Music

This page contains notes for the game Development:Doom (PC, 1993).

Music Inspirations#

Along with the direct music covers found in the files that were changed over time, there is more songs that were covers of other songs that don't have early versions. Note that some tracks may have mish-mashed other tracks together.

To do: The OS/2 version of DOOM contains the original MIDI files for all of the songs. In the metadata for several of them are their inspirations mentioned. https://www.doomworld.com/vb/thread/135110

E1M1 - At Doom's Gate#

The first level theme in the game has the most notoriously debated theme within the game on where its origins are traced to as other tracks such as D.R.I.'s "Hooked", which has a very similar riff, if not the exact same riff at the start¹. Bobby Prince claimed he was just "goofing around on the guitar" and eventually created a track that is "like metal" without even needing to listen to a song from the genre.² It is also worth noting that it was initially considered a misconception that E1M1 was inspired by Metallica's "Master of Puppets", however as seen in the metadata for the original MIDI file, Master of Puppets was indeed cited as the inspiration for At Doom's Gate, finally putting this debate to rest.

E1M4 - Kitchen Ace (And Taking Names)#

Starting at 0:21, it's clearly obvious that the track was based off of Pantera's "Rise." The main riff is used and percussion is very similar too.

E2M3/Intermission Screen - Intermission from DOOM#

As seen in the OS/2 MIDI files, Metallica's "Fight Fire with Fire"³ served as the main inspiration for Intermission from Doom.

E2M9/E3M1 - Untitled#

Once again akin to the other tracks, at 0:24, it becomes very clear that the track takes a direct take of Mouth for War.

References#