Romero unearths unreleased Doom music

by Kyle Orland { Jun 25th 2007 at 2:56PM }

So you think you know everything about Doom, huh? You've beaten all the games on Nightmare without cheats? Played every fan-made WAD you could get your hands on? You're listening to a megamix of Doom MIDIs right now, aren't you? Well we've got some tunes here that we can guarantee aren't on your playlist.

Doom co-creator John Romero has posted these unreleased tracks on his blog with the warning that, much like deleted scenes on DVDs, "there's a reason these weren't released - they're not very good." And he's right -- with a few exceptions, the tracks are overly repetitive and a bit wonky. Still, if you worship anything and everything Doom-related, then, uh, I guess you should start worshiping ... because these are definitely Doom-related. Yeah!

Tags: carmack, classic, doom, FPS, john romero, JohnRomero, music, PC, romero, unreleased

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

2ez @ Jun 25th 2007 3:02PM

All I can remember from the Doom soundtrack is the level 1 song. "Dooo doot. ...... .... .... ..... doot doot dooo doot. ...... ...... ..... ..... ..."

Grammar freak @ Jun 25th 2007 3:05PM

Cheats are disabled on nightmare mode! GOSH!

K2JMan @ Jun 25th 2007 3:21PM

Not Even Doom Music could make this comment more pointless.

Kizzle @ Jun 25th 2007 3:23PM

NEDM?

Really - unreleased Doom music...what Metallica/Slayer/Pantera songs do THESE rip off?

Trio @ Jun 25th 2007 3:31PM

its Doom 3 more scare than F.e.a.r....?

Abscissa @ Jun 25th 2007 4:02PM

I've had that CD for quite some time. The creator, Bobby Prince (not to be confused with "The Artist Formerly Known As 'The Artist Formerly Known As Prince'") was selling it on his website a number of years ago. I strongly disagree with Orland and Romero on this. It's good music. Always has been.

Jerk Face @ Jun 25th 2007 4:16PM

John Romero is a stone cold fox.

warioswoods @ Jun 25th 2007 4:25PM

John Romero! Ever since Daikatana, that name means nothing.

GaryM @ Jun 25th 2007 5:11PM

The original Doom music was pretty good back in the day.

Ourobolus @ Jun 25th 2007 5:29PM

Hm...eh. Woo. Doom music. That was what I was missing in recent days...

Manji Ninja @ Jun 25th 2007 5:56PM

The music in the original pc doom was crap. The ps1 version had a much beter soundtrack (which i play through the xbox360 media player whilst playing doom). These tracks are available at the doom depot on the net, and i'd also recommend checking out Lustmord. His music is the perfect score to play Doom to.