+SmokeytoastProductionz the name for them ingame is Zombieman. Doom Builder calls them Former Human. You can even try it in the console yourself :P can't kill anything using Doom Builder's names.
This is easily one of the most playful songs on the soundtrack. "At Doom's Gate" was rockin' sure, but it was also pretty intense. "The Imp's Song" does have some ominous bits, but overall it's just rockin' and weirdly easy-going. It's as if the game is telling new players "Okay, you've beat the first map and have gotten the hang of things by now. This map's a bit tougher and longer, but you're more comfortable now, so have fun."
Being born in 1992, I saw my cousin play this and Earthworm Jim on his Pionex monitor in Windows 95 when I was real little. Over 20 years later, I finally found and played the custom WAD I watched as a kid. Call of Duty/Battlefield will *never*, *EVER* provide the joy I felt that day. To finally be fighting the exact same demons my cousin did.
To compare: In CoD/Battlefield you fight enemy soldiers/terrorist with similar if not the same weapons using some level coordination as you in various places on Earth. In Doom, you fight zombieman and Demons of many sizes and shapes, some as tall as a building, others almost invisible, many of them throwing fireballs, others using chainguns, plasma rifle rockets and devil magic (who has the power to revive other demons!), with no coordination but insane numbers, on an abandoned base on another planet, and Hell itself. Doom >>>>> CoD/Battlefield anyday. Shit Duke Nukem >>> CoD/Battlefield.
i remember many years back, like a small child we had in the class on the primary school first pc with win 95.... We spend every minute of the break between hours sending imps back to hell.... Now 20 years later doom rise from the ashes and prepared exactly same feelings like i was young.... Thank you ID software... Thank you John Carmack. You are writing history again
The nicest thing about this song is that it is basicly a quite dissonant 12 bar blues scheme (F# - B - C#), but with some very smart features that make it so interesting: The bass is alternating E - F#, then A - B, and then finally B - C#. Which is a whole note distance, but the suggestion in the upper melody (starts at 3rd repeat) alternates between 3 chromatic half notes which are "Bb - Bb - Bb - Bb G# A A - A - G# A G#" at the start which, following the bass progression, change to D# - C# - D and finally to F - D# - E. This creates a very strange, interesting and dissonant movement within the structures of the suggested chords, and makes you "hear" the suggestion of the extra melody during the whole song, even while it is only in every 3rd repeat segment. This dissonance is further cemented by the last piece of the puzzle I only just discovered trying to play the whole piece on guitar: I always felt this song was tri-tonal (like chords), but it seems to only have intervals, as there are seemingly no more than 2 notes being played at the same time. BUT (Big BUTT), then I realized that it is very easy to miss the fact that the Key/Ground-note is also constantly in the whole piece. So at the first four bars, basicly, while the bass is dropping down to that E from the F#, the F# is also still in there on the "second" octave (ambient sound) and this "trick" continues throughout the 3rd repeat progression, which creates the very tense atmosphere and makes this song very interesting from a musician's perspective IMHO. I can't name any other song which uses this trick in the same way, and this is the "weirdest take on a blues scheme" from a blues perspective I can think of mechanically, even though it sounds quite natural. TL/DR: This song has been very intelligently composed! And, I really liked cracking the logic of this song. Been playing it for years until I finally figured out the "hidden note" that is present in the harmonic interplay of the song.
I fucking love reading about the structure of music, I feel like it can help me, to be a better musician, even in my limited musical ability, I can't read music, but I can definitely hear it. I can see it as well, when I see the sheets. I understand what you mean, even if I can't exactly put it into practice.
+Scratch demonstelle, doom the tei tenga incident, tiberuim doom, wild weasel presents NAZIS!. I could go on for hours. Also mark 4 has stolen alot of stuff from the doom community at large as well.
Interesting Fact : Song called Imps song but for all the monsters in the map there like less that 10% monsters actually Imps others 90% seperate in zombies , chaingunners and others .. well
MrDibara It's the same as on certain websites which have videos rated at 69 out of 100... Not sure if good video and rating is stay put on purpose or just coincidence...
When you go to use the bathroom at the store and the lights are flickering EDIT: For those who don’t get it, I’m referring to that dark area/maze in E1M2, which comes to my mind whenever I see lights flickering in bathrooms at stores EDIT 2: 101 likes, I knew there were people not blinded by “nobody:” comments June 13, 2021: Last time I checked my likes, I had 249; I’ve earned 60 more while I was gone. Thanks!
That’s debatable. DooM definitely kicked the FPS genre off, but Half-Life really revolutionized the modern story-based FPS. Not saying DooM wasn’t a massive success, but Half-Life is really the grandfather of the modern FPS.
Gold D. Roger It's all good don't worry, It just sounds like a Metallica song. Much like how everything else in this game sounds like other metal songs.
DraculaXHunter101 Yes ! Doom covers a lot of classics heavy/trash. But Judas Priest' Love Bites has more convinced me as a cover of this imp's song. Like said others posters.on this page.
F# F# F# F#-E F#F#-F# F#F#-E F# F# F# F#-E F#F#-F# F#F#-E B B B B-A BB and so on. F# is the second fret on the E string and B is second fret of the A string. To get a E on the E string simply play the E string without holding any fret. Same thing with A. Oh yeah I forgot, you need to slap the strings with your thumb.
I was introduced to DOOM on the PS1 verison which ofc had a different soundtrack. Then I started playing DOOM on the GBA, which funny enough uses this track for its stage 1 theme. Imagine how mindblown I was when I discovered DOOM originally released on the PC, and the OST was completely different. DOOM is one of the pinnacles of my childhood gaming, and I'm glad it still thrives to this day with references for the OG fans.
I’m currently unwell, so thought I’d take an afternoon nap while listening spa music on Spotify. I was rudely awakened by a relaxing song called ‘Daybreak Awakening’ by Garry Hardman (RU-vid it - you’ll see why). Now, 30 years after its release, I’m here jamming to this beauty. Those clicks are iconic to me and tattooed onto my brain.
This is really good I love this music no matter fast pace themes in doom or the slow ones they are just so good to listen to it just slaps love the doom franchise
This is the one that contains the strongest memories for me. This song can almost put me back in that paranoid, hopeless and scared feeling I got when I would allow my mind to actually enter this horrible realm.
my favourite soundtrack of all time for DOOM! absolutely amazing! so catchy and so so dark! it really catches my imagination while my gun is waving side to side hehehe
Hmm, the Doom wikia page said this Track was inspired by Metallica's "The thing that should not be", it sound more like a cross between Rush' "Subdivisions" mixed with Billy Idols "Mony Mony"
+Vladd Chambers Without having read anything about this topic, I do think that many of the Doom songs were inspired by Metallica and other thrash metal bands. The song that's played in the first level "At Doom's Gate" is almost a complete copy of one the riffs from Metallicas "No Remorse". I really miss badass music like this in todays games.
