New Album Coming Soon – Fallen Wings
Fallen Wings by Zephoniel is a story-driven concept album that follows the fall of a fictional angel judged far more severely than his brethren. While others were cast down or bound, Zephoniel was condemned to the cruelest sentence of all: to become what he despised—human, imprisoned in flesh, weakness, and mortality. Across thirteen myth-rich tracks of brooding rock, heavy-reverb guitars, dark synths, and somber piano, he relives his exile through the fragile lens of a mortal life.
Though the narrative is mythological, key elements of the angel’s childhood are drawn from real human experience—memories, emotions, and trauma rooted in the artist’s own life and woven into the character’s journey. From childhood onward, Zephoniel endures cruelty at the hands of broken and wicked humans—abuse, darkness, drunkenness, and far worse—blurring the boundary between allegory and lived pain.
Interwoven with this suffering are accounts of real visitations by dark entities, experienced during childhood and reimagined through the album’s symbolic lens. These encounters manifest as watchers, shadows, and unseen presences—forces that observe, pursue, and torment him as the veil between worlds thins. As he grows, Zephoniel is haunted by visions and dreams he cannot yet understand: glimpses of heavenly judgment and an earthly darkness that hunts him, following him into adulthood.
In the end, bound to the flesh he once loathed, he discovers redemption not through power or remembrance, but through humility and suffering—finding grace in mortality as he submits to the Father’s will, proving that even the most severe judgment can become a path to restoration.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for some have entertained angels unawares. For the Watchers once descended from the high heaven, leaving the eternal for the weakness of flesh. Bound to the form of men, they became polluted in the blood of mortality, and the darkness pursued them. The heavenly ones walked among humankind, not remembering their former glory, for the powers cast them into the bonds of flesh, that they might suffer as men. Yet even in exile, the lowly saw the works of the angels, and the veil between heaven and earth was stirred.
