Ryan Shuck

In 2019, Ryan has joined nu-metal band Adema as their lead singer.

On October 27, 2017 he performed One Step Closer with Jonathan Davis at Linkin Park and Friends – Celebrate Life in Honor of Chester Bennington.

Apart from his musical endeavors, Shuck is an entrepreneur who currently owns four restaurants in Orange County, CA – The Gypsy Den in Costa Mesa, Santa Ana, and Anaheim, and the Lola Gaspar in Santa Ana. The Gypsy Den chain has been getting rave reviews by renowned local magazines such as OC Weekly and was recently awarded with the "Certificate of Appreciation" by the Children's Bureau for its generous contributions. Shuck is currently in the process of opening two new restaurant concepts in Costa Mesa (PBLC TRDE) and Long Beach (Daily Communal).

In 2012, Julien-K did the score for the comedy movie Matt's Chance (directed by Nicholas Gyeney). Their compositions recently won the award for "Best Score" at the Bloody Hero International Film Festival.

Several tours and performances around the globe followed the release (the highlight having been an appearance at the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan and in an interview in 2012 it was revealed that there are plans to continue the project in the near future.

With Julien-K, Shuck finally found the outlet to do the music that he always wanted to do – "passionate electronic music." So far, the band (which, besides Shuck, nowadays consists of Amir Derakh on guitar, Anthony Valcic on synths and bass, and Frank Zummo on drums) has released two albums – Death To Analog (released on March 10, 2009 via Metropolis Records and executive produced by Linkin Park's Chester Bennington) and We're Here With You (released on January 23, 2012 via Julien-K INC). Death To Analog made it to the top 10 of the Billboard Dance/Electronic album charts and We're Here With You hit #4 in the US iTunes charts – both in the first week of release.

Apart from their own musical endeavors, Shuck and the other band members of Julien-K have also been working alongside Linkin Park co-frontman Chester Bennington on his solo project Dead by Sunrise, which he had been working on since the year 2005. Their debut album Out of Ashes was released on October 13, 2009 and hit the top 30 in the Billboard 200 album charts and the top 10 in the Billboard Modern Rock charts.

Up until now, the band has also been touring all over the United States and Europe with big names such as Linkin Park, My Chemical Romance, HIM, Evanescence, Papa Roach, The Sounds, and Filter. They started touring in 2007 before even having an album out and with no press kit and no media push.

At the beginning of the 21st century, Shuck was involved in the setup of the technology and media company Level 7 LLC, alongside Broadcom co-founder Henry Nicholas. Legal issues prevented the release of Julien-K's debut album Death to Analog through Level 7. Before that, Shuck had also successfully launched his own fashion line called Replicant Clothing, alongside Head (Korn), with strong support by artists such as Chester Bennington and Stephen Carpenter (Deftones). This experience also led Shuck to have a great impact on the creation of Chester Bennington's clothing line Ve'cel in 2006.

He was also a member of the fun project of Chester Bennington called Bucket Of Weenies which only had a handful live performances, e.g. at the Club Tattoo Anniversary Party in 2005 and 2006.

In 2001, Shuck had a small role as the character Pride in the horror movie The Forsaken.

Davis left the band in 1993 to join Korn and had major success with songs that were also originally co-written by Shuck ("Blind," "Daddy"). Shuck also eventually left and went on to form the band Orgy.

Ryan Christopher Shuck (born April 11, 1973) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, producer, and entrepreneur. He has been a founding member of the industrial rock band Orgy. As of now, he is the leader of the Electronic rock / indietronica / dance project Julien-K and lead singer of the rock band Adema. He was also the guitarist and backing vocalist of Dead by Sunrise, the alternative rock side project of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington. Growing up, Shuck played in the Bakersfield-based rock band Sexart, alongside Korn frontman Jonathan Davis, Adema bassist Dave DeRoo, and Videodrone frontman Ty Elam. Aside from his musical career, Shuck also owns four popular restaurants in the Orange County, CA area and a recording studio in Long Beach, CA.