Arena Americanada
Running time	5:22
Appears on	Inferno
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Comments

• A portmanteau of arena, America, Canada and Americana. The arena frame is explicitly Roman / martyrological — the Colosseum as the space where the early Christian martyrs were made into spectacle for the state. Returns, via Inferno, to the American-imperial / spectacle-of-suffering concerns of Tomorrow's Harvest ("Sick Times", "Come To Dust").
• Another possible portmanteau is Arena, America, nada, where "nada" is Latin for zero, or nothing/nothingness. The American Arena as a void, or more specifically the entertainment industry as it relates to religious broadcasting being a void, which connects with the televangelical imagery seen in Tape 05.
• Simultaneously returns the band to the Canadian-imagined-America motif that defined Music Has the Right to Children — the National Film Board of Canada soundtracks of Mike and Marcus's childhood, the "Canada" in the band's name.
• The hanging suffix "-ada" (as in canada) doubles the word — America-Canada-da-da — a small formal-poetic gesture characteristic of BoC titling.