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The albums, complete and in order, plus a new song every weekend. The channel opens with the premieres of Backroads and Fire in the Wire.
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Peter Blacksmith
Fifty years of work from one workshop. Songs in every genre and many languages, oil paintings, watercolours and photographs, gathered here as a living archive.
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The new home of my music
All my albums now live on one channel: rock, chanson, opera, reggae, blues and more, sung by the whole Blacksmith family. Every album is a concept album, made to be heard from the first track to the last. A new song appears every weekend as a first taste of the albums to come.
The Music Forge
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The workshop's playground. Experiments, ethno-trance, single tracks and everything that does not belong on an album yet.
Visit The Music ForgeAlbums
Released albums
Each album has its own story and one voice throughout. New albums are added here as they are released.
Premiere 21 Nov · 21:00
Backroads
2026 · 9 tracks + bonus · 45 min · American-tinged rock
Songs about driving the open road, closing with the more poetic Watch Me Walk. Bonus track: Don't Push Me Around.
Album booklet (PDF)
Premiere 21 Nov · 22:00
Fire in the Wire
2026 · 11 tracks · 54:25 · Rock
Tracklist
- Fire in the Wire 0:00
- I Will Never Give Up 4:14
- Bending with the Tide 7:50
- Echo of the Turning Sky 11:59
- The Maze 17:52
- The Mirror 22:26
- Too Many Times Down 26:41
- Shelter Me 32:08
- Ellen 37:23
- The Cowboy 42:56
- A Band Called Whispering Wind 47:52
Next album
In the forge
Coming soon
More to come
New albums appear here when they are released.
In the forge
Engel aus EisenGerman rock · Wolfgang Stahlschmied
Quand tout s'effaceFrench chanson · Pierre Forgeron
Fabiano e FrancescaOpera buffa · Fabiano Fabro · booklet (PDF)
The Travels of Mister BBigband jazz · Mister B
Smoky for PresidentReggae · Smoky Blacksmith
Prussian BlueBlues · Howling Blacksmith
Archive
The early years
Long before The Music Forge, I wrote songs and played guitar, bass and drums in different rock bands. Those old recordings are currently being restored and fully remixed, one album at a time, starting with the oldest. Each restored album will appear here with its story, its lyrics and a link to listen.
- First songsWritten at seventeen, some of them in Antwerp dialect, and played in the cafés.
- The band yearsGuitar, bass and drums in different rock bands. All lyrics and music written by me.
- The Music ForgeToday: the whole archive reworked and recorded, album by album.
Restored albums · in order
Straight Level LiveAlbum 1 · being restored
Grown a Man with the Heart of a Little ChildAlbum 2 · being restored
The Passion PlayAlbum 3 · being restored
DesireAlbum 4 · being restored
Gallery
Paintings and photographs
About
I like to forge things
My name is Peter Smits. In Dutch, Smits means smith, and that is where Peter Blacksmith comes from.
I have been writing songs for about fifty years. I played guitar, bass and drums in different rock bands, wrote most of our lyrics and music, and kept on writing long after the bands ceased to exist. Painting and photography came along the way. I am self-taught in all of it and use every trick in and out of the book to express what I feel.
For a long time one thing held my songs back: I do not sing. Today, in my self-built studio The Music Forge, modern technology lets me give every song the voice it needs. That is how the Blacksmith family was born: Peter Blacksmith for European rock and singer-songwriter, Billy Blacksmith for American rock, Pierre Forgeron for French chanson, Wolfgang Stahlschmied for German rock, Smoky Blacksmith for reggae, Fabiano Fabro for Italian opera and many more. Every name is a translation of the same surname.
This website is my archive. Everything I make ends up here, so it can be found, heard and seen, now and later.
In my workshop: 28 guitars and basses, different amplifiers, my old drum kit and Roland V-Drums, Ableton full of plugins, a lot of analogue gear, and plenty of patience and passion.