Holy smokes, Belgium. You’ve done it again.
Phil—yeah, the madman from Charleroi—has cooked up something so gloriously twisted with “KosmoX“ that I had to spin it three times just to make sure my speakers didn’t melt. Under the alias of Baïki, he gives us a belly punch wrapped in a space suit.
Let’s get this straight right now: Phil doesn’t only sing on this track. The guy wrote the music, penned the lyrics, laid down the vocals, AND handled the recording, mixing, and mastering over at Studio La Riviere in Lasne. That’s a one-man army right there. And the message? Man, it’s ugly—but that’s the whole damn point.
“KosmoX“ takes humanity’s worst habit—needing someone to hate just to feel alive—and blasts it into orbit. The idea is brutally simple: maybe we can’t stop tearing each other apart here on Earth, so let’s just find some poor green suckers on another planet and go to town on them instead. Yeah. That’s the “solution.” Phil’s lyrics drip with cynicism so thick you could spread it on toast. “Another planet to ruin. New richesse to exhaust.” It’s not subtle. It’s not supposed to be.
The music video was directed by Yves Huppen (who apparently threw himself into Blender and Unreal Engine with zero clue what he was doing—and still pulled it off). Phil plays all 30 Earthling roles. Thirty! Wigs, makeup, costumes—the whole circus. On one side of a monitor, you’ve got this calm lab guy explaining colonisation like he’s reading a weather report. On the other side? Brutality. Colonisers smashing aliens because that’s the only language they speak.
“KosmoX“ isn’t here to make you feel good. It’s here to make you squirm. And that’s exactly what great rock should do.