Shadow & Gudrun

Shadow & Vex is a new project. Not a rebrand. Not a side hustle. Something that crawled out of a completely different part of the brain and refused to go back in.

Rick Shadow — you may know him from elsewhere. Leaner now. Different energy. Still the voice, still the vision, still the one holding the camera when everyone else has gone home.

Vex — you don't know her yet. Skin-tight leather in every color that exists. Dark glasses, always. A different incarnation in every frame. Post-punk, cyber-flavored, aggressively present. The kind of performer you can't look away from and wouldn't dare approach. She doesn't have a backstory. She has an attitude.

Behind both of them — unnamed for now, and deliberately so — is a figure from Rick's past. A sonic architect who stayed in the shadows, spent years inside the deepest layers of AI composition, and emerged with something that sounds like nothing that should be possible. He writes the music. He produces the music. He doesn't take bows. Every chord progression that makes you stop mid-sentence, every time signature shift that hits before you see it coming, every orchestral layer that shouldn't fit but lands perfectly — that's him.

He has a name. We'll tell you when the time is right.

The visual world: two minutes of controlled chaos. Crew-cut kids on guitars and drums. Acid-bright costumes. Constant motion. Time signatures that change before you've adjusted to the last one. A clip that ends before you're ready and leaves something behind that takes a while to shake.

This is a pilot. We're watching, listening, thinking. If the response is what we think it might be — Shadow & Vex goes full project by the end of 2026.

One track. One video. No apologies.

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY LIFE — available now.

Shadow & Vex
2026