Phlegeton

Phlegeton
Background information
Birth name	JL Rey
Also known as	Phlegeton Vortex Mr. Π
Born	3 December 1979 Madrid, Spain
Origin	Madrid
Genres	Death metal, black metal, grindcore, avant-garde metal
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter, lyricist, designer, illustrator, producer
Instruments	Vocals, drums, programming
Years active	1998–present
Labels	Season of Mist · Xtreem Music · Willowtip Records · Metal Inquisition Records · Macabre Mementos Records · Ordo Decimus Peccatum
Associated acts	Wormed Banished from Inferno Human Mincer Wrong Godüs Unsane Crisis
Website	www.phlegeton-art.com www.wormed.net www.delta314.com

J.L. Rey 'Phlegeton' (born 1979) is a European musician, vocalist, drummer, lyricist, audio producer, and visual artist based in Madrid, Spain.^[1]

Over the years, Phlegeton created various bands and musical projects. He is best known for his work as vocalist in the band Wormed,^[2] and for his artistic work on album covers, especially death metal albums.^[3]

His pseudonym is based on the Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon (Φλεγέθων, English translation: "flaming"), one of the five rivers in the infernal regions of the underworld.^[4]

Music

Phlegeton has fronted a number of bands as a vocalist and drummer, including Wormed, Human Mincer, Wrong, Banished from Inferno and Unsane Crisis. He has also been a member of Godüs, The YTriple Corporation, Garth Arum (live), Nüll and Infernal. Overall, he has released 10 studio albums.

Phlegeton has a diverse vocal register, encompassing many extreme styles, from deep gutturals to clean and raspy high-pitched vocals.^[5]

He is known for his lyrics style in the band Wormed.^[6] He doesn’t use the common gore aesthetics but rather tell stories of science fiction, quantum physics and space exploration.^[7]

Discography (as musician)

Wormed (vocals) [8] Floating Cadaver in the Monochrome MLP (1999) Voxel Mitosis SINGLE (2001) Planisphærium LP (2003) Quasineutrality EP (Vocals, drums) (2010) Exodromos LP (2013) Krighsu LP (2016) Banished from Inferno (drums) [9] Banished from Inferno EP (2008) Minotaur LP (2011) Human Mincer (vocals) [10] Degradation Paradox LP (2008) Unsane Crisis (drums, vocals) [11] Unsane Crisis / Ekkaia SPLIT (2001) Unsane Crisis / Hashassin SPLIT (2003) Wrong (vocals, drums) [12] Memories of Sorrow LP (2013) Pessimistic Outcomes LP (2014)

Godüs (vocals, drums) [13] Demo 2003 (2003) Hell Fuck Demon Sound LP (2004) Punishment Is Necessary EP (2005) Phantomgrave: I Am the Catacombs LP (2007) Infernal (drums) [14] The Reapers of God / Exelsus Diaboli SPLIT (2004) A Tragedy Called Existence LP (2004) Nüll (drums) [15] Turbosuizide EP (2000) The YTriple Corporation (drums) [16] The Sentinel's Eyes: A Flashforward EP (2011) Medusa Megalopolis LP (2013) PHLGZ (electronic) phlgz EP (2009) [17] p-gram-engaged-ro SINGLE (2013) [18]

Guest appearances (as vocalist)

• Aborted - The Necrotic Manifesto Vocals (2014) (track 11) ^[19]
• Hybrid - The 8th Plague (2008) Vocals (additional) ^[20]
• Awaiting the Autopsy - Couldn't Tell the Bodies Apart (2009) (track 3)^[21]

Artwork

On 2005, he launched his own design studio, Phlegeton Art Studio. He creates record covers for international death metal bands, based in horror and science fiction genres.^[22]

List of album covers created

^[23]

ADE - Spartacus (Ita) Atman - No Recordáren a la Mort (Spa) Atman - L’ Assassi de Venus (Spa) Avulsed - Gorespattered Suicide (Spa) Avulsed - Reanimations (Spa) Aura Noctis - Itineris I (Spa) Aura Noctis - Vitae Proelium (Spa) Benighted - Icon (Fra) Caberman - Castle Dangerous (UK) Cerebric Turmoil - Neural Net Meltdown (Ger) Coffins - Sacrifice to Evil Spirit (Jap) Cuernos de Chivo - Deshumanización (Spa) Decimation - Entering the Celestial Ruins (Tur) Delirium - Inside the Abattoir (USA) Deteriorot - The Faithless (USA) Disgorge - Gore Blessed to the Worms (Mex) Disgraseed - Flesh Market (Fra) Disseverment - Disseverment (USA) Doppler - Apophenia: Type I Error (Spa) Dying - Born from Impurity (Spa) Embryonic Devourment - Beheaded by Volition (USA) Excruciate - Depths of Impurity (Au) Execration - A Feast for the Wretched (USA) Female Nose Breaker - Catalogue of Cruelty (Swi) Frequency - The Flow (Spa) Frozen Ocean - The Dyson Swarm (Rus) G-noma - Origen (Spa) Genotype - Design Intent (USA) Gloria Morti - Eryx (Fin) Gloria Morti - Anthems of Annihilation (Fin) Godüs - Phantomgrave: I am the Catacombs (Spa) Golgotha - New Life (Spa) Gorevent - Worship Paganism (Jap) Human Mincer - Degradation Paradox (Spa) Hydra Kyll - Timelines (USA) Impure - Hemicorporectomy (Spa) Infected Chaos - The Wake of Ares (Aut) Infernal - A Tragedy Called Existence (Col) Inhuman - Course of Human Destruction (CR) Inhuman - Conquerors Of The New World (CR)

Insidious Torture - Lust and Decay (Au) Katalepsy - Musick Brings Injuries (Rus) Kronos - The Hellenic Terror (Fra) Manic Demise - The Bitter Blood of Brutality (USA) Mortician - Tribute to Mortician (USA) Mortify - Preliminary Hearing (Can) Moñigo - Coprometidos con la Causa (Spa) Necrotic Disgorgement - Documentaries of Dementia (USA) Nemecic - The First Morning and the Last Day (Fin) Nüll - Turbosuizide (Spa) Over Your Threshold - Facticity (Ger) Revenant - The Burning Ground (USA) Rex Devs - Ser de seres (Spa) Rex Devs - Nosce te Ipsum (Spa) The Sickening - Death Devastation Decay (Nor) The Unborn Dead - Primitive Origins (Can) The YTriple Corporation - Medusa Megalopolis (Spa) The YTriple Corporation - The Sentinel’s Eyes (Spa) Time of Hate - Sweating Hate (Spa) Tools of Torture - Faith-Purification-Execution (Ita) Truculency - Eviscerate the Paraplegic (USA) Unsane Crisis - Split with Ekkaia (Spa) Unsane Crisis - Split with Hashassin (Spa) Unfathomable Ruination - Misshapen Congenital Entropy (UK) Unfathomable Ruination - Unfathomable Ruination (UK) Umbah - Enter the Dagobah Core (UK) Unwom - Phase 1: Inner Earth Dimension (Spa) Vidres a la Sang - Vidres a la Sang (Spa) Vidres a la Sang - Endins (Spa) Whoretopsy - They Did Unspeakable Things (Au) Whoretopsy - Isn’t She Lovely (Au) Whoretopsy - Never Tear Us Apart (Au) Wormed - Floating Cadaver in the Monochrome (Spa) Wormed - Voxel Mitosis (Spa) Wormed - Planisphærium (Spa) Wormed - Quasineutrality (Spa) Wormed - Exodromos (Spa) Wrong - Memories of Sorrow (Spa) Wrong - Pessimistic Outcomes (Spa)

External links

• Phlegeton Art Studio
• Wormed's Official Site
• Wrong's Official Site
• Delta314 Sound Studio

References

1. "Phlegeton on Encyclopaedia Metallum". Metal Archives. Retrieved 2011-04-09.
2. http://www.wormed.net/
3. http://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Phlegeton/757#artist_tab_misc
4. "Interview with Banished from Inferno". Xtreem Music. Retrieved 2013-03-13.
5. "Phlegeton's vocals". Technical Death Metal. Retrieved 2013-03-27.
6. "Phrased sci-fi references. No other death metal band writes stuff like this.". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2013-02-24.
7. "Does Phlegeton dream of electric sheep?". Symmetal. Retrieved 2013-07-20.
8. http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Wormed/3985
9. http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Banished_from_Inferno/121682
10. http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Human_Mincer/1948
11. http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Unsane_Crisis/94776
12. http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Wrong/3540359918
13. http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/God%C3%BCs/11225
14. http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Infernal/9596
15. http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/N%C3%BCll/95893
16. http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/The_YTriple_Corporation/3540338315
17. https://myspace.com/phlgz/music/songs
18. https://phlgz.bandcamp.com/
19. https://www.discogs.com/es/Aborted-The-Necrotic-Manifesto/release/5633766
20. http://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Phlegeton/757#artist_tab_guest
21. "Guest vocal appearance by Phlegeton ("Wormed" & "Human Mincer")". Bandcamp. Retrieved 2009-04-29.
22. "Interview with Phlegeton". Xtreem Music. Retrieved 2011-02-25.
23. "Artworks and Misc. Staff.". Encyclopaedia Metallum. Retrieved 2011-04-09.