Mick Gordon, the composer behind the both Doom (2016) and this year’s followup Doom Eternal, officially isn’t working on Eternalâs DLC and the reaso
Mick Gordon, the composer behind both id Software’s Doom (2016) and this year’s followup Doom Eternal, officially isn’t working on Eternal’s DLC and the reason for the split is a bit of a complicated affair at the center of a recent Reddit post from id’s Marty Stratton.
The parting of ways stems, at least partially, from the recent discovery that the Doom Eternal original soundtrack (OST) released alongside the game’s collector’s edition was mixed internally by id’s lead audio designer rather than entirely by Gordon himself. A tweet on that realization prompted a response from Gordon, and later a message saying “doubt we’ll work together again.”
After a couple weeks of rising online speculation, Stratton, Doom Eternal’s executive producer, published a lengthy open letter to explain, from id’s perspective, what went down during the entire process that led to a non-Gordon mixed soundtrack and confirming that the two parties won’t be working together on the music for Doom Eternal DLC currently in development.
