Adventure Thing #2.1 - "Killscreen" Demo & IFD Overtures (Patreon)

Greetings and Salutations all, and welcome to the first Adventure Thing of Album Adventure #2! 

Just to restate the format for this Adventure, we're calling it Side Quest, and each Adventure Thing will contain one completely unreleased track, along with a handful of semi-released tracks that you may or may not have heard before, along with stories about each one and how it was made. So let's dig in!

Unreleased Track - "Killscreen"

Many of you likely know that several of the tracks on KABOOM! were co-written with Matt Mahaffey, who also produced the album. However, you may not know that there were actually several more co-written demos that never made it onto the album. This is one of them that I've always loved, it's a weird little song that we didn't even quite finish since it doesn't have a bridge, but it represents a lot of the pent-up frustration I was feeling in that era, and it uses the video game kill screen as a metaphor for those times you feel on the verge of totally losing it. I hope you enjoy as well!

Semi-released Tracks: The IFD Overtures

The illustrious Bill Prokpow has always been a masterful instrumental composer and arranger in addition to his onstage talents, and in the early days of IFD he made several "Overtures" toying around with the idea of combining chiptune and orchestral music:

• I Fight Dragons Overture 1.0 was the proof of concept, and remains a truly lovely piece of original orchestral composition that also weaves in some motifs from Cool Is Just A Number
• I Fight Dragons Overture 1.5 was an interesting tailoring of this concept that we used as our walk-on music the first time we went on tour, opening for mc chris. 
• KABOOM! Overture was a piece specifically made to weave in all of the musical themes from KABOOM!, and we teased it out there to the world before the official album release back in 2012.