All of Doom II music was composed by Bobby Prince also known as Robert Prince. Same music used in "No Rest for the Living".
Many of the songs were inspired by or closely mirror popular rock and metal songs of that era, from groups such as Alice In Chains, Megadeth, Black Sabbath, Pantera and Slayer.
Track name | Levels | MUS lump inside WAD file | Possibly based on or inspired by |
Running from Evil | MAP01 | d_runnin | Megadeth - "Hangar 18", Led Zeppelin - "Kashmir", Cinderella - "Somebody Save Me", Lou Gramm - "Time", Nelson - "Will You Love Me?" (from 2:47 for 11 seconds), also comparable to Atheist - "Earth" (from 2:35 for 40 seconds), The Sisters of Mercy - "Marian (Version)", The Mission - "Wasteland" and Overkill - "World Of Hurt" intro is also similar to the intro from Nine Inch Nails - "Head Like a Hole". |
MAP15 | d_runni2 | ||
The Healer Stalks | MAP02 | d_stalks | Atheist - "Samba Briza", similar to Hall & Oates - "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" and Sade - "Siempre Hay Esperanza" |
MAP11 | d_stlks2 | ||
MAP17 | d_stlks3 | ||
Countdown to Death | MAP03 | d_countd | The Cure - "Cold" |
MAP21 | d_count2 | ||
Between Levels | MAP04 | d_betwee | Wolfenstein 3D - "Zero Hour", similar to George Duke - "Floop De Loop" |
DOOM | MAP05 | d_doom | Bauhaus - "Mask", also comparable to The Cure - "Sinking" |
MAP13 | d_doom2 | ||
In the Dark | MAP06 | d_the_da | Dokken - "Unchain the Night", also comparable to Mayhem - "Chainsaw Gutsfuck" |
MAP12 | d_theda2 | ||
MAP24 | d_theda3 | ||
Shawn's Got the Shotgun | MAP07 | d_shawn | Slayer - "South Of Heaven" |
MAP19 | d_shawn2 | ||
MAP29 | d_shawn3 | ||
The Dave D. Taylor Blues | MAP08 | d_ddtblu | Argent - "Hold Your Head Up (Album Version)" (section of song from 4:15 until about 4:50), also comparable to Larry Greene - "Take It Higher" and Billy Idol - "Flesh for Fantasy" |
MAP14 | d_ddtbl2 | ||
MAP22 | d_ddtbl3 | ||
Into Sandy's City | MAP09 | d_in_cit | Stone Temple Pilots - "Sex Type Thing", Danzig - "Snakes Of Christ", also comparable to Kiss - "War Machine", The Sisters of Mercy - "Black Planet", Pink Floyd - "Lucifer Sam", Ozzy Osbourne - "No More Tears" and Ozzy Osbourne - "Crazy Train" (from 0:19 until 0:30) |
The Demon's Dead | MAP10 | d_dead | Black Sabbath - "After All (the Dead)" (but also resembles Jimi Hendrix - "Burning of the Midnight Lamp") |
MAP16 | d_dead2 | ||
Waiting for Romero to Play | MAP18 | d_romero | Pantera - "This Love", also comparable to Kino - "Раньше в Твоих Глазах" (Earlier in your eyes), Strawbs - "Down by the Sea", Anne Clark - "Poets Turmoil No 364", Bleak House - "Rainbow Warrior", Metallica - "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" and The Smiths - "Suffer Little Children" |
MAP27 | d_romer2 | ||
Message for the Archvile | MAP20 | d_messag | Slayer - "Skeletons Of Society", also comparable to The Cure - "A Night Like This" |
MAP26 | d_messg2 | ||
Bye Bye American Pie | MAP23 | d_ampie | Alice In Chains - "Them Bones" |
Adrian's Asleep | MAP25 | d_adrian | Alice In Chains - "Angry Chair", also comparable to Kino - "Night" |
Getting Too Tense | MAP28 | d_tense | Diamond Head - "Am I Evil?" |
Opening to Hell | MAP30 | d_openin | Peter Gabriel - "Powerhouse at the Foot of the Mountain" |
Evil Incarnate | MAP31 | d_evil | Spear of Destiny music (Evil Incarnate played in MAP21), also similar to Accept - "T.V. War"; may be originated from the mock Nazi march in Symphony No. 7 of D.Shostakovich. |
The Ultimate Challenge/The Ultimate Conquest | MAP32 | d_ultima | Wolfenstein 3D music (Ultimate Conquest played in E3M9 and E6M9), very similar to the intro of "YYZ" by Rush and arrangement of "Mars, the Bringer of War" by Gustav Holst from Commander Keen 5: The Armageddon Machine. |
untitled | Title Music | d_dm2ttl | Bernard Herrmann - "The Murder" |
untitled | Intermission Music | d_dm2int | King Crimson - "Thela Hun Ginjeet" & Wolfenstein 3D Hitler Waltz (HITLWLTZ), also similar to Jungli - "Vicious Circle (Catch 22)" |
untitled | Endgame Music | d_read_m | Edge Of Sanity - "The Spectral Sorrows" & Bob Segar - "Old Time Rock and Roll" |
Notes[]
- The Plutonia Experiment uses music from both Doom and Doom II; MAP21 uses the latter's text screen music.
- All three official MAP23 levels (those in Doom II, TNT: Evilution, and The Plutonia Experiment) use the track "Bye Bye American Pie".
- Outside of the official MAP23 levels, the following Doom II music tracks are used in TNT: Evilution:
See also[]
- Music
- Doom music
- Unused Doom music
- Doom Music (album)
- Final Doom TNT music
- Final Doom Plutonia music
- Delta-Q-Delta
- Steve Rot's Doom Tribute
External links[]
- Doomworld.com page about Doom II music
- Doom Covers, an article at Doomworld in which samples of Prince's music are compared with his sources
- Thread about remastered Doom and Doom II soundtracks, from the Doomworld forums
- Youtube Playlist of Music DoomII covered