GHZTZD’s new metal album “Ghosts of November” will shock his fans with an extremely heavy and intense full album in the metal genre that sounds like no other band around. From the ungodly heavy music to his death metal growls vocal and lyrical range. This album opens a new era for GHZTZD fans.
GHZTZD has also dropped his masked identity and turns out he is a metal vocalist and has played with many top of the industry bands and his music career has involved working with many serious professional acts and musicians over the last 30 years. No one expected his reveal would expose his rap fanbase to such a polar opposite gene. Yet the variety of his discography has proven GHZTZD is not a passing fad or anything temporary. GHZTZD hit the music scene in December of 2020 and released nearly 87 songs this year alone.
His new album releases on December 17, 2021 and is currently available for free on SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/wkUwn3CkPwkrVo547
Tell us about your name: GHZTZD. What does it mean? What do the letters stand for, and how did you come up with it.
GHZTZD is pronounced differently by everyone. The intent is to be unpronounceable and as difficult to say as possible, and hard to remember. When asked, I show the monogram, the symbol’s meaning is like a ying -Yang and a Crucifix. The monogram contains the letters GHZTZD. The closest translation or meaning can be compared to the Goddess Kali’s Energy. “The Creator, The Destroyer”, “What we create, we destroy”,“birth, death”,“once here, now gone”, “ghosted”. As in you have been “ghosted”.
Your new album, “Ghosts Of November” releases on December 17th. Congrats! Tell us about the album. What can listeners expect? Any favorite tracks on it? Who are the musicians on the album?
First, I have disclose information to the public concerning how some personal struggles with post Covid health issues and my diagnosis with Type 1 Bipolar with Psychotic Features. I There were a few suicide attempts and half a year of major medical diagnosis’s that were being mistreated and increased the depression and extreme energy expenditures that were causing life threatening Diabetic Ketoacidosis Attacks.
I almost died during my performance on 7/31/21 at Area 51 in Sherwood, Ar. I was sweating out during my set with Jekyll Doesn’t Hyde and was in a DKA attack, in 90 degree temperatures. I got sick again days later and went into a full blown mixed state depressed Mania for 3 weeks.
Ghosts of November was written during this episode, it has songs that represent my bipolar disorder.
I am also an empath, intuitive psychic, and the way I cope with this is to write my lyrics freestyling and from channeling. Then transcribe the lyrics that I expressed, Sometimes, I have to spend days listening to the songs I recorded and reflect on what was channeled.
When I hear the songs back, I have no memory of actually recorded except a blur of mania.
Ghosts of November portrays the ending and reflection on the darkest mixed state manic depressive cycle of my life, which is right now.
My “Ghosts of November” are my Demons.
My Demon is my mind. Bipolar is is a medical disorder that involves the mechanism to control the mind, thoughts and random intrusive thoughts.
Mind over matter, but what happens when the mind decides you no longer matter?
Imagine turning on the water in a plugged bathtub and stepping back and when it starts overflow, try thinking as hard about it turning itself off before it floods the entire house. It won’t happen. That’s how bipolar works. It takes a physical, medical intervention “turn off” a full blown episode.
GHOSTS OF NOVEMBER is a collaboration of various music artists who have been affected by various mental illness afflictions and battling their own demons, yet we all advocate helping others that have been affected as well.
Many of the musicians have recently survived and still surviving recent major to the music is for a cause campaign.
Last year it was domestic abuse awareness, which was the first phase of covid related affects on many beautiful relationships under the strains of 2020. These events eventually grew into drug abuse and depression and some dark places that have changed everyone.
A lot of us musicians due to lifestyle have been hit the hardest.
Johnathan Davis from Korn, losing his wife and mother and Brian Welch’s form Korn’s transform and journey into music with a cause for mental illness. And, Aaron Stainthorp’s from My Dying Bride and his daughter’s battle with Cancer with the Candlelighters charity cause. And my cause for Bipolar Disorder Awareness and Education. There is literally no support or reliable treatment other than going to the Hospital strapped down. Or just end it.
The album was made to assist my recovery as I switched to my default metal style from my professional music career.
My outreach is mental illness this year. Becausec last years was domestic violence and the root cause of domestic violence is mental illness.
If you know anyone struggling or if you are struggling or someone looking for resources and support, or just seriously need somebody to talk to you, go to my website, find one of your social networks that I have hit me up. It may take a bit to get to your message. I get so many, but I answer them all. You are not alone.
What was behind the recent “unmasking” of your persona? Will you ever wear the mask again?
I started wearing a mask years ago.” And “why” is in our last interview December of 2020 (https://musicexistence.com/blog/2020/11/23/masked-rapper-ghztzd-exclusive-interview/)
The mask came off around March or April 2021. I don’t think anyone noticed except for my metal fans. I release near 100 songs this year about 80 of them Rap, which was my way of recovering from Covid brain fog and dealing with mania and retraining myself how to speak agains. I literally lost the ability to start and then finish a sentence for 3 months. Tthen became the masked Batman vigilante focused on music with a cause. I kept the mask on during those times. As soon as I took the mask off, my life’s career of fans and friends came forward to support my music for a cause.
But the real reason the mask came off?
It was due to my health problems that I’ve had, I cannot breathe in them and they make me sick now.
Follow GHZTZD and visit his website and subscribe to his newsletter for updates on how to collaborate or contribute or request information for Bipolar Disorder Awareness and Support.
50% of all bipolar people will attempt suicide at least once in their life. 20% will be successful. Globally, 46 million people around the world have bipolar disorder. (Our World in Data, 2018). Roughly speaking, Bipolar will claim 9,200,000 lives currently on Earth. And bipolar is not curable, only managed, require medication, therapy, self discovery and a lot of healing and patience to just live a normal moment in this life. But most importantly, never leave a Bipolar friend alone for too long, 50% of us will attempt suicide from losing our support circle.
Make a friend with a Bipolar person and study how they operate. We are the most interesting and loving niche of human. It’s not that we can’t control our emotions, it’s that we feel them 1000x more intensely than the average population. We are just more awaken, and In touch with the nature of reality, whic is noting but overwhelming pain and suffering. We are empathetic, intuitive, very loyal, just don’t trigger us or it’s hell to pay.