Music Producer Reacts to DOOM SOUNDTRACK (BFG Division) 

Fun fact: every track in both Doom and Doom Eternal is a boss soundtrack. Trick is in realizing that you're the boss every time.

There is a super interesting talk he gave at an GDC about how he made the music. Especially how he built an insane synth instrument that created the sound of the tracks. That man is a imho a genius.

"Sounds like there's a severe storm warning..." The Doomslayer is a force of Nature confirmed

to be honest it sounds like a danger is coming but the fact that when playing the game you know that your the danger it just makes it that much better

This is probably the best edited reaction format I've seen. Almost no intro time, and your voice and the music is perfectly balanced, and when you jump back in the song its instant. You never pause the music to go off on a tangent either.

I beat every single official DOOM game, the music design really drives the player to push as hard as possible, with headphones and max volume I felt the overwhelming urge to pick a fight with eldrich horrors beyond human comprehension. DOOM truly makes you feel physically superior in every way through music alone. I love your music reviews, keep up the good work 👍

My favorite part of the video is around 6:32 where they re-created Doom's original box art, then animated it in time with the song

The mad lad used an actual chainsaw for those crazy synth rips.

Mick Gordon had no business making the absolute hardest slapping soundtrack in history. This man is a freaking genius!

Now just imagine how it feels listening to this AND absolutely tearing apart hordes of demons.

A lot of people don't catch this bit. But the siren sound at 1:33 you hear behind the guitar sounds like a warped verison of the generic "Martian" music people used to use in the 50's and 60's. Like those old black and white films. This shows just how crafty Mick Gordon was when he made this song, being that the majority of the game takes place on Mars. I know it doesn't seem like it, but after a few listens you'll catch it.

BFG is one of my favourite tracks from the first game!

Listening to the music straight up feels like playing the game. RIP AND TEAR UNTIL IT IS DONE! Mick Gordon is on par with Ennio Morricone or Hans Zimmer for understanding and complementing the movies/games they worked on perfectly.

The crazy part is that all of Mick's gameplay music is dynamic and can change depending on what's going on. That's the overlooked incredible aspect of his music.

Can you imagine getting to hear this song for the first time again.

One of the best soundtracks I've ever heard in a game. It pretty much pumped me up throughout the whole game, which usually never happens to me.

DOOM is just the perfect mix of non-stop action and utterly amazing music and visuals to go along with it. The more you play, the better you get, the more you feel like YOU'RE the danger. The demons aren't unleashed on Earth, you're unleashed on the demons and they'll wish those gates never opened.

I think you should also give "Cultist Base" and "The Super Gore Nest" a try!! Also keep up with the good work, been loving the videos ^^

I haven't heard this version is a hot minute. I've been enjoying Alex Terrible doing his demon vocal cover over this masterpiece. Even listening to this, I keep waiting for "Do you really think, I'm afraid of you?"

Definitely go for "rip & tear" from doom 2016! It's my personal favorite of the soundtrack. There is a passage pretty early on where I always get the feeling Cory Tailor from Slipknot is gonna start singing 😂

You should listen to Alex Terrible's vocal cover. They fit perfectly

Mick Gordon is definitely someone to look up to. He and Nobuo Uematsu are incredible.

When a producer calls your music sick 😊 I love watching doom reactions. This might be one of my faves.

He said in an interview once that the little bit of hangtime in the middle of the riffs was to emphasize the snare hit and make it feel much more impactful. Incredible thought process and he definitely hit it on the nose.

You're right about how addictive it gets. In the game, the music changes with what's happening. It's a pretty awesome feeling when you dive into a giant fight and the music amps up right along with the action.

Hellwalker from Doom 2016 is my favourite. It's literally the menu music. Changing settings never felt so epic.

If you like Mick's music. I encourage everyone to check out the Killer Instinct 2013 Soundtrack. Not only did he crush it, him and the sound team worked together to make the entire game completely musically interactive. If your characters just stand there, it starts playing a slow, melodic version of the stages theme. Throw a punch and the music kicks back up. Start getting low on hp and the music gets intense. Do an ultra, and every hit becomes a musical note. It's amazing. In particular, Polemos, Type-03, Warlord (he actually played a flute made out of a human bone for this song!), Inferno.

First time I was playing the game and that crunchy part kicked in I had an insane adrenaline rush. For someone who played the original DOOM on dial-up as an eleventeen year old now playing such an awesome modern version plus this perfect soundtrack was insane.

Glad you noticed and revisited the syncopated drop @6:50, my fav spot! And love the points you make, some fresh perspective for me.

As the entire internet always says about both games. You get a 60 dollar soundtrack with a free game.

I love how excited you get with these videos. Makes me just keep clicking the next video.

I regularly watch DOOM reactions to see again what I felt the first time.

One of the more underrated DOOM osts that I've seen fewer music producers talk about is Vega Core. You should check it out. Also I love how the DOOM and DOOM Eternal soundtracks have elements of horror movie sounds in them with a twist: In this game, the player is the monster

Those shredding high notes screaming over top the base line is actually a frickin chainsaw.

As a metal guitar player, the right hand picking is one of the most crisp things I've ever heard

The Doom OST is fantastic and so well composed. real treat to listen to and it REALLY adds to the game as a whole.

honestly Mick Gordon is an absolute pioneer if it comes to these types of soundtracks

Such a nice reaction! I felt like I was experiencing it again for the first time. Loved your attention to detail, like the number of strings on the guitar, and your description of all the granular ear candy. As a producer myself, it was a joy. Subbed! :)

I always loved the *beep* just before it kicks you in the face. Goosebumps every time.

Jeez! The perfect reaction to the perfect composition. Instant subscriber.

You know the severe-weather siren you mentioned makes sense, the Doom Slayer is basically a force of nature that wrecks *everything* in it's path.

This guy plus the drummer from Clown Core would be amazing. Both seriously talented artists that think outside the box.

First off, this was awesome! Subbed and popping over to Twitch to drop a follow. Second, I LOVE in that last climax with the chopped up riffs the guitar takes the place of the Big F-ing Gun....coz it really is! 😅😁

The soundtrack of a game has never fit so perfect or enraptured me so completely. I get chills every time I hear this song and want to play through the game again!

Highly suggest going for rip&tear, if you wanna explore the mixing part of the soundtrack search for dogma + rip&tear the transition between the intro and the main track is freaking amazing.

Mick Gordon’s OST work on Killer Instinct is amazing as well

I just love his like heavy techno sounds it’s just such a good blend with the metal guitars/drums

6:53 The man really made his drums mimic the sound of a shotgun cocking and firing. That's amazing.

The cool thing about DOOM(2016) is that the music is kinda interactive with the gameplay. For instance when your shooting the assault rifle if you listen carefully you can kinda hear the music playing in rhythm with your shots. And as you fire your guns more and more the music will crank up more and more.

The track "Cyberdemon" from this game is insanely awesome

This was so fun to watch!! I myself as an adhd adult and a huge music aficionado, love skillfully layered music with all kinds of really small yet very meaningful details that wrap the whole thing up, so I can't describe how enjoyable it was to watch someone similarly analyzing all the tricks in Bfg Division as I obviously love it too for said reasons and cause it just slaps! The process of how Mick Gordon created the Doom sound in Doom 2016 is fascinating, the man is a sound designing treasure. I've watched behind the scenes vids of making the Doom soundtrack and its just amazing how much there's going on.

Never heard “crispy” being used to describe music before… I’m here for it. 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Mick Gordon is a fucking genius. While you're playing the game the music dynamically changes to follow the flow of the players actions, so the more intense the action on screen is the more intense the music becomes

Fun fact: Mick's albums cost about $60 and come with a free game

I, too, once had a tabby cat who got really excited and affectionate whenever I listened to metal, or played my guitar through my tube amp with the distortion cranked up.

When you said “awww shit it’s so crunchy” perfect

I would also recommend the alex terrible bfg division cover. He adds metal vocals to the song and its intense

The 100’s if not thousands of muscle fibers I’ve ripped lifting to this song alone will always makes me happy. I’ve made myself better to this song

One of my favorite tracks. Earned a sub.

Omg yes. This is brilliant. Love watching knowledgeable people break down why something works well. Can't recommend the Cultist Base track from Doom Eternal enough as another track to check out.

Just in case: there is one guy, Alex the Terrible, who makes absolutely brainexploding vocal cover for this track. And "the only thing they fear is you" too And yes, doom fans is approaching

Great review; subbed. Hope to see more !

What I always loved from this track (besides a lot of stuff) is that it has two kick drums, a deep electronic kick doing some kind of 4 on the floor pattern and the "acoustic"one doing the fast doubles, it really gives a different feel

There's a deathcore singer named Alex Terrible, from Slaughter to Prevail, who added lyrics to this and did a cover. Definitely worth a look to see how this great piece can be enhanced.

If you want to see something (perhaps) crazier, watch Alex Terrible's vocal cover of this song (yes he added a voice track to this song)

That "siren like" noise you heard come in at around 1:20 is a recording of a chainsaw put through some oldschool russian equa lizer and then pitched to certain keys to be playable on a programmable piano. Mick Gordon doesnt joke around.

The dumb part about this music being so absolutely amazing, is that the devs didn't initially WANT this kind of music. They asked for generic techno-y background music. Mick Gordon ignored them, and while they were knee-jerk pissed, they loved it too... it's still just weird to think someone said "make the music boring generic... stuff".

0:35 . .I already cringing at reaction.. wide smile at gore incoming . . like wtf

So it's one thing to produce a linear track that plays the same start to finish, and it's another thing to produce a non-linear 'track' that is fed into a game system which ramps up and down the music based on what is happening, and even where you are, in the game in real time. And we're not talking just the volume, the whole tone and feel within this theme change. You've got everything from full raging cacophony to throbbing tense sound to anxious murmurs. This produced track has all of those slices (probably dozens PER 'track') that can be blended between, but all showcased in this version which we can listen to absent the rest of the game. Mick may or may not be difficult to work with depending on who you ask, but you cannot say that he is not an absolute master of this craft.

Mick actually used a 9 string guitar for this track and a few others on DOOM 2016's OST (namely Hellwalker, the main/pause menu music where he mixed a riff with a sample of the original Doom games' chainsaw sound). He's friends with the "extreme metal" band Meshuggah, after completing the DOOM 2016 OST he gave the 9 string guitar to the band's guitarist and in Mick's own words "he doesn't know what to do with it".

If you loved Bfg division you should listen to Alex Terrible’s voice over of Bfg Division

Always a pleasure watching music artists react to Mich's masterpieces.

“It sounds like there’s a severe storm warning going on.” There is. You’re the storm.

This music melts my face and I love it!

When you walk into a huge room and this starts to play as hordes of demons are surrounding you the adrenaline kicks in. This moment in the game was pure dopamine.

BFG division is the very first song on my workout playlist, it's amazing

one of my fav things about this one is this "pa-shing" sound throughout that comes and goes.. you can hear is pretty clearly at around 1:57 , i think they add it sooner but its more pronounced then.. after the first time i noticed it i always tune into that particular sound every time now.. i love it. Also have really enjoyed your reactions to this and The Only Thing They Fear Is You.. I would personally recommend Meathook from Doom: Eternal.. and Rip & Tear from Doom (2016)

In my mind i've always compared this melodic harsh synth in the main riff with demons crying/screaming. Love it

I'm impressed that despite the game being released in 2016, there are still people reacting to it's soundtracks to this day.

Em, I notice you use the K240s. I love the sound on these but there is nowhere near enough bass. Do you EQ these?

A similar (in my opinon soundtrack) is the one found in the 90s game of Descent 2. Freaking rocks.

I really appreciate how you jump straight into the song without the typical 2+ minutes of filler for the algorithm. RU-vid needs more of that.

any track off this game is pure gold. look at them all

Phenomenal video,em. Doom is absolutely incredible and the music is epic. If you are interested, warthog run from halo,is amazing.

the constant background droning and whistle tones are from a heavily distorted chain saw revving . the other big track from doom 2016 rip and tear uses it a lot

Literally subbed cause of DOOM reacts 😆

6:11 i believe that is a reference to Waltz of the Demons

I am very surprised that everything you say from 3:46 to 4:00 literally sounded like a rap (Even your "Emmm" in the beginnig). You hit almost all the music shares :D That’s a great reaction!

Fun fact: those 'hang time' moments at the end of each main riff are heavily filtered samples of a chainsaw.

"l loved the previous track" Liked, Subscribed and hit the bell! 🤘🏻

Its always a treat to see someone new reacting to Doom music.

OH oh yes welcome to the slayer club. I've payed doom since 90s great to have you on board! Here's your BFG. And btw that siren is a modded chainsaw

one of my most played albums on Spotify for the last couple of years 🤘🤘🤘

I played Doom 2016 for the music alone, demon slaying was just the icing on the cake 😅

If your surroundings are intact after you're through, you didn't truly listen.

Doom and Doom Eternal are just awesome instrumental albums that came with free games

If you like the chanting from the last one, there is a whole vocal track featuring what Mick Gordon dubbed the Metal Choir. Eric Holloway also does some of the vocal work for both Doom Eternal and God of War. All the supremely low vocals and chants are him. His voice is insanely low. Anyhoo, you can't go wrong with the Doom Eternal soundtrack, but I'd recommend also doing some of the DLC songs as well. Andrew Hulshult, responsible for the Brutal Doom mod soundtrack for Doom 1993, was brought on to officially work on the game. My favorite track he did is the Blood Swamps track. David Levy has some good stuff on there too, like Trial of Maligog and UAC Atlantica Facility.

dude! your cat is HUGE 😆 also, good commentary

The high pitch wailing you hear is akin to 50s monster/alien movies. That 9 string is full custom and was later given to the lead from Meshugga

You should also check out other Doom tracks like: Rip and Tear, BFG 10000, Trial of Maligog, Blood Swamps and Davoth Boss Battle soundtrack. These are my personal favorites, along with BFG Division and "The Only thing they fear is you".