DOOM (PSX) - Finale [Cover By DAR]

Meanwhile, in a continuity where the demons stay defeated, and our Doomguy gets to retire to a lifetime of frivolity...

Shoutout and thanks goes out to Sraigius, for suggesting/requesting this one!

So this one took a while, mainly because I got stuck being picky with how I was layering all my orchestral bits and pieces. It wasn't so much about transposing as it was about texture. I had crazy amounts of layers and stuff loaded up for this one.

I tried to faithfully stick to the original, all up until the last 1/3 of the song. Until then, I added little things like those epic taiko and orchestral bass drums (for dramatic impact). I also made a slight alteration to some brass bits like at 1:13. Really liked the way the brass resolves in these parts.

As the song heads into its final stretch, I had finally come up with something special for this cover! I wanted to give a nod to Doom 64 here, so I threw in some power chords on the guitar, as well as adding some marcato and staccato violin and viola sections. In these new violin and viola parts, the melody is a bit of a play on the synth-harp bit from the Doom 64 theme. I wound up stacking things up and had some harmonies going in those parts, in order to really drive home that epic and heroic flair.

As for the video, rather than going with my original idea of just holding the ending text, I decided to get a little artsy. My idea being to try and cram in as much Doom as I could in the span of roughly 3 minutes. Parodied/recreated the box art for Doom 1, 2, 3, and PSX. RIP AND TEAR. Encounters with the bosses (even threw in the Mother Demon just for good measure there toward the end). I actually wanted to try and fit a whole lot more into this video, but had to cut and streamline some ideas in order to try and fit it all in this cover.

One idea that partially made it was having the two marines in dress blues turn out to actually be the Protagonist and his buddy from my Infinite Sky cover. Though due to trying to fit everything here, the only thing to go off of are the hair and eye colors of those two dressed-up marines.

All in all, I'm glad I finally wrapped up this one, however we're not done with this mini-marathon just yet! We've still got the "Credits & Demo" song left to go.

Anyways, I hope you all enjoy the cover and look forward to the last cover for this PSX DOOM mini-marathon! ~DAR


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Originally Composed By Aubrey Hodges


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