If you've ever played the pretty good but questionably translated X-Men arcade game, you should recognize this title.

I guess you could call this my attempt at dark ambient. I once misread a sign in a bookstore that read "Read Away The Winter" as "Dead Avalanche Winter", and I filed that away mentally until I had a fitting song for it.

A pretty little ambient loop I might go back and expand into something else someday.

Creepy carnival music. I was trying to remember the name of b-movie Cthulhu Mansion, and because part of it takes place at a fair, Cthulhu Carnival was my first guess somehow. I thought that sounded like a pretty fitting song title anyway.

For whatever reason this album ended up having a lot of songs that could be low-budget horror movie themes.

Like "Neon Orange Dinosaur" this is a track that I think would make a pretty good hip-hop beat.

You've been trying to beat a really hard NES game for months on end. You finally beat that last boss and you get treated to... a comically anticlimactic 8 note fanfare and a short congratulation in broken English.

The chorus is adapted from "O Death Rock Me Asleep", by Anne Boleyn, while imprisoned in the Tower of London, waiting for her execution. (Tolar & Savigear 2010)

The chorus is adapted from "O Death Rock Me Asleep", by Anne Boleyn, while imprisoned in the Tower of London, waiting for her execution. (Tolar & Savigear 2010)