Track listing
1. Au commencement 01:58
2. Je suis éternel 05:59
3. Arrogance & Décadence 03:23
4. Le visage de la honte 05:00
5. Lame de vérité 06:35
6. L’orée du gouffre 07:08
7. Vox Mortis 06:40
8. L’antichambre 04:29
9. D’enfer! 03:15
Biography
Phileas is a solitary black metal project born from the mind of Lord of Misery, also a member of Dark Plague. Emerging in 2025 from the lands of northern France, Phileas stands as an invitation to a journey through dark and melancholic soundscapes. Free from all constraints, the project explores a personal path within black metal, shaping a singular, introspective work, deliberately set apart from the beaten track.
Album description
The album is built around the painting by "Peter Paul Rubens" (1577-1640), The Fall of the Damned.
The Fall of the Damned does not depict hell itself, but the moment when every possibility of salvation disappears. The bodies are not yet punished — they are already lost.
The fall becomes a condemnation in its own right, an irreversible movement toward the abyss.
The music follows this descent: from an initial glimmer of light, it slowly slips into darkness, until complete erasure. A long, painful, inexorable fall.
Phileas is a black metal project that draws as much from the genre's melodic darkness as from rhythmic structures borrowed from jazz and rock, all punctuated by more ambient passages.
Constructed as a single, continuous block, like a long, uninterrupted fall, Phileas is for those who like to venture off the beaten path.
Phileas is a process, a quest for freedom.
The sound is intended to be dry and gritty, mixed and mastered by its creator to faithfully reproduce his initial intention.
All music composed by Lord of Misery
All music performed by Lord of Misery
All lyrics by Lord of Misery Mixage & Mastering by Lord of Misery
Artwork by Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens (* June 28, 1577 in Siegen, Germany † May 30, 1640 in Antwerp, Belgium) was a Flemish painter, draftsman, decorator, diplomat, and art collector.
