DOOM - BFG Division (Mick Gordon) | Reacting To Video Game Music! 

This video is basically just Jesse.exe has stopped working.

If you enjoyed this one, I have 7 words for you. "The Only Thing They Fear, is You"

Mick Gordon is a musical genius. He took images of 666 and pentagrams, converted them into a wav file, and hid them in songs as background white noise you wouldn’t even hear. If you have the files for the soundtrack from the game itself and play it through a spectrogram, you can see these images. He also includes an image of John Romero’s head from doom 2 and a backwards talking message saying “Jesus love you”

So fun fact, Mick Gordon was banned from using guitars for the DOOM (2016) soundtrack. He slowly snuck more and more guitar into each iteration of his songs until finally we got the tracks we have now. Man basically pulled a "that's a cool suggestion but I'm gonna do it my way"

1:21 *"hopefully it delivers."* A rule for those who haven't heard Mick Gordon: he always delivers

Bethesda: Mick, stop using chainsaw Mick: created Cultist base

"I don't know what BFG means" Thousands of people around the world in unison said *"B I G F U C K I N G G U N"*

So, for informational purposes: It was indeed a 9 String he was using. He actually chose the 9 String based on some hokey, fun memories he had of old 70's and 80's bands that used them purely as a gimmick and he thought he could incorporate them in for more pragmatic use to give it a harder, grittier sound. But that still wasn't enough. He also brought in some archaic Russian synths and pedals. Still wasn't enough. So then... And perhaps most famously... He synthesized the sound of the Doom chainsaw, and worked that into his guitar. Which is why it sounds so unique. He's literally synthesizing a blaring chainsaw into his chords.

His face when he hears the first couple of riffs: he's just met his god. His God's First And Only Commandment: RIP AND TEAR. UNTIL IT IS DONE.

This song goes unreasonably hard. I'm also going to recommend Rip and Tear from Doom 2016 seeing as no one else has yet.

Mick Gordon's albums are all 60 bucks a pop and they each come with a free game! It's an absolute steal of a deal!

It's has to be the heaviest riff ever written. The way the first note hits, there is literally nothing else like it.

The song that got me into metal. Gordon is a genius, the Killer Instinct soundtrack is fucking glorious as well.

Doom is literally the only game where the boss music is for you

Casey Edwards (composer for DMC5) worked on Killer Instinct, Wolfenstein Old Blood and Doom Eternal, all of which are Mick Gordon's work so it's safe to say Casey picked up some stuff from Mick which ended up in Bury the Light.

I highly recommend playing DOOM 2016. The game is amazing and the entire soundtrack is absolutely fantastic and when you combine destroying demons from hell with the soundtrack the game is absolutely cathartic.

The thing about Mick Gordon (IIRC) is that his songs evolve and change with the gameplay, so listening to them by themselves is a bit of an incomplete experience. Killer Instinct as you said is another good example of this. The music evolves and is at the rythm of your combos.

Honestly, one of the coolest things is how the soundtrack is integrated into the game. The soundtrack basically switches seamlessly between the high and low intensity parts of the song based on the gameplay. When the fights get really intense, the music matches. They've done loads of other cool stuff too, like matching guitar riffs with shotgun pumps in the very beginning of the game.

Studio: First off, NO GUITARS, got that? Mick: Did you say guitars? got it.

Just for the record, BFG is an acronym standing for Big Fucking Gun

That, my dude, is a also a chainsaw layered on top of the guitar. And a soviet synth. In another track, I think it's Cultist Base, he uses a lawnmower. From the original I would also suggest listening to Rip and Tear, At Doom's Gate, while from the second one there are a lot, but certainly The Only Thing They Fear Is You, Cultist Base, Meathook and Kar En Tuk for the insanely aggressive metal choir. Just make sure to listen to the Mick Gordon mixes as opposed to community made ones based, which were cobbled together from gamerips! Also, the closest to this sound is definitely Meshuggah, Gordon is friends with one of the guitarists there and he even gave him the very guitar he used in this video.

basically a perfect soundtrack. the frankensteins monster he built to make the music is amazing. there is a really good video from GDC called Doom: Behind the Music that's worth a watch.

First off, the way this music is implemented into the game is amazing. The actual individual sections loop while playing and either get more intense depending on monster frequency or type. And it tapers off the closer you get to clearing. Also, I would check out anything from Eternal. All I will say is Metal Nordic Choir. Wish I could name you a best song but cant.

"I'm not ready, im not ready" Mick: at least you know

Seriously, your reaction to this felt kinda intimate, almost like I was intruding on a personal moment. This is top tier content, man.

“How many strings are going to use for this song Mick?” “Yes”

I can't remember the exact details, but I think Mick Gordon used a software to cross the guitar sounds in this with the sound of a chainsaw reving to give it a more DOOM feel. It worked. It's pretty wicked.

love it in the middle when u can just imagine a super shotty reloading :D CHK CHK BASSDROP!

This song belongs to a brand new genre. VIOLENCE!

3:00 You are the FIRST person I have watched react to Mick and CORRECTLY call out the NINE string! lol Everyone seems to think it's an 8. But if you pause and count, and listen to Mick himself, it was a NINE. I don't know why it bugs me people get that wrong, but I am glad you got it right! :) :)

Mick invented a new genre. Violence-core.

Since you mentioned DMC Mick actually worked with the DMCV peeps for songs in Killer Instinct (2013). I don't remember off of the top of my head if they did anything other then the song "Touch Me & I'll Break Your Face" though.

Just found your channel by chance! Love your reaction to what must be one of my favorite video game soundtracks of all time. Just subscribed and cannot wait to see more, rock on my dude!🤟

the legend of Mick Gordon lives on....Doom was one of the best times i've had at playing video games...because the music carries you....it pushes you.

Great reaction. I'm new to the genre but that was fantastic. Played DOOM a long while ago and music such as that makes me want to play again, me thinks. So thank you for sparking my interest again. Oh I subscribes so I'm looking forward to more reactions.

Oh dude I totally dig your reaction. I felt the same way hearing this song for the first time. For not playing a ton of super technical stuff, he really brought brutality in such a concise way.This is such an amazing instance of how the guitar can drive the song, then take a backseat, only to drive the song home again. Absolutely phenomenal song. It leaves you satisfied and wanting more at the same time. Few songs like it. Bfg is big f*ckin gun

A bit late to finding your channel, but instantly subscribed. Keep it up!

Late on this reply but I love this reaction. Mick is one of my favorite video game artists. Love the genuine reaction and I am a huge Doom fan and player. I was stoked to see this reaction thank you! And much appreciated my friend.

the trying to keep headbainging under control to not send the headphone to mars is so real, the struggle XD

I find it funny that nearly all metal heads got their mind blown when listening to BFG Division for the first time Mick is a true wizard

If you get the chance to, play both of the new DOOM games (2016 and Eternal). The feeling you get from listening to BFG Division is about how energetic and violent as the gameplay itself.

aw man i missed the live premiere! told ya jessie, this track is freakin awesome, im glad you got around to it so soon

The thing I love the most of everyone who has reacted to this banger is the face they do when the main riff comes in... It's just priceless to watch them do an expression similar as if they were smelling the nastiest stuff ever. It just feels my heart.

I was looking at other channel reactions to this and I just gotta say nobody gets into the music like you do my friend. Keep being you my dude.

These are the reactions I live for LOL. Good stuff.

When you're guitar doesn't have enough strings, get more. If they don't make one with enough strings, get the chainsaw.

I am so glad you got to listen to this track. There are -so- many monstrous tracks from both the 2016 DOOM and DOOM Eternal games. Kar En Tuk is one of my favorite tracks by far.

Your going to love this one im sure. It's my favorite track from the game. Mick Gordon is a evil genius

Mick Gordon’s tracks are so layered and dense I feel like I notice something new every time.

YES, ive been waiting on some doom music, i knew youd love how hard it goes! my only regret is my hair is too short for proper head banging

3:04 That. That right there. That is _the_ reaction to this song. :D Haha first vid I've seen from you and loved the reaction. I'm curious, do you do reactions to smaller artists? We slapped together a Black metal record quite a while ago, released it through a rather big label here in Finland. Few songs on my channel called "Served Dead". Would be awesome to see a reaction to them. For example "Served Dead - Shrouded Doubt"... We unfortunately broke up as a band, but it's still something that is ... well.. close to my heart as an achievement. (I'm a vocalist in the band, the lower voice.) Unfortunately got a bad case of social anxiety after that so ... it kinda ended what I would have loved to do. I've had a few beers so if this is an odd request, my mistake. But hey, maybe subscriber band reactions could be a series? Where you react to several per video? It might be a cool way to create some metal community and I would actually love to see upcoming bands send their submissions for you to react, maybe there'd be some diamonds in the rough to be found? Either way, rock on, great reaction! Hitting the sub, as I really dig it either way. 5:45 lol, "What is doctor Gordon gonna".. yeah that's the vision I get from that image.. him concocting another dirty incredible audio cocktail to prescribe

I love finding these reactions to Mick Gordon, especially this song in particular. You know exactly what parts I'm talking about lol

Anything Mick Gordon makes is a one man musical experience, he records all the parts himself, then mixes and edits it all on his own.

Doom 2016 was basically a $60 Mick Gordon album w/ a free game tossed in. It slapped so hard.

Thank you for the content!

Watching you rock out was great! BFG Division easily goes harder than anything I've ever heard before.

Musically, when you think of "Hard"? This is the platonic ideal of "Hard". This is the hardest a song can be.

Good way to counter the endless Christmas carols :) Thanks Jesse this is just so awesome.

Love seeing my favourite song from the doom soundtrack being shared with so many people, everytime I hear it, it just gets better

The composing is so interesting to listen to because it's so complex. What I mean is that because it's dynamic and has to have layers for all kinds of in game events, it needs to have fast and hard parts, hard and slow, soft and slow, quick rises and falls as well as slow build ups and build downs, and the song we listen to as a whole is all of those layers put into one continuous string, it's the closest you can get to listening to the true experience without the in-game action composing the lineup for you. Dynamic game music is just so cool to me as a concept, and that's to say nothing about how great the music itself is. That's why people all over say the phrase "Doom is an awesome metal album with a game attached"

This was gold. I made the same face when I first heard it. I will second the GDC talk he did. Absolute must watch about the creation of music in general.

You've enjoyed Final Fantasy music, and now Doom's. Shall we marry the two and have you partake in some Argent Metal covers done by GeoffPlaysGuitar? The Dancing Mad one is particular favorite of mine.

Great reaction and Great break down

Apparently this awesome music album came with a video game

Jesse: is that a 9 string? Mick: it's a Chain gun

Mixing and editing on point… tune is dirty as fuck in the most amazing way!

If you like metal and videogames, then I heavily advise you play Doom (2016), it's the most metal AAA videogame in a long time for a bit of context: The original Doom came out in 1993 and was very heavy metal at the time (it was extremely fast and gory for the time it came out, and a lot of the music for it was MIDI covers/adaptations of 80's metal like Slayer, Metallica, etc), it's set in the future where we have research stations on the moons of Mars to do experiments that would be too dangerous to do on Earth, one of these is researching teleportation technology and it accidentally opens a portal to literal Hell, which then sends demons through to kill everything and use the tech to be able to fully invade earth; you are are a marine on the base, sent there as punishment because you kicked the shit out of your superior officer when he ordered you to shoot at unarmed civilians, and the last survivor of your squad once the demons invaded, and it's up to you to fight against all of Hell. This was followed by Doom 2 as a direct sequel, then Doom 3 (2004) as a reboot (which will be ignored going forward, it's more of a horror game rather than "metal action" like the others), and Doom 64 (for the nintendo 64 in 1997) intended as a non-canon sequel to Doom 2, but was eventually made canon because it was surprisingly good, and considered by a lot of fans as the "true" Doom 3 Doom 2016 is actually a direct sequel to Doom 64, but this isn't made clearly apparent until the sequel Doom Eternal

Every time I hear this piece, I realize I was holding my breath the entire song and have to catch it back.

Ticking time bomb perfectly describes this track. It's all just anxiety and build up lol

I've been a musician for 21 years , all bass guitar related hahaha. This particular piece is one of my favourite music out there. It has some NIN, old Meshuggah and unbelievable mixing skills from Mick himself. It's nice to see this channel grow man , keep it going and congratulations on the custom shop gig. Also, I'm pretty sure that's a 9 string guitar playing extreme power chords 👊🏻

By far the best song in the world, PERIOD. And by far the best and most genuine reaction to it

Favorite OST from the whole franchise has got to be Koma’s mix of Super Gore Nest. It’s 9 whole minutes of pure, unapologetic metal that just keeps changing up.

im kinda new to listen Jesse reaction videos but this is my first one. The momenth when he calls Mick as Dr Gordon just makes me smile. not in a sarcastic way but how he as a fellow guitarist calls Mick for like someone ascended

I was going to do a patreon request for this, daaamn. Not surprised by all the requests though. :)

Listens to BFG Division for the first time Jesse: "I don't want to be sitting."

I also think the mixing for these songs is so damn meaty. I feel like it's what carries this OST to even greater heights when compared to Doom Eternal's. I love a lot of songs on that one too, but they definitely feel different with the mixing, you can immediately tell.

Watching Jesse start jamming makes me smile every time.

If I recall correctly there are instances in some songs on the soundtrack where Mick Gordon actually recorded the music using very old equipment to create a "blown out speaker" quality. Purposely making it sound lower quality to make it feel gritty is so genius to me.

Another great composer to look out for is Andrew Hulshult. He has his own version of the Doom soundtrack and it slaps just as hard, but in a different way while still being good. Hell, just listen to anything by Andrew Hulshult. I instantly buy anything that he composes the music for from the Nightmare Reaper to Newblood's DUSK and Amid Evil. My favorite track by him is Going Down the Fast Way from the Rise of the Triad remake. But some of his best atmospheric stuff is in DUSK and Amid Evil.

This song is the definition of "incoming heart attack" especially with headphones :D

Somewhere, I seem to remember having seen someone call DOOM a heavy metal CD with a game attached to it.

I love how hellish music often sounds the most heavenly.

I just can't seem to get clear how addictive playing this game can get in the sense that you start shaking for more about 6 months later because of the wonderfully analogue sound the score has. Especially in the more sedate interregnums where atmosphere builds as you explore the level for good shit. The organics & filtering he adds (called Cutoff/Resonance) create such warmth, grit, & organics. Yet it feeds your desire to bust skulls & thump to his insanely mental masterpieces. It balances the game's pace masterfully. And plays with your psyche to bounce between the beast and the explorer. Very effective, & shows what can be achieved if everything works together.

This man reacted to a DOOM track, oh he about to have a field day with the rest of both DOOM and DOOM Eternals soundtracks.

if this is your first foray into Mick Gordon, check out some of his work from Killer Instinct! Cinder's theme, Fulgore's theme, and many others are written composed and mixed by him. it's such a good fighting game OST

BFG Division is basically pure chaos in music form, and it's amazing.

From KI, Warlord is awesome. You can also see Casey Edwards take inspiration for Bury The Light.

Doom is where the Boss music plays for you. I’ve also heard it called the best heavy metal album with a free game attached.

And yes, you want to play DOOM (2016) and DOOM Eternal. It's like making metal music by turning demons into red paste. I also think you would enjoy the dynamic OST ingame since this is basically an album version of ONE possible way this particular combat track can work.

Thank you for your reaction.

Now imagine you are presented with a hoard of enemies of the most evil kind, hell bent on carnage. Before doubt sets in, this music kicks in and you are given a fucken RPG and everything in the world is good. The of ballet of violence ensues with a massive grin on your face. This is peak gaming.

Maybe Mick got some inspiration from Nine Inch Nails as well, because Mick's track "Hellwalker" has a section that is unbelievably similar to sections of NIN's "Corona Radiata".

You could take all of Mick Gordon's songs and give him to a Wrestler of your choice and their entrance would become more badass ASAP!

I recommend you someday watch his GDC talk about his making of this OST. It's quite entertaining and helpful

Doom OST is an entire experience and literally something I always get with the game cause they're just too good.

All of the Doom ost's are masterpieces.

Fear Factory was huge in Australia when Demanufacture came out, I would be willing to bet that was a huge influence

BFG Division is my absolute favorite track off Doom 2016 OST. Rip and Tear also slaps.

Slayer Gates/Meathook is from doom eternal and it is literally one of my favorite songs in gaming.

You know it's good when the head banging starts.