Doom Eternal Composer Claims Soundtrack Is A ‘Nightmare’

in one lengthy, 14,000-word medium post, eternal doom Composer Mick Gordon accused id Software executive producer Marty Stratton of lying around the shoddy release of the official soundtrack and throwing him under the bus as the cause of his poorly mixed tracks.

According to Gordon, they are working on the soundtrack eternal doom was a nightmare from start to finish; both at work on the game itself, including being unpaid for an 11-month period; and later when he claims that id Software made a surprise announcement that an OST album would be included in the game’s Collector’s Edition without previously informing Gordon of any plans for such a project. In his new post, Gordon said he had to work 18 to 20 hour days to meet id’s deadline for the OST.

Gordon claims he wasn’t able to hear the final soundtrack before its release, saying he was stunned by the results of the OST’s “careless editing” and its “obvious technical errors, mistakes and errors”.

“Besides my direct contributions, there were another 47 tracks that were created by poorly merging pieces from my in-game score,” he wrote. “They exhibited the same mindless disregard for basic musical principles that plagued the preliminary edits id Software had shown me a week earlier.”

In addition, Gordon claims that he:

• The soundtrack was never approved for release
• Wasn’t paid until eight months through its production
• Was first informed he was working on the soundtrack eternal doom‘s Collector’s Edition was publicly advertised
• Stratton offered him a “six figure sum” to keep the matter quiet

eternal doom‘s 59-track OST was 2020 marred by controversy. When it was revealed that Gordon had only mixed about 11 of the 59 tracks for the game’s Collector’s Edition, fans noted that the game’s tracks were “flat” compared to the quality of work found in Gordon’s previous works “ sounded. This led to harassment campaigns against id’s lead audio designer, Chad Mossholder, the person credited on the tracks that fans had grievances with.

Coming to Mossholder’s defense, id producer Stratton did a long reddit post in May of that year, when he claimed that a failure by Gordon to submit his music on time resulted in the OST’s multiple delays, requiring Mossholder to record the pieces with the OST’s four dozen other tracks. Stratton concluded by saying the company would not be working with Gordon eternal doom‘s DLC and wished him the best of luck in his future endeavors.

In today’s Medium blog, Gordon claims that he and Stratton discussed his concerns about the botched release of the OST over a Skype call where tensions were simmering.

“After spending some time chiding me for my lack of public support, he accused the failure of the OST to be entirely my fault,” Gordon claims. “I countered that it wasn’t my decision to record 47 badly edited tracks. I hadn’t even heard their last album before it was released. He directly accused me of failing to take responsibility and insisted that I take full public responsibility. I responded that there was no way I would take the fall for something I didn’t do.”

Though he reportedly cleared the air with one at the end of the call and, at Stratton’s suggestion, agreed to release a joint statement about plans to repair the album, Gordon said Stratton chose to publish his widely-viewed Reddit post detailing the lackluster State of the OST blamed largely on Gordon.

“Marty’s post has severely damaged my professional and personal reputation. By posting this statement, I am exercising my right to self-defense.” Gordon wrote on Twitter today. “It is a defense, not an unprovoked attack, uttered with the utmost reluctance after all other attempts to resolve the matter have failed.”

my box reached out to Bethesda for comment.

“This statement is not an excuse for a hate campaign” Gordon wrote at the bottom of his Twitter thread. “Hate acts online will not bring positive change. It only makes things worse.”