Rogue Bard Vivere militare est.

Art as a trial · not a performance

The swordand thebook.

Forty-seven songs, a growing pile of essays, and one rule: ten parts patience for every one part fire. Strength that is aimed, never spilled. Blues, rock, jazz, ambient, orchestral — whatever the trial demands.

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The bard, his guitar, and his guard

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  • Songs before release day
  • Word of what is coming
  • The tale behind each song
Latest release Lonely in a Crowd of Angels — cover art Lonely in a Crowd of Angels New single · with Elisa Banchero Hear it · read the words

Seven moods · forty-seven songs

Choose a mood.

Each mood is a different route through the same territory. Select one to reveal its songs, play them here, or open a song for its own page and words.

Mood I

The Storm

Reckonings. What the weather does in the hour before it breaks.

Rock · rap rock · blues · jazz fusion

    Published so far · the rest stay in the drawer

    The words

    Mood I · The Storm Rewind the Clock You can't fight a shadow!
    You can't shoot a thought!     Read the words     Mood II · The Desert Desert Sands, Vol. 1 Flash of light in darkest night
    Now she's gone without a trace     Read the words     Mood III · The Blade Warhammer In lands of frost, under the midnight sun's bold gaze
    A Viking's end comes not from age, but warrior's ways     Read the words     Mood IV · The Light High On Life High on life, can’t come down
    Electric vibes all around     Read the words     Mood V · Six Strings Mystery Postcards Found a card on my front step
    No name, no way to send it back     Read the words     Mood VII · The Jester Miškove šikovné ruky Od desiatej do jednej, robiť by som zvládol.
    Plnenie termínov na srdce ľuďom kládol.     Read the words     Mood I · The Storm The Storm is Coming Beneath the calm of twilight, a chill upon the air
    Whispers ride the wind, with rumours they won't share     Read the words     Mood I · The Storm Truth is a Dangerous Friend In whispered tones, beneath the moon's soft gaze
    Silence golden, lest the truth ignites a blaze     Read the words     Mood I · The Storm Illusory Life In a world that’s spinning fast, oh so fast
    Lights and shadows, they just pass, never last     Read the words     Mood II · The Desert Desert Dreams Stars pierce through the darkened veil
    Ancient light that cannot fail     Read the words     Mood II · The Desert Desert Soul Behold, I stand in this desert vast
    A voice in wilderness, through silence cast     Read the words     Mood II · The Desert Heatstroke In a flash of light, she is cast out of her world
    thrown into a vast emptiness of sand and scorching sky     Read the words     Mood III · The Blade King's Verdict To those with hardened hearts — listen
    The King has spoken...     Read the words     Mood III · The Blade Witcher's Path In the wilds where shadows creep and sway
    Geralt roams, a hunter bold and gray     Read the words     Mood III · The Blade The Wanderer In lands unknown beneath the sky so vast
    A wanderer seeks the echoes of his past     Read the words     Mood IV · The Light Lonely in a Crowd of Angels A thousand feathers brush against my coat
    I breathe the halo-static in the air     Read the words     Mood IV · The Light Day's Gone Late into the night, here I'm staying up again
    Sipping wine, as the day's sways softly wane     Read the words     Mood VII · The Jester Miško ide z roboty (intro) Je piatok. Pätnásť hodín dvadsaťdeväť minút.
    Miško... nehybne stojí.     Read the words     Mood VII · The Jester Miško na dovolenke El sol se marcha, el día terminó,
    y el alma pide un dulce descanso.     Read the words     Mood VII · The Jester Miškove zabudnuté mlieko Omietky hladké jak detská riť,
    už sa v tej kuchyni dá skoro žiť.     Read the words

    Essays beside the songs

    From the codex

    Essay IForce & Endurance

    Violence is an honest answer

    The uncomfortable truth about force in a “civilized” society, and why we pretend it does not exist.

    “Violence truly is the answer — not always the wisest or most efficient answer, but consistently the most honest one.”
    Read the essay
    Essay II How money ruins everything

    The impossible triangle: integrity, stability, freedom — pick two.

     Essay III The mark of the beast

    On tools, authorship, and the friend who said “it’s a shame it’s done that way.”

    Every song here is meant to have a text beside it. Some are still unwritten.

    A deliberate contradiction

    The Rogue

    Music for the universal human journey: inner conflicts, moments of discovery, modern chaos and timeless truths.

    Rogue Bard moves between blues, rock, jazz, ambient and orchestral influences by design. The genre changes when the story demands it; the thread is the same — songs with a world behind them, not content made to fill a release calendar.

    After years of putting songs into a drawer, the door is finally open. Come for the music, stay for the essays, and do not expect the road to remain straight.

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    Controlled primality · aimed, never spilled

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    A song that found you at the right hour. A collaboration. A licence for film or game. Or a thought that needs to be said out loud.

    Every letter is read, and answered, by the one who wrote the songs.

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    To Rogue Bard,

    Pick a mood.
    Keep walking.

    Rogue Bard on a white chesterfield, playing an acoustic guitar, his dog lying beside him