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This I can agree with, to a degree. I felt like Linguica's suggestion was far more suitable, especially considering it was a remixed song from the original game. However, they aren't marketing to original Doom lovers nearly as much as they are practically anyone. This sounds enough like heavy metal/music to "practically anyone" and conveys the sort of angry vibe they want to associate with the game to those people rather sufficiently, I would say. The layman doesn't care that the song isn't technically metal and most millenials associate screamed vocals with heavy, hardcore music and thus heavy, hardcore stuff. Refused are revered enough among my age group to be a safe enough choice with nostalgic tinges. This is lowest common denominator marketing. It may speak volumes about the game and its intended audience too, if the visual design cues mixing old and new hadn't already done that.

God damn, people have selective memories around here. Doom and Doom 2 had almost as much industrial and electronic as they did metal, with some more dramatic cinematic pieces for good measure. And no, Morbid Angel would not have worked well with the trailer. Doom is not being made specifically for death metal fans, and while I love MA, I also am not stupid enough to believe those songs would have worked for the trailer or would have appealed to any market other than the 5 guys out there who think MA are still relevant. Get over it and move on, the music choice was not the focal point of the trailer. Remove the screaming and it fits in rather well with Doom's original rock/metal tracks. And people calling it "poser" music. Ha. I used to be one of you. The only posers here are you, afraid to admit you like anything that isn't listed in the "Elitist's Guide to the World of True Metal (contents may vary)". Grow up. Clinging to dead genres doesn't make you appear cooler in the eyes of anyone but yourselves. You're not sticking it to anybody, you're just letting everyone in ear shot know that you are, in fact, an immature dork. Yes, dork is a word exclusively reserved for people like you, an anachronism in itself.

Well exactly, music in games now is dynamic, and so it should be. Ebbs and flows, swells and relaxes depending on what's happening on-screen.

The only metal worthy of Doom is something like Sunn O))): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIR1KfKXH6s Otherwise, NIN-like ambient work is great, I loved the soundtrack to PSX Doom too. While the original soundtrack is timeless, a lot of that sounds kind of goofy when it's not being wonked out by an old Roland knock-off synth. The ambient tracks aged better, like E1m3 and E1M5. E1M8 mixes that metal guitar in nicely, because the metal isn't the star of the show there. It's there as a cheeky compliment to the gloomy atmospheric "this is the end" vibe.