Heltir was born in 1987 in San Francisco, California as a solo noise project that Rozz did concurrently with Premature Ejaculation, and which he continued until his death.

The first 3 recordings were written, recorded, and produced solely by Rozz himself and were released only on cassette, on the now defunct Happiest Tapes On Earth label, ran by Premature Ejaculation collaborator Chuck Collison. In 1994 Rozz began working on the "Neue Sachlichkeit" CD. Rozz wrote and arranged all the loops and sound material as usual but this time included guest contributors such as Ace Farren Ford of EXP and Christian Omar Madrigal Izzo of Daucus Karota and Shadow Project

In 1997, the last Heltir show at Coven 13 marked a total re-invention of the way Heltir worked. Rozz had now decided to concentrate on vocalizing as his main source of sound input (something absent from previous Heltir material). This freed Rozz from the restraint of working behind a console table, and allowed him to bring much more of the 'Performance' element to the live experience, while Erik Christides of Bloodflag handled most of the soundscapes.

Two tracks are featured on the Malaise/Cleopatra release "Merry Maladies", "Tod Und Sieg" and an abridged version of the earlier recording "69 Rituals". Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.