Mick Gordon

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Mick Gordon comes from Mackay in Queensland, Australia. As a teenager he played jazz and blues on guitar. In the games world he began as a sound designer at Pandemic Studios. After Need for Speed: Shift (2009) and Killer Instinct (2013) he wrote the music for Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014). For Doom (2016), id Software at first asked him not to use guitars or metal. Gordon sent low sine tones through chains of effects units and mixed them with white noise. Later he was allowed to use guitar after all: a nine-string guitar, together with the sound of the chainsaw from the original Doom. The score won the award for Best Music at The Game Awards in 2016. After Doom Eternal (2020) he fell into a public dispute with id Software.

Listening

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  The New Order · Mick Gordon, 2014
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  BFG Division · Mick Gordon, 2016
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  Everything Is Going to Be Okay · Mick Gordon, 2017

Discography

Studio albums

• 2012A Day in Pompeii (soundtrack)
• 2014Wolfenstein: The New Order Original Game Soundtrack (soundtrack)
• 2015Wolfenstein: The Old Blood Original Game Soundtrack (soundtrack)
• 2016DOOM: Original Game Soundtrack (soundtrack)
• 2017Killer Instinct: The Complete Soundtrack (soundtrack)
• 2017Prey (Original Game Soundtrack) (soundtrack)
• 2020Beautiful Desolation (soundtrack)
• 2020DOOM Eternal (Original Game Soundtrack) (soundtrack)
• ?Doom Eternal OST (soundtrack)

Other work

• 2013Killer Instinct
• 2014Wolfenstein: The New Order
• 2016Doom
• 2017Prey
• 2020Doom Eternal

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Film Music Map^NL Map

See also

• Western orchestral and indie game music
• Industrial and electronic texture scores