Intro – Album Overview

Spiral Phantoms is an official Phantom Tone album released under the Japanese Folklore Hip-Hop genre.
This album explores cyclical folklore symbolism — repetition, return, and gradual spiritual transformation — forming a rotating ritual sound structure.

Rather than progressing in linear storytelling, Spiral Phantoms is designed as a spiral narrative.
Each track revisits similar mythic motifs while shifting psychological altitude, mirroring how folklore itself evolves across generations.

Concept & Folklore Origin

Spiral Phantoms is rooted in Japanese folklore concepts of recurrence, lingering spirits, and transformation cycles.
In traditional belief systems, certain yōkai and onryō are not bound to singular appearances — they return repeatedly, altered by time and memory.

This album interprets these returning spirits as “phantom loops” — residual echoes of human emotion embedded in sound.

Music Architecture

The sound architecture emphasizes mid-tempo ritual beats, low-frequency drones, and restrained melodic repetition.
Band instruments and wagakki textures are layered to form slowly rotating harmonic structures, reinforcing the album’s spiral motif.

Rather than climactic drops, Spiral Phantoms focuses on sustained tension and cyclic emotional gravity.

Tracklist

  1. Spiral Phantoms
  2. Echoes of Sorrow
  3. Lucid Tempest
  4. Prayer in the Lake
  5. Scorching Moan
  6. Crimson Lotus Shadow
  7. Beyond the Veil
  8. Flute of Shadows
  9. Endless Sky
  10. Distant Prayer
  11. Song of Dual Shadows

Official Streaming

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@konkonsama
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/artist/4bfn9UXzrHfylOk7gZCB4j
Apple Music https://music.apple.com/jp/artist/phantom-tone/1845267127