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Alternative & Experimental Music artist from San Diego, CA. 50+ songs free to stream or download. Add to your playlist now.

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Karate Implosion

Picture for song 'Radiation Stamos' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

Radiation Stamos Radiation Stamos

Slow and heavy sludge/doom metal. Drop b tuning on my guitar, just like with Doom Manatees. All kinds of dissonance in this song... chaotic but structured at the same time. I like how the ending solo came out.

Alternative Metal

Picture for song 'Badgersaurus Rex' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

Badgersaurus Rex Badgersaurus Rex

This was the result of me messing around with a ring mod effect plugin. The first thing that comes to mind trying to describe it is "noise groove."

Noise

Picture for song 'Chupacabra Terror' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

Chupacabra Terror Chupacabra Terror

I love the fake guitar sound in this one. My longest song yet. I don't know if I'm happy with the mix. Might re-upload.

Instrumental Rock

Picture for song 'Obscure Name Dropping Gives You Indie Cred' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

Obscure Name Dropping Gives You Indie Cred Obscure Name Dropping Gives You Indie Cred

The full title is actually 'Obscure Name Dropping Gives You Indie Cred (and Makes the World Go 'round). It has a vocal melody, but no actual vocals yet. I kinda like the placeholder vocal sounding synth. My first song using Lydian mode. Gives it a ni

Instrumental Rock

Picture for song 'Fear of a Braff Planet' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

Fear of a Braff Planet Fear of a Braff Planet

I think I'm gonna finally start putting thought into the genres I list these songs under. This is sort of noise rock, but of course you can't select that on here...

Experimental

Picture for song 'Saylor Twift' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

Saylor Twift Saylor Twift

I started (and mostly finished) this one a few years ago and recently found it and finished it up.

Instrumental Rock

Picture for song 'Fun!' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

Fun! Fun!

Fun!

Instrumental Rock

Picture for song '8-Bit Hellburger' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

8-Bit Hellburger 8-Bit Hellburger

I started (but never finished) this awhile ago and found the file the other day, and I decided to finish it up. It sounds like NES-era Mega Man music on an acid trip...through hell.

Instrumental Rock

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The Lost Treasure of Xantar The Lost Treasure of Xantar

This was gonna have playing my real mandolin, but something went wrong and I scrapped that and made a weird distorted mandolin/syth patch instead.

Instrumental Rock

Picture for song 'Robo Dance Riot of 2118' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

Robo Dance Riot of 2118 Robo Dance Riot of 2118

Snare beat keeps getting faster until it's a few thousand BPM, at which point it becomes a synth-like sound, and that becomes the lead part of the song, then it goes from there (and makes little sense)

Instrumental Rock

Picture for song 'Return of the Thrash Penguins' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

Return of the Thrash Penguins Return of the Thrash Penguins

Another fake thrash metal-esque song. A'sequel' to Thrash Penguins from Space. As with the previous, I wrote the whole thing, but didn't play any of it (no way in hell can I play that fast and that accurately). The solos are MUCH better in this one t

Instrumental Rock

Picture for song 'Thrash Penguins from Space' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

Thrash Penguins from Space Thrash Penguins from Space

I was messing around, trying to come up with thrash metal type riffs, and ended up working them into a song. The guitars are obviously fake sounding, so I'm not trying to fool people into thinking I actually played any of this.

Instrumental Rock

Picture for song '666 BPM' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

666 BPM 666 BPM

Really dumb concept. Various metal bands trying to sound evil with stupid concepts gave me the stupid idea to make a song with a tempo of 666 BPM (the end part is. Most of the song is 'only' 333 beats per minute.)

Instrumental Rock

Picture for song 'The Legend of Zelda-Overworld' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

The Legend of Zelda-Overworld The Legend of Zelda-Overworld

Arguable the greatest piece of music in the history of video games. Koji Kondo truly was/is a master of video game music. I love the guitar tone I got for this one. Took longer than I though to nail the lead part. Surprisingly tricky at a few spots.

Instrumental Rock

Picture for song 'Raining Blood (from a Casio VL-1)' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

Raining Blood (from a Casio VL-1) Raining Blood (from a Casio VL-1)

Slayer's 'Raining Blood' if it were played on a Casio VL-1 synth. Everything is a VL-1 sound. Including (actually, I should say ESPECIALLY) the drums. This is by far the stupidest thing/song I've ever done.

Instrumental Rock

Picture for song 'The Special Mandolin Jam of Specialness' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

The Special Mandolin Jam of Specialness The Special Mandolin Jam of Specialness

I used a slightly modified cheap mandolin that barely works properly. I was messing around and didn't expect this to be fleshed out to a whole song. But I kept adding parts.

Instrumental Rock

Picture for song 'No More Braff' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

No More Braff No More Braff

Zach Braff is an annoying douchebag and a one dimensional actor. This song is annoying. Lots of weird quarter tone shifting/detuning for a weird effect.

Instrumental Rock

Picture for song 'Shiny B. Nightmares' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

Shiny B. Nightmares Shiny B. Nightmares

I worked on this one for awhile and I like how it came out. Definitely one of my better songs. And also one of my weirdest. Lots of key changes and time signature changes throughout.

Instrumental Rock

Picture for song 'Contra-Base' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

Contra-Base Contra-Base

This old video game song is from Contra (the base levels). It's really simple song with a great riff.

Instrumental Rock

Picture for song 'Bubble Bobble Theme' by artist 'Karate Implosion'

Bubble Bobble Theme Bubble Bobble Theme

Another video game song cover (this one is from everyone's favorite 'bubble-blowing tiny dinosaurs vs. robots' game). This is about as happy and catchy as it gets.

Instrumental Rock