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Cyberpunk 2077 Lore – The Rocker Movement & Origins!

The origins of the term Rockerboy, the whole movement behind being a Rocker, Johnny Silverhand, Kerry Eurodyne & Samurai as well as some of the rebellious tunes filling the streets of Night City in the time period of the source material Cyberpunk 2020 which will seep into Red and 2077 will all be discussed in this Cyberpunk 2077 lore video!

The rocker movement of the 2020s was a period of time where civil disobedience, violent revolution and freedom of speech was brought about the artistic integrity of what we now know as rockerboys and girls. This period of time showcased Rockers achievements in combatting malicious and insidious governments and awakening the general populace to their vile habits, and propensity to hide their dark truths.

The term Rockerboy, who is any artist using their music or artistry to fight authority, was first brought about by James “Rockerboy” Manson who is often considered the definitive rocker as his death in 1997 defined the terms for those who came after.

Many performers during the time of Manson were afraid to perform in America mainly due to death threats from the military government. Manson’s paranoia was justified however as he was publicly clubbed to death by armed British Security thugs at an Amnesty International concert.

One of the groups which rose from the ashes of this event in their allegiance to the Rockerboy ideals was a band called Justifiable Homicide, whose first album Jury Trial released in 1998 and was a success both commercially and as a statement. It ended up being a classic album and influenced a generation of Rockers who grew up listening to it. The message of the album was for a rework of the criminal justice system after their lead singer lost family to the military government over what he believed were benign charges.

In late 1999 a group of militant Catholic Rockers called the Watchmen released their two albums, Sign of the times and revelation, which received universal acclaim even from the harshest of critics. Beginning with the trial of the Watchmen, the military government came to the conclusion that to protect their self-interests, volatile Rockers careers should have abrupt ends, if they tip the scales and step out of line too far.

When the civilian government was largely re-established by 2008, the music scene exploded with now infamous Rockerboys including Johnny Silverhand and Kerry Eurodyne leading the charge with the band Samurai. Starting in 2006, Samurai released 6 albums with 3 being studio work and the other 3 being concert and jam sessions optioned by their label Universal. In 2008 Samurai broke up, but this was not the end for Silverhand and Eurodyne who both had massive solo careers.

Silverhand released 6 albums of his own between 2008 and 2020, but none was more provocative and respected as SINS of your brother. A botched blackmail attempt led Silverhand to dive into the real causes of prior wars exposing the USMC for their lies and their experimental cybernetics and cyborg programs.

Justifiable Homicide the lost nineties band previously mentioned had been hiding in Mexico for years during this time, playing the crowds they could find there. Mexico City was being rebuilt by American Nomads, so the band immediately had many of them as their following.

Former Samurai member now turned media bigwig; Bes Isis was in town reporting on the Nomad underground scene. One day, she witnessed a frail young teen walk into a bar and collapse. Revived by Bes, he told the story of 600k people marooned in SouthAm, many of them walking almost 3 thousand miles to get home. The band and Bes joined some of these Nomads along the way, and many of these stories were mentioned in Justifiable Homicides second major label release The Long Walk, released in January 2012.

This catapulted them back into the limelight, but also back into the crosshairs of the government who were anything but pleased.
2012 was a seminal year in the rockerboy movement. In 2012 the Arasaka Riot inspired by Johnny Silverhand himself took place where 15 people died. The watchmen were released from jail after spending 5 years in braindance. They released an Album called betrayed, and 6 months later the whole band was wiped out by a swiss solo, rumored to be associated with the Vatican secret police.

In 2016, rockers moved back into harsher protests as nanotechnology was starting to instill fear in the people. Stranger Inside me a band which targeted the anti-biotech audience lobbied against biotechnology through their music, which they felt was eroding what makes us human. In April of 2018, the first commercial braindance label DMS released the debut disk of KIDROK a 14-year-old prodigy. All 18 minutes is a Frankenstein of music and braindance called Bleeding Soul. Although Braindance is expensive, its looking to penetrate the market soon ushering a new wave of rockers and musical experiences.

Cyberpunk 2077 – Johnny Silverhand & Rockerboys!

In today’s Cyberpunk 2077 video we will be talking about Johnny Silverhand, Rockerboys, Samurai + How it started, the rockerboy class and Johnny Silverhands involvement with Samurai as one of the most famous Rockerboys in Cyberpunk 2020 and Cyberpunk 2077.
Rockerboys are a class in Cyberpunk who use music in combination with a rebellious attitude to fight authority. Rockerboys live for rock and roll and are modern day street poets who have the ability to spread their ideals, music, lyrics and message to everyone. In a world where corporations rule with an iron fist, Rockerboys who are at the top of their game have a surprising amount of power and are able to amass followings to take down corporate giants and lead armies and troops onto the streets to fight the system. Rockerboys don’t care about the repercussions of what they are saying in their lyrics. They spit in the faces of those abusing power, and they’ll do it with a smile. We won’t be able to be a Rockerboy in 2077, but you can bet we will run into Rockerboys and girls through our adventures in Night City.
Powerful rockerboys of the past in the world of Cyberpunk include Bob Dylan, Springsteen, The Who, Elvis Presley and The stones.
Now not all Rockerboys and girls are musicians. They can also fall into the subsections of Street poets, performance artists, social leaders and politicians.
Street poets are the most similar to their purely musician counterparts, but they use their words and only their words propelled by their deliveries, and theatrics to fire up the public.
Performance artists make impressions and a statement using plays, skits, and visual presentations before their public audiences.
Social leaders are charismatic rebellious higher ups who are on the front line in the war against the greed and bloodlust of megacorporations. With charismatic presentations, they stimulate movements and social change. Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Che Guevera are just some examples of this archetype.
Politicians of the rockerboy variety are not corrupt or selfish in their pursuits. Crusading heroes like JFK and Winston Churchill are your role model as a Rockerboy politican, and your main focus is to righteously serve your people.
Rockerboys have special skills in general including the ability to brawl, play instruments, be streetwise, theatrical performances, and can be very persuasive and seductive. Their special Ability stemming from the original table top game is a skill called Charismatic Leadership.
Johnny Silverhand is a famous Rockerboy singer and guitarist known for his silver-chrome Cyberarm. He is also a ex-Central American vet with a history of failed relationships. Silverhand opposes Arasaka Corporation for a variety of reasons from the loss of his arm to the death of many of his close friends. Now Johnny Eventually went on to produce a solo album, but before that he was a part of a rockband named Samurai featuring Kerry Eurodyne on vocals and guitar, denny as a drummer, Nancy / Bes Isis as the keyboardist and Henry on bass guitar.
Samurai was first discovered in 2003 by Jack Masters, an executive at Universal Music after seeing their performance at a bar called the Rainbow Cadenza, a backstreet bar in Night City.Their first single was Blistering Love and was a hit skyrocketing to #1 on the EuroCharts. Samurai’s first Album was called A Cool Metal Fire and featured Dancing With My Axe, Never Fade Away, Out of the City and the song we hear in the gameplay demo, Chippin In’ This presumably means that we will be hearing all the other songs on this album in the full release of Cyberpunk 2077. Samurai makes another appearance in the form of a Samurai jacket in the gameplay demo.
Samurai eventually split up in 2008. The catalyst to them parting ways was Nancy going to jail for seven months after she threw her abusive husband out the window of an 83rd story apartment. The band supported her through this time, but creatively they all drifted apart to do their own thing.
Henry ended up moving on to work on a human interface prototype, but an accident friend his brain and he had to rebuild his mind.
Denny joined a Band called Mastermind and Nancy become a major media presence on Network 54, a prolific news station in Night City.
Johnny Silverhand and Kerry Eurodyne both ventured off into solo careers, often performing and touring together.
After Samurai split up however a media corporation called Diverse Media Systems attempted to sign Johnny Silverhand by any means necessary. This included threats, violence and blackmail. They discovered the ex-Central American vet was actually a deserter who left the USMC whilst still serving in the central and south American wars.
Silverhands first solo album, Sins of your brothers was released in 2009 and included songs that explained the reality of the wars, governmental lies, experimental cybernetics programs for soldiers and his pwn actions when he was involved.

Cyberpunk 2077 – Music, Soundtrack & Sound Design (Explained!)

Today’s Cyberpunk 2077 video includes Cyberpunk 2077’s music composition, soundtrack, sound design, Samurai, Rockerboys, the Fusion of Cyber and Punk, Licensing of artists, Cyberpunk radio and clubs, dynamic music and sound cues as well as Musical inspiration for Cyberpunk 2077 coming from the likes of BladeRunner, Akira and Ghost In The Shell.

First and foremost let’s take a Look at what kind of sounds we will hear in Cyberpunk 2077 and their Music and Soundtrack. CD Projekt Red answered a fan regarding their musical direction In a brief message via Facebook. In this message they mention marrying the Cyber with the punk with cyber referring to sonic texture, and a raw dirty, synthesized sound palette. Punk was all about the attitude of the music and being rebellious, ballsy and impulsive. They promise to make the soundtrack of Cyberpunk as colorful as the world of Night City and that they would be drawing from all genres to create a sound track that first and foremost leads the narrative and adds context to the story.

This means that the lore based classes in the rockerboys will come to life with the punk side of the music direction, and also netrunners and techies will feel at home too with the futuristic sounds reflective of their role and job in night city. From Johnny SIlverhand and his rebellious attitude inspired track Chippin In, to the dirty and dark pounding of the scavengers tunes permeating the gaffittied walls of their lair, This fusion seems apparent. In the same light larger than life celebrities and bands like Lizzy Wizzy and The Metadwarves and Samurai will have a large presence not only in their music, but how that music impacts celebrity worship in the dark future.

Now when it comes down to lead composition of the Soundtrack of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red has decided to go with highly established music director Marcin Pryzbylowicz, who composed the epic and emotional Witcher 3 soundtrack, which is arguably the best video game soundtrack of the last decade. Also on the audio and musical direction team they have Bryan Mantia and Melissa reese. Bryan Mantia has worked with band like Guns N Roses and Primus and will be an integral part of the soundtrack. Vocalist and composer Melissa reese is also on the project and whose previous work can be seen in Bloodborne and INfamous second son.

In an interview with Mantia and in regards to Cyberpunk 2077 he claims “This project in particular has been a little challenging because the developers are looking for music that has never been heard before. They’re looking for music that would be made in the year 2077. I’m into it because I really love “white noise” and I figure that’s where music is going to be 60 years from now. Basically, this means every frequency within the range of human hearing from 20 to 20 thousand hertz. He ends with “I’m really digging the experimentation on this project”

This is pretty exciting because the genre is by nature very experimental, and if they pull off some truly unique sounds it could have a big impact on how how we look at the world of cyberpunk and the genre as a whole. Now on the flip side experimentation is also very polarizing and is a risky move.

Now according to CD Projekt Red themselves, the music of the game will be all produced in house meaning they won’t be licensing outside artists. They did this their trailers with Hyper’s song Spoiler being featured in the E3 trailer and Archive’s Bullets being featured In the Teasre trailer. This might mean radios stations, clubs and other areas in night city that are filled with the sounds of cyberpunk may infact be completely unique and made in house. Although there is some debate on whether or not we will see licensed music from other artists for the time being CDPR has stated otherwise.

In addition to all these things, music will be dynamic rather than scripted. If you remember my E3 audio leak video I compared two separate leaks of the gameplay demo and deduced that in the scavenger lair scene, there were in fact distinctly separate tracks running during the assault on the scavenger lair, meaning that there were two audio leaks out there. This also means that the music you can hear on the streets of Night City will be dynamic and will be fluid based on if its night or day, if you are in a specific kind of club, or potentially even your positioning on the map and what you are looking at.

This is further implied by Pryzbylowicz mentioning how the open setting of Cyberpunk allows for them to add sound ques.
He notes an example we’ve seen in the interaction with the Maelstrom. If things go south for you in the interaction and a shootout ensues the music will come to a boiling point and snap as you begin to fir your rounds into your enemies. If the deal goes down without a hitch, the anxiety laced synths die down and more calm music floods back into the background.