- Demons are red,Plasma is blue,When the beat dropped,My empty magazine did too.— Youtube comment about the game's soundtrack
id Software got Mick Gordon to do the soundtrack, and it is awesome indeed.
- Hellwalker
, the glorious menu theme that is based on a few tracks from the originals. - The game's title theme. Take E1M1, remix it, and make the main instrument a synthesized chainsaw, and you get some of the most badass title music you'll hear.
- Damnation, mixing Industrial and Metal with some demonic choir for the perfect soundtrack to the Hell levels.
- Transistor Fist is a fast and vicious track with an awesome metal riff, and bassy synths booming in your ears even in the cooldown bits. Pay close attention and you'll pick up a badass Call-Back to "Kitchen Ace (And Taking Names)"!
- The Beginning, played upon acquiring the Praetor Suit and getting into your first big fight. Welcome back, Doom Marine.
- At Doom's Gate, the music for E1M1, the first stage of the original Doom game remixed and done justice, the quiet buildup encapsulating Doomguy's mounting rage at what the Hell has been going on, just before the rage explodes and the lead guitar kicks in. It's made even more badass when the Doomguy's Dramatic Gun Cock synchronises with the last two chords of the song at the beginning of the level "The UAC". It returns for Eternal, closing out the events of the game with something rather appropriate: the defeat of a resurrected and upgraded Icon of Sin.
- Rip & Tear and BFG Division are standout combat pieces, with the former having some of the most aggressive metal you're likely to hear in a video game, and the latter having some of the most blood-pumping guitar riffs and instrumentation in the game's soundtrack. The former sounds like Slipknot, whereas the latter has clear Meshuggah influences, both also having some Fear Factory on the side. "BFG Division" seems to have become something of the game's signature song, being used in commercials for the series since, and is the only 2016 song to make a full gameplay comeback in Eternal, during the only real fight in the Fortress of Doom.
- Harbinger plays during battles in the Argent Facility, incorporating intense buildup with the blistering metal of the Doom 3 menu theme, the perfect theme to signify the coming of The Slayer. It is by far the most underrated theme of the game.
- DAKHMA is a haunting piece that brims with despair and sadness. The fact that it only plays in Hell after killing all the demons in an area indicates that it's the demons of Hell mourning the deaths of their brethren while fearing they will soon join them. Knowing that makes the song even better as you feel like you truly are a demon's worst nightmare.
- Welcome to Hell plays throughout the Doomslayer's first mission into Hell. Its relentless intensity is rather appropriate for Kadingir Sanctum, which considerably ups the difficulty of previous levels and increases the number of enemies manyfold.
- Mastermind, while not including heavy guitars, is a hellishly intense piece of Electro-Industrial/Deathstep that even incorporates a much darker version of BFG Division, fitting for the Final Boss.
- Hell Guard boss battle theme is just as intense as the fight itself while being a remix of the music used in the QuakeCon 2014 and E3 2015 demos.
- Authorization; Olivia Pierce, the remix of E1M5's "Suspense", which is played when you see the Big Bad in the flesh for the first time. It's downright chilling.Olivia Pierce: You could not have saved them anyway.
- SkullHacker provides eardrum-shattering Djent riffs throughout major fights.
- Cyberdemon boss fight theme nails it as another piece of Industrial, sounding very imposing and outright primal at the same time. When passed through a Spectrogram, the beginning sequence of the song is revealed to contain several Pentagrams and 666'es which tell you enough about all the attention paid to detail.
- Flesh & Metal. Just...yes. It features quite possibly the heaviest and intense metal beat, using Doom 3's menu theme in a glorious way. It's a masterpiece.
- The official soundtrack was released. If anything, the mixes on the soundtrack are even more awesome than the in-game ones, and are broken down by chapters of the Slayer's Testament for extra atmosphere.
- It may be a Filk Song, but we'd be remiss to not mention Hell To Pay by Miracle of Sound. This song is pure molten-metal awesomeness and serves as a fantastic reminder of just why this game is great; 'cause it revels in the hyper-violence and Rated M for Manly set pieces.Keep rushing and a running, running
The drumming of the buckshot pumping
Got molten metal in my veins
(click click boom boom)
Keep rushing and a running, running
A reckoning of lead is coming
I'm kicking in the gates of hell again
BRINGER OF PAIN! - Similar to "Hell to Pay", we have JT Music's rap, "Fight Like Hell". A dramatic, cinematic underscoring begins it, and it only gets better from there, with an epic chorus and rap verses that could compare to Eminem in ability. The song was remastered in 2019.They told me to go to hell! So you know what? I did!
- They later brought Doomguy back for a rap battle, having found him a Worthy Opponent. The song makes it pretty clear who's the winner: Doomguy.Doomguy: I gotta hand it to you, Chief, you'll be my greatest GLORY KILL!
- The Game Awards 2016 featured a live performance of the game's soundtrack by Mick Gordon, Sonic Mayhem, and Matt Halpern. It is every bit as awesome as you could imagine it. As an extra bonus, they also briefly perform "Descent into Cerberon" from Quake II.
- And this is all made even more badass when you realize that Mick Gordon was doing Doom covers back in 2005 for the fun of it. That's pretty much the definition of living the dream.
