The reason why you can’t tell what instruments are being used is because this madman literally uses lawnmowers and chainsaws to make music.

Doug: "What instruments are being used?" Mick: "Yes."

"I have no idea how you concentrate playing a game with that in your ears"... That, my good sir, is EXACTLY what make us pushing forward through the entire game. I can't even fathom the idea of this game being separated of its unique soundtrack, Mick Gordon is genius. "RIP AND TEAR until it's done"

Watching you explain the music note by note while simultaneously getting the involuntary stank face we all get was a genuine pleasure. Thanks for the video!

One more thought on DOOM: Most survival horror games pose the scenario that you are trapped in a room with a dozen monsters. In DOOM, the monsters are trapped in a room… with you.

Dude, when I’m struggling at the gym, I turn on any song from this soundtrack and suddenly it feels like I can throw the weights through the roof. Such a powerful composition.

It's honestly adorable watching a classically trained musician trying to figure out a scaled chainsaw/lawnmower.

The music actually follows your playing, getting softer and louder in sync with what you're doing. Bits and pieces are spliced together and repeated. It's honestly a work of art. It works amazingly well in the context of the game, in that it basically mirrors your heartbeat. When it's hitting hard, you're in the middle of ripping demons apart. When it slows down, it's when you've cleared an area.

This is my “mow the lawn” song. Rip and tear… until it is done. Glad you’re continuing video game music.

Mick Gordon is a genius. If you play the music in a visualizer it will draw pentagrams, goat heads, and 666's to go with the doom theme. Dude thought of everything.

i think the wildest thing about this soundtrack is that we wrote it in 2 weeks under insane pressure. pretty disgusting how he was treated by the game's producer, i encourage anyone to check out Mick's public address that you'll easily find on the doom subreddit. Mick is an absolute treasure, unbelievable work.

You know you have done an amazing work when a classical music headbangs to your music 😂

Doug finally got to his "Drop it so I can make a stank face and bang my head" phase in his metal journey

Holy shit I love this guy. He drops knowledge, he's genuinely excited about the music. Immediately subscribed.

The fact that people, who are really good at music, are able to hear the key and recognize patterns is really amazing to me. It must be like seeing sheet music live in front of your eyes. Probably like Tetris pieces falling into place. I find this really fascinating.

The chant at the end is "RIP AND TEAR! RIP AND TEAR!"... It's one of the repeating motifs in the game, after the Doom Slayer is given the job to kill all the hordes of Hell: "Rip and tear, until it is done."

Funny you'd mention how game music can be adapted to suit the gameplay - this is in fact a fantastic example of that. The arrangement you hear was entirely put together for the soundtrack; in game it's made up of little snippets that queue up and adapt to how you're playing. When there's a quiet moment, it will play the quiet section. When monsters are coming on screen, it will play the heavier parts. And when you are on a demon-killing murderous rampage, it plays the main theme. It doesn't just act as looping background music for a level, it acts essentially as a score to what you're doing in the game.

RIP AND TEAR is what's chanted at the end of the song 😂😂 looks like you had a good time with the song. Glad you enjoyed, pretty interesting perspective on the music. Great video 😎👍

Watching such a skilled composer be confused, baffled, impressed, and excited all at the same time is so beautiful to me. Much respect to Mick Gordon. Bravo!

"How you concentrate?" As someone here mentioned before, it's monsters trapped in a room with you. This music actually helps a lot, because you can unleash your anger in shots, etc. You know, this music helps to get "in there", in some kind of flow Great video, thank you for that!

The game is incredibly fast, furious & violent in the best way. Without the music I'm not sure I could keep up with the pace of the game. At 63 I need all the help I can get with a game like DOOM 😄The soundtrack is like a big shot of adrenaline!

I go from "ARE YOU FUNCKING DROPPIN' OR WHAT?" To, "this drop was fucking delicious" I didn't know chainsaws could be ti's beautiful

-"how do you concentrate?" -We don't, we rip and tear along with the music 😂 Great video man! Love it!

There are guitars! They're just 8-strings, so they're super low!

Fun Fact: When they brought Mick onboard to make the soundtrack, they told him they wanted a metal Album but he wasn't allowed to use any kind of guitars to make it. Mick's response was " ok then, what is more metal than a guitar? A CHAINSAW!!!!!" Then just pitched it up and down to the notes he wanted

The words they were chanting at the end was 'Rip and Tear'. Instructions on how to play the game - Rip and Tear, until it is done.

I just found your channel and I must say, it's really refreshing to see someone reacting to music who actually has an understanding of music and can talk about it in an educated and technical manner. Too many of these reactions is just a person smiling while listening for 5 minutes and it ends. It's so cool to hear something a little more...educational.

I've never once played a Doom game, but I was instantly taken aback by Mick's music. He knows how to make music that let's you know you're the main boss, not the enemies.

A video game isn’t just a video game. It’s a collaboration of several talented artists coming together to create the most beautiful masterpiece of euphoria and adrenaline inducing entertainment.

This was the last thing on earth I expected Doug to listen to but I'm in 😂

I never thought I could enjoy music like this, which can only be described as...violence. But after playing through Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal, I gained a whole new appreciation for Mick Gordon's music.

I love how listening to this you see his lip curl and teeth clench like he's almost about to snarl. THAT is the goal of this music. Nothing more is needed.

The drop part is hilarious, every time professionals react, they get super teased on the drop part haha

Very astute of you with the analysis of the structure. Doom Eternal has a fully dynamic soundtrack. Basically, instead of composing complete pieces for levels, Mick Gordon composes several segments for various situations the player can find themselves in. For example, when the player chainsaws a demon in half, the game will find an appropriate segment of music and transition into it, then transition to another with the goal of syncing the players actions on screen to the music. It's quite the striking effect during gameplay, but it does have the drawback that you can't really develop a unitary piece with carefully designed flow and journey as each segment has to be able to easily flow into any other to prevent it from being jarring in gameplay. The soundtrack version is an arrangement of these segments into the closest approximation of what a proper piece might be using them, but in order to get the full intended effect you really have to play the game.

Part of the reason these songs all sound a little off in the OST version is in game they are mixed dynamically with different stuff layered in depending on the action going on at the time , so it also has a very ridged tempo so it can be in sync

Another reason you can concentrate with that music is because it's dynamic and reacts to the players actions.

Mick Gordon is an amazing composer. So sad what they did to him.

Doug`s face at 7:56 trying to understand what just hit him LOL. Now you know what it feels like to be a metal head 🤘🤘

The soundtrack made these modern Doom games. It was such a monumental tool for engrossing you in the experience. In the game these tracks actually change and progress based on how well you are doing. Its epic.

I’m super impressed that, as someone who isn’t involved in the scene, you did such a good job summarizing the history, public perception, and even memes about this incredible musical project. Well done.

I have ADHD and this is my “getting stuff done” music! I listen to the whole album on loop!

Really had to smile when you said "I don't hear guitars" at 7:16. Maybe if you have some time on your hands and want to dive deeper into how the DOOM soundtrack specifically was created, Mick Gordon did a really fun presentation on this at GDC (Game Developers Conference) back in 2017: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i5p2gaV-v9nVoo0.html It's an hour long but really interesting, and the topic of guitars comes up as well 😁

Mick Gordon’s soundtrack fits the gameplay so well. It pushes you forward constantly and amps you up without fail

You just made me imagine someone playing Doom on the wii. Thank you for that, it made a crappy day just a bit more bearable. It gave me a mental image of someone having simultaneously the best and worst day possible by living out that Doom meme irl combined with all those moments where someone playing on the wii ACCIDENTALLY trashed their tv...

You described exactly how the game's music works - side note, the track you listened to is a "Soundtrack version" of the in-game music. For each level, the game works by taking snippets of the respective soundtrack and playing certain parts of it depending on what you are doing. The end result is this extremely fluid, seamless soundtrack that sounds like there's no beginning or end. Mick Gordon is a real genius

There is a video by Mick Gordon called "Doom: Behind the Music." Where he explains how he made the fabulous noise we just heard. ;)

As someone who has played an ungodly amount of DOOM, the music fuels you as you just rip and tear through enemies. I had to many times get up and go for a walk. Glad to see you enjoyed it.

The last bit they're saying "Let us in!" so you're knocking on the door analogy was dead on.

'Ludwig the Accursed & holy blade' (Phase 1 and 2 of the boss fight) from the Bloodborne soundtrack is probably the best example I know of for a cohesive mesh between Classical and Game composing. Doesn't hurt that it's also an amazing track.

Considering the game this is from is a fast paced first person shooter where you sole goal is to literally rip and tear demons apart with everything you can find, including your own two hands, you'd be amazed how much a song like this gets you in the zone in the midst of the chaos.

The DOOM Soundtracks are actually essential to the gameplay itself. You asked "How do you concentrate while hearing this?". Doom is all about flow and reaction, it is not the atypical shooter of hide, shoot, move, repeat. It is a game of constant movement and split second reactions with little time for actually thinking. In comes the flow state. By creating the rhythmic flow that gets blood pumping and creates the same adrenaline rush that the character would be feeling helps to build the immersion and power through an impossible situation while letting second nature and instinct take over. You can see the same with athletes and others when they are training and in the gym. Takes the mind off the pain and peril ahead allowing the body/mind to power through in the moment.

The music is something else when you're playing as it changes based on how much carnage you are unleashing.

E1M1/At Doom’s Gate should absolutely be next, it’s commonly thought of as THE Doom theme. Make sure to check out the original version, even though the 2016 version of it is sick as well. Might even be cool to see your reaction to just how different they are.

So that "aggressive bass" you were referring to is actually a 9 string guitar. You are right about the electronic and industrial aspects though. Mick used what he dubbed the "doom instrument", which is a very specific signal chain coming from a synth, which dynamically adds to whats put through it based on input. Mick did an entire conference over the ost to doom 2016, at GDC, that goes into more depth on the specifics of the production techniques he used. Also, if you do any further songs from doom eternal, i would highly recommend looking for "koma's mix", since the official soundtrack was bungled by ID, the devs, and was generally a very low quality release. Koma was a youtuber who did very high quality mixes of the original stems, some of which mick gordon helped him on.

The voices in the end where chanting "RIP AND TEAR"

Its just constant adrenaline when the music kicks in. "RIP AND TEAR, RIP AND TEAR" were the lyrics you were hearing

I had the honour of being able to gift Mick an effects pedal. Even though I've never met the guy and didn't expect anything in return, I ended up with a signed copy of the original soundtrack a few days later. One of the most underrated composers of our time, and one of (if not the only) video game composers that a very, very decent proportion of the public knows by name.

"The Only Thing They Fear is You" is the notable example of music which fits absolutely perfectly to its game. Other examples being "Hell March" for the Command'n'Conquer series and "Dragonborn" for Skyrim. "Hell March" (seek first or second edition, not the goofy third one) was composed by a living legend of game music Frank Klepacky, in the March he literally played the clang of tank tracks with music. "Dragonborn" unlike most other game songs was orchestral from the beginning, you might like it.

On "I need to phone a friend" with that music in my ear. to put some context down, it's violence, the sound and music wants you to violence everything that's in your path. Imagine the angriest person ever, and that's the music that plays in their head when they introduce the foe to god's wifi suddenly and brutally. So this music is essentially just written for you to choreograph how you do this sort.

It fills me with sheer child-like joy when I watch someone have a great reaction to something so hard and so amazing. Just their "oh damn" expressions gets me every time.

Its an extremely intense game that demands total focus. A sensory overload in all the right ways. The music fits right in when you're in the right mindset to smash your way through hordes of demons

The sound you described as a "heavy base" in the beginning is actually an 8 string guitar, the composer Mick Gordon just tuned that thing super low and threw on a bunch of effects and distortion. Absolutely brutal tone.

He thought that was bass in the beginning. How adorable. 😁

The GDC talk he does on this is great and well worth checking out how some of the sounds were made

10:56 The music fuels my gameplay, it drives me, gives me the life and energy I need to push through and, as the chant says at the end, "RIP AND TEAR!"

If I'm not mistaken, I'm not sure if it was specifically for DOOM 2016 or Eternal or both, but they specifically asked Mick to avoid obvious guitars, because they wanted "heavy metal" but it needed to sound more unique (and alien). Mick's answer to that was to use basically everything _but_ a guitar to sample, then used them as the "guitar" riffs. Chainsaws, lawnmowers, etc :D I think they did give him the go-ahead to use guitars later on, so maybe that was only for 2016? But super impressive and creative work from Mick, the whole OSTs are incredible. edit, found it: "the soundtrack for Gordon’s first DOOM title was unique for a few reasons: firstly, id and Bethesda’s original brief for the soundtrack forbid the use of guitars. They wanted an entirely synth based soundtrack to set this new DOOM apart from its predecessors. Then, slowly but surely, Gordon convinced the team to let some guitars onto the soundtrack. And then more guitars. And then we arrived at masterworks like “The BFG Division”."

If I may add something that I believe no one mentioned; it isn't just that a level might end short or that the music can loop - for many games and for Doom for sure, the soundtrack is made from "stems" that follow a theme and leitmotif for the level, but these stems are interpolated and played depending on your actions, depending on when you shoot, how you shoot, what enemies are around etc., the soundtrack is always changing in response to your actions. This is a major part of how Mick Gordon and id fell out - the game was done and the soundtrack was done, but since the soundtrack is so reactive they weren't "songs" *per se*, which meant that for Mick to master and release the OST as an Album, which the studio wanted (and I believe Mick wanted as well) it was "taking too long", so they got someone else to master it as tracks/songs. So what came out as an album is an attempt to condense hundreds of miniature pieces into one single structure, while in the game those lulls and drops and key changes are all done in response to what the player is doing, so the "narrative" of the song as a whole is always perfectly matched to the story of how YOU went through the level/combat section/boss etc. In the end, "living" and actively "making" the soundtrack while you play is a complete different experience than listening, both are awesome of course, but Gordon's genius is felt MUCH more deeply in-game. There is here on youtube a fan made master of the tracks that "feel" more like the intent was behind the tracks.

For reference, it's an 8 string guitar. Gordon also put together a "heavy metal choir" - look that up for a fun read. Also, when you mouthed "THEY'RE MESSING WITH ME" waiting for the drop....bro, the kinship I felt with you at that moment xD And lastly, the music helps up RIP AND TEAR.

Doom's music is nuts and completely suits the game. Play the song Cyberdemon on a spectrogram... fun stuff.

Time for “One Winged Angel” from Final Fantasy 7. I’d recommend the version from the Advent Children movie. Perfect blend of classical, prog rock, and metal. Absolute classic

The headbanging @6:20 was amusing. One of the best metal instrumentals out there for a game and general music

Rip and shred is what they were saying at the end and you were totally spot on about the way the song works while playing the game.

Cuántos hispanohablantes vienen a escuchar al doctor Helvering por su absoluta claridad y precisión al hablar? Es el uno de los angloparlantes más claros que he escuchado en YT 😊

It is an extended ranged guitar (8 string) but with layers of synth on top. Modern metal has started to really love how full this makes a guitar sound. It has become pretty common in large part due to the Doom OSTs influence.

As for the lyrics, it's worth pointing out that Mick Gordon put together a "Heavy Metal Choir" for the OST. That guy is a genius. And a madman. I love him

I loved this video! Huge DOOM fan and watching you work out all the how’s/what’s of what just happened in this song was amazing!

10:50 you concentrate by sinc the tempo of the song with your bullets jumping and killing demons. its a great feeling. Amazing vid!

The music is what helps drive the gameplay. That's the beauty of it! Without it the game, while still fun, wouldn't drive the player to keep taking down enemies constantly. This music is basically focus fuel for this type of game.

The demonic chorus at the end was saying, "Rip and Tear"; this is a key theme in the Doom games. You had questioned how one would play the game with this music blaring in your ear: Doom has a major rhythm and timing component to it. You move yourself through the enemies as they behave in specific patterns, and the rhythmic pulse is meant as much to help you track the passage of time and the approximate location of enemies outside of your direct field of vision, as it is to simply sound cool. What usually happens in the flow of combat is that you thin out the small fry, which leads to the larger enemies that you take out when you have the space to move again.

You've just earned a subscription from me! I LOVE seeing (and hearing, in this case) reactions from people who understand the important and key concepts of what is being discussed; it's a genuine pleasure to see you describe the musical theories that are being implemented in this piece!

I played Doom 2016 (as well as Doom II back in the day), and this music is almost required to rip and tear. The violence and speed mesh exceptionally well with the game play.

The unique thing about the music for the recent Doom games is how it dynamically changes depending on your actions in the game. You really get a whole new experience when you are playing the game and listening to the music change. I believe Mick Gordon specifically wrote and arranged the soundtrack in such a way that it could be chopped up into bits that fade into each other as you move in and out of combat.

i genuinely love watching the reactions to all the ppl that studied music in different ways breakdown/dissect the doom songs. Not one video iv watched is someone coming in disappointed, just headbobs and genuine interest. Stay awesome! :D

Wow. This fellow is a professional. I haven't seen someone do this much research since college. I loved the transition from professional to head banger. Seeing Dr. Helvinger dive so deep into the song was a pleasure to watch. I was head banging along with you, my good sir.

Your comment about "how do you even concentrate" while playing a game with music like this playing is spot on for me. I don't know about others, but there are some times in games where I'm so caught off guard by the music, or so distracted by how incredible it is that I perform worse in the game. This has happened to me more than once during boss fights in Final Fantasy XIV. Sometimes I need to pause games just to enjoy the music because I'm so distracted by it. A good problem to have!

Ludwig, The Accursed & Holy Blade from Bloodborne would be a great one to check out for a more classical take.

15:00 as other people have said, this is actually a special kind of music that only happens in interactive media. It's often referred to as a dynamic score. Most game's dynamic scores are like Doom Eternal's, where there are different layers and the game will dynamically switch layers based on what is happening in the game (due to the player's involvement of course). Usually these layers are all the same tempo and everything, but there are some games like Rabbit and Steel that have pulled off dynamic tempo changes really really well.

I think you would really appreciate the talk Mick did for the GDC, where he talks how's the process of making the music for the game, the different challenges it took and how even a chainsaw was used as an instrument for the OST

Oh, welcome to Video Game Music! Honestly, it goes *extremely* hard for no reason. I love the breakdown between concert and game but gaming is actually a whole adventure! It's very hard to capture most modern video game soundtracks in a, well, track because they are largely dynamicly integrated nowadays. What I mean is the music is actually built in isolated parts and there is an array of coding that goes into determining what plays when/where/why which prevents it from being a track that just...ends or repeats? (Doom Eternal actually does this very well.) Some game music is extremely complex, some of it less so, but since about 2010 the score has been a hugely involved piece of the game that reacts to your actions. I'd love to share insights if you like, but this is already gonna be a super long comment. (There are many games on the Wii that employ this sort of music, particularly the Zeldas.) If you are still taking suggestions: 1. Undertale. You can't possibly go wrong with the Undertale soundtrack. Literally no choice is bad. Undertale is an indie game produced entirely by one guy, every song is a banger of overlaid themes/leitmotifs in largely 8-bit style. I don't think they're fully dynamic but, I mean, understandable, no one person has that kind of time and energy. If anyone did, though, it would be Toby Fox. The whole soundtrack for Undertale was composed in a 24-tone system and the timescale jumps frequently between 4/4 to 5/4 to 6/8. Breaking it down is mind bending. "Megalovania" - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mZuUlKqLnpy1d4k.html is *easily* the most famous of them, but they are all very distinctive. "Hopes and Dreams" found here is a great blend of the 8bit and more orchestral sounds: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/quBoZduTsdyvj58.html "Asgore" is a good example of how the In Game Experience is very superior to just listening to a score track: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g756g8qdmJ_JqIE.html (A Pacificst run, because the music does shift if you are not a Pacifist.) Versus the same track on the OST: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nrORZ8uLtsjWnac.html (This is an excellent example of how the parts of the score can loop and are timed to match in game events.) 2. Portal. Perhaps the best techno soundtrack ever made was for Portal 2, a game where you are trapped in a defunct R&D facility being put through athletics courses by an AI who hates you (passive aggressively and regular aggressively). All the songs are very different, but not one of them is less than an absolute banger. This is "The Courtesy Call" the very first track of Portal 2's OST: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ettzacmisJfXp4U.html The most popular song is from Portal 1, that plays over the end credits. The AI who hates you sings a very lovely little ditty ( kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j5ycnamSsLi4on0.html - 15 years old, wonderful) . She does the end credits in the sequel as well ( kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mryGjcSLnd-zZqM.html ). 3. Pokemon Sword and Shield, The Gym Battle Theme - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p9uJnbFmnLrdk5s.html - Stay with me here, but this is a piece of art. This battle theme was a dynamic series of overlapping parts that change depending on how you're doing in the fight. Extremely hype to terrifying as your health drops, to the crowds cheering as they watch. If you want variety of game music that falls in a more classical/orchestral vein: 4. Shadow of the Colossus (2005) is one of the best scores I've heard in either games or movies. It is a game that has maybe a page a dialogue in total, and is about you, a tiny guy with a sword, who has to track down and slay these giants the size of skyscrapers. It is told almost entirely through the orchestral score which is not exactly dynamically integrated, but it was the PS2 so.... The opening ( kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hsqZZKeE1qi-ZoU.html ) is haunting as you proceed into...??? Somewhere? The land of the dead? Who knows?? The skyvoice that speaks to you in a great temple is underscored with this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gK56i9xoktHXiHU.html When you track the colossus: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJyfpMd6krXIpH0.html And the fights all have different music but they're each fantastic: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aZx9YLGoqqy3f5c.html 5: Dragon Age - Particularly Inquisition, as the music was arranged to change constantly based on what you're doing. The whole soundtrack is...difficult to encapsulate because of how it works in game, but it is beautiful. People much more dedicated than I have gone through the files to find and label all the parts of the songs and track their flags, but the OST is a decent representation: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aNmpiJaWl7OziIE.html Lost Elf - The culmination of a 60 hour game's worth of overlapping leitmotifs. It is preceded by these two songs (depending what you're doing) and extensive, grueling combat as you race to catch up: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atSaiKZhzNWWdas.html and kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aNV5arljq7_SknU.html

The voices at the end say “Rip and tear”. It comes from a quote at the beginning of the game that says “Rip and tear until it [the fight] is done.”

You are absolutely awesome. Very few review channels truly push very far beyond their own horizons, but you react to absolutely anything. And you do so with intelligent commentary and make your viewers feel welcome. You, sir, are an absolute gem.

Hello Doug! This is my first video watched and I loved it! If you are looking for another game with amazing music, then you need to listen to the Halo soundtrack. It is my personal favorite! There are a bunch of games, some with a different feel. The older ones were composed by a Martin O'Donnell and Michael Salvatori. A completely different sound than Doom, but you might be more used to the sound of Halo. Other games with great music: Mass Effect trilogy Assassin's Creed 2 BioShock Infinite Destiny Skyrim The Witcher 3 Far Cry 5 (in my opinion)

Saw the Virgil video, came straight looking for a doom reaction! Couldn’t of timed this more perfectly

As someone who grew up playing classical piano and cello, I was always impressed by the technicality of a lot of metal music.

So KZfaq suggested this video to me, and I didn't know what to expect. But I am so happy I watched this. It warmed my heart to see how much you got into this song. Great commentary as well. And to answer your question as to how someone plays to this music - the music makes you play better.

From what I understand Mick used an 8 string guitar in Drop E and a drum set, the rest was all electronic manipulations using sounds from chainsaws and lawnmowersand other heavy sounds. Its just insane how good he is.

There's a lot of other requests for his fantastic Doom work but I would put forward some of his prior work on Killer Instinct as more interesting music to break down. It really highlights his ability to work across genres, styles and even cultures. Sabrewulf's Lycanthropy with its haunting string section that sounds like demented cellos. Aganos's Polemos, the phrygian mix of heavy guitar tones against a sitar with Greek chanting. Jago's Tiger Warrior, where Mick learned throat singing for a theme about a Tibetan monk. Thunder's Hinnamatoom, a flute heavy mix that was made in conjunction with the Nez Perce tribe. Spinal's Warlord, where Mick acquired a kangling (a flute like instrument made out of a human tibia) to complete the swashbuckling nightmare. All these songs have their own unique version of the main theme's motif hidden within them.

The music is dynamically timed to the combat, so if you let's say take extra long to kill Boss A, then certain simple sections of the song will intentionally repeat longer than it would normally so that the breakdowns, low points, etc are always timed to the moments the developers want them to be. This is unique even in video games, where tracks typically are tied to specific cutscenes in the game, or just repetitive loops to create some background. Dooms music genuinely is checking your actions in game to ensure the soundtrack is always perfectly matched to your carnage. Brilliant sound design.

For a lot of us this is our relaxation music.

I'm so happy you actually reacted to this! I hope you liked the theme, despite this not being your usual type of music. Fun fact, some of the sounds in the DOOM soundtrack are sampled from a real chainsaw. To the question "how do you concentrate with this in your ears?" the answer is "we don't concentrate, we just blast through"😂 Though you're right, gaming themes are meant to build the atmosphere of either a location, a character, or a boss battle. The aim of the composer, is to create something that can accompany the player through what the game is intended to portray and has to make it credible enough, so that the player is also driven by what the music expresses, especially with tracks like this, which are meant to hype you up. What I love about gaming music is that it can tell stories effectively with or without lyrics. It's like a modern opera or a concerto, if I may say so.