By Musical Panini musical_panini SoundCloud musicalpaninigrill Tumblr YouTube YouTube.
Cover art by Scarodactyl scarodactyl Tumblr.
Released 9/9/2017.
Duration: 5:39.

Listen on Bandcamp or YouTube.

Read artist commentary.

Also released as:

• (201610/15/2016; about 10 months, 24 days earlier) Strife Mayhem (COOL AND NEW Volume 7: At the Price of $104.13)
• (201611/6/2016; about 10 months, 3 days earlier) Strife Mayhem (Cool and New Greatest Hits)

Tracks that Strife Mayhem references:

• Flare by Clark Powell
• Eternity Served Cold by Malcolm Brown
• Carne Vale by Malcolm Brown
• Showtime (Original Mix) by Malcolm Brown
• Beatdown (Strider Style) by Curt Blakeslee
• Crystamanthequins by Erik Scheele
• Black by Toby Fox
• MeGaLoVania by Toby Fox

Artist commentary:

Musical Panini: (composer, booklet commentary)

This song didn't actually start out as a Homestuck song when I was first making it. It went from tune stuck in my head, then into a random song that I was calling Metallic Mayhem, then into Flare, then into a practice in motifs, then into what is now apparently my most popular by far!

Scarodactyl: (track artist, booklet commentary)

I have wanted to do something like this for a long time. Final Fantasy 6 is a big inspiration for me, particularly the in-battle sprites and backgrounds. Homestuck, with its numerous great designs, seemed like it would be really fun to render in this style. When I saw Strife Mayhem on the song list I knew what I had to do--a large-scale battle with lots of characters to match an amazing battle song with lots of leitmotifs. I pulled a few elements from my previous track arts which were sort of stabs in the same direction, particularly the background from Medium and the handmaid from Maidswap. The GUI is also a bit of a reference to the previous track art for this song on Cool and New Volume 7.