Experimental Hip-Hop legends dälek return with their latest full-length album, Brilliance of a Falling Moon. Taking its name from a section of Erik Larson’s 2011 novel In the Garden of Beasts, the album paints a fiery portrait of life and resistance in fascist America.

Conceived, composed, and produced by Will Brooks (aka MC dälek) and Mike Mare, Brilliance of a Falling Moon is a sprawling, uncompromising record that speaks to the political timbre of the day.

Recorded in the group’s Deadverse Studios over the course of 2024 and 2025, the album’s beats are propelled by brutal, dust-caked drum breaks and cloaked in an ominous, otherworldly atmosphere.

Taking aim at everything from the State’s suppression of information to colonialism and Trump’s demonization of immigrants, Brooks’ rhymes are practically burning with outrage at the current state of the world.

dälek debuted in 1998 with Negro Necro Nekros, a sonic tour de force built upon thunderous drums, blissful ambient sections, and gritty, insightful lyrics. On watershed albums like From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots (2002), Absence (2005), Abandoned Language (2007), and Gutter Tactics (2009), dälek laid a template that added completely new textural and structural dimensions to rap music.

1. Better Than
2. Knowledge | Understanding | Wisdom
3. Normalized Tragedy
4. Expressions Of Love
5. Substance
6. I AM A MAN
7. For the People
8. By the Time We Arrive in El Salvador