Was really enjoying this album, and then I found a hidden obsession with...
Fun facts about this song
THE IMMORTALS was in fact Praga Khan and Olivier Adams of Lords of Acid fame (and LoA's popularity was how Midway came to reach out to them to do THIS album)
Which makes this the second link to Belgium for OG Mortal Kombat, given that Johnny Cage was supposed to be/based on JCVD.
But this particular song was only Olivier Adams; Khan had to go to a meeting with the label, so he fired up his Atari ST and did it himself.
Dude, it was written on a fuckin' Atari ST, man. How cool is that
Nobody realized until years later how big this song would be.
Khan and Adams would occasionally receive faxes with charting info about Lords of Acid, but received no news on this.
The "MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAT!" yell was by a Texan who did it for the TV advertisements, and also had no idea until years later how famous his yell would be. (Adams would later admit that it was that sample, that yell, that made the song.)
Jonathan Oyama of VentureBeat once claimed that "Techno Syndrome" is based on "Twilight Zone" by 2 Unlimited, but
It obviously isn't
Adams had not heard that song prior to making this
No lawsuit was ever even filed, nor complaint made
It obviously is not, just very similar.