The Music of Video Games [305] Doom II

[KnaRRaN1989]

he sure runs fast

[PentruRasaAlba]

What about Custom Playstation Edition of Doom? That did away with the music of the PC Doom games and replaced it with haunting, eerie 'music', and sounds.

Personally I think that's how Doom should have been from the beginning.

[ololo518]

music from 6:30 is very best :)

but still evertyhing here is something good to listen

[Uglimusashi]

When this was new I had a program called Wingroove that worked as my sound (midi) driver it sounded like i was playing to the actual intrumentals of the original songs..... thats about the only thing i miss about Win9x

[Hanyuuuuuuu]

oh my god.......this brings back SO many memories! just wow...

[Eml2go]

all my childhood in 9:17 minutes dude !!!

[CMOODO]

I remenber playing this game when i was like 6 lol i had all the cheats memorized like idclip iddqd and stuff like that lol

[Mirlin510]

6:24 is by far the most memorable for me. Looked this up just so I could hear it. =p

[supadox]

@Mirlin510 me2.

[mistulac]

awesome always like to recall

[tylerdurden3891]

The first song sounds like the James Bond theme.

[RookieCP1]

4:17 es como xa para XO one laptop per child

[RookieCP1]

El rock de la banda de doom

[OrlandoBlooPS3]

My favorite game ever, love the music and great partial playthrough. Enemies are probably saying here he is, and there he goes haha. Probably wondering what just happened to them and how you are gone in 30 seconds haha

[Fingolfin3423]

Yes! Finally wound up on your Doom 2 upload! First time I played this game was at a buddy's house - we snuck onto his dad's work computer in their basement, installed the game, and played it all night. This happened many times... haha! Great times.

[NoMac90]

Well, this is not the DooM soundtrack. It's a MIDI, not even a MUS DooM (and II) used. Getting some MIDIs, playing it back in your favourite Media Player and talking about the soundtrack is just wrong. DooM used the OPL chip, and this is the music people should've listened to while playing DOS DOOM. I've took the time to upload all of them with the SoundBlaster/AdLib sound. But this is just cheap. You should take more effort in your videos instead of making hundreds of them. My two cents.

[microblan]

This game is the grand daddy of all shooters...

[Lexe2009]

@microblan Rofl it's thru, I see my youth flash before my eyes when I hear these doom themes.

[TMNoob3]

FPS for life...

[seriouslyWeird]

you used a terrible midi synthetizer for your video game music videos ... you should have gone with adlib

[thebonefish]

I remember getting a Sound Blaster Live with Soundfont and it breathed new life into these midi tunes.

[FightingWarrior]

@thebonefish

Same here but with the SoundBlaster AWE32, every game sounded much better than that!

[siroito]

Doom 2 has an outstanding music, however, I still prefer Doom

[soundboy274]

Doom 2 music tracks are best!! and better than doom 1 :)

[brukomura]

ah good old times....

[DarkJedi188]

It had better music than Duke3D, IMO. But both games rocked anyways.

[claudito333]

me gusta la musica del doom 2

[10samm10]

My fave level was The Chasm

[hungryandrew]

Man i remember buying this game in highschool, one of the best games I've played.

[bjohnblazkowicz]

6:30 fuckin' rocks

[Rendez333]

The Pit FTW

Its debatable as the best song in Doom 2 considerd by many.....including me

[fumpsee]

barrels o fun man! that was the best one

[Tuxxy87]

Yeah, the music that starts in The Pit is taken from the song "After All (The Dead)" by Black Sabbath.

[SashoMT]

damn man you're good ... damn good, nice vid, how you almost die in lvl 6, i was really tense :D ... and for the soundtrack demon's dead and into the sandy's city are my fauvorite

[Raligard]

I had a Roland Sound Canvas when I got Doom ][. I'm not really familiar with how games sound on FM cards. It's funny because while it sounds kinda weak it sounds cool at the same time, very nostalgic. Awesome. Love the music from stage 9, it is awesome. Level 1 also rocks it.

[romulobr]

I love this song. Marked my life as gamer and as a kid.

I can't hear this without the sound effects of doors, monsters and shooting appearing in my mind! Doom is just that great.

[TheRedBaron6565]

The Super Shotgun is the best weapon ever

[HiroKawazu]

nah, the regular shotgun ftw!

[hungryandrew]

agreed regular shotgun was the weapon, the double barrel, wasted bullets, and took longer to reload.

[10samm10]

In DEATHMACH the SSG was deadly.

[SHKEVE]

Yeah! If a good player had the SSG, it was almost unfair. Still love the sound of that gun too.

[snus666]

I bought DOOM III collectors edtion to the old xbox and it ended up with me just clearing like 2hours game play of DOOM III and the rest of the time i played DOOM and DOOM II that you got on the disc xD

[daveman247]

i know, that the whole reason i got doom 3 ressurection

[Gerteme]

5:55 the BFG appears!!

[Vindicator18]

The track that starts at 2:07 sounds alittle like South of Heaven by Slayer!

[Torturefordummies]

In fact,theses are the exact drum fills in the beginning of South of heaven.

[gaborsama]

Running from Evil (map01) is my fav game song ever.

[mannisto93]

wow. that is one good doom player. im impressed =D

[UltraJackhammer]

The song I love the most from DOOM II is ''The Demon's Dead'',that sounds right on Map 16:Suburbs

[chlorad64]

If u dont have Doom, then u have problems. Cant wait for Doom4!

[kuddel2409]

good ol' doom2....

[coondogtheman1234]

my favorite doom songs are: (going by level names) the gantlet, gotcha, downtown, tricks and traps, refueling base, the pit, spirit world, the underhalls. and in doom 1 they are: e1m1 hangar, e1m2 nuclear plant, mt erebus, theres a couple more but i cant think of the level names but they are in the second or third episodes.

[Boston2George]

This video is awesome!! Just got lost in it - totally mesmerized ;D

[leonenri]

This is the speed run video from doom 2? its so awesome... I think is the best speedrun of a game here in youtube

[nationalist8]

i think that is "the pit"?

someone back me up on that one.

[leonenri]

Idk is the one from the pit. This song belong to the map Dead Simple

[Sursion7]

Song: Sandy's City

Level: Map 09 - The Pit

My all time favourite song from Doom 2

[AlexeiVoronin]

Yes, the music from The Pit starts at about 4:10.

[gosbong]

LMAO "Them Bones" good call

[EvilOstrich]

2:07 is South of Heaven by Slayer. I recognized it from the drum fills.

[hairymike87]

Starting at around 8:06, doesn't almost sound like that song "Them Bones"?

[garudoh]

Holy crap dude, I thought the very same thing when I made the video. I wondered if anybody else would point it out or if it was just me.

[hairymike87]

I meant to say does it. Not doesn't lol.

[doppleganger4827]

Hehe, your right, its pretty close, but I can't say if its a coincidence or not.

[megamanfan85]

to confirm it for you all, the soundtrack for the level "barrels of fun" Isnt them bones however!, ID software purposely made it so it sounded like it due to copyright act at the time! so i suppose it is and it isnt if you get where im coming at

[SilverSoulGS]

@garudoh Most of Doom2's music is music from Metal Bands

[Chechen5]

@garudoh it was inspired by Them Bones

in doom2 it's called "Bye Bye American Pie"

[0pwnz0]

@garudoh Yea, Doom music was mostly inspired by many metal bands like AiC, Pantera, Slayer, Metallica

[OreoTheWolf]

A lot of Doom 1 and 2 music were based off of popular metal at the time.

[jrs42098]

@hairymike87 as so ive heard, john romero handed the composer(bobby prince) some rock cd's to "inspire" him on what to make.

[Dant2142]

@hairymike87 Yes it does, and it's intentional too.

[Wesley683]

@hairymike87 its supposed to be a doom verson of them bones,so it is,

ID Software got the song and put it in midi format like this

[Hellsadvocate]

@hairymike87 The song is influenced by Them Bones...

[PentruRasaAlba]

@hairymike87

That IS indeed 'Them Bones'. lol 

[toonuraccoon]

@hairymike87 It is Alice in Chains, clearly. Also, Master of Puppets is played during Doom :)

[doppleganger4827]

Funny you post this today. I beat Doom 3 for the first time about 12 hours ago, then I started playing the original Doom on the expansion pack. A lot of good tunes here.

[ZombieToaster]

Some people like the music better in those later ports with more ambient music and all i can say is "What have they been smokin brotha?!"

[Krisgebis]

Is there anyway to listen to the "real" original music from old pc games? I'm thinking about when midi was played, before wavetable was common-mans equitment. Everytime I try and fire up an old time midi file, its enhanced through wavetable, but the music wasn't always made with this in mind.

[temujin1234]

Try DOSBox.

[Ruinah]

What you're referring to is the classic "soundblaster"/"adlib" style OPL2 FM synthesis chip that most early PC soundcards featured. Just make sure you enable SB16 sound when you try running these classic games under DOSBox. Personally, I think the Roland MT32 was far superior MIDI sound for DOS games, but the FM synth sound of OPL2/3 has it's own appeal...

[Krisgebis]

I might have already tried that, but now I'm not sure. Gonna fire up dosbox again. Thanks alot :-)

[heardofrvb]

Awesome. I have it on Mac.