Act I · Album · Innsmouth
De Profundis
The first call from the depths.
- Act
- Act I — Innsmouth
- Place
- Innsmouth
- Type
- Album
- Status
- Available
- Label
- Sliptrick Records
Available
The first call from the depths.
De Profundis is the debut album by Les Enfants de Dagon and the starting point of the saga.
Its songs immerse the listener in the atmosphere of Innsmouth, an isolated port town where silences weigh as much as rumours. The tracks form the first fragments of a story that continues in the novel Sous ces profondeurs.
Narrative order
You start here. After listening to De Profundis, continue the story with the novel Sous ces profondeurs.
Tracks and lyrics
Album pages now gather the tracks and atmospheres confirmed by the supplied booklets. Full lyrics remain reserved for the project’s editorial releases.
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The nine fragments
The De Profundis booklet builds a nine-track journey, from the arrival in the fog to Dagon’s final call.
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01The Shadow over Innsmouth
Arrival in the fog, a closed town and a first welcoming committee.
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02Haunted Relic
A lantern, a blue light and an object the priest refuses to name.
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03A Silent Pier
The silent pier, Father Trevors’s journal and the creature of the dark waters.
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04Between the Fog and the Sea
A fractured faith between fog, sea and the blue light.
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05Esoteric Order of Dagon
Chambers Collins, the book, the lantern and the Order’s ritual.
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06De Profundis Mysteriis
The cave, the grimoire and the question left by the depths.
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07Facing Darkness
Eleanor’s warning and the irreversible break within the crowd.
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08Beyond
An interlude of drowning, illness and a fading sun.
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09Fallen Angel
Pierre Duval facing the blue light and Dagon’s call.
Illustrations linked to the songs: Matisse Jacquet. Pages 22–23 and disc: Kent Overby Stück.
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Press
What has been written about us
Les Enfants de Dagon convey the dark, mysterious atmosphere of Lovecraft’s work in a way that is entirely their own. We await what comes next with a mixture of impatience and curiosity. These Enfants de Dagon are a band to keep an eye on.Soil Chronicles — FR
Les Enfants de Dagon is a band with a strong identity and a grand destiny. Should they see it through, we will be witnessing an undertaking as vast as Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings — transposed, of course, into Lovecraft’s universe. An excellent surprise, a band to discover, and a path worth following.MetalNews — FR
Heavy, atmospheric tracks such as “A Silent Pier” or “De Profundis Mysteriis” sit alongside far more black-metal passages like “Esoteric Order of Dagon” or “Haunted Relic”. Add a touch of doom atmosphere and a little death-metal brutality and you get Les Enfants de Dagon and their darkened world. Worth discovering…Hard Force — FR
By playing with the individual musical set pieces, which Les Enfants de Dagon skilfully merge, the pieces never lack variety of ideas and convince through the interlocking of aggressiveness and melancholy. For me a real jewel that grows and grows. Class!Metal Division — DE
Musically we have a good album and the story is captivating. This is a worthwhile first step that fans of Gothic sounds should know about. Highlight is the vocal work of Laurent Francheteau and Céline Chassy that give a superior tonality to the songs.World of Metal — BR
The band are really good at playing and assembling the pieces as a flowing stream. Thanks to a well-balanced production, the instruments create a good sonic amalgam: one has the clear sensation of listening to a musical flow that draws from doom, death and precisely from black metal.MetalHead — IT