FORGE WARS
The first-ever metal war of the Forge. Weekly elimination. One champion.
With Adger gone, Nysera takes the Forge — and her first act as its leader is a challenge to the entire scene. No gatekeeping. No invitations. She throws the doors wide and calls every metal and rock AI creator to the arena. Come prove it.
Challengers Assembling
Nysera's call has gone out — and the acts below have answered. Every name is reviewed before it hits the wall. Take your place among them.
How the War Works
Single elimination. A bracket that cuts the field roughly in half every round until one act is left standing. With ten acts in the field, Season One runs three rounds.
Sign Up
Metal/rock AI creators enter here. Signups close August 29 and the field is seeded into a bracket.
Premiere
Each Saturday, every act premieres a brand-new, unreleased track on their own channel — the whole field drops at once.
Vote
Fans watch both tracks side by side and vote through an independent voting system. One verified vote per person, per matchup.
Advance
Results land Monday. Winners move on and write the next track; the rest are out. Repeat until the last two standing.
Season One Timeline
Signups are closed and the field is locked at ten acts. The war runs every weekend through the end of September. The schedule below is final.
The Weekly Cycle
Saturday — every remaining act premieres a new, unreleased track (public, on their own channel).
Saturday–Sunday — voting is open. Closes Sunday 11:59 PM (EEST / Greece).
Monday — results in. Winners advance; eliminated acts are notified so no one wastes a week on a round they're out of.
How many rounds? Three. Ten acts enter the Gauntlet on September 12, four advance to the semifinals, and two meet in the final. The dates above are locked.
What You're Signing Up For
- Who can enter: metal / rock AI music creators with an active channel at the time of entry. No active channel, no entry.
- AI disclosure is mandatory. This is an AI-creator contest — entrants confirm their work is AI-assisted and disclose AI use as required on their uploads.
- A new, unreleased track every round. Each round you advance to needs a brand-new original song and video — never released or premiered before battle day — one track per round you survive.
- Metal / rock only. No length cap — bring whatever the song needs to be.
- Premiere on your own channel. Tracks go live publicly on your channel on battle Saturday — your views, your subscribers, your monetization, all yours.
- Voting is run by an independent third party (see below), on the official Forge Wars voting page only. One verified vote per person, per matchup, with results shown publicly.
- No buy-ins. No entry fee. No monetary prize. This is purely for fun and recognition.
- The prize: bragging rights and the permanent title of the first-ever Forge Wars Champion — held until the next contest.
- Deadlines: a late or missing track is a forfeit for that round. Signups closed Saturday, August 29, 2026.
How Voting Works
Soul Forged Studios does not count the votes.
To keep Forge Wars fair and above suspicion, voting is run entirely through an independent, third-party voting system — not by Soul Forged Studios. We host the arena; the outside platform tallies the vote.
Forge Wars is organized by Soul Forged Studios together with Elvira Metal Band and The Veilspire, and all three are competing acts. That is exactly why the vote is not ours to count. No organizer has access to the tally, no organizer can alter a result, and every matchup is decided on the third-party platform in public view.
That system verifies one vote per person per matchup and displays results publicly, so everyone watches the same live count. The specific voting platform will be named here before Round 1.
Voting happens only on the official Forge Wars voting page. Soul Forged Studios reserves the right to void clearly fraudulent or suspicious voting activity.
Rights & Ownership
- You keep full ownership of your music and videos. Soul Forged Studios claims no rights to your work.
- Forge Wars only links to and embeds the video that lives on your own channel. We host nothing and retain no copies of your material.
- Your video stays monetized on your channel the entire time — all views and revenue are yours.
- When the contest ends, every matchup link is removed from the Forge Wars page except the Champion's, which stays up as the trophy — the permanent mark of the first Forge Wars Champion.
- By entering, you grant Soul Forged Studios permission only to link to and embed your submitted videos within Forge Wars content, for the duration of the event.
The Field Is Locked
Signups closed Saturday, August 29, 2026. Ten acts answered the call.
Ten acts. Three rounds. One champion.
The Gauntlet opens Saturday, September 12. Every act premieres a brand new track the same day, and the voting link goes live here on battle day.
Missed Season One? Season Two will open for entries after the champion is crowned. Follow Soul Forged Studios to hear first.
The World Behind the Forge
Forge Wars is one front of a much larger world. However you got here, there's more to find.