Music Producer Reacts to MEATHOOK - Doom Eternal 

7:32 for those who dont know. This is Mick Gordon's metal choir (where he hired like 20 something metal vocalists) all shouting "KAR EN TUK" in the Night Sentinels' language, which means RIP AND TEAR

Watching musicians enjoy music is one of my favorite pastimes 😊

Cool little fact, 8:07 this sound is supposed to mimic the "Meathook" attachment in the game by sounding like a chain being pulled or thrown towards an enemy, which is what the function of the attachment is in the game

The way people freeze up at the chanting always makes me fuckin giddy lol it's honestly just such a perfect reaction

I love how your face lights up when the chanting starts! Doom Eternal has such an amazing soundtrack, and I am so upset it never got a proper release

I literally listen to this on an hour loop while coding for long periods of time and it makes the experience of typing at a computer feel like an adventure through the pits of hell. Doom music is the best

The way these songs are composed, they're done in bits and pieces. When you're in-game, it will play a random segment of it based on what's going on. Normally, it's, of course, just playing "ambient" music until a fight starts, that's when it really kicks in. The fights are also kinda done in phases, depending on the area. Most big arenas = big battles, which means three phases. Typically, you get the weaker enemies and the build-up sections of the song, and by the time you get the 3rd phase the big drop hits & the biggest demons come out to kick your ass. For some other big battles, they'll start *right* at the drop kinda like how this song does. This song was produced by Mick himself. But, as others said, a lot weren't. So, with songs like Super Gore Nest, what you get is the game studio kinda frankenstein-ing the in-game audio files together. And for SGN in particular, it's a little shoddy & kinda repetitive. Some of the transitions are a little scuffed and don't quite meld together as well. Now, on the other hand, you have the fan mixes. Which is the same thing, most are kinda scuffed, but some are great. As someone already mentioned, Koma was probably the best at this. To the point where Mick would sometimes comment on his videos lol. Koma did eventually delete his channel, but most re-uploads still exist. *tldr; I recommend the Koma version of Super Gore Nest over the OST version.* (Cultist Base is fine, though. Mick mixed it.) Edit: here's the link btw, if you need it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vfoj7t7NZkI.html

Gladiator is another from Eternal that I think is severely underrated, lots of vocals in there too

I hit my best deadlift PR to this track.

This and Cultist Base are my favorite from Eternal

i never noticed, but during the chanting they transition from the demonic language into english, starting with chanting "Kar En Tuk" and then transitioning into english chanting saying "Rip And Tear" very cool!

Hello! Loved the bits where you paused and dove into the more technical elements of the track. Please carry that on! Also if you like game music with a metal soundtrack, check out music from Hades. "Out of Tartarus" and "The Painful Way" are amazing!

Music like this is precisely why you DON'T do your composers dirty. This fits Doom Eternal like a glove just as the OST of DOOM (2016) did. Respect the people that give your game its voice, as it's the least they deserve.

It wasnt glass that broke, that was the meathook chain dropping before the chant.

Respect for your huge knowledge about sound design. Your smile is like sunshine.

It’s really cool to hear you be so passionate about sound design, I keep learning new things!

You HAVE to do cultist base. It's the best song imo from eternal! Great videos

The fact that you just spoke right through the drop was insane. Like it didnt even faze you one bit.

I dont know if anyone suggested this yet, but you should do a live reaction to the GDC conference Mick does, where he goes over his whole method and theory behind how he did the music for Doom. Its super informative and just wicked to watch. Helped me a lot as well.

I loved seeing your breakdown of this! This game has got one of my favorite soundtracks of all time. Another game that has a SUPER good high pace soundtrack is ULTRAKILL! "Into the Fire", "Castle Vein", and "The Cyber Grind" are all really good!

This was just as fun watching on youtube as it was live on twitch!!!

8:06 that "glass breaking in reverse" theory is quite interesting actually. The chant that follows that sound effect represents the main character's past fighting as a gladiator in crowded arenas. So the glass breaking in reverse sfx might represent a rewind to the that past memory or something? Maybe Mick was up to something there 😄

Just found your channel tonight and love your breakdowns! Feel free to pause and explain more like you did in the beginning of this one, because listening to the music theory side of these tracks is so informative.

Not sure anyone has mentioned this but the reason the Doom music has so many ups and downs and transitions is because it is designed to be stripped down and escalate depending on the gameplay. When not fighting you don't want those really energetic parts and when you are in the middle of the chaos you don't want the lulls. What's most impressive about that is, for the most part, the player decides when there is action, not the game.

i feel like flesh and metal or skullhacker would be really cool tracks for you to react to next, the ear candy bits in them are insane

Vega core is one of my favorites from the Doom 2016 soundtrack.

im not sure what the choir are chanting in this song…but i love to imagine it’s the Demons warning chant to all of hell. Letting every demon know The Slayer is coming. gives me goosebumps lmao

that s the music I'm listening for heavy ass training. The music has a power over your mind. by the way in happy to so you enjoying it

The chainsaws are in cultist base and hell walker.the lawn mowers are in the only thing they fear is you and cultist base as synths

There was a track that Mick Gordon did for Doom (I don't remember if it was 2016 or Eternal) where for vocals, he hired like 20 metalhead singers to scream into their microphones to sound like the screams and wails of the damned in hell for a track. I remember hearing it for the first time years ago and it made every hair on my neck stand up and made me super uncomfortable. It was fucking awesome.

Really hope you're gonna give BFG 10000 a shot. Its has such a gnarly opening.

My woman hears the hardest drop in history and keep yapping

RIP! AND! TEAR! RIP! AND! TEAR! this series is so good Em

cannot wait for u to play through this game its like if crack was a game

One thing I would say to try and help you out is the audio on your videos seems about 30% too low compared to other videos I flip through on the same volume level. Had to turn my system volume up to get my DT 990's to produce a loud enough sound for this video (250ohm headphones). Great Critique though. LOVE the doom sound track. its gold. Fits the mood so well.

Hell ya, baby! Im in!

A suggestion for future videos (i've spammed it a lot lol, I know I'm annoying) is the OST for Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus, which combines church music with industrial and electronic to create a truly unique soundtrack. "Children of the Omnissiah" and "Noosphere" are the ones to go to, but the OST as a whole is just phenomenal and unique.

One of the coolest bits about this song is that in the main riff, one of the notes is actually played behind the nut of the guitar.

Yay you read my comments :D

This is what you’d imagine a song called “Meathook” would sound like… Oh and btw, you should totally listen to “Super Gore Nest”, but PLEASE listen to the Koma Mix, it’s much better than the official version.

Totally check out some of the original Doom Tracks - There are a lot of "easter egg" melodies throughout all the modern Doom games that come from the original. Its all MIDI however so that'll be fun :)

If you like the chanting the gladiator ost is perfect and one of my favorites

Just found your channel, so I realize this is a bit late. But from the OST, I believe "Cultist Base" is the only track which utilizes the chainsaw for riffs. It's very modified to sound guitar-like, but if you know what you're listening to it becomes a lot more obvious. Highly recommend you give that a look / listen!

Pause plus analysis! I like it.

Ah man can't wait for Super Gore Nest

EEEEUUUUURGH so gnarly! Love it 😁

I missec the industrial sound in shooters. so I was pleasantly blown away by Mick when Doom 2016 dropped. I usually turn off music in games. The last game soundtrack I really enjoyed was Quake 2, and of course Quake 1 intro. You should definitely give a listen to them if you like the NIN industrial sound.

The chanting in these tracks are actually coming from famous vocalists from bands like Ministry and StaticX. c:

You should really check out the Warhammer 40k Darktide soundtrack. specific songs: Disposal Unit (Imperium Mix) Immortal Imperium Broadcast apparatus OFFWORLD AUSPEX Reality slipping

By the way, if you didn't know the chanting you loved so much actually goes from "Kar en tuk" to "Rip and tear" "Kar en tuk" means rip and tear in Doom's own language

This is gonna sound like heresy, but the *BEST* DOOM track ever written was actually a (professional) fanmade total rewrite of DOOM Eternal's DLC final boss, Fall of Davoth by Geoffrey Day. Basically he tried to interpret how Mick Gordon would've written the final boss track if he hadn't been screwed over by Bethesda, following the ethos with which he wrote both games' soundtracks that sadly the replacement artist didn't... Because it's not 'official', nobody ever reacts to it (I've only ever seen one, by Windmill Full ov Corpses) and it deserves SO much more goddamn attention than it gets. I'd love to see you react to it. He worked with Mick on Atomic Heart most recently, and before that his claim to fame was/is doing Argent Metal (ie DOOM style) covers of various video game tracks, including a lot of SoulsBorne music. Even if it's not for content you should check him out, but god please, react to Fall of Davoth..!

Sometimes i wonder if mick gordon is a "tool" fan. The stripped-back parts between the intense bits are kinda remeniscent of tool, in the way they consistently surprise you with where they're going, musically.

Mick Gordon uses so many crazy things to make music and he's added so many layers that you cann't notice if you remove a layer but they all mix to make this monstrosity. And I love it when your face lights up at every unique bit in doom's soundtrack!

Doom Eternal has so many good banger songs.

HELLWALKER! Do the pause menu music. Not even joking here.

Probably got recommended already but would love to see you react to Super Gore Nest (the 9 min version)

You should try listening to “Harbinger” from Doom 2016. There is quite a bit of buildup before the drop, but when it comes, the drop is so SICK and easily one of my favourite

Nice. Super Gore Nest next 😁

If you listen very carefully, the choir in the back near the end is screaming: RIP AND TEAR!

🗣️🔥🔥

The sound you called siren it’s the chain saw with distortion. The next ones to react maybe could be Cultist Base and BFG 10000(not BFG division). For a walk on the park check “Eternal Gains” it’s a good mix with the best.😂

the vocals towards the end say KAR EN TUK, which translates to RIP AND TEAR.

Sería genial y me haría muy feliz que reaccionarias a Hellwalker del Doom de 2016. Sería genial ver qué opinas de una canción en la cual se usó una motosierra como instrumento musical

dude i love meathook i play it when i play games

Anup Sastry, one of my absolute favourite drummers, has made a cover of "The only thing they fear is you" with his wife, Maru Martinez. She is an amazing musician. If you haven't seen them, then it's definitely worth going for.

You should do Damnation from the Doom 2016 OST next. Amazing and also has some vocals

I really recommend the track “the doom hunter” since you noticed the sound effects in the tracks,its basically robotic sound effects the track

Check out a few songs from killer instinct! Mick did the soundtracks for season 1 & 2! They are amazing!

There’s a plug-in by Zynaptiq called Morph and Mick described “interpolating” the chainsaw into the guitar tone….I’ve watched that GDC talk he did and EMBARRASSINGLY amount times!

you have to react to Flesh and Metal from the 2016 game ost. It uses some wacky, weird sounds that are also crispy and clear at the same time. Highly recommend it for someone like you who studies sound design!

Ultrakill's TENEBRE ROSSO SANGUE is also an insanely amazing track! Definitely worth a listen and ULTRAKILL IS PEAK FPS!

Laughed when she said 'sounds like a chainsaw, I wonder what makes that sound.' Honey, it's a chainsaw. 😂

🤘😎🤘

You gotta do some war frame songs. Keith power hits

love your reactions! youre so cute!!

We dont have violins, we have violence

One of my favorite things to do is listen to Dogma 1 then rip and tear right after with no break between

This track plays during the 2nd Marauder encounter! Taras Nabad at the beginning.

Mick Gordon went hard for Doom 16 you have Doom the icon of sin some other stuff on the sound spectrums just an insane amount of little details he put throughout all of Doom 16 soundtrack. he was only giving about 9 months to come up with this. Mick Gordon came up with doom Eternal soundtrack with only about nine months before release Bethesda tried doing him dirty. It's amazing he was able to do so well with such little time. Yeah a lot of stuff he wanted to do got left on The Cutting Room floor because he just wasn't given the time to do it.

I could be wrong with it being in this song. But I remember Mick saying with a previous song that the siren sound is actually meant to be the demons screaming and being scared of the doom slayer (the guy in the cover art)

Definitely do Super Gore Nest ❤️ It's brutal as all Hell 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Somehow, I completely forgot or never realized there was chanting in "Meathook", it seems like they're saying "Rip and tear", one of the major taglines of Doom Eternal and the Doom comics. As for other game OST tracks to take a listen to (besides the other ones I'd mentioned in a previous video), "Sugaan Essena" by The HU is worth a listen. EA Star Wars had The HU (Mongolian throat-singing metal band) make a track for Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, and "Sugaan Essena" is what they made. EA SW and The HU worked together to make the lyrics unique to Star Wars, but there's also a version called "Black Thunder", which has both Mongolian and English vocals featuring DL of Bad Wolves and Serj Tankian from System of A Down. Quake and Quake 2 have some pretty great tracks as well, being done by Trent Reznor and Sascha Dikycian (AKA Sonic Mayhem) respectively. Sascha also worked on the soundtrack for Mass Effect 3 (all of the Mass Effect games have good artists too, like Jack Wall, Clint Mansell, Cris Velasco, Brian DiDomenico, etc). Alexander Brandon also made some good music for Unreal (1998) and Deus Ex (2000), very synth-oriented. I couldn't tell you what my favorite Quake/Quake 2 tracks are, but for Mass Effect and Deus Ex, I'd have to go with "Rannoch" and "The Synapse".

Transistor Fist from DOOM(2016) is a good one. Hellwalker from the same game is a... different track. Gladiator from DOOM: Eternal is kind of a mix of this one and The Only Thing they Fear is You. Both games are full of amazing tracks. These are just some of my favorites that you haven't covered. BFG Division 2020, from this game, is a shorter and almost punchier version of the one from the 2016 game.

I will watch you break down DooM music all day.

"The Choir of the Damned." Not a name for another song to check out or anything, that's the name that was given to the group that did the vocals for tracks like this one as well as Gladiator and Kar-En-Tuk. Mick Gordon actually went out and hired a bunch of both professional and amateur lead singers from metal bands, brought them into a small studio and explained to them the aim of each track's vocals was the screams of the damned. Ask me, they did an amazing job.

very fast bass notes it was a race of quick reflexes, i played it to e string, its f#,g,g#, also to the same way the guitar to the track if someone notice her sound, Kostis and his guitar wins(ear player since many many years) greetings to all from greece

If you would like to listen to our Croatian music producer for Serious Sam game series I suggest listening to Serious Sam 4's Citadel track, either both peace and fight tracks or only the fight track and Serious Sam 3's Hero either vocal version of the track where he sang himself or instrumental version for the pure music.

I would highly recommend checking out Andrew Hulshults remake of the original doom soundtrack, "IDKFA", very tasty:) He was also hired on for the Doom Eternal DLC music

I think you'd enjoy Prayer of the Diminished

Cultist Base is the one with the chainsaw.

The part where there sounds like chainsaw and lawnmower it is because there is actually a chainsaw ore lawnmower 😂

Siren? I only hear a lawn mower.

It's not a FPS but I think you'd like to check out Killer Instinct soundtrack at some point. Made by Mick Gordon which I didn't really know at the time (was before Doom eternal existed I think)

Potentially an interesting twist on react content but you really should go look at the behind-the-scenes videos for DOOM’s music. DOOM: Behind the Music Part 1 and 2 DOOM Eternal: Soundtrack Behind the Scenes The Game Awards 2016 also has a live music DOOM segment with Mick just slaying it on-stage with Matt Halpern on drums.

Super Gore Nest is prolly my favorite on Doom Eternal's soundtrack.

Id like to see what you think of DOOM 2016s Harbinger

add to the fact the conditions he made this under, its amazing.

Chant: “Kar En Tuk Translation: “Rip And Tear”

You should listen to skullhacker and bfg 10000 those songs hit really hard!

If you're going to keep on with the DOOM reactions, check out 'Flesh & Metal' and 'Damnation' from the first game.