Doom 2016 Composer Mick Gordon Is Performing the Game's Soundtrack at a Music Festival for the Very First Time

Mick Gordon, the composer of Doom 2016’s award-winning soundtrack, is taking the game’s euphony tp a festival for the archetypal clip ever — and he’s bringing the Doom Machine with him.

Doom 2016 acceptable the modular for the iconic shooter’s philharmonic profile. Famously sampling existent chainsaw noises to propulsion disconnected the unsocial guitar riffs that made the game’s soundtrack truthful famous, Gordon’s unorthodox methods person earned him a spot successful the highest pantheon of gaming legends.

Now, Gordon is bringing the euphony helium composed for Doom 2016 and 2020’s Doom Eternal connected tour, marking the precise archetypal clip the soundtracks person been played by a unrecorded set for a unrecorded assemblage successful a full-fledged performance (not counting the abbreviated medley of Doom's tunes helium performed astatine The Game Awards successful 2016).

Gordon and co. are acceptable to header RADAR 2027, a euphony festival based successful Sheffield, UK that's focused connected modern tunes, tech-metal, and progressive rock. Gordon himself volition beryllium performing the tracks alongside the band, with RADAR announcing the quality successful an Instagram station successful precocious July. “This isn't a DJ set. It isn't a tribute. It's the euphony that redefined video crippled soundtracks, performed live, decently loud, precisely arsenic it deserves. Mick has ne'er performed this euphony unrecorded similar this,” the station reads.

It’s been 10 years since Doom 2016 came retired and subsequently enactment each metallic instrumentality successful a chokehold, and six years since Doom Eternal added to the hype with adjacent much euphony from Gordon’s magnificent philharmonic mind. He’s wanted to execute these soundtracks unrecorded for immoderate clip now, and says RADAR has yet provided him the accidental to marque this imagination a reality.

“For a agelong time, I’ve wanted to instrumentality what I emotion astir video crippled euphony and enactment it into a unrecorded mounting that matches the vigor you would get from a unrecorded stone oregon metallic show,” helium said successful an interrogation with GameSpot. “Radar feels similar the implicit cleanable [festival] to bash it. There’s nary better.

“Ever since Doom 2016 … there’s been rumblings and aggregate attempts to effort and get immoderate mentation of this into a unrecorded setting. I’ve been trying for a fig of years to get this happening disconnected the ground. Then retired of the bluish Joe [James, Radar Festival organizer] came to maine with a truly awesome accidental done Radar.”

Gordon besides confirmed that he’s bringing the Doom Machine with him to these performances, an instrumentality helium famously crafted each connected his ain to bring the sounds of Hell to life. “We’re looking astatine each options to marque it epic,” helium told Gamespot. “Fire, screens, projection mapping are each connected the table.”

RADAR euphony festival takes spot from July 30 - August 1. While he’s surely excited astir performing his euphony unrecorded adjacent year, his narration with Doom Eternal’s improvement squad astatine id Software remains a tenuous one, and nary updates regarding their nationalist falling-out person been shared astatine the clip of writing, making the method rights of this performance a wee spot confusing.

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