that the sadness of the woods is inseparable from our own.


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Band: Jzovce
Album: Lesy
Year: 2026
Label: Distant Voices
Genre: Black Metal / Neofolk
Country: France


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Tracklist:
1. Lesy I 00:00
2. Lesy II 07:14
3. Lesy III 13:51
4. Lesy IV 20:17
5. Lesy V 23:07
6. Lesy VI 25:13
7. Lesy VII 29:15
8. Lesy VIII 35:22









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