Behind the Music with Mick Gordon

Great video.

Mick Gordon is a wizard with this stuff. Cannot wait for a official OST!

To the contrary, I think that transposing to a lower key via downtuning can sometimes take away from the aggression, because very low tones can sometimes have less punch than slightly higher ones. There's a middle ground, in terms of pitch, that to me has an ideal level of intended aggression, whereas it's a more common compositional approach to assume that lower is always better. That said I still like Mick's rendition.

The last song there, I was playing Doom last night and first heard this song I was f%#$ing pumped. I could head bang to that, and I don't do that often.

Part 2:

I love this man, he did an incredibly great job

GoatLord said:

To the contrary, I think that transposing to a lower key via downtuning can sometimes take away from the aggression, because very low tones can sometimes have less punch than slightly higher ones. There's a middle ground, in terms of pitch, that to me has an ideal level of intended aggression, whereas it's a more common compositional approach to assume that lower is always better. That said I still like Mick's rendition.

Agreed. To be fair though, "bigger and bolder" were the exact words he used. Low tones make for a thicker, meatier sound. Think of it as the difference between getting hit by a sledgehammer and being gouged by a power drill.

Anyway, great videos.

I'm just excited for Part 3 now. According to Gordon himself, it's a community Q&A video and it should be up next week.

Why isn't this soundtrack for sale yet? They're sitting on a goldmine.

MusicallyInspired said:

Why isn't this soundtrack for sale yet? They're sitting on a goldmine.

Just Bethesda being Bethesda, I guess. But I'm sure they'll cave in if we keep voicing our need for an OST release loud and long enough.

It's confusing as it would just mean more money for them, and not releasing it will just lead to more game rips.

MusicallyInspired said:

Why isn't this soundtrack for sale yet? They're sitting on a goldmine.

A limited vinyl pressing would be dope.

btw the music contain notes or hidden frequencies or whatever shaped like "666's" and pentagrams

40oz said:

btw the music contain notes or hidden frequencies or whatever shaped like "666's" and pentagrams

http://i.imgur.com/gXhsait.jpg

inb4 public outrage : ^ )

it's not like encoding image-data into music is a uncommon occurrence, really. i still find it funny that people freak out whenever they see a spectogram image with something like this in a song.

also, is it just me getting annoyed by the editing in the interview? why do they change the camera angles back and forth when Mick is talking? was this edited by a bunch of ADD monkeys? other than that, i like these interviews so far.