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"Fear Factory"
"Fear Factory" in Donkey Kong Country
The image for "Fear Factory" from Donkey Kong Country on Nintendo Music.
Image from Nintendo Music
Composed by:
David Wise
First appearance Donkey Kong Country (1994)
Latest appearance Donkey Kong Country Returns HD (2025)

"Fear Factory,"[1][2] also known as "THE WAREHOUSE LEVEL,"[3] is a musical theme composed by David Wise for Donkey Kong Country, where it plays in the factory levels Oil Drum Alley and Blackout Basement. The theme incorporates elements of emerging genres of electronic music in the early 1990s, including industrial, Eurodance, and trance.[4]

ArrangementsEdit

Donkey Kong Country seriesEdit

Donkey Kong Country (Game Boy Color)Edit

In the Game Boy Color remake of Donkey Kong Country, a chiptune arrangement of "Fear Factory" plays in the same levels as the original game.

Donkey Kong Country (Game Boy Advance)Edit

In the Game Boy Advance remake of Donkey Kong Country, an arrangement of "Fear Factory" plays in the same levels as the original game.

Donkey Kong Country ReturnsEdit

Donkey Kong Country Returns, as well as the Nintendo 3DS port, Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D, and the Nintendo Switch port, Donkey Kong Country Returns HD, feature two arrangements of "Fear Factory."

A faithful arrangement of "Fear Factory," titled "Factory Friction" in the music gallery, plays in the Factory levels Slammin' Steel, Handy Hazards, Gear Getaway, and Lift-off Launch. It also plays in the Cloud level Robo Factory in the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch ports.

An arrangement of "Fear Factory," titled "Automatic Action" in the music gallery, plays during the level Music Madness. This rendition is a lot more electronic compared to the original, with a focus on heavy percussion and synthesizers.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical FreezeEdit

In Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and its Nintendo Switch port of the same name, a more synthetic and foreboding arrangement of "Fear Factory," titled "Frozen Frenzy" in the music gallery, plays in the level of the same name.

  Frozen Frenzy - The arrangement heard in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
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Other arrangementsEdit

Super Donkey Kong Game Music CD Jungle FantasyEdit

The album Super Donkey Kong Game Music CD Jungle Fantasy features a unique arrangement of "Fear Factory," titled "THE WAREHOUSE LEVEL" and composed by Yoshiyuki Ito.

List of Super Mario appearancesEdit

GamesEdit

Work System Year Type Title Credits
Donkey Kong Country Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1994 Original "Fear Factory"[2] David Wise
Donkey Kong Country Game Boy Color 2000 Arrangement
Donkey Kong Country Game Boy Advance 2003 Arrangement David Wise
Donkey Kong Country Returns Wii 2010 Arrangement "Factory Friction"
"Automatic Action"
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D Nintendo 3DS 2013 Past arrangement (Donkey Kong Country Returns) "Factory Friction"
"Automatic Action"
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Wii U 2014 Arrangement "Frozen Frenzy"
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze Nintendo Switch 2018 Past arrangement (Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze [Wii U]) "Frozen Frenzy"
Donkey Kong Country Returns HD Nintendo Switch 2025 Past arrangement (Donkey Kong Country Returns) "Factory Friction"
"Automatic Action"

AlbumsEdit

Work Year Type Title Credits
Super Donkey Kong Game Music CD Jungle Fantasy 1994 Arrangement "THE WAREHOUSE LEVEL" Yoshiyuki Ito
Original "THE WAREHOUSE LEVEL" David Wise
DK Jamz 1994 Original "Fear Factory" David Wise
Donkey Kong Country Trilogy 1996 Original "Fear Factory" David Wise

Names in other languagesEdit

Language Name Meaning Notes
French Fear Factory[5] -
German Furchtfabrik[6] Fear Factory
Italian Fabbrica Paurosa[7] Scary Factory
Spanish Máquina Fábrica[8] Machine Factory

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Nintendo Music
  2. ^ a b DK Jamz
  3. ^ Super Donkey Kong Game Music CD Jungle Fantasy
  4. ^ July 17, 2020. The Enduring, Ephemeral Beauty of the 'Donkey Kong Country' Soundtrack. Vice. Retrieved August 18, 2025.
  5. ^ Sound Player (2003). Donkey Kong Country. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (French).
  6. ^ Song-Player (2003). Donkey Kong Country. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (German).
  7. ^ Juke Box (2003). Donkey Kong Country. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (Italian).
  8. ^ Juke Box (2003). Donkey Kong Country. Nintendo of Europe GmbH (Spanish).
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Recurring themes
Donkey Kong franchise Donkey Kong "Game Start" • "Hammer BGM" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Round Start BGM" • "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong Jr. "Game Start" • "Round 1 BGM" • "Title BGM"
Donkey Kong Country "Aquatic Ambiance" • "Bonus Room Blitz" • "Cave Dweller Concert" • "Cranky's Theme" • "The Credits Concerto" • "DK Island Swing" • "Fear Factory" • "Forest Frenzy" • "Funky's Fugue" • "Gang-Plank Galleon" • "Life in the Mines" • "Lost a Balloon" • "Mine Cart Madness" • "Northern Hemispheres" • "Simian Segue" • "Treetop Rock" • "Voices of the Temple" • "Well Done"
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest "Crocodile Cacophony (K. Rool's Theme)" • "Lockjaw's Saga (Lockjaw's Locker)" • "Run, Rambi! Run! (Parrot Chute Panic)" • "Stickerbush Symphony (Bramble Blast)"
Donkey Kong 64 "DK Rap"
Donkey Kong Country Returns "Mine Menace"
Mario Bros. series Mario Bros. "Game Start" • "Title BGM"
Wrecking Crew series Wrecking Crew "Bonus Phase" • "Phase BGM"
Super Mario series Super Mario Bros. "1-Up" • "Castle BGM" • "Course Clear" ("Power Up") • "Ending" • "Ground BGM" ("Game Over" · "Player Down") • "Invincibility BGM" • "Timer Warning" • "Underground BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "World Clear"
VS. Super Mario Bros. "Gyōmu-yō Mario Namae-ire"
Super Mario Bros. 2 "Boss BGM" • "Ground BGM" • "Please Select Player" • "Underground BGM"
Super Mario Bros. 3 "Airship BGM" • "Athletic BGM" • "Bros. Battle" • "Ending" • "Fortress BGM" • "Fortress Boss" • "Game Over" • "Ground BGM" • "King of the Koopas" • "P Switch BGM / Toad's House" • "Player Down" • "Slot Game BGM / Memory Game BGM" • "Underwater BGM" • "Warp Zone" • "World 1 Map (Grass Land)" • "World 2 Map (Desert Land)" • "World 3 Map (Water Land)" • "World 4 Map (Giant Land)" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - On the Ground" • "World 5 Map (Sky Land) - In the Sky" • "World 6 Map (Ice Land)" • "World 7 Map (Pipe Land)" • "World 8 Map (Dark Land)"
Super Mario Land "Main Theme" • "Underground Theme"
Super Mario World "Bowser BGM" • "Donut Plains (Map Screen)" • "Ending" • "Ground BGM" ("Athletic BGM" · "Bonus Game BGM" · "Castle BGM" · "Course Clear" · "Ghost House BGM" · "Underground BGM" · "Underwater BGM") • "Koopalings BGM" • "P Switch BGM" • "Star World (Map Screen)" • "Title BGM" • "Vanilla Dome (Map Screen)" • "Yoshi's Island (Map Screen)"
Super Mario 64 "Bowser's Road" • "Bowser's Theme" • "Dire, Dire Docks" • "File Select" • "Main Theme" ("Cool, Cool Mountain" · "Slider") • "The Merry-Go-Round" • "Metal Mario" • "Peach's Castle" • "Piranha Plant's Lullaby" • "Staff Roll"
Super Mario Sunshine "Isle Delfino" ("Ricco Harbor") • "Secret Course"
New Super Mario Bros. "Course Clear" • "Fortress Theme" • "Main Theme" ("Athletic Theme") • "Mega Mario" • "Switch On!"
Super Mario Galaxy "Egg Planet" • "Enter Bowser Jr.!" • "Gusty Garden Galaxy" • "Luma" • "Overture" • "Purple Comet" • "Rosalina in the Observatory" • "The Toad Brigade" • "Waltz of the Boos"
New Super Mario Bros. Wii "Bonus Area" • "Castle Theme" • "Coast Theme" • "Desert Theme" • "Forest Theme" • "Ghost House Theme" • "Lava Cave / Underground Ruins Theme" • "Lava Theme" • "Title Theme" ("Game Over") • "Toad House Minigame" • "Underwater Theme"
Super Mario Galaxy 2 "Theme of SMG2"
Super Mario 3D Land "Castle Theme" • "Ground Theme" • "Snow Course" • "Underwater Theme"
New Super Mario Bros. U "Ground Theme"
Super Mario 3D World "A Boss Approaches" • "Chainlink Charge" • "Piranha Creeper Creek" • "Super Bell Hill"
Super Mario Maker "Title Theme"
Super Mario Odyssey "Fossil Falls" • "Jump Up, Super Star!"
Dr. Mario series Dr. Mario "Chill" • "Fever" • "Game Over" • "Selection Screen" • "Title Screen"
Mario Kart series Super Mario Kart "Award Ceremony" • "Donut Plains" • "Mario Circuit" • "Rainbow Road" • "Super Mario Kart Title Screen"
Mario Kart 64 "Battle Arenas" • "Choco Mountain" • "Frappe Snowland" • "Kalimari Desert" • "Koopa Troopa Beach" • "Luigi Raceway" • "Moo Moo Farm" • "Rainbow Road" • "Results (1st − 4th Place)" • "Starting Grid (Time Trials / Battle)" • "Toad's Turnpike"
Mario Kart: Super Circuit "Koopa Castle Course" • "GBA Mario Circuit"
Mario Kart: Double Dash!! "GCN Baby Park" • "GCN Daisy Cruiser" • "GCN Yoshi Circuit"
Mario Kart DS "DS Waluigi Pinball"
Mario Kart Wii "Wii Coconut Mall" • "Luigi Circuit/Mario Circuit" • "Wii Maple Treeway" • "Wii Moo Moo Meadows" • "Mushroom Gorge" • "Wii Wario's Gold Mine"
Mario Kart 7 "Mario Kart 7 Title Screen" ("Neo Bowser City" · "Toad Circuit") • "Piranha Plant Slide"
Mario Kart 8 "Cloudtop Cruise"
Yoshi franchise Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island "Athletic BGM" • "Bowser" • "Flower Field BGM" • "Opening Melody" • "Powerful Mario" • "Stage Start" • "Yoshi's Island"
Yoshi's Story "Yoshi's Song" • "Yoshi's Story!" • "Yoshi's Tale"
Luigi's Mansion series Luigi's Mansion "Title Theme (Humming)"
Wario franchise WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$! "Drifting Away" • "Pyoro" • "WarioWare, Inc." ("Dr. Crygor")
WarioWare: Twisted! "Mona Pizza"
WarioWare: Touched! "Ashley's Theme"
Other The Legend of Zelda "Important Item Acquired" • "Overworld Theme"
Mario Paint "Save & Load"
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars "Beware of Forest Mushrooms" • "Hello, Happy Kingdom"
Miscellaneous "Le Galop infernal d'Orphée aux Enfers" • "Totaka's Song"
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Donkey Kong Country (SNES) / Donkey Kong Country (GBC) / Donkey Kong Country (GBA)
Protagonists Donkey Kong • Diddy Kong • Cranky Kong • Funky Kong • Candy Kong
Items and objects Animal token • Banana • Banana Bunch • Barrel • Barrel Cannon • Blast Barrel • Big Animal Token • Continue Barrel • Donkey Kong Balloon (red · green · blue) • DK Barrel • Exit • Fuel Canister • Jumbo Barrel • K-O-N-G Letters • Minecart • Mini Animal Token • On & Off Barrel • Steel keg • Stop & Go Barrel • Tire • TNT Drum • Warp Barrela
Animal Friends Rambi • Enguarde • Winky • Squawks • Expresso
Bosses Very Gnawty • Master Necky • Queen B. • Really Gnawty • Dumb Drum • Master Necky Snr. • King K. Rool
Enemies Army • Bitesize • Chomps • Chomps Jr. • Clambo • Croctopus • Gnawty • Klaptrap • Klump • Krash • Kritter • Krusha • Manky Kong • Mini-Necky • Necky • Rock Kroc • Slippa • Squidge • Zinger
Obstacles Black drum • Mincer • Oil drum
Worlds Kongo Jungle • Monkey Mines • Vine Valley • Gorilla Glacier • Kremkroc Industries, Inc. • Chimp Caverns • Gangplank Galleon
Music "Opening Fanfare" • "Simian Segue" • "DK Island Swing" • "Cave Dweller Concert" • "Aquatic Ambiance" • "Well Done" • "Cranky's Theme" • "Life in the Mines" • "Mine Cart Madness" • "Misty Menace" • "Voices of the Temple" • "Lost a Balloon" • "Funky's Fugue" • "Forest Frenzy" • "Treetop Rock" • "Bonus Room Blitz" • "Better Luck Next Time" • "Candy's Love Song" • "Northern Hemispheres" • "Ice Cave Chant" • "Fear Factory" • "Bad Boss Boogie" • "K. Rool's Cacophony" • "Gang-Plank Galleon" • "The Credits Concerto"
Other Ask Cranky • Ask Uncle Tusk • Cold Crossword Challenge • Create-N-Send A Donkey Kong Country Family Portrait • DK Attack • DK Jamz • Donkey Kong (electronic tabletop pinball) • Donkey Kong Country: Exposed • Donkey Kong Country roulette machine • Donkey Kong Country Trilogy • Gallery • Glitches • Go Ape! • Grab Bag • Kremling Krushin • Multimedia • Nintendo Music (soundtrack) • Pre-release and unused content • Primate Poll • Read the unfinished Donkey Kong Country story...and finish the adventure! • Sound testa • Staff • Super Donkey Kong Game Music CD Jungle Fantasy • Super Donkey Kong Original Sound Version
a Exclusive to the Game Boy Advance version
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