About the curse
Cursed to Conquer
Pirate metal and dark fantasy from a storm-lit world of cursed crews, old oaths, sea monsters, black flags, and songs made to be shouted back at the deep.
The short version
A pirate-metal world you can enter from any deck.
Cursed to Conquer is built for listeners who want the song to open a door. One door leads to a full album. Another leads to a ghost ship novella. Another leads to comic strips, visualizers, and merch from the same cursed sea.
The tone is heavy, theatrical, and grimly fun: tavern choruses, doomed captains, leviathans, forbidden gold, and a crew that keeps coming back when the ocean thinks it has won.
The sound
Big choruses, stormy guitars, cinematic weight, and hooks that belong in a crowded tavern at the end of the world.
The story
Every release adds another piece of the map: cursed treasure, undead sailors, black wakes, old gods, and debts the sea still remembers.
The bite
It is dark fantasy with a crooked grin: dramatic enough for sea monsters, loose enough to joke about streaming royalties.
The invitation
Listen, read, wear the mark, follow the fleet, and come back when the next signal rises over the water.
Start the voyage
Pick your first signal.
Latest album
Below the Black Wake
A full-length voyage through dead stars, black water, grave bells, and choruses built to be played loud.
Open the album
Story entry
Blackwake Covenant
An undead pirate horror novella with a web reader, EPUB, full audiobook, and chapter player.
Read or listen
Comic strips
Vintage Tone
Three-panel dispatches from the crew as they crash into streaming math, merch chaos, and the modern shore.
Read the strips
First voyage
Plunder 'Til We Die
A rowdy pirate-metal album with tavern hooks, cursed treasure, sea monsters, and one last chorus before the end.
Start hereJoin the crew
Get the cursed lore drop, release alerts, and merch codes.
No noise from the shore. Just new songs, story chapters, drop alerts, and crew-only launch codes.
Lore drops
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