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Cursed and Crowned is a relentless journey through spiritual battle, redemption, and raw emotion. Inspired by the heaviness of Bullet for My Valentine and the cinematic depth of modern metalcore, it blends crushing breakdowns, soaring clean choruses, and lyrics that confront the darkness head-on while pointing to the light. From the haunting “Graveheart” to the anthemic title track, every song bleeds passion, pain, and the victory found in surrender.



Hearts Like Shrapnel

This one came from watching "Destination Unknown" and getting completely fascinated by the idea of finding Anne Bonny's treasure. The show got me digging deep into her story, and the more I learned, the more I realized her real treasure wasn't gold - it was her absolute refusal to be controlled by anyone.

Here's this Irish woman who had everything handed to her - plantation wealth, arranged marriage, comfortable life - and she threw it all away to become a Caribbean pirate. That takes serious guts. But what really hooked me was learning about her partnership with Mary Read and how they were often the only ones willing to fight when Calico Jack's crew got cornered.

The song builds through her whole journey, but that courthouse moment is what sealed it for me. When they're about to hang her and instead of begging, she looks at those men and says "If you fought like a man, you wouldn't hang like a dog!" That's pure defiance in the face of death.

When AI helped me create the track, that breakdown where the music cuts to silence before her voice delivers that line came out perfect. It captures what I was feeling watching that show - this woman's treasure wasn't buried somewhere, it was her unbreakable spirit.

Sometimes the best songs come from getting lost in a TV show and finding something way deeper than you expected.

Rogues Revenge

💿 AXAXC – Grateful

DISTORT. DISTRUST. DESTROY.

This album is warfare. A cinematic deathcore/nu-metal epic that rips from raw confession to cyberpunk prophecy, built on sludge-heavy chugs, melodic chaos, and truths you weren’t supposed to hear.

From the unflinching defiance of “Praise” and “MaZe”, through the cheeky venom of “Beloved Beast”, the core of this extended play burns brightest in the Losing Trilogy — Losing My Soul, Losing My Home, Losing My Code — a three-act battle for self, sanctuary, and identity in a world built to break you.

It doesn’t end there. “Mirror” and “The Mirror Lies” twist the blade deeper, while Requiem Aeternal editions reforge the heaviest moments into even darker shapes. It all collapses into the final transmission — “Wake Up, Neo.”. 

This your last chance to see the system for what it is. Wake Up. You have No Excuses.

This album is for the ones who’ve been misunderstood, marginalised, and underestimated.
It’s for the people who rage in private, who keep fighting even when no one’s watching.
If you’ve ever felt like the walls were closing in, this is your Album.

For fans of: #SleepToken, #BringMeTheHorizon, #LornaShore, #LinkinPark, #SlaughterToPrevail, #Architects.

Tracklist:

- Praise
- MaZe
- Tongues of Sin (Remastered)
- Beloved Beast
- Losing My Soul
- Losing My Home
- Losing My Code
- Mirror
- The Mirror Lies
- MaZe [Requiem Aeternal]
- Nail in the Coffin (Remastered x3)
- Losing My Soul [Requiem Aeternal]
- Losing My Home [Requiem Aeternal]
- Beloved Beast [Requiem Aeternal]
- Wake Up, Neo.

#Deathcore #NuMetal #Metalcore #AXAXC #LosingMySoul #CyberpunkMetal #Sludgecore #PostRockMetal #RequiemAeternal #HeavyMusic #Screamo #GothicMetal #IndustrialMetal #CinematicMetal #MetalBand #MetalVocals #AXAXCFamily

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