The Concrete Shamans are Patrick and Merrick, a married male couple making original music videos and films for men. This site is the home for that work — BATE FUEL, MASC, and the albums that led here — built so a man can watch the cut he came for without a platform deciding what he is allowed to see.
We have been making music together since 2020. The first song we released was “MULTIVERSE” in May 2023. Early tracks were rough synthpop and synthwave: raps, crunchy guitars, and writing about trauma, conspiracy, aliens, and childhood wounds. After several traditional albums we brought AI into the music and the pictures. The voice stayed ours. The sound got bigger. The videos finally matched what we could hear.
This is adult art, not pornography. The videos have artistic nudity and sexual heat on the level of an R-rated film or a contemporary installation. Platforms still treat that as a problem. That is why this site exists. We make work for grown men who want an honest look at masculinity, shame, desire, and the charge that lives in a male body.
The through-line is masculine shame — the training that tells a man his body, his creative energy, and his sexuality are things to hide. We make images of men who are done hiding. If that feels subversive, it is because the culture still flinches when a man owns what he wants.
The Music
SO YOU WANT TO BE ENLIGHTENED? is the precursor. A man hits the stretch where the old story fails and the lessons get hard. Videos like SO YOU WANT TO BE ENLIGHTENED?, NO ONE EXISTS BUT YOU, and REAL live in that stretch. They are here because the erotic work makes more sense if you have seen the initiation first. We learned a hard lesson goes down easier when it turns a man on a little. Later videos from this album will work that way.
MASC is the sexual reawakening. We leaned all the way into masculinity and desire. Songs like ENERGY and MASC ask a man to find the maleness buried under shame and resentment. B8 was the early YouTube break — thousands of views and a lot of new men at the door. BROJOB and PROJECTION came with the sharper videos. YouTube flagged a run of them in April. A human reviewer put almost every one back. PROJECTION stayed down, which is almost too on-the-nose: the song says that if you see something dirty here, that is on you.
MASC MANIFESTO is our first feature. It mixes real and AI footage and follows the same awakening. Two married men got each other through a brutal stretch and then made the thing we wished had existed when we needed it.
BATE FUEL Was The Turning Point
BATE FUEL started in late February 2026 as a remix idea off MASC. The new tracks did not want to stay remixes. They wanted to be an album of bate music. We released BATE FUEL on April 3, 2026 with BATE FUEL: THE MOVIE — black-and-white beefcake, shot like a magazine that never cuts to an ad. BACK ISSUES collected the explicit cuts and deluxe extras. It became our biggest record with men, and the private men’s Discord took in more than 3,000 signups that May, with 1,700 applications processed in one weekend.
June 19, 2026 brought BATE FUEL DX and the feature BATE FUEL DX: 21 album tracks rebuilt into one long watch, 24 if you count the extra remixes. That film, and this site, are what the work looks like when nobody else holds the keys.
If you want the frame behind the videos, read Unashamed Masculinity And Male Brotherhood. If the work is fueling you, support it.
Why AI Changed Everything
No studio was going to fund highly erotic music videos that celebrate masculine men this directly. A studio would have said no before the first shoot. AI let us build the exact scenes and the exact charge without waiting for permission or a budget that does not exist for this. The restrictions, the takedowns, and the algorithm weirdness have been real. The freedom was the point.
The audience for this work is not everyone. For the men who find it, it is enough.
We will keep making music, films, and pictures about maleness, masculinity, and the full range of men’s sexuality. Adult work, made on purpose, for the brotherhood of all men.