Track By Tracks: Danakil Heat - Doomsday Delight (2025)

Domsday Delight is already our second EP this year, released roughly 6 months after our debut Life on the Green Planet. There was an urgency there, these three songs just wanted to be set free, and we were happy to oblige. With this urgency in mind, we strived to make this release as concise as possible: no lengthy intros, no slow-building atmosphere, but straight to the riff, like jumping into a cold lake. You jump in, give it your all, and get out.

Doomsday Delight also marks a distinct change in guitar sound with a less-than-subtle increase in fuzz. Combined with an energetic drumming style, we like to transition between drive and drag, groove and doom, life and death. This brings us to the key concept of our band: Apocalyptic optimism, a paradox that captures both the unease of a world on the edge and the sparks of resilience that refuse to die out. This theme is not only the driving element of our lyrics but deeply rooted in our songwriting.

Vocals: Shaun

Guitar: Timm Mörstedt

Bass: Olli Vainikainen

Drums: Joonas Pyykönen

Mixing and Mastering: Jesperi Mommo

Cover Artwork Haryo Awonggo

1. Doomsday Delight:

At its core, this song has only two riffs. Maybe two and a half. Simplicity is key.

Lyrically, this one goes all in with the apocalyptic themes, of course, with a joyful approach. As the title track, this song also inspired the cover artwork. A world going up in smoke behind you, while your attention is solely focused on having a dripping cone of ice cream with your friends. Of course, none of our ice cream aficionados can possibly stop the apocalypse, and their indifference is admirable. Carpe diem.

2. One More Life:

Guitar and bass change roles in the intro, with the guitar providing a rhythmic foundation and the bass adding delay-laden melodic lines on top, before the whole band plunges into an odd-time heavy riff that does not fully commit to a groove. Or does it?

The song title was initially inspired by the existential crisis of a cat, which has lost eight of its nine lives, being faced with its actual mortality for the first time. While the cat itself doesn’t make an appearance in the lyrics, the ideas of mortality and resilience are universal.

3. Searching the Stars:

These lyrics tell a story about humanity’s self-destruction through greed, ignorance, and fear, and the painful realization that comes too late.

At their core, they’re about environmental collapse and human hubris, how our relentless pursuit of progress led to the destruction of the planet.. The repeated act of “ignoring the signs” symbolizes how society turned away from warnings about climate change, pollution, and overconsumption until the damage became irreversible.

The chorus captures a haunting irony: after ruining our home, humanity looks to space for salvation. It reflects both desperation and denial, showing that instead of fixing what we broke, we try to escape it.

By the final verse, the song turns reflective, a quiet reckoning suggests regret and the faint hope that, if given another chance in a new world, we might not repeat the same mistakes. But the question “Will we repeat it all again, or stay confined?” leaves the listener uncertain, suggesting that human nature may be doomed to repeat its cycles of destruction.