List of Unreleased Songs Recorded By Viper Hamato

Viper Hamato is an American musician and Entertainer. Known to have written, recorded and filmed material that has never been released, though it is unknown how many songs remain in his vault, some of them unregistered but usually registered by either Sony Music America from 2000-2009 or Forest Way Studios from 1997-1999, 2010-2020 — with professional bodies such as the United States Copyright Office, Broadcast Music Incorporated and ASCAP. The list however, does not contain every unreleased song Hamato has within the vault, and is only ones that have been labelled with the three offices.

Many unreleased songs within this list were from albums or set to be put within the 11 albums (9 Albums, 2 EP's) before plans for the album setlist changed, for various reasons, some tracks were either rejected by Hamato, Sony Records, or to fit the occurring theme on the album. Hamato's unreleased material features songs recorded as a solo artist (including covers by other artists) demo versions and duets that remain unreleased that were stated to be released

As of 2021, Hamato's archival crew working alongside Hamato Records have stated that there were a confirmed 400 unreleased song between the years 1997-2021 using the storage method of LTO (Linear Tape-Open) compared to Magnetic Tapes at the time which Sony had recommended (though it was not swapped over to LTO (Linear Tape-Open) until 2001) and that Hamato has the vault labelled for years of work ranging through the years, commonly having a single recording or even session where the songs were written, scanned onto the LTO (Linear Tape-Open) alongside the song with individual instrumentation (including vocal takes, drums, pianos and various instruments) within folders that could be written and copied over to another computer should it need to be extracted.

Only Three of Hamato's Song have ever leaked out onto the Internet, such as a cover of Prince's "Vicki Waiting" Live at Paisley Park leaked by a fan who recorded the performance in May of 2011. At the time, it was well known that Prince and Hamato had spent days writing and recording music non-stop to a point where they would end up getting three hours of sleep a day. On April 8th, 2009 when Sony Music America went their separate ways with Hamato, it was stated they allowed his Masters and Vault Material, however, did not allow any re-issues of albums made around 2000-2009 until January 1st, 2021 to where he was openly able to do so and publish any Vault Material made and recorded under the Sony America Label.