Doom Eternal composer accuses Id Software director of lying about the original soundtrack’s failure
The composer of Doom Eternal has accused Id Software’s studio director of lying about his part in the failure of the game’s official soundtrack.
The soundtrack was included as part of the Collector’s Edition of the game, promising “lossless” and “uncompressed” audio files featuring composer Mick Gordon’s music.
However, when the soundtrack was released players complained that only 11 of the 59 tracks had been mixed by Gordon himself, while the rest had been mixed from music fragments taken from the game.
In May 2020, Id Software studio director Marty Stratton posted a lengthy statement on Reddit claiming that Gordon had delayed the soundtrack, then underdelivered, forcing Id to get the game’s lead audio designer to make up the rest of the tracks.
However, in a detailed statement posted today on his own Medium page, Gordon has refuted Stratton’s claims and is accusing him of not only lying about the situation, but also offering him a six-figure sum to stay quiet about it.
Gordon’s 14,000-word statement details his entire experience working on the game, from his initial agreement to sign on until the backlash surrounding the soundtrack.
According to Gordon, Doom Eternal was “a difficult project” to compose the score for, because Id allegedly required him to provide two levels’ worth of music per month, despite most of the game not yet existing.
Gordon claims that the continuing changing development of the game led to numerous rewrites and the need to continually scrap submitted music, and that while he had proposed a different schedule Stratton allegedly criticised his ability to do the work.
“He rejected my belief that the current schedule was flawed and suggested my act of trying to do something about it was a sign of
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