Daan Dawg

ODING - 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.

24 minutes ago | [YT] | 0

Daan Dawg

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.

4 days ago | [YT] | 4

Daan Dawg

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.

1 week ago | [YT] | 2

Daan Dawg

CHANNEL ANNOUNCEMENT - PREMIERES FOR YOUR FAVORITE THEMES

I’m going to experiment with premieres on the channel.

Since I jump between many different themes and languages, I know some of you mainly wait for certain types of songs to return, like Celtic songs, Viking themes, mythology, horror, historical figures, and more.

So starting tomorrow Monday at 3 PM CET, I’ll enable the premiere 24 hours before release. That way, you’ll already know a day ahead if your favorite type of theme is coming back to the channel (hint, the first one is for a new language in one of my most popular categories).

Let me know in the comments if you think this is a good idea for the channel 🙂

1 week ago (edited) | [YT] | 6

Daan Dawg

NEW SCOTTISH GAELIC SONG!

I went back to the Celtic world for this one, but from a different angle.

Scáthach isn’t a hero in the usual sense. She’s the one warriors seek out when they want to be tested, broken, and remade. In the stories, they cross the sea to reach her fortress, and not all of them leave.

That idea stayed with me. Not the glory, but the cost of becoming something stronger.

I wrote this in Scottish Gaelic to keep that distance, that sense of stepping into her world instead of telling it from the outside. It changes how the story feels.

This one is harder, more controlled, and very direct. No romance, no soft edges. Just the trial, and what it does to those who come.

1 week ago | [YT] | 1

Daan Dawg

READY FOR THIS EXPERIMENT???

For this song, I pushed the vocals and sound much further than usual.

Instead of building it around my typical rock structure, I let the voice take control. Whispering, shifting tone, and carrying a Slavic accent, all of it is there to make Baba Yaga feel present, not just described.

This isn’t meant to sound clean or polished. She isn’t that. The voice needed to feel intrusive, like something that gets too close, not something performing at a distance.

So the focus shifted. Less about melody carrying everything, more about atmosphere, tension, and presence. The story is still there, but it’s not just told, it’s felt.

1 week ago | [YT] | 0

Daan Dawg

A small channel update:

I’ve decided to slowly move toward 2 uploads per week instead of only Fridays. Fridays at 15:00 will remain the main upload slot, but from now on you will also see songs appearing on Tuesdays at 15:00.

Part of the reason is practical. I’ve been building a large upload buffer during my cancer treatment and upcoming surgery recovery, so the channel can keep going no matter what happens. But another reason is creative: some songs disappear into a full quiet week if they don’t immediately connect with the algorithm, and I want more room for different myths, legends, historical figures and darker experimental pieces to breathe.

So today’s Baba Yaga upload accidentally became the beginning of that second lane. 🖤 I hope you enjoy this fun weird song I loved experimenting with!

Thank you all for sticking around for this strange musical journey through history, mythology, horror and old legends.

1 week ago | [YT] | 7

Daan Dawg

This NEW SONG is different in tone.

Samson is often remembered for his strength, but that’s not what stayed with me when I revisited his story. What struck me was how gradually he lost everything.

Not in one moment, not just because of Delilah, but through a pattern of choices he kept justifying.

By the time he stands in that temple, blind and humiliated, the story is already over in a way. The strength is gone, the calling is broken, and he knows exactly why.

That final prayer is not heroic in the way people expect. It’s desperate, direct, and final.

I wanted to tell his story from that place.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 0

Daan Dawg

NEW IRISH SONG!

I went back to Irish for this one.

Not to tell a specific story, but to capture a feeling. The idea that nothing is ever truly gone. That the land, the wind, carries everything that came before us.

This song doesn’t follow one voice. It starts with someone listening… and slowly becomes something else.

Irish felt right here. Not as a translation, but as part of the atmosphere itself. A language that has endured, even when so much around it was lost.

This one is quieter, more reflective than some of my recent songs. But it stayed with me while writing it, and I hope it stays with you too.

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 4

Daan Dawg

NEW SONG RELEASE

May 4th is Remembrance Day in The Netherlands, my home country. And this song is one close to my heart, the story of my grandfather, who was a young soldier when the Germans invaded The Netherlands in 1940.

They were completely overrun and he got wounded, was taken prisoner, and sent to a prisoner of war camp in Germany. After six weeks, he came back weighing barely 45 kg.

But he came back holding his head high. They had never broken his spirit.

The only thing he ever said about it was that the German soldiers came at them “like a machine and were unstoppable.”

That stayed with me.

This song is my way of giving a voice to my grandfather, who chose to remain silent and stood his ground.

#4mei #dodenherdenking #Grebbeberg

1 month ago | [YT] | 0