Chambers of Dis

"Chambers of Dis" is a single-level wad created by Trey Azagthoth, the founder, guitarist, and lead songwriter for the American death metal band Morbid Angel. The level was created with the zdoom source port of Doom II and was able to be downloaded off the Morbid Angel website and his own personal Myspace page in 2007.

Background:

A notorious gamer, especially Doom and Quake, Azagthoth, through the zdoom port, created his level piecemeal in-between writing and recording the 2003 Morbid Angel album "Heretic". The level can be accessed by downloading a zip drive containing the zdoom port of Doom II and starting a new game on the "Ultra-Violence" difficulty, which brings it up right away. The level itself is quite big with lots of powerful demons (lots of Pain Elementals, Arch-Viles and Cyberdemons) and experimental structures and effects (a room where the player walks in the sky, a skull-less Demon-spitter boss that unleashes the skull cubes in eight random places on the map, etc.).

After being told that the level was considered "too hard" to be completed, Azagthoth went back and edited the map, removing many of the stronger enemies and adding more ammo and health items.