WALK IN DARKNESS – NICO RISING – Official Video

Walk in Darkness unveil the official video for Nico Rising

Gothic metal outfit Walk in Darkness present the official video for Nico Rising, a key preview from the forthcoming album Gods Don’t Take Calls, due out on December 12, 2025. Framed by an elemental narrative of ascension “from the ruins” and guided by “winds and distant stars,” the piece introduces a protagonist whose voice travels across lands and destinies. It is a statement of identity, resolve and quiet wonder, carried by an evocative blend of sound, performance and imagery.

The song: atmosphere, weight and clarity

Nico Rising sits firmly in Walk in Darkness’s gothic metal language, where atmospheric guitars, cinematic keyboards and deliberate rhythms are shaped to foreground the lead voice. The arrangement favors space and contrast, giving the vocal line room to crest and recede while the instrumental bed supplies a steady undertow. Subtle orchestral colors and ambient textures contribute to the piece’s nocturnal hue, while the guitars provide a granite spine that keeps the music grounded even as it looks skyward.

It is music built for resonance rather than display. The pulse leans toward mid-tempo, the dynamics lift in measured waves, and the production keeps a clear focus on the song’s central melody. The result is a sound that feels both intimate and cinematic, suited to the text’s themes of inward strength and far-traveling hope.

Voice and performance

Vocalist Nicoletta Rosellini delivers the song with poise and expressive command, tracing a path from introspection to declaration. Her phrasing balances lightness and resolve, touching softly on the verses’ questions before rising with steadier force in the refrains. The performance favors articulation and emotional clarity, allowing recurring lines to land with mantra-like intent. In a genre that often swells to grand extremes, Rosellini’s control becomes a kind of lighthouse at the center of the track.

Lyrics and themes

Written by Shaman, the lyrics revolve around inheritance, self-definition and a persistent search for meaning. The repeated vow “I carry with me only what is mine” anchors the narrative as a personal creed, narrowed down to essentials: a mother’s love, the power of one’s name, a “rising voice to heaven,” and a “spark of mystery.” These elements form a compact cosmology that the protagonist can claim amid uncertainty.

The song pursues classic existential puzzles with plainspoken imagery: “To know why Time runs,” “why rivers always seek the sea.” A distant, benevolent star suggests protection, yet love is figured as a solitary child playing with the stars, tender and alone. That tension between guidance and solitude is central. The text then shifts to the language of travel and suspension: bridges, ships, clouds, plum blossoms and herons hidden by mist. The narrator may be “forever, suspended in time, between sea and sky,” with no land in sight, yet the refrain returns like a fixed point. Repetition here is purposeful, a ritual of remembrance that keeps identity intact as the world blurs.

Across these verses, Nico Rising treats resilience not as conquest but as continuity. The voice is entrusted to the winds, sent “far and further away.” Storms may echo the name, but names endure, and the act of speaking becomes a form of navigation.

The visual language

Directed by Shaman and Lorenzo Avanzi for AVZ Studios, the video emphasizes scenography and motion to mirror the song’s ascent. Imagery of ruins, wind and distant constellations sets a dialogue between decay and renewal. Light and shadow are used to establish a world of thresholds, neither day nor night, where the protagonist’s presence is registered as a quiet ignition rather than a sudden blaze.

Actress Diletta Moschitta, a ballet dancer with the Lyric Dance Company in Florence, Italy, carries much of the visual narrative. Her movement choices trace the text’s arc from hesitancy to poise, folding classical line and contemporary gesture into a physical metaphor for the song’s search. The choreography favors reach and release, like breath made visible, suggesting a conversation between weight and air that parallels the music’s balance of gravity and lift.

Production and soundcraft

Recorded by Alessandro Guasconi at Virus Recording Studio, the track finds a sonic middle ground where presence and atmosphere coexist. The guitars are sculpted to support rather than smother, the keyboards extend the horizon without overwhelming it, and the rhythm section underlines the cadence of each phrase. The engineering underscores clarity in the vocals and breadth in the ambient layers, which helps the lyrical images feel tactile without losing their mystery.

Album context

Gods Don’t Take Calls, arriving on December 12, 2025, promises a panorama where mythic language intersects with contemporary disquiet. If Nico Rising is a guide, the album will likely dwell on thresholds and transmissions, on how messages are sent, received or lost across distances both spiritual and human. The title hints at distance between the mortal and the divine; the single counters with a voice that insists on connection, however fragile, however solitary.

Credits

Song: Nico Rising
Album: Gods Don’t Take Calls (out December 12, 2025)
Music and Lyrics: Shaman
Vocals: Nicoletta Rosellini
Direction, Scenography and Executive Planning: Shaman, Lorenzo Avanzi (AVZ Studios)
Actress / Ballet Dancer: Diletta Moschitta (Lyric Dance Company, Florence)
Audio Recording: Alessandro Guasconi (Virus Recording Studio)

Final thoughts

Nico Rising offers a distilled vision of Walk in Darkness’s strengths: a carefully shaped atmosphere, a voice that holds the center, and lyrics that turn elemental images into lived questions. It is a work of conviction that travels lightly and speaks clearly, carrying “only what is mine” as it moves toward the wider sky.