Doom Eternal easily makes the list of the best gaming music of 2020, and if you haven’t experienced it for yourself yet, you’re in luck it recently hit Xbox Game Pass. This music creates the ultimate environment for ripping and tearing to your heart’s content. It taps into your brain, releasing a rush of dopamine. However, the music feels at its best within the moment, when it’s cheering you on as you rack up your kill count. In a vacuum, you could put on “Doom Hunter,” “Super Gore Nest,” or any of the other songs previously mentioned and jam out like you’re in the middle of a mosh pit. As you bob and weave through fireballs and claws, the high-tempo drums and guitars amplify the tension, putting you in a mental state that’s ready to rise to the challenge.ĭoom Eternal, much like many of the best soundtracks of the year, go beyond simply having good music.
In the same way a relaxing Mozart tune makes the perfect backdrop for studying, these punchy riffs provide the perfect fuel to match your adrenaline. Its soundtrack plays a large part in creating the conditions to encourage that hyperfocus. At its core, Doom Eternal is precision engineered to maximize those moments when you feel like you’re walking on air. It’s what you feel when you’re “in the zone.” Despite the difficulty, you persevere and pull off stunts you never thought you could. Coined by psychologist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi in the ‘70s, the flow state happens when you’re fully, totally, completely immersed in an activity. When someone rises to a challenge that perfectly matches their skill level, and when the moment feels right, they can enter a state of flow. However, it’s the way the intense gameplay mingles and plays off the chaotic soundtrack that brings it all together. The earth-shattering super shotty, the chaingun that launches a storm of bullets, and the almighty BFG-9000 excel at making you feel like the alpha in every arena, despite how challenging the fights are. The game gives you the tools to make you feel like the only entity alive that can terrify the armies of hell. The most formidable, terrifying thing in Doom Eternal is the Doom Slayer himself, not the hordes of demons that lay at his feet. In this case, “BFG-10000”-like many other heavy fighting songs on Doom Eternal’s soundtrack-make the Doom Slayer sound like the ultimate boss of his own video game.Īt its core, that pure, unadulterated feeling of being in control of the carnage is what this soundtrack accomplishes best. If the song came on during a final boss fight, it’d be a terrifying signal of how big of a challenge that boss will be. It dives deep into thrash-metal territory with a simple yet high-tempo riff that commands attention, much like the Doom Slayer does every time he walks into a room. You’ll slaughter waves of demons while heading toward the planet-busting cannon, and in this moment, “BFG-10000” plays. How? By commandeering a big, effing gun on one of Mars’ moons and doing things his own way. After Hayden tells the Doom Slayer that he can’t just shoot a hole through Mars, the Doom Slayer prepares to shoot a hole through Mars. When it comes to characterizing the Doom Slayer’s dauntless confidence, few moments can top the segment when “BFG-10000” kicks in.
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A perfect song to illustrate that electrifying change is “The Only Thing They Fear is You.” Aside from having an absolutely badass name, this song provides the perfect accompaniment for those moments when you’re cleaning up an arena full of demons. When the octane lets loose, everything gets cranked up to 11. It’s itching and ready to go, much like the Doom Slayer’s trigger finger. However, the tone of everything, especially the guitars, are muted and subdued, as if waiting to be unleashed. To be clear, these may be the “palate-cleansing,” ambient valleys amid Doom Eternal’s many peaks, but don’t expect any lo-fi chill beats to study and relax to. Songs like “Hell on Earth” and “ARC Complex” build the suspense and tension before the high-octane action kicks in. Even the quiet moments between the arenas often have some heavy yet ambient music playing underneath. Nearly every moment throughout the game’s campaign is underscored by the sound of hell itself. Doom Eternal has so many standout tracks that it’s almost ridiculous.
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