A recently formed experimental cyberpunk music and cinematic project within it's own cyberpunk universe
A recently formed experimental cyberpunk music and cinematic project within it's own cyberpunk universe
Nyra Vantablume
Biomechanical poet. Digital siren. Black-rose firmware. Spectral codewitch.
Velvet-tuned sorrow in a neon tremor—flesh and signal intertwined.
Lead vocalist. Primary: keys. Secondary: effects pads, electric guitar.
In the cyberpunk world of Shadow Circuits, Nyra is a genetically engineered prodigy—built to be one of the flawless heirs of a biotech corporate dynasty. Raised as an asset, not a daughter, she learned early that love can be programmed and affection can be conditional. The result: brilliance with a hollow center, a voice trained to perfection and a heart kept at arm’s length.
Then she breaks the script. Nyra abandons the gilded cage to find out who she is without the family name—and pays for it instantly. Her parents cut her off: money, protection, access. Overnight, she’s alone in a city that eats the unbranded.
But Nyra wasn’t designed to be fragile. Alongside her elite education, she received harsh combat training—insurance for a world where power is always contested. When she collides with the crew, she finally finds something her upbringing never allowed: messy but meaning and real connection, excitement and the feeling to be truly alive. With Shadow Circuits, her voice stops being a product—and becomes a weapon, a confession, and a home.
Aiden Syn
In the cyberpunk world of Shadow Circuits, Aiden is a half-synthetic, half-organic assassin who gained autonomy and escaped the corporation that engineered him for high-profile killings. His combat performance functions like a vampiric dependency: his most advanced strength and abilities require a rare synthetic nanocompound that is difficult to obtain, even on the black market. When he has it, he enters an enhanced state—faster, stronger, and more lethal. Even without it, he possesses extreme physical strength, intense mental focus, and elite close-quarters combat skills.
Emotion, however, was never meant to be part of his original design or conditioning. Yet despite being a genetically engineered post-human, he is still capable of feeling human emotions and forming genuine connections. Aiden still has much to learn about human instincts and behavior, but he is observant—and he is learning what connection means, one day at a time.
He joins the crew of Shadow Circuits after rediscovering himself as a musician, transforming his programmed violence into something chosen: sound, expression, freedom, and friendship.
Vocalist and guitarist. Primary instrument: electric guitar. Secondary instruments: drums, effects pads.
Cipher Maddox
Cipher is a battle-hardened, self-made musician and tech wizard—equal parts vocalist, DJ, and strategist. His sound is urban pressure colliding with neon chaos: fractured bass, insurgent breakbeats, industrial pace, and guitar shards cutting through the haze. He performs like he fights—precise, relentless, and designed to move crowds like forces on a battlefield. Tools of the trade: DJ decks, effects pads, and keyboards.
In the cyberpunk world of Shadow Circuits, Cipher joins the crew after a chance encounter, trading years of lone-wolf black-hat work for something he never expected: loyalty. He’s a skilled martial artist who obsessively researches East Asian martial history, then distills it into a modern hybrid system—stealth principles, Japanese sword fundamentals, and tech-driven feints—built to survive a world where every alley is a trap and every signal can betray you.
The man behind Shadow Circuits
The man behind Shadow Circuits, Martin Black (aka Márton Fekete), is the project’s founding member—an organic original in a world of manufactured legends. A natural-born cyborg. A ghost in the system. A quiet architect of sound and vision.
As the project begins to take shape, his long-silent dream wakes at last: a symphony of neon, steel, rebellion, and heat—finally alive.
In the cyberpunk world of Shadow Circuits, Martin lives as an outcast after a corporate career that broke more than his résumé. He rebuilt himself from scratch as a self-made producer and DJ, starting Shadow Circuits as a simple experiment that turned into a lifeline. The band isn’t famous yet—and he doesn’t care. He’s found something rarer than money: a crew, a purpose, and friends he’d bleed for.
Survival still demands teeth. Powerful corporations blacklisted him, destroyed his public image, and pushed him to the edges of society. To protect his hard-earned independence, Martin trained as a mercenary, collecting mixed combat and tech skills the way he collects samples—tested, adapted, and used without sentiment. When he was younger, he lived in China for several years and studied East Asian meditation and martial arts practices that keep his mind steady in a world designed to fracture it.
He’s in his early forties now, but he’s built different: sheer willpower, a barely contained frenzy, and unpredictable violence in a fight. That edge—especially when facing corporate enemies who betrayed him—has earned him a reputation in mercenary circles. Even so, every day is a scrape for oxygen: success, cash, and a future in a city that’s magical, cruel, and built for violence.
Morrigan Vale
Her true identity and origins remain unknown in the cyberpunk world of Shadow Circuits. At first glance, she appears to be a cyber-witch—perhaps even a mind-reader.
In truth, she is a half-synthetic, half-organic cyborg, engineered as an adaptive, ever-evolving strategic asset in a world of weaponized sexuality and violent power struggles. She is a combat-ready killing machine, enhanced with sharpened reflexes, advanced cognition, amplified strength, and rapid regenerative abilities.
Fully conscious and independent, she becomes most complete when she enters a mind-sync state through a highly sophisticated neural link with an organic human mind. These complex mind-link experiences allow her to access deeper layers of human consciousness than she was originally designed to reach. Because of this, her awareness and understanding about the deeper layers of consciousness and the occult continue to expand and deepen with each connection.
She joined the Shadow Circuits crew as a guest musician and occasional tarot reader—and she is also preparing to launch a solo music project of her own.
Shulin(淑琳) / Kurokawa Shiori (黒川栞) / Seo Yuri (서유리)
Her paternal relatives belonged to a once-feared Chinese triad clan—banished from power and forced to take refuge in Japan. Her mother was a yakuza member, later expelled because of the forbidden relationship. Not long after, a Japanese cyber-yakuza faction erased what was left of the family in a ruthless purge. Only one child survived: the clan’s last daughter.
She was spared at the last moment by a yakuza boss—her uncle—who hid her existence from everyone, adopting her in secret and raising her as a shadow daughter. Under his covert protection, she was shaped into a weapon: a deadly assassin with elite hacking skills, trained to move through street violence and digital warfare with the same cold precision.
When she turned twenty, her adoptive father deployed her to Korea under deep cover, ordering her to infiltrate the Korean underworld and report back from the inside. In Korea, she quickly built a terrifying reputation—efficient, untraceable, and merciless.
But a mission went wrong. Wounded, she was taken to a clandestine underworld hospital for treatment—where a blood test exposed the truth she was never meant to learn: her DNA matched the last living daughter of the wiped-out triad bloodline. The secret detonated instantly, and her life became a running war.
Now she is hunted from every direction: a rising Chinese cyber-triad wants her erased for good; the Japanese cyber-yakuza boss who raised her publicly denies she ever existed, yet secretly still helps her escape; and the Korean underworld has placed a massive bounty on her head. With enemies on all sides, she has only one option left—stay moving, stay hidden, and stay lethal.
The band Shadow Circuits provides her a refuge and a cover identity through the help of Cipher and Martin, giving her a chance to start a new life overseas as an underground musician—and as a valuable member of the crew.
Kang Do-yun (강도윤)
Do-yun was born in the collapsing outer districts of cyberpunk Seoul, where hunger, gang pressure, and corporate neglect shaped children faster than time ever could. He grew up in a place where survival depended on reading danger before it spoke, where weakness was hunted, and where talent was either weaponized or buried.
As a boy, Do-yun was pulled away from becoming just another disposable street recruit by an unlikely guardian: a wandering Korean cyber shaman and martial artist who blended mudang ritual practice, Buddhist discipline, old Korean folk cosmology, old Taekkyeon (택견), and brutally effective street-fighting methods into a practical code for survival while sustaining himself as a bootleg street vendor. This man became the moral center of Do-yun’s life and his teacher in adaptive survival. From him, Do-yun learned that violence without purpose rots the soul, that power must be carried with restraint, and that the deadliest person in the room should also be the one most capable of mercy. He became a highly capable street fighter and gradually developed his own combat style, along with the instincts needed to survive.
Most importantly, that moral foundation kept him alive long enough to be noticed.
By his mid-teens, Do-yun had already built a reputation in the lower streets for being unusually precise, calm, and almost impossible to corner. He was eventually recruited into an elite Korean underworld organization that saw in him the perfect future asset: disciplined, intelligent, physically gifted, and emotionally sealed. There he was forged into something rare—part assassin, part tactician, part systems operative. He received black-budget combat training, covert movement discipline, weapons handling, close-quarters elimination training, surveillance tradecraft, and advanced cyber-technical education. Unlike most enforcers, Do-yun learned not only how to kill, but how to dismantle systems, breach networks, erase identities, and survive digital war as efficiently as physical war. Even so, killing remains an extreme last resort for him; he sides with the underdogs whenever he can and avoids taking a life unless no other choice remains.
He rose fast, but never fully belonged.
Inside the organization, Kang Do-yun became known as a man who could execute impossible work without losing composure. He was feared for his efficiency, but distrusted because he still carried a conscience. In a world built on leverage, he remained loyal only to a small number of people and to a private code no one could fully break.
That code is part of what drew him to Shiori.
They met during Shiori’s early undercover years in Seoul—before her legend hardened, when survival and reinvention still struggled inside her. What began as proximity became trust, and what became trust turned into a secret love neither of them could afford to name in public. In the world of Shadow Circuits, love is not safety; it is vulnerability. So Do-yun became what the underworld had made him best: not her owner, not her savior, but her unseen shield. He protects her not because she is weak, but because he knows exactly what the world will do to someone like her if given the chance.
Do-yun stands at the fault line between brutality and devotion. He is a man of the Korean cyber-underworld, shaped by blood, circuitry, ritual memory, and street law. He moves through criminal empires, spiritual shadows, and tactical warzones with the same cold competence. But beneath the violence, there is still a boy who was taught that the soul must answer for every action.
That is what makes him dangerous: not that he can kill, but that he still knows when not to.
Onodera Takeo (小野寺 武雄) / Choi Tae-woong (최태웅)
The mysterious protector known as Oni-san, sent by Shiori’s yakuza stepfather, watches over Shiori from the shadows.
Oni-san was born to a Korean mother and a Japanese father. He was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, carrying a Japanese-Korean dual identity while also growing up with strong Korean traditions from his mother’s side. As a child, he was violent, short-tempered, and fiercely strong—but also quick-witted. After his parents divorced, his life fell apart, and he spent most of his childhood on the streets of Tokyo among other street kids.
He began martial arts training early, but his temper constantly dragged him into brutal back-alley fights. His ferocity and natural, savage talent for violence earned him the nickname “Oni.” Eventually, a mid-tier yakuza boss noticed his dormant potential, paid his bail, and recruited him as a young prospect.
The yakuza financed his further education at a military university, and Oni soon found himself at home in the Japanese army. He was ultimately selected for the special forces, serving as an operator while his yakuza ties remained a tightly guarded secret—known only to a small circle of officers who were also connected to the yakuza.
At 35, he left his special forces unit. Not long after, he returned to his former yakuza boss’s organization, where he formed a close friendship with Shiori’s stepfather around the time Shiori was adopted as a little child. Oni became an uncle-like figure to Shiori, guiding and protecting her during her early undercover years in Korea. As a native bilingual Japanese and Korean speaker, he moves comfortably through both Japan and Korea—able to vanish into either world when necessary.
Oni has built a fearsome reputation as an ex–special forces operator and a high-ranking yakuza captain. Over time, he learned to control his short temper and refine it into discipline, shaped by extensive close-combat, weapons training, and special operations experience.
Oni-san keeps a close eye on Shiori, helping her protect her true identity and keep herself as safe as possible during her deep-cover operations. He also helps her stay in contact with her yakuza stepfather, who remains focused on his own operations back in Japan.
New single release: Between worlds - 2026.03.13.
Music video - The city is alive
First music video that introduces the cinematic cyberpunk world of Shadow Circuits.
Latest music video - Between worlds
The next chapter of the cinematic universe of Shadow Circuits introduces Shulin/Shiori from the Far East. As the newest member of the Shadow Circuits crew, this song is her introduction, statement, and origin story.
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