Music

The music of Skullgirls has been composed by Michiru Yamane, Vincent Diamante, Brenton Kossak and Blaine McGurty. It has been released digitally on the albums Skullgirls Original Soundtrack, Skullgirls: The Complete Soundtrack, and physically on the albums Skullgirls The Original Soundtrack, Skullgirls 2nd Encore Original Soundtrack, Skullgirls Special Selection Soundtrack, Skullgirls Deluxe Vinyl Soundtrack. The tracks "The Stars and Stage Are Set!" and "Ice Cream Headache" were released as singles on music streaming services and digital stores on September 23, 2020 and March 1, 2022, respectively.

Composition

On April 17, 2011, Reverge Labs uploaded a video to YouTube announcing that Michiru Yamane was working on the Skullgirls score. In the video, Yamane expressed that she "experimented with the rhythm and different sounds to try to heighten the impact of the unique art" when Reverge requested her to make the music of the game "jazzy".

In a press release posted on the Reverge Labs official website on April 22, 2011, Richard Wyckoff, CEO of the company, explained that the developers sought out Yamane because they "knew her mixture of haunting gothic themes, jazz and rock would lend itself perfectly to Skullgirls' 'Dark Deco' style." According to Peter Bartholow, then the lead designer of Skullgirls, "concept art of the stages and some story background" was presented to Yamane to make the first track of the game and define the rest of the soundtrack.

List

Tracklist
No.	Name	Theme	Credits
1	Pedestrians Crossing	Main Menu	Brenton Kossak & Blaine McGurty
2	Echoes	Startup Screen	Vincent Diamante
3	The Legend of the Skull Heart	Opening Theme	Michiru Yamane & Vincent Diamante, vocals by Kahori Yamane
4	Pick of the Litter	Character Select	Brenton Kossak & Blaine McGurty
5	In Rapid Succession	Story Mode Cutscene / No Man's Land	Vincent Diamante
6	Whiling the Hours Away	Story Mode Cutscene	Vincent Diamante
7	Them's Fighting Words	Story Mode Cutscene	Brenton Kossak & Blaine McGurty
8	An Uncertain Fate	Story Mode Cutscene	Brenton Kossak & Blaine McGurty
9	Shenanigans and Goings-Ons	Story Mode Cutscene	Vincent Diamante
10	Forgotten Moments	Story Mode Cutscene	Vincent Diamante
11	A Roll of the Dice	Story Mode Cutscene	Brenton Kossak & Blaine McGurty
12	Fugue in Three Goddesses	Grand Cathedral Cutscene	Vincent Diamante
13	The Catacombs Below	Catacomb Cutscene	Vincent Diamante
14	Dire Machinations	Marie Cutscene	Vincent Diamante
15	Her True Power Revealed	Marie Boss Transition	Vincent Diamante
16	Daybreak	End Cutscene	Vincent Diamante
17	A Return to Normalcy	Story Mode Cutscene	Vincent Diamante
18	The Lives We Tried to Reclaim	Story Mode Cutscene	Vincent Diamante
19	Moonlit Melee [cutscene]	Story Mode Cutscene	Michiru Yamane
20	The Seat of Power [cutscene]	Story Mode Cutscene	Michiru Yamane
21	The Fish Man's Dance [cutscence]	Story Mode Cutscene	Michiru Yamane
22	Clueless Trip	Story Mode Cutscene	???
23	Learning One's Craft	Class Notes	Michiru Yamane
24	Moonlit Melee	Streets of New Meridian	Michiru Yamane
25	The Seat of Power	Medici Tower	Michiru Yamane
26	Paved With Good Intentions	Lab 8	Michiru Yamane
27	The Fish Man's Dance	Little Innsmouth	Michiru Yamane
28	The Lives We Left Behind	Maplecrest	Michiru Yamane
29	Dirge of the Divine Trinity	Grand Cathedral	Michiru Yamane
30	Skull Heart Arrhythmia	Final Atrium	Michiru Yamane
31	In a Moment's Time	Credits Theme (Eng.)	Michiru Yamane, vocals by Geila Zilkha
32	Hitomi No Kioku	Credits Theme (Jap.)	Michiru Yamane, vocals by Geila Zilkha
33	Clear Breeze	New Meridian Rooftops	Michiru Yamane
34	Destiny in Her Hands	Rooftops Assault	Michiru Yamane, vocals by Paul Kwo
35	Where Money Flows Like Water	River King Casino	Michiru Yamane
36	Unfinished Business	Under the Bridge	Michiru Yamane
37	Royal Canopy Waltz	Glass Canopy	Vincent Diamante
38	An Oasis In Time	Bath of Tefnut	Michiru Yamane
39	The Dreams We Left Behind	Nightmare Crest	Vincent Diamante
40	Chamber Below	Gehenna	Michiru Yamane
41	The Crowd Goes Wild	NMO Arena	Brenton Kossak & Blaine McGurty
42	The Crowd Goes Home	NMO Arena (Empty)	Brenton Kossak & Blaine McGurty
43	An Oasis of Blood	Bath of Sekhmet	Michiru Yamane
44	Going Nowhere Fast	Meridian Area Rapid Transit	Michiru Yamane
45	The Stars and Stage are Set!	Sound Stage 15	Vincent Diamante
46	Ice Cream Headache	Boardwalk	Masaru Kuba (Raito)
47	Down the Rabbit Hole	The Bunny Burrow	Darren Malley and Carlos Eiene

Unused Tracks
No.	Name	Theme	Credits
1	Schmeebop	Used in Fukua's reveal trailer and the Skullgirls 2nd Encore PlayStation Vita launch trailer	Blaine McGurty
2	Disco Ballz		Blaine McGurty

Gallery

The soundtrack as it appears in the Art Gallery.

Skullgirls The Stars and Stage are Set! single

Skullgirls Ice Cream Headache single

Skullgirls Down the Rabbit Hole single

Performances

Skullgirls - Moonlit Melee - Michiru Yamane LIVE Piano Cover 🎹

"Down The Rabbit Hole" - Skullgirls 2nd Encore OST (Performance Video)

Trivia

• 'Clueless Trip' and the [cutscene] versions of 'Moonlit Melee', 'The Seat of Power' and 'The Fish Man's Dance' are the only non-DLC tracks that were not included in the Skullgirls Original Soundtrack.
  • 'Clueless Trip' is only heard during the Unlimited Hat Works cutscene, and was most likely not included in the album due to the track being very simple.
• 'Royal Canopy Waltz', 'The Dreams We Left Behind', 'The Crowd Goes Wild' and 'The Crowd Goes Home' are the only stage themes not to be composed by Michiru Yamane.
  • 'Bath of Sekhmet' and 'NMO Arena (Empty)' are the only stage variants in the game to have unique music.
  • It should be noted however that 'Bath of Sekhmet' used to use the same stage music as 'Bath of Tefnut' until the April 17, 2015 patch update.

External links

• Composer Blaine McGurty's SoundCloud account