The shrike, a real creature of the natural world, is both beautiful and brutal — known for its sharp song and sharper beak. This small predatory bird earned the nickname “the butcher bird” for its eerie habit of impaling its prey on thorns, storing them like trophies in the wind. It was this haunting duality — grace and savagery intertwined — that inspired the creation of Shrike the Creator.
But the Shrike persona goes far beyond nature. He is a dark, mysterious hybrid being, a changeling born of an alien avian species. Once feared across his homeworld for unspeakable crimes, Shrike fled his planet to escape capital punishment. In his desperate flight through the stars, his ship was torn apart in a violent storm, and he crash-landed into Earth’s unforgiving sea.
Battling to survive, the creature found refuge aboard a passing cargo vessel, hiding deep within its wooden belly. By night, he emerged only to feast on the rats that infested the grain bins — a silent hunter in the shadows. But when the vermin were gone, his hunger adapted. His taste grew darker. One by one, the crew began to disappear, their fates whispered only by the restless waves.
Weeks later, the ship drifted into a bustling coastal harbor, its decks eerily empty. From the wreckage stepped a stranger — masked, enigmatic, and drawn to the pulse of the night. In the chaos of human civilization, Shrike found a new way to blend in. By day he is no one. By night, he becomes a masked DJ, spinning hypnotic beats that lure crowds to the dance floor… completely unaware they’re moving to the rhythm of a predator.
The legend of Shrike lives through music — dark, cinematic, and primal. Each track tells another piece of the tale, bridging alien myth with human pulse.