Hunters is a ten episode nature series photographed by Wolfgang Bayer and produced by The Discovery Channel. At ten hours long it is the largest soundtrack project that The Residents have ever attempted. The series first aired in December of 1994 and the soundtrack CD was released early in 1995.

Hunters is an extraordinary compilation of music from the 10-part nature documentary series to be broadcast in the United States on The Discovery Channel beginning in December, 1994 (and subsequently in many other territories throughout the world).

Through the lens of Wolfgang Bayer, one of the world-renouned masters of natural history cinematography, the Hunters television series explores the many worlds of creatures that kill, examining their varied lifestyles, their strategies for survival, and the vital role they play in the world's ecosystems.

The original sountrack for Hunters was composed in its entirety by The Residents, perhaps the most celebrated avant-garde musical group in the world. During the past two decades, The Residents have built a devoted international following for their futuristic projects, and have released nearly twenty albums, while creating numerous performance peices, conceptual musical works, and ground-breaking scores for MTV.

In addition to their musical exploits, The Residents have been pioneers in the fields of video (two of their works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art), and, most recently CD-ROM (their initial project, Freak Show has been acclaimed as the most innovative work of its kind).

The original soundtrack album for Hunters is The Residents' latest musical masterpiece.

Somewhere between 1994's The Gingerbread Man and 1998's Wormwood, a Residents album disappeared.

Actually, it didn't disappear, it was usurped. The Residents received an offer to write some music for a television series and they couldn't pass up such an intriguing opportunity. Suddenly the album they were writing became a wholly different project.

That album, which had a working title of "That Slab Called Night," was to be a concept project based on the effect darkness has on perception, the world of the shadow. Though never completed, in 2007 The Residents thought it would be insightful to sort through the then over ten years old music and create something new... Night of the Hunters.

Dark Found Light Lost
The Wrong Path
Dropped Pain
Broken Irony
Night of Lost Sight
Crystal Shards
In the Way
Flying Blind
Held Loosely
Rediscovered Lust
Stalking Dream
Dark Light
Mind Sight

Scattered Thoughts
Doubting the Past
Memory of Light
Seeing What's Gone
Dreaming of Night
Refusing the Final Light
Failed Eyes
Slabs that Shine