Spanish Death Metal Machine DEIMLER Reveals Details of The New Sci-Fi Album “Darkness Falls”

The death metal band DEIMLER is excited to reveal that their new opus “Darkness Falls” will be released as CD and digital on March 20th via Awakening Records!

After spending most of 2023 working on their side-project ENDEMIC – whose debut “The Church of Destruction” was unleashed upon mankind via Awakening Records in January 2024 – Pako Deimler and his two faithful companion drummer Naemoth (DANTALION) and bass player Xas (ILTUR) are back as DEIMLER with another ambitious sci-fi tinged death metal masterpiece.

Four years ago, DEIMLER had chosen to take the listeners back to space where no one could hear you scream with “Immortalized,” a concept album based on Ridley Scott's highly influential “Alien: The 8th Passenger” movie from 1979. This time around, Pako has decided to pay tribute to one of the 90’s most revered series and personal favorite of his, The X-Files. “I really like to explore science-fiction with my writing. To me, reality always surpasses fiction, this is why I love that genre so much. The X-Files series greatly influenced me at a certain point in my life so I’ve always wanted to bring it into the DEIMLER world.” (actually, if you pay attention close enough, you’ll even be able to spot a few notes stolen from the show's famous theme in the title-track).

A foretaste of what you might expect from the album is now available with the visualizer video of the song “Squeeze”: https://youtu.be/EqW7xRv1LHs

Below is Pako's introduction to the track:

“The lyrics to this song are based on the episode of the same name. I like it because the main plot centers on a human-like being that feeds on people. It's not your typical classic alien story from the series, which is why I like it and chose it for this song.

The main plot of the episode unfolds a series of brutal murders that occur in locked buildings, with no clear signs of entry, following a pattern that had already been repeated decades earlier. The fingerprints found, and the way the organs are extracted, suggest that the perpetrator does not act like an ordinary human being. The investigation indicates that the crimes are part of a cycle that has not yet ended.

The investigation leads to an individual with no verifiable past, possessing an abnormal physical ability that allows him to move through impossible spaces and survive by feeding off his victims. Although he is eventually captured before another attack, the evidence reveals that his nature is inhuman and that his threat could resurface in the future.”

As the cover artwork, once again handled by José Antonio Vives who’s been working with them ever since debut their EP “Zero One” in 2020, the album is actually entirely based on one specific episode and fans’ favorites. Curled from the first season, it was titled, you’ve guessed it, “Darkness Falls.” A stand-alone story not exactly tied up with the whole X-Files mythology, which was still in the making by then, with agents Mulder and Scully looking for a group of loggers missing in Olympic National Forest in Washington State, only to be confronted by a deadly form of mutant insects. Pako admits 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.”

Musically speaking, DEIMLER‘s music could once again be described as old-school death metal pushed to the limit, a return to a different and unexpected world ruled by Pako‘s impressively guttural growl and spider-web riffing, although the man himself easily cites in term of influences as much new acts like PHOBOPHILIC, TOMB MOLD or BLOOD INCANTATION than old masters like DEATH or DEMILICH, while saluting the guitar wizardry of Marty Friedman (MEGADETH), Stevie Ray Vaughan, Andy LaRocque (KING DIAMOND) or jazz six-strings master Greg Howe.