Daan Dawg

Hi Friends!

This week will be the last week, for now, with two song uploads. Starting next week, I will be uploading only on Fridays at 3 PM CET. These uploads are already scheduled and will go live automatically. I've worked hard to build a large buffer that should keep the channel running through at least September.

As some of you know, this year has been particularly challenging for me. In January, I was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Thankfully, it was caught early and had not spread, but it still marked the beginning of a long and exhausting treatment journey.

My treatment plan includes chemotherapy, radiation, and immunotherapy before surgery, followed by a Whipple procedure, which is a major abdominal operation with a lengthy recovery period. After that, I will undergo additional chemotherapy and immunotherapy. If all goes according to plan, I should complete treatment in the spring of 2027.

So far, I have completed seven chemotherapy sessions and five radiation treatments. I have one final chemotherapy session left before my operation, which is scheduled for the end of July.

I've worked very hard to create enough content to keep the channel active during my recovery, but keeping up with two uploads per week is becoming increasingly difficult. For the foreseeable future, I will be switching to one upload per week.

I have also written two very special songs. One will go live on the day of my operation, and another will be released when I return home from the hospital. That could take one or two weeks, depending on how recovery goes. So you'll know exactly when I've stepped away from the studio for a while.

During that period, I will be mostly quiet. I certainly hope you won't be! Feel free to spam me with good vibes. I'll be reading everything and will respond when I'm back home and feeling stronger.

Thank you all for being here, and I hope you'll enjoy the music I've created for you during my absence.

2 days ago | [YT] | 8

Daan Dawg

NEW SONG RELEASE!

For this week's song we're going all the way back to medieval China.

Wu Zetian was never supposed to rule China.

After the death of the emperor, she was stripped of her status and sent away to a monastery, just another forgotten concubine erased from court life.

Years later, she returned and became the only official female emperor in Chinese history.

This song tells the story of the woman the empire fatally underestimated.

2 days ago | [YT] | 1

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NEW WELSH SONG!

TALIESIN is one of the most important figures in Welsh mythology, often remembered as a legendary bard and prophet tied to the ancient Celtic world behind the Arthurian legends.

But this song focuses on the darker beginning of the story.

Before Taliesin became the great seer of Wales, he was Gwion Bach, a young servant who accidentally tasted three drops of forbidden wisdom from Ceridwen’s magical cauldron. In that instant, he gained visions and knowledge no human was meant to possess… and realized he was now being hunted.

“Tri Diferyn” means “Three Drops” in Welsh.

This track leans into the fear, transformation, and psychological collapse behind the myth rather than the later heroic legend.

6 days ago | [YT] | 2

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NEW SONG RELEASE! ELIZABETH I - THE VIRGIN QUEEN

She became one of the most powerful rulers in English history, but the crown came at a brutal cost.



This new song explores Elizabeth I not as the untouchable “Virgin Queen” of legend, but as the woman who sacrificed love, family, and even her own identity to keep England alive during one of its most dangerous eras.


Surrounded by betrayal, religious conflict, political pressure, and threats from foreign powers, Elizabeth chose to belong to England alone. The white makeup, the towering gowns, the carefully controlled image, it all became armor.


“I Gave My Youth” is written from the perspective of an aging Elizabeth looking back on what her sacrifice achieved, and what it destroyed in the process.

1 week ago | [YT] | 3

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NEW SONG RELEASE!

This week's song descends into the furnace-lit world of alchemy, obsession, and madness.

“The Philosopher’s Stone” tells the story of an alchemist willing to sacrifice everything for immortality: love, health, time, and eventually his own humanity. Inspired by the real historical obsession surrounding the legendary Stone and the Elixir of Life, this track blends dark post-grunge rock with gothic steampunk atmosphere.

What begins as ambition slowly becomes isolation, paranoia, and destruction inside a smoke-filled laboratory of fire, rust, steam, and broken dreams.

Sometimes the most dangerous thing is not death itself… but the fear of it.

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

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NEW SONG RELEASE!

A Spartan mother does not follow her son to war.
She sends him there.

Before battle, she would hand him his shield and say:
“With it, or on it.”

It meant one thing.
Return carrying your shield in victory, or be carried back on it in death.

To lose the shield was to abandon the line.
To run was the only dishonor.

In Greek, this is Ē tān ē epì tās, a phrase that reflects the core of Spartan culture, discipline, duty, and sacrifice above all.

This song tells the story from her side.
The one who gave him to that law… and has to live with the result.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

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My new song, DR. FRANKENSTEIN’S REGRET, is live!

In this one I step into Victor Frankenstein himself, focusing on the moment he succeeds in creating life and then immediately turns away from it. Not the creature in the shadows, but the man who brought it into the world and refused to stand by it.

This song follows that decision and its consequences. The creature is not born a monster, it becomes one through isolation, rejection, and the absence of the one person responsible for it. That is the core of Mary Shelley’s original story, and that is the angle I wanted to stay true to here.

If you’re familiar with Frankenstein, you’ll recognize this shift in perspective. If not, this is the essence: creation, responsibility, and what happens when that responsibility is denied.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 2

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ODIN - NEW SONG RELEASE

Odin is often seen as the Allfather, the wise god who sacrificed everything for knowledge.

But that’s not the side I focused on here.

This song looks at the Odin who walks among men unseen.
The one who changes his face, his name, his voice.
The one who guides wars without ever stepping onto the battlefield.

Not chaos like Loki.
Control.

He knows how it ends.
And still, he moves every piece.

3 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 2

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NEW CELTIC SONG IN BRETON (SUBTITLED)!

Today's story comes from Brittany.

Korrigans are not one fixed form. In some tales they are small, hidden beings among the stones. In others, they appear at night as voices that call from wells and ancient sites. This song follows that second path.

A presence, a voice, a moment where you hear something you should not follow.

Mouezh ar Vammenn is one encounter with a korrigan, not a definition.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 4

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NEW VIKING SONG IN ICELANDIC!

This one goes back to the very beginning.

Not a king, not a battle, not a legend built over time.
One man, a ship, and a decision that had no way back.

Ingólfur Arnarson is remembered as the first settler of Iceland. Not because he conquered it, but because he chose it, without knowing what he would find.

He threw his high-seat pillars into the sea and swore to settle wherever they came ashore. No map, no certainty. Just trust in fate.

This song stays in that moment.
Out on the ocean, between leaving Norway and becoming something new.

I wrote this one in Icelandic on purpose.
The language hasn’t changed much since the Viking Age, so these words are as close as we can get to what he himself would have spoken.

4 weeks ago | [YT] | 2