German darkwave duke Mortes returns with a brand new single, “Darkwalker” — a track that opens the door to a crumbling gothic realm of empty halls, candlelit corridors, and unquiet yearning. Steeped in modern post‑punk melancholy and Mortes’ unmistakable dark romantic aura, the song traces the path of a solitary wanderer condemned to roam the night: banished, haunted, yet unable to abandon the search for what was lost.
Each refrain lands like footsteps echoing through abandoned chambers, suspended between obsession and devotion. "Darkwalker" is the sound of isolation wrapped in velvet darkness — a place where the heart continues its hunt long after the last light has faded.
It is a hymn for those born too late for castles and too alive for daylight, a reminder that the night still remembers your name.
Mortes’ work has always pulsed with the duality of existence — a love for life intertwined with reverence for death — and "Darkwalker" stands as another testament to that eternal rhythm.
Listen to the new single below, and if you missed his striking reinterpretation of HIM’s cult classic “Join Me In Death”, you can revisit it HERE. Link
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"Within this darkness, where there's no light at all, the golden raven still shines. It's not like a perfectly cut statue of Michelangelo..." - Val Perun
"I'm sort of asking questions - where are the heroes? Where's the defiance? Where are the people who oppose this?" - Alan "Nemtheanga" Averill
"I like to call our music suicide pop, because our songs are pretty easy to listen to, but the topics are very negative and quite dark. It's pop, but negative pop." - Simone Salvatori
"I think it's basically a mutation of a lot of different things — like a hybrid creature nobody quite knows how to categorise. A heretic, I guess." - Håvard Ellefsen (Mortiis)
