Music is meh.

[Makima]

I noticed immediately the music was subpar.
Mick Gordon didn't work on the game and the difference is blatantly obvious right away!

From what i could quickly gather, Mick dissolved his relationship with bethesda during doom eternal because of unpaid work and toxic workplace(i dont doubt his words one bit either). The group who worked on doom dark ages is called Finishing Move Inc., a music production team known for their work on games like Borderlands 3 and Halo Wars 2.

Well i won't diss finishing move too much but they definitely aint no mick gordon.
The music is half of the game in a doom game, no mick Gordon, no doom.
Bethesda definitely shot themselves in the foot. Especially since they insta fired Soule(without giving him a chance to clear his name) too for false allegations that were never proved and led to nothing since the accuser was a liar(you should search them up too, their appearance alone says everything), Soule was the main musician/composer in the elder scrolls games and i believe a few fallouts.

And now that they've been bought out by microsoft and what we saw with oblivion remastered cash grab. We can all safely say that bethesdas days are over. Never again will they produce quality games and TES6 is doomed without Soule.

At this point anyone who gets hyped for bethesda games and prepurchases their games can be classified as having the same smarts as a nintendo fanatic.

[Pablo Escobark]

Same I think it just sounds very generic. Like they found a loop somewhere in a few riffs and just went with that instead of building an actual masterpiece of a Doom soundtrack and having it evolve with the progression of the game. I just don't understand. Their budget was massive.

[Multihog]

Music's good in TDA.

[Nihil]

Are we still beating here this dead horse?

[鳳凰院 凶真]

Music is really good. It isn't Mick Gordon's style, becasue only Mick Gordon can make music as Mick Gordon. It's something else, but I would say it's really epic.

[Lord Bennington]

Andrew Hulshult woulda been the perfect plan B. I don't feel like this team know how to make anything but "background music".

Mick Gordon's work on Eternal certainly elevated and punctuated the gameplay (2016 was good, but he was knee-capped by the "no guitars" instruction at the start of the project).

I don't think Andrew hit the same highs of Mick, but Blood Swamp was a banger.

[MegaClaus]

I agree, the Dark ages OST is absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Most ost sound the same. At some point I just turned the ingame tracks off and played doom 2016 and doom eternal tracks. It made such a huge difference.

[Pablo Escobark]

Originally posted by 鳳凰院 凶真:

Music is really good. It isn't Mick Gordon's style, becasue only Mick Gordon can make music as Mick Gordon. It's something else, but I would say it's really epic.

Honestly.. I don't even know much about who that person is.. Them being a single person working on Metal related music makes me believe they're solely a studio musician and wouldn't actually drive a crowd were the Doom franchise to host a concert or any venue that would arguably help sell this thing. I think they made a big mistake here. There are thousands of bands they could've chosen, mixed and match songs from, or just created new ones with to use the music in the relevant scenes of the game but as it stands I don't feel like the music rivals anything that most real Brutal Death Metal bands in 2025 like Defeated Sanity would have composed.

I want to smash monsters to stuff like this. https://youtu.be/JpbaHAnyXh8

[Multihog]

Originally posted by Pablo Escobark:

Originally posted by 鳳凰院 凶真:

Music is really good. It isn't Mick Gordon's style, becasue only Mick Gordon can make music as Mick Gordon. It's something else, but I would say it's really epic.

Honestly.. I don't even know much about who that person is.. Them being a single person working on Metal related music makes me believe they're solely a studio musician and wouldn't actually drive a crowd were the Doom franchise to host a concert or any venue that would arguably help sell this thing. I think they made a big mistake here. There are thousands of bands they could've chosen, mixed and match songs from, or just created new ones with to use the music in the relevant scenes of the game but as it stands I don't feel like the music rivals anything that most real Brutal Death Metal bands in 2025 like Defeated Sanity would have composed.

I want to smash monsters to stuff like this. https://youtu.be/JpbaHAnyXh8

Lol, that would be tonally out of place as hell. The game doesn't have this edgy death metal aesthetic overall, so it would seem off.

[Pablo Escobark]

Originally posted by Multihog:

Originally posted by Pablo Escobark:

Honestly.. I don't even know much about who that person is.. Them being a single person working on Metal related music makes me believe they're solely a studio musician and wouldn't actually drive a crowd were the Doom franchise to host a concert or any venue that would arguably help sell this thing. I think they made a big mistake here. There are thousands of bands they could've chosen, mixed and match songs from, or just created new ones with to use the music in the relevant scenes of the game but as it stands I don't feel like the music rivals anything that most real Brutal Death Metal bands in 2025 like Defeated Sanity would have composed.

I want to smash monsters to stuff like this. https://youtu.be/JpbaHAnyXh8

Lol, that would be tonally out of place as hell. The game doesn't have this edgy death metal aesthetic overall, so it would seem off.

You must be trolling. There's nothing edgy about this music. Admittedly I don't even understand what the vocalists are saying most of the time, I can only appreciate it as another percussion based instrument, but that's also what makes it great for this game, being a monstrous take on vocals similar to that of the NPC's in the game. The genre of Death Metal itself is very diverse and the example of I gave could've been replaced with like I said, thousands of other bands who are what you're into.

[Berserk Slayer]

I think they all have appropriate music for the game tbh, which is mostly decent background noise metal for exciting gameplay. Let's not get too excited about the musical quality of it all but yeah, it's all pretty good.

I think TDA's music is nice. It's also very well produced, levels are lovely and not grating, and they convey just the right tone for THIS game, which is metal walls of distortion intertwined with (and not drowning out) a vibe of 300.

Yeah that's how I'd describe it, Doom's metal intertwined with 300. Slightly Reznorish.

It does that job pretty perfectly tbh.

[opus132]

Originally posted by Lord Bennington:

Andrew Hulshult woulda been the perfect plan B.

For all we know they asked him and he said no. After what they did to Mick Gordon why would anybody risk working for them.

[SH41TAN]

Mission 2 music is just generic guitar riffs over and over and over again. Its not even about Mick, the music is just bad.

[SH41TAN]

Originally posted by Berserk Slayer:

I think they all have appropriate music for the game tbh, which is mostly decent background noise metal for exciting gameplay. Let's not get too excited about the musical quality of it all but yeah, it's all pretty good.

I think TDA's music is nice. It's also very well produced, levels are lovely and not grating, and they convey just the right tone for THIS game, which is metal walls of distortion intertwined with (and not drowning out) a vibe of 300.

Yeah that's how I'd describe it, Doom's metal intertwined with 300. Slightly Reznorish.

It does that job pretty perfectly tbh.

What a bunch of corporate bs. The music is trash, even the most shillish shills agree on that.

[Berserk Slayer]

Originally posted by H4NS:

Originally posted by Berserk Slayer:

I think they all have appropriate music for the game tbh, which is mostly decent background noise metal for exciting gameplay. Let's not get too excited about the musical quality of it all but yeah, it's all pretty good.

I think TDA's music is nice. It's also very well produced, levels are lovely and not grating, and they convey just the right tone for THIS game, which is metal walls of distortion intertwined with (and not drowning out) a vibe of 300.

Yeah that's how I'd describe it, Doom's metal intertwined with 300. Slightly Reznorish.

It does that job pretty perfectly tbh.

What a bunch of corporate bs. The music is trash, even the most shillish shills agree on that.

Nah, I quite like the music, there's nothing to it but preference - but thanks for your opinion on what everybody else thinks and why, it was riveting.

[Adohk]

the most canned metal i've ever heard, ♥♥♥♥ sucks, even tweaker from doom 3 is better