Artist: Mick Gordon Game: Doom Eternal (Unofficial) Title: Urdak (Ambient) --- The background music that plays during Urdak when not in combat. --- Visualizer template by Visual Imotion Creative bit.ly/33JkELu #DOOM #DOOMEternal #Ambient
Urdak, the prefect empty paradise. Everything here is designed to be a perfection of mayker architecture. impossibly tall towers, entire complexes floating over a ceaseless void, the natural combined and unnatural combined in what can only be described as closest thing to heaven and mortal shall ever see. . . And yet it is empty. Where are the people? Why are the plazas, meant to be filled life, filled only with silence? Why are sky ways , meant to transport goods and people, filled only with empty void that surrounds this place? It appears this “paradise” May only be skin deep.
That's something not a lot of people notice right away. Why is it that "Heaven" is a ghost-town? You see no other entities but the hell-spawn and their pawns. No part of the environment seems to serve any function for casual, everyday inhabitants. There are no homes. There are no gathering places or communal spaces. There ARE giant vats of fluid that hold the remains of dead Maykrs, as well as Demonic summoning chambers and gateway controls. Everything hints at it all being a veneer.
Exxus - Idk, I’m probably wrong. But the developers are acting like “Heaven” and “Urdak” are separate things. And in the DLC we’re going to a garden in Heaven, not Urdak.
My god this game makes u feel comfortable in hell but creeped out in heaven (urdak). Urdak looks like a paradise and is absolutely gorgeous but you know it's hauted because of horrible stuff you see in nekravol which is house you get there
Ironic, The place filled with Literal Demons feels like HOME while a Heaven-like Paradise is something you aren't- no... something the Doomslayer isn't used to
@@ArasKristoffDBUEN It probably feels so creepy because of the ambience but also the emptiness. Kenopsia is what makes this place feel so creepy. You're esssntially alone in what is nearly Paradise, with the exception of the Maykrs, who are hidden away. This place is supposed to be be bustling with people, with ships carrying cargo all throughout the skyways and people walking and talking in the various plazas seen everywhere, but instead it's complete silence. In Hell, it looks barren but there is life there, and you wouldn't expect stuff to be there. Hell also has no effective forms of communicating the fact that life exists (no roads, no skyways, no houses, just a couple citadels and lots of land)
And then comes Jekkad, which looks like an actual Heaven (what's left of it anyway). If anything, Immora is a fusion between Urdak and Nekravol : grandiose, brimming with life, but clearly corrupted. x)
Despite how heavenly this place appears, this place is anything but heaven. I like to think the Maykrs are trans dimensional beings so advanced they appear divine.
I was just thinking this would be great for a lovecraft story. It would fit the journey through the ancient city in At The Mountains of Madness perfectly!
@@hoytrn77 This could indeed be expanded into a Lovecraftian story that also connects the more traditional good vs evil dichotomy. Heaven with a benevolent God and angels and such being the result of gross oversimplification and also the outcome of deliberate manipulation by the Makyrs themselves. Turns out that "Heaven" is in no way good, and instead is an eldritch realm. This music is a great example. I imagine the angelic choirs that we know to be the oversimplified and manipulated version, and *this* choir to be the "real" version. It is fitting that this sounds nothing like a heavenly choir, and instead sounds creepy, inhuman, and ominous.
It reselbles BFG division, but if you go to 2016's official soundtrack, you'll find it somewhere else. Residual, a song unused in 2016's campaign, has the EXACT same motif.
@@NinjaTheRaymanFan13 I'd assume as a bonus track, if nothing else. Chad Mossholder also did a remix of Olivia's speech, a song that also does not play at any point in the campaign. It's a complete album, not just the induvidual game tracks.
Playing through Nekravol, while it had the creepy imagery of trapped souls and humans and all that, it always felt badass. Urdak in the other hand, genuinely made me feel uneasy throughout all of the non-combat areas. Just such a creepy and eerie track
A holy priest, who, throughout life, had pledged the service of their mortality to their Patron God. She had followed the manuscripts to their letter, and was a renowned bishop and clergylady among the church. It was during a moment of service that she felt it. A shift in her boon. The glowing warmth that had been with her for as long as she could remember, had begun to extinguish. She knew not what this meant, and lamented in silent, private prayer that night, eager to find answer's to her new plight. In the weeks to pass, the priestess' power and connection to her holy patron continued to wane as her dreams of divine hymns soured and feigned into quiet cries and whispers of torment. Six dreams she had the over the course of three months. The last, she stood before her Patron's domain, a once holy and preadolescent hall of those who's service had been recognized for them to live eternal as angels among men. Before the ancient golden stair of this heaven, now greyed by the rain of light ash and burning embers, lie a battered, weeping angel, his wings torn, ripped, its feathers spread across the ground around him. When the priestess approached, mortified by what she saw, the angel looked to her, his now sunken and grey eyes, devoid of any light and power, still wet with the tears of his anguish, and plead for his savior, and found silence. The priestess lay the Angel to rest with a gentle kiss on the forehead as he was relieved of his wounds. Continuing on, the young priestess found herself before the gilded great hall, as well as a slaughter. Hundreds of divine beings lie dead in their white silken robes, stained with the blood of the virtuous. Lifeless corpses littering the dead heavens, the priestess wept as she continued on to reveal what else had befallen her faith.
On the far reaches of this once beautiful and glistering paradise now turned to nothing more than dust and fire. Lay the one who caused all of this, its almost baffling how not one group if not an entire army of horrific beings have failed to rule this sacred holy land, and yet, he did it not a beast that will fortold their doom, not a demon with everlasting power. Just a mortal man. But he didn't want to rule it. All whom has praise these angels have not seen the full extent of the story, but he knows. He knows what they had done, he knows all of what happened, and he will bring justice to their actions, even if it means killing all of them.
.... a beautiful landscape, beautiful songs in the distance, everything you see and hear is perfect. Until you see it empty.. a wasteland of its own creation, void of laughter or empathy, only temporary satisfaction to draw you in... only to use and torment you for it’s own wellbeing
during my first doom eternal playthrough, i heard this track for the first time, and it scared the shit outta me its just so off-putting and unsettling
Hey. I loved that you uploaded all the ambient music from the game. But there is one you missed and it's pretty rare. In my last playthrough of the game, while I was in Urdak, I started to hear the music from Urdak AND the music from Mars Core UAC/Hell (but slowed down) at the same time! I never heard it before until I played it today. I would love so much if you upload this interesting ambient music. It appeared in late Urdak. Just before going against the Khan Maykr
urdak was created when the father stept on the univers for the first time and he created the angelic beings wich are immortals in the name of maykers so they can live in a beautiful place and guard it but when father left the urdak they lost their immortality and while they were trying to get it they discovered the jakad(hell's original name). But jakad was already corrupted and there was only 1 valuable thing left in their universe and it was argent energy an infinite power source. when the maykers found that out theh made a deal with hell. their grasping interest in the argent and immortality prepared their end. they and their universe was getting corrupted just like jakad, they were no longer angelic beings and their universe was no longer a place that can be called heaven.
Urdak reminds me of Valyria but if it were still around. Valyria in the ASOIAF lore got really into soul and blood magic, it was hinted that this magic was a pinnacle of their power, along with dragons.
Kahn Makyr: “You have broken the holy seal of Urdak and destroyed everything I was meant to rule” 😕🤨🤬 B*TCH remind me who decided that bringing the icon of sin to such a sacred and holy place was a good idea in the first place!
this track reminds me of a heavenly utopia area being stuck in some horrible limbo nightmare and nobody knows where to go. one of gordon's finest tracks.
This also suits the Orokin Empire from Warframe. A paradise for the elite few, built by the many slaves who toiled endlessly for their comfort, only to be slaughtered by their own creations. Their golden halls forever empty, ravaged by war, Infestation, and looters seeking their ancient treasures.
@@edorasmarauder5761 society 🤡 Fr tho it just goes to show how all of The Father’s creations were corrupted, not just Devoth and his servants. Even the ones that were supposed to be angelic turned to evil when it suited them.
Well that proves there's no good or bad in the universe,not right or wrong,not heaven or hell...The heaven is evil in peoples eyes but they believe otherwise
I've recently finished DOOM Eternal. I hate this song, but at the same time it's stuck in my head. A beautiful landscape, but this music is a creepy reminder of what's going on. It might be my favorite place due to how well-designed it is. Urdak is the only location that actually made me feel uneasy. I fought demons, yes, but the silence and loneliness that came after it was genuinely unsettling. Nekravol was disturbing, yes, but this is somehow worse.
@@burgadahz17 Nekravol never felt nearly as unsettling as Urdak did. Yes, Nekravol had souls being tortured, but Urdak is utterly empty. You would think there should be people in Urdak, but nobody's there. At least with Nekravol there were people inside it, and you knew what it was. Urdak is a completely new environment, because nobody has ever seen Heaven in DOOM before, which is what Urdak is supposed to be.
This ambient is so hypnotizing, when you listen to it, you want to stay in Urdak longer, as if something alien, makes you think that the whole of Urdak was created somewhere very, very far away, and there is no way for ordinary mortals to go there, and by the presence of a portal to the earth there you can only guess where we are now, such a very specific vibe comes when you are not in battle, you just walk around and listen to this music, it is gorgeous, this feeling cannot be conveyed in words, but the combination of Urdak's location itself and his ambient is more than a chic combination
I absolutely loved this track, it's almost as good as meathook and the Only thing they fear Mick's songs aren't good because of how they sound (although it mostly is) but rather because it invokes a certain feeling, Rage, confidence. with Urdak, it's almost like...Fear? Kinda Haunting? It's amazing
Lately Ive felt broken, empty, abyssal soul'd. But this sort of like looking into the nothing, meditating in the void, and somehow being made more whole by it.
@@itisgooddaytobenotdead.5126 Respectfully, I wasnt. I was having a particularly rough day, wrote this as a way of venting/trying to put words to how I felt at the time, and then made the foolish decision to post it.
@@Oyster_ManA "foolish decision", it was not. To cage your feelings is to have them fester your mind. Do not prevent yourself from expressing your thoughts. Especially not on the account of rabble.
Masterpiece of a song esp for this map. Captures the eerie emptiness perfectly. All this buildup to what should be paradise only to see the haunted and hollow emptiness of Urdak.
Urdak and this theme makes it feel like the place is heaven...but you can't help but suspect that this supposedly peaceful realm and paradise conceals a dark secret that was never meant to be unearthed for existence to learn about.
When I first played this mission I like how Samuel Hayden predicted my thoughts when I caught a first look at Urdak and he said “Magnificent isn’t it?” And I was like “how tf did you know I was admiring the beauty!?👀”
“A mind not to be changed by place or time. Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.”-Paradise Lost Urdak reminds me a lot of this quote.Urdak being a place that should be heaven had became corrupted and evil
I'm starting to think that maybe the "choir" is a cry from the absolutely exhausted souls that the Maykrs took. Especially considering that they just harvest souls for themselves and doing so for so long.
What is crazy is the further you play urdak the more you can tell it is slowly getting corrupted, from little hums to screening in the music, the chaos of the blares as demons flood into this…”holy place”. Good job i.d. and damned good job mick.
