/vr/ - Retro Games

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E1M1 is a classic, of course. Blood pumping, subtle changes over the course of the song with harmonizing the riff and the shreddy arppegios.

I actually really do like MAP01's music a lot, even if it's gotten a bad rap over the years. I've always liked chords with chromatic movement, the chord voicing leaping up at the V is the cool, and my head still nods at every one of those tom+snare hits. The solo is kind of a cheap way to make the song feel different when it loops and I don't know how I feel about it just being a never ending run of eighth notes, but it's still good.

The dirty secret with Bobby Prince though is that almost all of his songs are just I-IV-V progressions, and once you realize it, they all feel super formulaic. Lee Jackson is a way more interesting writer (and that's not just because I love his crazy brass), and Stalker is a pretty good example of that. Even with the song being based around a single droning note and variations on one riff, the tension builds really well because of how parts get layered, especially with the horn hits and the swelling string chords. It's just not so predictable and more dynamically interesting than a lot of Doom's stuff.

The fucking best level one music is always going to be ROTT though. The speed, the blaring brass, the blasting drums the contours on the bass, the guitar solo that gets harmonized. It's just so fucking manic, it's great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaB3NXAGIKo