OCR00825 - Doom II 'Blood Bath'

[Ginnsu]

Doom 2 'Blood Bath'

This is an interesting piece of music. Not half as spooky as Ghetto Lee Lewis (http://remix.overclocked.org/detailremixer.php?mixerid=215)'s orchestral instrumentation for "Friday the 13th Panic at Camp Crystal (http://remix.overclocked.org/detailmix.php?mixid=OCR00824)" but it's got a creepy theme all the same. I love Mazedude's use of guitars and panning. The organ is definatly the main source of the creepy feel in this one, but the other instruments are definatly not lacking in that respect. I would have to say that I think this is probably Mazedude's best work here on Overclocked. Excellent work Mazedude.

[bloodydust]

this is definitely a good remix of adrian's asleep, from... crud, i forget... bloodfalls, dunno the map number. probably one of the better doom2 remixes i've heard (although some of the stuff at kinkiness.de (http://www.kinkiness.de) was pretty cool). the intro sort of makes me think of iced earth's burnt offerings... although that could be because i'm obsessed with that band :P

[Jogilius]

this is definitely a good remix of adrian's asleep, from... crud, i forget... bloodfalls, dunno the map number.

I don't hear anything from the bloodfalls level (level 25 by the way) but at least in the end this sounds like the Pit -level. Anyway, didn't really like this mix. Too unrecognizable. And I know my doom, you know. ;) Actually I still haven't bumped into a really good doom mix.

[Mazedude]

Silly rabbits, I used a LOT of Doom 2 themes in this one. 'tis a Medley of sorts. Kinda my little game here to see if anyone can correctly count the number of levels I worked into the mix. Go for it.
-Mazedude

[Neb]

I hear some Doom 2 in this one, though not too much. I don't really care, however, as the remix totally kicks ass :D It starts slowly, lightly then fluidly glides into the heavier parts. It gives me the mental image of some immense, dark, tunnelly place, and a couple of explorers with only flashlights to light their way. Slowly exploring the mysterious place, first full of wonder and questions, then realizing what they've stumbled upon.... Dunno, I might just be wierd, but that's what I see if I close my eyes while listening to this :D

[ella guro]

Silly rabbits, I used a LOT of Doom 2 themes in this one. 'tis a Medley of sorts. Kinda my little game here to see if anyone can correctly count the number of levels I worked into the mix. Go for it.
-Mazedude

I seem to be the only one who recognizes the themes!

Anyway, I wouldn't say that this is Mazedude's BEST OCRemix, but I do think it strikes a good middle ground between something like Barrels O Fun and something somewhat softer and more subdued. This is really truly his best Doom remix though...it combines industrialism with muzak with techno with just about all styles in an all out medley...you can just tell that so much work was put into all the technical and musical elements of this remix.

In short, it's very very good.

EDIT: I think I've found 7 or 8 DOOM2 themes in it. But I can't decide about some of them, so it might be less than that.

[Ryan8bit]

I don't think I ever played Doom 2, so I don't know which tunes they are. Regardless, I do like this mix, and I would say it is one of Mazedude's better vg arrangements. Don't have any nits to pick or anything to say besides that I loved all the pieces.

[littlemouse]

I love this song :D i love in how all the music comes together and just makes one hell of a good song! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: and this song is very sweet.

[ZeroRyoku]

Awesome song, just like every other mix he's done.
I wasn't even able to identify a single song.. And I call myself a doom fan. =P
Anyway, MazeDude, you rock. Keep it up!
- Z.R

[Slackbot]

I'm a dedicated DOOMer, and I only recognized parts of this. No matter - it's a good piece by itself. That it's got DOOM themes is just gravy. Very tasty gravy.

[DJ DeFlanko]

wow... nuff said.. if your not a classic first person shooter then you will be... in all due time... loop this song and you will be...

[Lord Althrain]

Doom is one of the FEw shooters that i play and i found this remix to be... like a way point to the game . i loved it very much and shall be a honored piece in my folder of remixes that i have. i must condone proper props to the person who did this remix

[ScottPeeples]

I just want to say this mix is most excellent, and I feel it captures the feel of the Doom franchise much more than my Doom mix.

Great work, that is all.

[ryckster]

Mazedude, I wanted to ask you: Why did you blemish your work by inserting a clipping noise at around 2:15? I could be mistaken, but it sounds like those clipping noises you hear from mp3 commercial songs downloaded from public P2P networks.

I really enjoyed your medley, but I was wondering if you did that on purpose.

[mDuo13]

Wow. I must say that I was doubtful of Mazedude's talent as a remixer, since I had only listened to his BubblyClouds mix, but WOW! There is NO FREAKING WAY I can doubt it now. This thing is WILD. I love those awesome guitar-like synths and soundfonts and stuff... It's so violent and powerful, and yet so calm at the very beginning and ending... I love it. This is going to be one of my favorite mixes for a while...

Again: WOW. WOW WOW WOW. OMFG. The cool industrial percussion is awesome too. I need to get my hands on some of these instruments, Mazedude. HAND THEM OVER! Oh, and good piano too. =) Absolutely, positively amazing.

[Mazedude]

Hmm - there shouldn't be that clipping noise you mentioned at 2:15 Ryckster - try redownloading it from http://listen.to/mazedude and see if it's still there - coulda just been a downloading glitch. It happens.
As far as releasing my samples - oh ho ho... I only do that if asked REALLY nicely man, I fashion a ton of those completely from scratch. And, some I take from CDs and flip 'em around, add effects, etc...
And some I steal. Those I don't mind sharing. Just e-mail the Mazedude@aol.com and cross your fingers.
As to the rest of the comments - thanks a bunch guys. Keep it up and I might do yet another Doom 2 mix one of these days, bwuhahaha!
-Mazedude
-http://listen.to/mazedude

[chokst~1.bat]

I just came back to this place to see if Mazedude was pulling any new tricks up his sleeve (now that I have dial-up internet, heheh)... and damn, DAMN!!! This song is so f@*%in' cool -- OMG! What a great example of artist depth and talent we have here. Gotta love the way this song unfolds and progresses; introducing new instruments like there's no tomorrow. If you love complicating, layered patterns that will have you digging for secrets with your musical mind for hours... this is DEFINATELY Wh3R3 1T 15 @ y0! And WTF is up with that off-beat wind-up rattlesnake percussion and bullfrog bass? LOL... I love it! This song totally reminds me 'Driver Down' by Trent Reznor (but twice as cool!). Is that the bass from level 6 I see kicking in at 2:42? Oh, HELLLO mister treble from level 29 at 1:10 -- nice of you to join us! And how many times do we have to mutate that intro theme throughout the song before people will figure it's the first verse from level 25? haha. Of course Mazedude's not going to throw in Level 9 again since he already made and entire remix of th... woah, good morning 3:12! Looks like I'm too stupid to figure out where anything else came from --- so I'll leave that to your musical eardrums to explore. :)

FREAKIN' AWESOME song Chris dude! So how many thousands of hours did it take you to get all squash all that immense quantity into that little mp3?!? Damn! This kicks @$$! You RULE Man!!!

- Chris

[Enigmatic Magus]

From what I can pluck out of this kickass mix, there's at least 5 levels incorporated. Here's what I can pull out:

Starts off with Bloodfalls (Map 25), Dead Simple (Map 07) appears soon, then the middles too complex to pluck anything out without a lot of repeats. Near the end you hear The Waste Tunnels (Map 05)and The Pit (map 09), and the final notes after the slow down are from Barrels o' Fun (Map 23).

What's right/wrong Mazedude?

[Mazedude]

When it suddenly breaks to fast mode, the bass and the low piano double on the bassline to Level 1. Other than that, helluva good job guys. :)
-Mazedude

[Gnam]

It's a good song, with a wide range different instrumental effects. My only complaint is the excerpt from MAP09. After Gothic Sandy, that tune feels like it's been beat into the ground, and even though the mix has very little to ground it in the original song, I think it would work better without the Gothic Sandy part.

[Agent Spork]

Hellloooo... I'm new here. I seem to have stumbled upon your wonderful remixes, and thought I'd sign up. :)

Doom happens to be one of my favorite games! I still make maps for Doom, despite the fact of its age. I know very much about Doom, so I thought I'd review this.

This remix is wonderfully evil. I mean that in a good way, too. This music is a perfect rendition of MANY Doom songs.

Here are a couple of the obvious ones I heard:
1.D_IN_CIT (Map09 music)
2.D_ADRIAN (Map25 music)
3.D_AMPIE (Map23 music)

There might be more, but I don't think I am listening close enough :P

[Lord.Roderick.i]

I just want to say this mix is most excellent, and I feel it captures the feel of the Doom franchise much more than my Doom mix.

Great work, that is all.

But Scott, for me your Remix it's very good! :wink:

[FenianMasochist]

Yeah Scott, we still love ya and your awesome remixes!!!


I absolutely love Love LOVE this piece. Everytime I listen to it, I get this image of our Doom heo taking this rickety ol' grate elevator down to the pits of Hell...(don't ask)

Mazedude, if by some amazing and highly unlikely chance that the gods give me the chance to write a blockbuster, I so want you to do the music for it!

Cheers.
J. :twisted:

[endblink]

I've just come to the sudden realization that this is my favourite Mazedude track.

Yup. :D

[FenianMasochist]

Mazedude is a god. His work is legend!


Cheers,
Slán.
J. :twisted:

[Yakolev Noct]

This mix captures the feel of Doom perfectly. Doom is the only FPS that has ever managed to make me sympathize with the main chara, because he never gets a break, and you see that. No other game capured the "You. Are. F**ked" feeling as perfectly as Doom and Doom II, but especially Doom II, as this mix shows.

At the peak of this song, once can't but help imagine the Doom guy frantically shoving shells into his twin-barreled shotgun as fast as he can fire them as Demon after demon steps forth.

Even the ending captures the feel very well, as this song never winds to a close, but merely insinuates a pause in the action, a pause that always ends right before it can become a much-needed break.

While I consider Mazedude's other doom works to be superior as stand-alone songs, Bloodbath is his masterpiece as he has managed to transform one stimulus seemlessly into another.

Highly reccomended, but especially to anyone who's ever played though Doom.

[LightCecil]

I've been a huge doom fan for a loooong time, and this is probably one of my favorite doom remixes, along with Barels 'o Fun. I probably missed a ton of the songs, but of what I recognized, and what I didn't I still love this mix.

I love the organ and really aggressive piano among the most out of this song, but all of is teh awesomes evar!

10/10, awesome work Mazedude.

[mofokuban]

Mazedude, all I can say is you have done an absolutely wonderful job on this remix.

I love how you are very subtle in building things up.
The piano, in my opinion, is the most subtle instrument, and almost has a subliminal "feel" to it (but maybe that's just me).

This is definately a keeper.

[jordex]

nice intro then builds into some hardcore melody, very well done, i love all of mazedudes doom songs

1:10 it'd be sweet if there was a time signature change there

[killthrush]

Excellent.
This is one of Mazedude's best.

Excellent synth work! What kind of controller will he use today ladies and gentlemen? Excellent arrangement - exceedingly interesting. Love the syncopated beats as well; daring and quite original.

I don't remember Doom ][ being half as cool as this track. Great work.

10/10

[The Orichalcon]

Beautiful piece. I count elements of ten doom pieces in here. Great medley. Just another MD mix to love. :)

[benevolensaurus]

Hm, s'pose I didn't comment on this one yet after all...

Love it.

[NSR125-Kid-UK]

The remix from this artist starts innocently enough, a few innocent chimes from glockenspiels and pianos setting the scene, giving the listener, a faintest clue of what is to come, the cymbal and synth swooshes offering a more serious idea of what is in the way, with increasingly strong synths emphasising the point that this remix is nothing normal.

The creepy synths take their cue from the drum samples, sounding decidedly "fifth element", in only the best fashion possible, in only the way that cheap artificial life can exist, in only the way that such life is reflected... The local synths take over the track and tear through the music, swearing priority over all except a persistant bassline, while the synths dance their way.

.....the synths and drums pick up at this point, while the accomponiment helps set the urgency for the scene, going through bar after bar, each instrument added confirming that nothing is as it seems, the intensity builds and builds...

The pace picks up, further and further, faster and faster, various synths taking over, overriding the track, each adding their own distinct pattern to the mix, each remeniscent of the very esscence of DOOM, until a moment of total silence in which the listener barely has time to think before the pure evil of the piece takes over - the listener is subjected to the last few chords and melodies of the piece, the last few loose ends, before being treated to a terminal piano piece that assures the listener that the affairs of Hell are far from concluded.

[BlueMage]

Listened to this closely on the way to uni today, and struck I was, by how similar it is to Gothic Sandy. Or maybe just the bit that uses the same theme as Gothic Sandy stood out to me. Either way .... if F.E.A.R. were made into a film, I could very easily picture this track being used for the creepy scenes with the little girl and the blood corridors and so on. It's got that sort of an evil feel to it, a feeling of trepidition. It leaves me with an uneasy feeling, especially the intro.

7 (>85%)

[sonicbhoc]

that was awesome! I haven't played doom two, I don't think. Maybe I did? I remember playing one on my old i386 running Windows 3.1! And I know I played wolfenstein on that too. I was just a little kid and those games scared the crap outta me but I never did get nightmares from them.

Oh wait, back on topic. That song was a great remix. I loved the way you put everything together. The piano part was especially great!

[42]

Creeeepy....
sort of.
At least not untill 0:39.

It comes in layers which is "meh" to me, and too much of the mix is more atmospheric than horrific. and when it does, the mix gets too muddled.

>.< I just talked myself out of liking this one.
darn it.

[OA]

Excellent panning and overall coolness, with some great and catchy ideas added to the source. i wouldn't specifically call this spooky, but it's still a bad assed way to go about it, and the panning is a superb way of retaining interest with 2 bells that play off each other.

I wish the drums were a bit punchier, but otherwise this one is pretty much perfect.

[Sir_Downunder]

This isn't really that scary, but it's an awesome track. The bells and the piano at the start gave the feeling that something good was about to drop, and it did. It it came it all at once, I suppose it would've been added to the shock factor, but then we wouldn't have such an awesome build-up.

A solid track, and definitely worth the download.