Listen to the demo version of my Nik Furious song "Rare Tear" recorded for the upcoming Love & Monsters comics and music anthology:

This song takes its inspiration from a story by Virginia Shields.

The anthology is currently funding on Kickstarter. When you back our project, you not only get this demo version but the final full band version as well AND more Nik Furious original instrumental songs!

We want you to be a part of this exciting anthology so click the link, check it out, and become a backer of Love & Monsters if you like what you see and hear.

I'm creating original songs for the Love & Monsters anthology on Kickstarter.

It's a comics and music anthology featuring four incredible cartoonists and three kickass musicians (including yours truly!). I'm proud to be a part of this collection because it blends mediums and genres in a really fun, thoughtful way.

I think you're gonna dig it too!!! And I need your support to make it happen. Pop over to the Kickstarter campaign and pick a pledge level that makes you and your wallet happy.

Here's me talking about why I love making instrumental theme music and why I'm stoked to be a part of this project:

I'm creating music for stories by Shawn Atkins and Virginia Shields, two of my favorite people AND favorite cartoonists!

Shawn's story is a crazy sci-fi music adventure featuring an underwater battle of the bands with robots, monsters, and more.

One of the songs I've crafted for Shawn's project is called Wet-On-Wet and you can listen to it now.

Virginia's story is about a romance between unlikely forest creatures.

I've already completed a crazy synthed-out jam for her story that I think you'll love, especially if you dig my other tunes like RAW or Destruct-O-Groove.

I need your help to make Love & Monsters into the biggest and best anthology that it can be. A few bucks goes a long way towards making it happen, and that's why I need your support on Kickstarter! Thx 😀

13 original instrumental songs. Electronic, surf, funk, rock, and more.

Each song on 7 Star Sky Flash Kick has a special story behind it. I'll be sharing those stories with you and adding them to the tracklist below as I go. I changed my mind! Though the stories are awesome, I'd rather spend my time making new songs than writing blog posts about ones I've already made 😉

7 Star Sky Flash Kick tracklist:

01. Adamantium 2:28 (mp3) (artwork) (history)
02. Da Bounce 3:20 (mp3) (artwork) (history)
03. Destruct-O-Groove 8:51 (mp3) (artwork) (history)
04. Dora Milaje 1:42 (mp3) (artwork) (history)
05. Egg Shaker 3:01 (mp3) (artwork) (history)
06. Intra Venus 1:48 (mp3) (artwork) (history)
07. Nazo 7:09 (mp3) (artwork) (history)
08. Never 1:54 (mp3) (artwork) (history)
09. Philly Right 2:57 (mp3) (artwork) (history)
10. Smells Like Cupcakes 5:34 (mp3) (artwork)(history)
11. Sultry Storm 2:04 (mp3) (artwork) (history)
12. Synthezoid Rock 4:15 (mp3) (artwork) (history)
13. Zero 2:32 (mp3) (artwork) (history)

• Download the 7 Star Sky Flash Kick ZIP file (47:30, 75 MB)

• Listen to 7 Star Sky Flash Kick on SoundClound

• Watch the 7 Star Sky Flash Kick album sampler video:

The songs on this album were written and recorded between 2003-2013. A few of them have been released with older mixes and different names. Many of them are theme songs to podcasts produced by myself and my friends including Comic Book Pitt, 3 Chicks Review Comics, and various shows on AudioShocker.com.

The album cover is a collaboration between myself and my incredible girlfriend, Justique Woolridge. She created a painting inspired by the title. I scanned in both the front of it and the paint-smudged back...

...and then I layered both of them on top of each other in Photoshop and altered the colors to produce the final album design.

The album is named after one of Chun-Li's moves from Marvel vs. Capcom. Here's what the 7 Star Sky Flash Kick looks like in the video game:

Finally but most importantly, a lot of people have supported me, inspired me, and helped me create these songs. Thanks to Justique, Ed Marino, Jennifer Marino-Gabrielli, Josh Kobylarz, Dan Greenwald, Kelly Thompson, Ross Campbell, Scott Niekum, Kaylie McDougal, Neal Shyam, and Shawn Atkins.