Doom Eternal Boss Fires Back At Composer

@RiverRunning the music was written and recorded, it just needed to be mastered for the collector's edition album. ID asked for it to be done by a certain time because that's when the game was to be released, they gave him more time, and when he wasn't able to finish they gave him more help so they could deliver the product they had an obligation to send, help he, at least according to ID, accepted and was fine with. The problem isn't that he didn't finish, ID didn't seem to care, the problem was that he was talking shit because his mastering wasn't the priority and they couldn't wait 6 months to release an album of music that was promised with the pre-order. it was super unprofessional to do that

@Neiland Maybe you are not aware that boy and girls bands use prewritten songs in putting together albums? And that recording is relatively easy when you get to autotune their voices... however it might also be the case that the music in this case had to be rerecorded at higher fidelity to be good enough quality for an album. However, either way, mastering the music and making sure it is good quality is a difficult task - clearly, because in this case the people involve who are hired to do music did not do as good a job as was done by the composer on the first album... so clearly it is a hard job (quite aside from anyone in the industry will attest to it being difficult and one of the primary reasons albums take so long). If you're interested there is a good deal of writting by people in the industry detailing how it all works written for the lay audience.

@Neiland Ironically I just got the linkdump from Drunk Tank #3 (the new version) and the first link is a good example of the information you can find on mastering music! https://roosterteeth.com/g/post/abd794d7-cc87-4e38-8742-5a6f4adbc567

@RiverRunning We get it, work is hard. Condescending links regarding the mastering process aside, the issue here ultimately has nothing to do with how hard poor, oppressed Mick Gordon toils in the score mines so that his barefoot children don't starve. It has to do with the fact that he kept breaking promises and missing dates that HE set. He hasn't denied any part of the timeline Stratton laid out, which would seem to imply that it's pretty accurate. And if it is, he's definitely not completely blameless here. Not to say that Id gets completely off the hook either, but painting Gordon as a victim is a real stretch. "it might also be the case that the music in this case had to be rerecorded" ...Did it? There's been no mention of that from anyone. You don't need to feed Gordon additional excuses, he's been doing just fine on his own. "mastering the music and making sure it is good quality is a difficult task" Yeah, and you know who'd be expected to know that better than anyone else involved? Mick Gordon! Yet from what Stratton wrote, Gordon repeatedly made commitments to perform that "difficult task" within a certain timeframe, and then continually failed to meet the deadlines that HE had set for himself. The original time pressure was created by Id, not Gordon. There's no question of that. They made the soundtrack announcement before he was even signed on to create it, so that's entirely on them. But Gordon was the one both setting AND missing all of his own due dates. Which, you know, occasionally happens. But when you mess up like that once and have to go begging for more time, you'd better be damn sure you can give them everything you promised, the SECOND time — and that you can have it ready on time... if not early. Now, look, I'm willing to give Gordon the benefit of the doubt. I don't think he was acting maliciously. I assume he's just one of those creative types who chronically avoids doing "real" work that doesn't interest him, and practically has to be chained to his computer to get it done. I imagine he also avoids making commitments until cornered, and then starts promising the world to people just to get them off his back. I've known so, so many Mick Gordons. I'm betting he gave Id whatever timeframe to produce however much of the soundtrack (extracted directly from his posterior, in terms of realistic promises), avoided the whole project for another week or two, and it wasn't until he finally started on it (with his self-imposed deadline now looming) that he took his first serious look at everything and discovered just how much work was really involved. Which — like I said, it's not unusual for artists, but it's also not NOT their own fault.