Interview with Darkways (November 2025)

From the nocturnal heart of Barcelona, Darkways was born — a band shaped by nightfall and neon, crafting a sound where the rhythm of darkwave intertwines with the tension of rock and metal. Formed by Marc and Lluís, longtime friends whose creative bond traces back to their teenage years, they have spent years playing, experimenting, and evolving together through various bands before finding new life in this project.

Their music thrives on contrasts: movement and melancholy, emotion and electricity, light trembling on the edge of shadow. Within it, post-punk’s introspection dissolves into cinematic waves of vintage synthesizers, forming a landscape that feels both haunted and vividly alive. Influences rooted in rock, punk, hardcore, and metal now converge with a growing fascination for 1980s electronic textures, goth rock, and darkwave — a fusion that defines their unmistakable sound.

Haunted by the 1980s, Darkways breathes new life into the ghosts it summons — transforming nostalgia into movement and memory into sound; timeless yet immediate, intimate yet immense.

At Peek-A-Boo, we had the pleasure of speaking with Marc and Lluís about their shared history, their creative chemistry, and the undercurrents that continue to shape their unmistakable sound.

Q: Hello there, good evening to you guys. Looking up at the sky, there’s an evil moon gazing down tonight — the kind that stirs darkness into the heart. Do you ever feel that the night itself reaches out to you — that strange familiarity, like a friend who’s always there?

Lluís: The night always reaches out—though not exactly as a friend. It’s more like a shadow that knows you a little too well, lingering just at the edge of your vision. And that moon… it doesn’t just watch, it judges, silently amused by the small darknesses we all carry inside. Somehow it feels familiar, as if it’s always been there, just waiting for us to finally notice...

Marc: Sorry for that, I guess it’s obvious we’re spending way too many hours working on the lyrics for the new songs. We end up talking like this without even realizing it (laughs)…