Track By Tracks: Phenomy - Phantasmagoria (2026)

1. Prologue:

The threshold.

Prologue is not a song so much as a fracture point where consciousness begins to slip and the veil thins. It sets the emotional temperature of the record uneasy ceremoni, al and predatory. This is the sound of entering the maze, knowing full well there may be no exit.

2. Hush:

Silence becomes oppressive here.

Hush explores the violence of restraint, the things left unsaid, the truths buried to maintain illusion. Beneath its controlled exterior lies simmering paranoia, a forced calm that threatens to implode. It is the sound of holding your breath in a room that is slowly flooding.

3. Sins Of The Father:

An inheritance of guilt.

This track confronts generational trauma and the inevitability of repeating cycles we swear we will escape. Sins Of The Father is accusatory but mournful, acknowledging that bloodlines carry more than DNA; they carry unresolved ghosts demanding repayment.

4. Shellshock Paradise:

Beauty after devastation.

Shellshock Paradise depicts a surreal aftermath, a world rebuilt on ruin, smiling through trauma. It is disorienting and cruelly optimistic, exposing how societies romanticize survival while ignoring the cost paid by the broken minds left behind.

5. Gambit:

Everything is a risk here.

Gambit represents the moment of agency when the protagonist chooses action despite knowing the odds are rigged. It is strategically tense and fatalistic, embodying the idea that sometimes the only control left is deciding how you fall.

6. Mad Man’s Waltz:

A dance with instability.

This track spirals through fractured sanity, embracing chaos as both curse and comfort. Mad Man’s Waltz does not mock madness; it romanticizes it as a refuge from unbearable clarity. The rhythm feels circular, like thoughts that refuse to let go.

7. Swallow The Fear:

Consumption as survival.

Rather than fleeing terror, Swallow The Fear suggests internalizing it, letting dread become fuel. This track embodies grim resilience, the acceptance that fear never disappears but can be weaponized against the darkness it was born from.

8. Sacrilège:

Defiance through desecration.

Sacrilège tears down false sanctity, challenging imposed morality and corrupted belief systems. It is confrontational and unrepentant, framing blasphemy not as rebellion for shock but as a necessary act of self-liberation.

9. Phantasmagoria

The heart of the hallucination.

This title track is the culmination of distorted perception, a collapsing carnival of memory trauma and illusion. Phantasmagoria blurs dream and waking life until nothing feels reliable. Reality becomes theatrical, grotesque, and unstable.

10. A Dream Within A Dream:

Lucidity gives way to despair.

Inspired by recursive consciousness, this track questions whether awakening is even possible. A Dream Within A Dream reflects existential vertigo, the realization that every layer peeled back reveals another illusion beneath.

11. Abel And The Frail:

Innocence versus inevitability.

This track reimagines archetypal sacrifice and vulnerability. Abel And The Frail is about those destroyed not by evil intent but by being too gentle for a ruthless world. It is tragic, intimate, and deeply human.

12. I Witness:

Not a confession, an observation.

The closing track places the narrator outside themselves, documenting collapse without intervention. I Witness is resignation and clarity intertwined, the understanding that survival does not always mean victory, only remembrance.