This album is for everyone who crashes the hardest when the lights go up for Christmas and the days get short and cold.

We Are But Thieves is a seasonal depression record, a winter-anguish record, and a thank-you letter to everyone who’s been with us in Year One.

We started AxAxC as an experiment:
two nobodies writing what hurt, what healed, and what we couldn’t say out loud —
while learning prompt engineering and playing with sound.

One year later, you gave us:
• 696,645 plays
• 1,134,905+ minutes listened
• 9,403 likes
• 452 new followers
• top cities like Kyiv • Minsk • Moscow • Hanau • Dnipro
and you carried tracks like Crown of Thorns, End of the Line and Transcendence way further than we expected.

This album is our way of saying thank you and “I see you” to everyone who drowns a little in the dark months.

Founding Five — 2025 Playback:
Nanem • Nhelomoloi580 • Colin Pagano • User 322501917 • NO FI$H

You five streamed us like crazy this year. You’re officially carved into AxAxC history.

Honorary Mentions / Day-One Family:
Blayvid, KAT, Coldwake (Jenny), MaxSoulBoneBlood, Vitaly, Hasti Sajadi, TheRealKingVass, Christopher Linder, Neghar B.

Thank you for riding with us, reposting us, yelling lyrics in DMs, and holding this project down when it was just weird noise in a corner of the internet.

This is for everyone dealing with SAD, depression, faith collapse, broken families, winter nights and quiet rooms:
• the ones who feel guilty for just existing,
• the ones who’ve written a 48-hour countdown in their head,
• the ones who feel “on my own” even in a crowded room,
• the ones who’ve thought “anywhere and nowhere would be better than here.”

If these songs hit you, do three things:

Save the track that feels like you.

Share it with someone who needs to know they’re not alone this winter.

Tell us in the comments which lyric you’re stealing for your heart.

Thank you for fucking with us this year.
This is the end of Year One.
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If you’re struggling or feeling unsafe

This album talks openly about depression, self-harm thoughts and wanting to disappear.
If any of these songs hit too close and you’re thinking about hurting yourself:

• United Kingdom – Call Samaritans 116 123 (free, 24/7) or visit the NHS “Help for suicidal thoughts” page for more options.
• Sweden – Call Självmordslinjen 90101 (Mind’s suicide prevention line), or call 112 in an emergency.
• United States – Call or text 988 or chat via the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (24/7, free, confidential).
• Russia – You can call the national Helpline for Children, Teens & Parents 8-800-2000-122, or Samaritans Cherepovets 8 (8202) 577-577 for emotional crisis and suicide support.

If your life is in immediate danger, please call your local emergency number right away (112, 911, etc.).

And if hotlines feel too big, reach out to one person you trust – friend, family member, teacher, someone in your community.

You are not weak for needing help.
You are not a burden for feeling this way.

Even if this album sounds like your head, today is not the day you die.

© AxAxCStudios™ — All rights reserved. Distort. Distrust. Destroy.

Graves And Robbers

ANNOUNCEMENT: 1/12/2025
AxAxC HITS THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION STREAMS!!!

Having amassed over 28,000 engaged monthly listeners in just 9 months on SoundCloud, AxAxC has built a brand that blends emotional torment with calculated artistry. Emerging from the shores of the North with roots deep in the African mountains, AxAxC dishes out righteous, emotional musical damage across the West.

AxAxC Take Inspiration From & are For fans of:
#LornaShore • #SleepToken • #BringMetheHorizon • #Spiritbox • #SlaughtertoPrevail • #WithinTemptation

If your soul burns for something real…
If your pain needs an anthem…
If you crave distortion, distrust, and destruction…
You belong here.

Welcome to AxAxC
Proudly merging Computing precision with human ingenuity, AxAxC’s evolution is visible in every release, sharper sound, richer visuals, and bolder storytelling. A team, Skills self-taught through a year of trial and error in prompt engineering, transcending into the heart of the band’s DNA.

AxAxC collaborates with any and all, united in the mission to create music for the misfits, the rebels, the broken, and the dreamers. For those who’ve screamed into the void and still chose to rise.

AxAxC Sound:
Melodic Deathcore brutality. Nu-metal grooves. Ambient metal textures. Screamo chaos. Drill, Trapcore. Cinematic storytelling. From guttural breakdowns to whispered ethereal vocals, orchestral warzones to jazz, country, and spoken word.

AxAxC is omnigenre. With lyrics from the hearts of both the band and the fans! To us everything is music, anything can become a song and we aim to please!

Latest Releases:
Cope Said The Troll: The Omnigenre Campaign – Teaser
Tropical Gargantua [SUMMER 2025 HITS] – Album
Grateful – EP

Commissions Open
AxAxC offers custom tracks, theme music, remixes, and album artwork—omnigenre, high-impact, and battle-tested. Our Page is our Portfolio! Whether you’re a creator, brand, or artist, or...one of our great listeners, get the AxAxC treatment and join the Collective from the inside.

Enquiries & Commissions:
Instagram DMs: @axaxcband
SoundCloud: @axaxcofficial
Email: axaxcstudios@proton.me

We are AxAxC.
Distort. Distrust. Destroy.

#AXAXC #TheCollectiveAscends #Deathcore #Metalcore #NuMetal #CinematicMetal #Screamo #SleepToken #SlaughterToPrevail #AmbientMetal #DistortDistrustDestroy #HauntingMelodies #AxAxCforever #Multigenre #Omnigenre #CustomMusic #CommissionsOpen