AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: DEIMLER — “DARKNESS FALLS”

(written by Islander)

In 2023 the Spanish death metal band Deimler released a concept album named Immortalized that was based on Ridley Scott’s groundbreaking 1979 movie Alien. Following that up, guitarist/vocalist Pako Deimler decided to pay tribute to a personal favorite series from the ’90s — The X-Files. More specifically, Deimler’s new album, Darkness Falls, is based on one episode from the show’s first season that itself was named “Darkness Falls”.

That was a standalone episode in which Mulder and Scully went looking for a group of loggers missing in the Olympic National Forest in Washington State (which coincidentally isn’t far from the HQ of our site), only to be confronted by a deadly form of mutant insects. Pako has said that he loves that episode in particular because of its “atmosphere” but also because it’s “one of the few episodes where the main characters have a hard time and are truly in great danger.”

The new album is now set for release on March 20th by Awakening Records, and what we have for you today is the premiere of a lyric video for its second single — the title track “Darkness Falls“.

The video sets the new album’s ghastly artwork in motion, and thereby makes it even more gruesome. The music is also ghastly and gruesome.

As Pako voices the chilling words through truly cavernous and utterly monstrous gutturals, the riffing insanely writhes, roils, and swarms, creating whirring frenzies that manifest inhuman horrors. The fleet-fingered riffing continually morphs, and as it swerves, rises, and falls it also generates sensations of encroaching menace, mind-warping misery, and frantic desperation, while simultaneously creating hooks from all the grotesque motifs.

Some of those hooks are sharpened by piercing, eerily contorting, but impressively fluid guitar solos that cause the song to stand out even more strongly. They create atmospheric elements that are exotic and strange, and provide both a contrast and a complement to the macabre horrors of the riffing.

All of the fretwork manifestations of horror and terror are backed by equally vibrant and dynamic drum-and-bass work, which includes not only lots of impressive athleticism but also some brute-force jolts.

Experience all this for yourselves now:

DEIMLER is:
Pako Deimler – Vocals, Songwriting, Guitars, Lyrics
Xas Lázaro – Bass
Villa Naemoth – Drums

CREDITS: Darkness Falls was composed between January 2024 and November 2025. Guitars, solos, and vocals were composed and recorded by Pako Deimler at Yellow Moon Studios in Cáceres, Spain. Drums were composed and recorded by Villa Naemoth at B2V Studios in Vigo, Spain. Bass was composed and recorded by Xas Lázaro at Rehearsal Room Studios in Valencia, Spain.

The album was produced, mixed, and mastered by Javi Félez at Moontower Studios in Barcelona, Spain, and it features cover artwork by Jose Antonio Vives and the band’s logo created by César Valladares.

For more info, check the links below. After the links we’ve also included a stream of the previously released single “Squeeze“.

AWAKENING RECORDS:
https://awakeningrecords.cn
https://awakeningrecordscn.bigcartel.com
https://awakeningrecordscn.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/awakeningrecordscn
https://www.instagram.com/awakeningrecordscn

DEIMLER:
https://www.facebook.com/deimlerdeathmetal
https://www.instagram.com/deimler_deathmetal