Hellkern Warriors Built Endless Road in Berlin, Pietrasanta and Ibagué
Three Cities, Analog Synths and A Rhythm Section That Refuses to Hurry
The guitars come in cold and stay there, more chime than crunch. An analog synth line runs underneath, and the bass walks rather than pushes. That is the room Hellkern Warriors work in on “Endless Road”, the single they released on 28 December 2025. The room is not in one country.
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How Three Cities Built Hellkern Warriors Endless Road
Hellkern Warriors formed in 2025 as a deliberately international project. The members are based in Berlin, in Pietrasanta on the Tuscan coast, and in Ibagué in central Colombia. They describe themselves plainly as an international gothic rock band from Germany, Italy and Colombia. The record was assembled across those distances rather than in a shared rehearsal space.
That matters more than it might sound. A band tracking together in one room tends to write around what happens when four people play at once. A band working across time zones writes around parts, because each part arrives finished. “Endless Road” is built that way. The guitar, the synth line and the low end each occupy a clear register, and none of them fight for the same space.
What The Players Brought And What The Writing Withholds
The players brought histories with them. The collective draws on time in Radarfield, Toxic Industry Binario 0, Dylan Phoenix and Lemarchand, which is a decent spread of underground rock and industrial experience. That shows in the restraint more than in any single move. Nobody in this band is trying to prove they can play.
Tom Radar’s vocal sits front and dry, and the writing stays in a narrow register. Lines like the sky is bleeding and where angels fear to tread do the scene-setting. Meanwhile the repeated admission that he does not feel the undertow on this endless road carries the actual theme. The band frame it as perseverance and emotional endurance, and the track earns that reading by refusing to resolve.
At five minutes the song takes its time, and no explosive climax waits at the end. The production resists polish. It is the arrangement of a band who decided early that the mood was the point, then trusted it.
Sisters Of Mercy, The Chameleons And Where Endless Road Sits
The reference points came up independently across several reviews, which is usually a sign they are real rather than pitched. Sisters of Mercy are the obvious one, and the comparison holds in the register of the vocal and the steadiness of the pulse rather than in any direct lift. The Chameleons are the more useful comparison for the guitars, which chime and ring out in the way that band made standard. Depeche Mode come up for the vocal timbre, and that one is about tone rather than songwriting.
What none of those comparisons capture is the geography. Darkwave has always been a European genre with a fairly fixed set of reference cities. A project running between Germany, Italy and Colombia works outside that map, and the Colombian end of it is not a detail most gothic rock records can claim.
IndieRock.News curator team: “What earns ‘Endless Road’ a slot is the discipline. Five minutes, no climax, and every part given its own register. Records assembled remotely usually sound stitched together, and this one sounds decided.”
Where To Hear Hellkern Warriors Endless Road And Follow The Band
The coverage has followed the same reading. Obscure Sound picked up the interplay between pulsing guitars and synths at the track’s midpoint, while Lelahel Metal called out the production’s refusal to over-polish. Rock Era Magazine, Indie Dock Music Blog and Lost in the Manor all covered it in the same February window.
Illustrate Magazine ran a full interview with the band, and The Musical Road covered them at the point of release. That coverage has circulated on Threads too, through Lelahel Metal’s post and a further Threads mention. For a project less than a year old with no label behind it, that is a substantial run of press in a short period.
The accompanying video does the same work as the song. An endless road stretching into darkness is not a subtle image, but it matches a track about continuing rather than arriving.
Listeners can watch the video for “Endless Road” on YouTube, or stream the catalogue on Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer. Their Bandcamp carries the wider catalogue.
Finally, Hellkern Warriors post on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and the YouTube channel, with more on the official website.
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