The INSANE Rhythms of Doom Eternal | Jazz Pianist Reacts

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I love how - even if you're not a metalhead, most people's response to hearing that first drop in the song, is pure unadulterated joy.

I'm always happy when Charles reviews traditional Christian music

I really really hate that id decided to treat Mick Gordon the way they did over Doom Eternal. This soundtrack is absolutely magnificent, and it is marred is controversy because the studio tried some shady shit. I really hope that one day we get a proper soundtrack mixed and mastered by Mick. I really appreciate seeing his music covered and gushed over here. He is so incredibly talented.

You gotta love how music that’s basically heavier than metal itself is enjoyed by metalheads AND non metalheads alike

Charles reviewing metal is always a treat

very nice of Mick Gordon to include a game along with this masterpiece.

A fact that makes soundtrack even cooler is that a lot of the sounds are from chainsaws, weed whackers, lawnmowers etc. You're basically jamming out to the sound of power tools. Mick Gordon is just that awesome, It's beautiful.

Okay hearing it in piano form at 6:40, I now kinda wanna hear an orchestral, piano-centric version of The Only Thing They Fear Is You. Lol. That sounded sweet as hell

Fun fact for anyone who doesn't know: the unique synth/guitar voicing that Charles mentioned is the result of Mick Gordon using the chainsaw sound effect from the original Doom and turning it into a digital guitar plug-in. Literal heavy metal

One important thing about the recent Doom soundtracks, they're written to be adaptive to the game rather than primarily as normal, linear songs. Each "song" is a selection of parts which the game can dynamically arrange as you play, so that it ebbs and flows with the combat action. Doom 2016 got an official "album" version release where Mick Gordon himself arranged these dynamic pieces into linear songs, but unfortunately Eternal never got an official release correction: it sort of got an official release, and Mick Gordon released his mixes unofficially . A lot of the pieces you find on youtube are mostly people's own arrangments of the dynamic sections ripped from the game, some of which are fantastic, but some of them end up sounding a bit odd when listened to as a song because they were never arranged that way by the original artist. I still hold out hope for an official Eternal soundtrack release, but it's looking pretty unlikely now. It does make for an amazing experience when playing the game though, the music is not only fantastic but it perfectly scores your own combat as it flows in real time.

4:14 The way he's patting to the exact beat of the song after explaining the theory, it's like the biggest "AHA!" moment ever, I couldn't even figure out the way the beat works

I honestly think Mick Gordon is up there with Howard Shore and Hans Zimmer. What a genius composer.

Doom's soundtrack just fits the game so unbelievably well

Dear Charles, such a cool jazz player dropping the "Stank face" while banging to metal riffs fills my heart with joy.

"it just draws you in and keeps the flow just punching forward" not only a great description of the song but also exactly what the game is about

You just tapping both rhythms at 4:13 is just so impressive to me

The fact that the melody is in Eb Major when you'd expect it to be minor totally fits in with the Doomguy's mindset. It's his psychotic joy in the middle of the carnage.

Even a jazz pianist can't help but headbang and pound his chest to the greatest soundtrack of all time

And the crazy thing is that the gameplay matches up perfectly with the rhythmic focused music. Mick Gordon knew exactly what kind of gameplay he was composing for. And on top of that the music will shift in-game to match what the player is doing. Never have I experience such a harmony between gameplay and music. Doom has such an amazing feeling to it.