Heavy & defiantNo More Half Alive
For the moment you find your voice.
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Nordic folk · Cinematic rock · Heavy metal
Old GodsBurning
Dark songs for heavy hearts.
For the weight you carry. The people you miss.
The part of you that still wants more.
26 released music videosHeavy riffs. Weathered voices. Human stories.The complete collection on YouTube ↗
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Locked in a Metal Cage
Iron bars. A world coming apart. An orchestral metal anthem about isolation, pressure and the part of us that still wants more.
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Heavy & defiant
Quiet & hauntingI've Never Held One
For the weight of something small.
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Raise the hallDrink with the Dead
For the friends still in the room.
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4:3601 / Heavy & defiant
▶Locked in a Metal Cage
Iron bars. A world coming apart. An orchestral metal anthem about isolation, pressure and the part of us that still wants more.
3:3002 / Quiet & haunting
▶The Lie Comes First
A broken cup brings an old fear into a safe room. An intimate story about childhood wounds and finding the courage to tell the truth.
4:2303 / Quiet & haunting
▶I've Never Held One
A man who has carried a lifetime of weight holds his newborn son for the first time. Strong hands, suddenly trembling.
4:1004 / Quiet & haunting
▶A Ditch Full of Stars
Two people stop beside a wet road. In the water at their feet, a small reflected sky becomes a moment worth keeping.
3:4405 / Quiet & haunting
▶Apples from the Battlefield
Children pick apples where a battlefield once lay. An old man remembers, and leaves the orchard gate open.
3:3306 / Quiet & haunting
▶Leave the Laughter In
Two old friends remember the same nights differently. A story about laughter, its hidden cost and finally listening to the person who carried it home.
2:5007 / Heavy & defiant
▶Not One Grain
The stores are locked. The children are hungry. A village turns refusal into solidarity, driven by a chorus made to be shouted together.
3:4708 / Heavy & defiant
▶No Crown for Men Like Us
A collector arrives at an empty village. Ordinary people choose a shared supper over obedience, and put every bowl on the table.
3:5809 / Quiet & haunting
▶The Quiet Wasn't Peace
The house is warm, but the silence has taken a seat between two people. A song about moving closer and beginning the difficult conversation.
3:0810 / Raise the hall
▶Who Moved the Floor?
Two left feet and a crowded wedding hall. Crooked rhythms, stomping boots and absolutely no intention of sitting down.
3:5011 / Quiet & haunting
▶I Sold My Shadow for a Coat
A stranger offers warmth for one winter. When summer comes, a man discovers the true price of the shadow he traded away.
3:3212 / Heavy & defiant
▶Cut the Coat Off
Inside a crowded field infirmary, the uniforms come off. Exhausted hands work through the night to save the people beneath them.
3:2013 / Quiet & haunting
▶She Walks in Her Sleep
She walks barefoot towards an empty harbour. He follows with a lantern. Grief, memory and the quiet work of staying beside someone.
3:1914 / Quiet & haunting
▶Three Soft Knocks
A father returns to a son who remembers the shouting. This time, he knocks softly, steps back and lets the boy decide.
3:0815 / Heavy & defiant
▶Pull Him Up
One rope. A life over the edge. When the man below is someone you could hate, mercy becomes a choice you make with your own hands.
3:2316 / Heavy & defiant
▶Hold Him Down
Fenrir strains against the chain. Beneath the myth, a song about fear, pressure and holding the line together.
3:2717 / Heavy & defiant
▶Built from Broken Boats
Weathered timber returns to the tide. Heavy, hopeful Nordic rock about shared work and beginning again without hiding where you've been.
4:0818 / Heavy & defiant
▶No More Half Alive
Years of stepping aside give way to one loud promise: show up for your own life, even when your hands shake.
3:1019 / Heavy & defiant
▶The Day I Stopped Waiting
An empty chair beside a window. A life postponed. The moment a man stops waiting for permission and steps outside.
3:5120 / Raise the hall
▶Drink with the Dead
Raise a cup for the friends who cannot sit beside us. A rough, bittersweet drinking lament full of names, laughter and one more round.
4:3121 / Heavy & defiant
▶The Storm Did Not Take Me
The roof is gone. The road has vanished. A survivor stands among the ruins and finds the strength to rise again.
4:1822 / Heavy & defiant
▶When Brothers Turn to Dust
Two brothers share a childhood, then lose each other to pride and silence. An anthem about the wounds inside a broken bond.
4:3323 / Heavy & defiant
▶The Wolf Beneath the Snow
An exile survives the winter. When the people who cast him out ask for his help, he must decide what he is willing to rise for.
4:0824 / Quiet & haunting
▶The Last Firekeeper
Alone in a ruined northern hall, an old guardian keeps the last flame alive and carries the names that would otherwise disappear.
3:5525 / Quiet & haunting
▶No Road Back Home
A man returns to his childhood village. The place he remembers is gone, and the road ahead must become his own.
4:0826 / Heavy & defiant
▶The Weight of My Name
A father's silence. An inherited name. The song that began this journey turns the burden of the past into a path of one's own.
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Old sounds.
Human scars.
Old Gods Burning brings Nordic folk, cinematic rock and heavy metal into stories about ordinary people carrying extraordinary weight.
A father holding his son for the first time. A village choosing to feed its children. Friends raising a cup for the ones who are gone. The person who finally says what they have held back for years.
There is room here for grief, defiance, tenderness and a hall full of terrible dancers. Deep, weathered voices and northern textures hold them together — from the quietest room to the heaviest chorus.
Fire for the ones who still stand.
Keep a place by the fire
There's another song in us.
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