You can hear it here.

The working title was “Grace Circles”.

The first demo was recorded into Voice Memos on 4 March 2024. If you heard that version today, you’d barely recognize it. The only survivors are the verse riff and the chorus chord progression.

Back then, the song had a bounce to it. Almost a dance groove. Not in a nightclub sense, but in the way your foot starts tapping before your brain catches up. Somewhere during the recording process, that groove disappeared. Sometimes that’s what happens. You gain something and lose something.

Four days later, on 8 March 2024, I started recording it properly. That was the day the puzzle pieces finally snapped together. The riffs arrived. The structure revealed itself. The song stopped being an idea and became a song.

The funny thing is, I had no intention of making it part of the “Doomsday Clock” series.

At the time, I had lyrics for “Darkness Falls”, but no music. So I borrowed the chorus lines and started singing them over this track simply to build a melody. It was supposed to be temporary. A placeholder. The plan was to replace the words later and keep “Darkness Falls” as its own separate piece.

But songs don’t care about plans.

Sometimes two things collide and create something bigger than either one was on its own. That’s what happened here. The words and the music locked together. Suddenly there was no separating them.

But the real story starts much earlier.

On 12 January 2008, I wrote a song called “I Don’t Want To Be The One”. Nothing from that version survived. Not a lyric. Not a riff. Not a melody.

Then on 3 February 2008, I wrote another song called “All The Abuse” and labeled it “DC3: Doomsday Clock Part 3”.

For years those songs sat there doing absolutely nothing.

Then, on 12 June 2024, something unexpected happened. Pieces of “I Don’t Want To Be The One” and “All The Abuse” collided. Out of that collision came “Darkness Falls”. The chorus, the hook, the identity of the song, it all emerged that day.

A week later, on 18 June, I refined it.

Then came the long road.

On 11 September 2025, I rewrote the verses.

The next day, I rewrote them again.

And on 28 November 2025, the final verses finally arrived.

Everything was there: from “the ocean calls, salvation” to “in my veins, deliverance” to “shadows seek, my apocalypse”. The imagery I’d been chasing for years suddenly made sense. The song finally knew what it wanted to say.

You’d think that would be the end of the story.

It wasn’t.

By then, most of the work was done. All I really had left were the vocals. I headed off on my European holiday in July and August excited about finally finishing the track. I could already hear the finished version in my head.

Then I got home.

And it didn’t feel right.

No dramatic reason. No crisis. No catastrophe.

I just wasn’t feeling it.

So I did what creative people have been doing since the beginning of time. I avoided it.

Days became weeks. Weeks became months. The song sat there waiting while I found every possible reason not to finish it. Like Austin Powers, I’d completely lost my mojo.

And then, somewhere during 2026, it came back.

No lightning bolt. No grand revelation.

Just the sudden realization that it was time.

So here it is.

After eighteen years of fragments, false starts, rewrites, detours, and delays, “Darkness Falls” finally arrived where it was always supposed to be.

Enjoy.

And play it loud.