Track By Tracks: Walk In Darkness - Gods Don’t Take Calls (2025)

1. Nico Rising:

A tribute to those who dare to pursue happiness and embark on the journey carrying only what truly belongs to every human being: a mother’s love, the silent strength of their own name, the will to rise, and the spark of mystery they have been entrusted with.

The song explores the tension between destiny and inner purpose — the search for hidden truths, the passage through uncertainty, and the awareness that even in solitude, a distant star may look upon us with kindness. Love is portrayed as a solitary child who plays with the stars, fragile yet eternal.

2. Across the Oceans:

A metaphorical journey across seas and time, carried out in solitude. Each soul departs from the ruins of the West, drifting in search of a safe harbor and salvation in a new day filled with sunlight.

It is a meditation on the loneliness of the spiritual path — a silent voyage through storms and winds, guided only by the hope that one day we may meet again under the sun. The song carries the idea that redemption lies in rebuilding what humanity has torn: freeing the chained gods, restoring pillars of the sky, reawakening the cycle of seasons, life, and light.

3. No Banners No Glory (feat. Clara Sorace):

A call to abandon the ruins of the West — where cathedrals have become shelters for crows and time has lost its meaning — and sail eastward in search of wisdom, light, and spiritual rebirth.

The song denounces humanity’s destructive force: we forge weapons that silence dreams, shatter seasons, and strip stars from the hands of children. Yet it also reveals the possibility of a new beginning.

No gold, no jade. No banners, no glory. Only the scent of jasmine and roses, and the willows bending in the wind. What we seek is not conquest, but a hidden door, a wound in time through which the light may enter again.

4. Chasing the Horizon (feat. Emiliano Pasquinelli):

A song about moving toward something unreachable — chasing not a geographic place, but a spiritual dawn.

It speaks of resilience in a world clouded by war and ignorance, where only those who dare the impossible continue rowing toward a distant light.

We are portrayed as fragile yet precious “strings of pearls,” like shipwrecked souls clinging to driftwood. The horizon here is not a destination, but an inner awakening — the moment when the human spirit chooses to rise rather than surrender.

5. Freedom:

Inspired directly by the lyrics, this track is a poetic reflection on the fragility of existence and the dignity of remaining alive in the face of decay.

It calls the oceans and the seasons as witnesses to humanity’s endless struggle against its own demons.

The narrator — a “son of a painful century plagued by lies and mediocrity” — searches for meaning through words few will read. The song celebrates freedom, the visions of dreamers, and everything that rises “in the madness of the wind.”

It speaks of the eternal cycle of war and rebirth, and of the desire for death to find us still truly alive. Like fleeting sparks on the waves, we may be nothing — and yet, we are the horizon.

6. Mother:

Mother is portrayed as the primordial force that both destroys and regenerates — older than empires, older even than poetry.

The song explores humanity's silent collapse, drifting away “to the digital sound of chains,” forgetting that life belongs to the sun and the stars.

She is invoked as Simurgh, as the phoenix, asked to scatter colors across the world so that roses may bloom again.

It is a prayer to the cosmic compassion that survives every destruction in order to create once more. Only a lone child remains on the field — the last symbol of innocence and hope.

7. Towards Chang’an:

A journey toward the ancient city of Chang’an — a metaphor for wisdom, harmony, and rebirth. The song contrasts the decay of the Western world with the silent movement of ships and caravans heading east.

It reflects upon transformation: perhaps we will emerge from this war as hybrid beings or machines, perhaps forgetting our names.

Following the phoenix in flight, we seek our brothers and sisters — we seek ourselves in another dimension.

Because we are all connected to the sun. We are Zenith and Nadir. Restless souls, forever in motion.

8. You Who Dream (feat. Emiliano Pasquinelli):

An anthem to those who continue dreaming beyond the edges of a disenchanted world.

It calls to hoist the sails once again, face the East, cross the lines, and rise like the phoenix — staying human even when machines and algorithms seal the sky.

The song honors wanderers, fragile like flowers at the edge of the path, yet capable of bending words toward the heavens.

Even if we fall, we will return like the sun and rain, like blades of grass, like roses among the roses. It is a tribute to perseverance, to the dreamers who drag their destiny even when looking back — and still dream.

9. Last Siren (New Version):

The closing track is a new recording of the band’s very first song, revisited to celebrate Walk in Darkness’ 10