Inkoming!

Inkoming! is a song performed by Wet Floor.

Description
Inkoming! is a rock song, featuring many electronic elements to complement the instruments. It also features a large emphasis on the vocals of the song, and throughout, prominent shouts of what appears to be "Splatoon!" can be heard. It can also be heard in Squid Beatz 2, with a max score of 155 and 325 in Normal and Hard mode respectively.

See also: Inkoming!

The song is also featured in the soundtrack for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and by default, it has a chance of playing on Moray Towers. It can also be heard in the Sounds section in the Vault menu.

Inkoming! (Cloud Demo)
Similar to Splattack! (Jam Session), a lower percussion remix is used in the Tutorial for Splatoon 2. However, ten different audio files of slightly different versions are used in the tutorial (see-below), rather than having one combined song; therefore, the actual song cannot be heard in-game. It does not appear in Squid Beatz 2 but does appear in Splatune 2.

[[media:Testfire Inkoming! (Jam Session).ogg|Inkoming! (Testfire version)]]
Quite similar to the final song, this early version used in the Splatoon 2 Global Testfire had different drum patterns, less filtered vocals and additional background chants at certain points, unlike the final product.

Inkoming! (Splatoon 2 reveal trailer)
The then-unnamed song was first heard during the initial reveal trailer of Splatoon 2 at the Nintendo Switch Presentation. Made specifically for the trailer, it remains nearly identical to the Testfire version. However, near the end of the trailer, a series of notes that make up the melody of Splattack! can be heard as a callback to the previous game's theme. This outro is not heard in any other version of Inkoming!.

Inkoming! (Live)
Also heard at the Nintendo Switch Presentation was a live performance of Inkoming! Other than the slightly different instrumentation due to the live band, it also contained a synthesizer solo, immediately followed up by a guitar solo. It also contained an extended guitar solo outro.

Inkoming! (Tutorial Phase 1)
A very stripped back version of the instrumental, it begins with the intro, unchanged, before looping the same 17 second long part of the instrumental. It only consists of the guitar track, backing drum track and the same vocalised vocal bit repeating.

Inkoming! (Tutorial Phase 2)
Now when the second time it loops, it adds a guitar riff whenever the vocal sings. From the third loop, a new guitar track is added.

Inkoming! (Tutorial Phase 3)
Mostly the same as phase 3, but now adds a new drum track from the third loop.

Inkoming! (Tutorial Phase 4)
From the third loop, it adds an additional rapid drum track, new background guitar riffs, and between loops, it now goes slightly off beat for a split second, before returning to normal pace.

Inkoming! (Tutorial Phase 5)
From the third loop, the off beat sections and vocals are removed, and replaced by a repeating section from the regular version of Inkoming!

Inkoming! (Tutorial Phase 6)
The vocals that were removed in Phase 5 now return after the third loop.

Inkoming! (Tutorial Phase 7)
From the fifth loop, the vocals and repeating section from the regular version are removed.

Inkoming! (Tutorial Phase 8)
From the fifth loop, a new guitar melody is added, and the vocals return. Symbol crashes are now added to the track.

Inkoming! (Tutorial Phase 9)
From the sixth loop, another rapidfire drum beat is added, to segue into the quieter segment heard at the end of the original Cloud Demo, with most of the instruments removed, although it quickly alternates between these sections, and the part before.

Inkoming! (Tutorial Phase 10)
The only Tutorial phase version where the start is different, it is a looped version of the quieter, sparser section of Phase 9, the outro of the original Cloud Demo.

Inkoming! (Splatune 2)
This version of the song is mostly the same as the in-game version, but loops differently, with a new bridge consisting of part of instrumental without any vocals. It also has a proper outro, completely different from the Splatoon 2 reveal trailer version.

Trivia

 * Inkoming! is considered the theme tune of Splatoon 2 with its prominent appearance in the reveal trailer and track listing positions in Squid Beatz 2 and Splatune 2.
 * It shares a few similarities with Splattack!, both being the theme tunes of their respective games, both containing an exclamation mark in the title, and both games having a remix of the main theme as the Tutorial music.

Etymology
Inkoming! is a pun of the term incoming and ink, a prominent gameplay mechanic of the Splatoon series.