Ring in The New Year

No Christmas album from me, but starting off the New Year with a new album!

The new Album “Signal Break” releasing Jan 1st 2026, will feature 16 tracks:

1. Signal Break
2. The Product
3. Enshittification
4. Law of the Mega‑City
5. Change Your Ways (Before Your Ways Change You)
6. Compassion in Motion
7. Silent Shadows, Silent Screams
8. Ecocide
9. Genetic Jailbreak
10. Inosculation
11. Covenant
12. Pedestal
13. Whispers in the Dark
14. Crime Is Legal
15. Eyes of Medusa
16. Shoreline Blood

Lyric Video: Trees and Tales

Title track for the album “Trees and Tales”.

Lyric Video: Fire-Ridge

Finally finished uploading all of my YouTube videos onto my Peertube. Time to start posting new videos.

Lyric Video: I Walk My Way

Second track from “Trees and Tales”.

The full album can also be found on my Funkwhale.

Lyric Video: Water-Bound Heart

Opening track for the new album “Trees and Tales” released today (Dec 12, 2025).

The lyrics to “Water-Bound Heart” are Inspired by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s novella “Undine”.

Lyric Video: Nailbomb

Lyric videos will now be posted to my own PeerTube, hauntshadetube.nl

I am still in the process of setting it up and will be moving all of my videos off of YouTube to this PeerTube.

Lyric Video: Waltz of Tyrants

Back to posting videos on my website/blog, because fuck YouTube.

Reactie op YouTube is hostile to small creators door Hauntshade

To make it clear. YouTube offers the option to build up your channel history, instead of giving up your ID, which can take up to two months.
I have now gone through that option twice, and after doing so, two weeks after reaching enough channel history, they hit me again with the same bullshit.

They simply state that “They might make errors” and that that is why they offer an option for ID verification. It is not an error when you keep doing the same thing, just to force someone to give up their ID. That is harassment.

YouTube is hostile to small creators

Two weeks after my YouTube channel had reached enough “Channel history”, it has now lost it again. YouTube decided to limit my channel once again.

According to YouTube, they do this to “keep YouTube safe”, they limit accounts that do not have enough channel history (Or are not verified). According to them my channel does not have enough channel history (After i build that up two times before.)

This can also happen if you do not follow Community guidelines. There are no community guideline strikes on my channel, no issues on any of my videos, no warnings, nothing. Yet YouTube strikes my channel again, for the third time..

My channel is an 18 year old account, an official artist channel, without any issues.

According to YouTube, to restore my channel I can:

1. Build up channel history by following guidelines. (Which i have already done twice now!!)
2. Do a video, or ID verification to restore my channel faster. (I am absolutely convinced this is why they do this: They want your ID. The ridiculous thing is, I pay for YouTube Premium. They have my creditcard info, so they know who I am.)

Every time I build up enough channel history, they strike my channel again. They don’t only limit my channel, they also shadowban my channel (every time this happened views on my channel dropped 90-98% right before I received the email.)

If YouTube thinks they can bully and harras me into giving up my ID, they are wrong. I know they don’t care about small creators like me and unless you are a big creator, or have a big enough following to raise some hell on places like X (they definitely don’t respond on Instagram), nothing will change.
I know this is an automated AI system and no human ever sees this shit, but I consider this harassment of small creators and I will not stand for it.

Three time’s a charm? I don’t think so. I am done posting videos to YouTube! They can stick my “Official Artist Channel” up their …

As a result, I have removed all of my videos from public view.

My official artist channel is not monetized, I created these videos because I enjoyed creating the lyric videos and running my channel, however having to deal with this bullshit, that “fun” is now totally gone. This shit has been going on for 5 months now and enough is enough.

The only videos now visible are the “topic” videos, that i have no control over, automatically created by YouTube Music & my publisher, while I made my own (uploaded) videos no longer available. I guess that’s the way YouTube wants this..

If nothing changes on YouTube’s end, I might end up deleting all of my content. I have already deleted links to my YouTube channel on all of my social media, this is not a platform I want to promote or endorse in any way.

Trees and Tales: Opening track

The opening track, Water-Bound Heart, from the album “Trees and Tales” can now be listened to on my Funkwhale.

Something is brewing…

Reactie op DNS Issues hauntshademusic.nl door Hauntshade

Looks like after almost an entire day, the issues are finally resolved and the website is accessible again.

Reactie op Lyric video: Storm-Forged door Hauntshade

The song ‘Storm-Forged’ vividly describes a powerful storm as a metaphor for facing challenges and adversities in life. The thunder, lightning, and chaos symbolize the intensity of struggles, but the resilience and determination to overcome them shine through, portraying a message of inner strength and perseverance amidst chaos and turmoil.

#clusterheadache #clusterhoofdpijn

Reactie op No YouTube videos door Hauntshade

I am looking into possibly starting my own “platform” with hosting my own PeerTube instance to publish and host my own videos, so i no longer have to deal with YouTube’s bullshit, but that’s not cheap.