Purgatory Primetime - Shrails

Song - Shrails
Artist(s) - Daniel Holter, Rex Carroll
Released - 2001
Primetime Usage - 2006
Contained on - Velocity VL017Q (Metal v2)
Featured Highlight - "Saints magical season" Segment, 2006 Divisional Round

 

The same sequence celebrating the 2006 Saints' rebound that featured Crash and Burn had a second clip with a unique NFL Primetime track.  Accompanying the "Saints magical season" segment was the song "Shrails." The portion of the clip with music is short, but Shrails tells you all you really need to know about it right away—you're not missing anything crucial by listening to an abbreviated portion.  Shrails was written/performed by the familiar duo of Daniel Holter & Rex Carroll.  If you don't recall those names, they were the same pair responsible for the New Primetime non-highlight track Tracking Heat.  The heavy-metal instrumentation between both songs is quite similar, although Shrails is less melodic and features more shredding.  Both Shrails and Tracking Heat are actually on the same album!  It's a little weird that ESPN would use two different songs from the same album 15 years apart, but whatever…

Special thanks to GodzFire for identifying this one, too.

Non-Highlight Track (New Primetime) - Tracking Heat

Song - Tracking Heat
Artist(s) - Daniel Holter, Rex Carroll
Released - 2001
Primetime Usage - 2021
Contained on - Velocity VL017Q (Metal v2)
Featured Highlight - "Largest Conf Champ Comeback Wins" Segment, 2021

Here, as promised last week, is the last unique non-highlight track from the 2021 Conference Championship episode of NFL Primetime.  It accompanies a graphic showing the largest deficits overcome in conference-championship history (the 2021 Bengals tied the 18-point record set by the 2006 Colts), as well as a couple clips from the Cincinnati bar celebrations that occurred when the AFC Championship ended.  The song is "Tracking Heat," by Daniel Holter & Rex Carroll.  Holter is a producer who has composed/co-composed many songs that have shown up on TV, while Carroll is a songwriter who got his start as the lead guitar player & co-founder of the Christian metal group Whitecross in the 1980s.  Tracking Heat is found on the Velocity production-music album Metal v2.

Again, special thanks to Godzfire for ID'ing this one.