{"id":87298,"date":"2026-08-07T15:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T19:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87298"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T21:36:35","slug":"doom-2016-composer-mick-gordon-is-performing-the-games-soundtrack-at-a-music-festival-for-the-very-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87298","title":{"rendered":"Doom 2016 Composer Mick Gordon Is Performing the Game&#8217;s Soundtrack at a Music Festival for the Very First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Mick Gordon, the composer of Doom 2016\u2019s award-winning soundtrack, is taking the game\u2019s music tp a festival for the first time ever \u2014 and he\u2019s bringing the Doom Machine with him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2016\/05\/16\/doom-review-2\">Doom 2016<\/a> set the standard for the iconic shooter\u2019s musical profile. Famously sampling real chainsaw noises to pull off the unique guitar riffs that made the game\u2019s soundtrack so famous, Gordon\u2019s unorthodox methods have earned him a place in the highest pantheon of gaming legends.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Gordon is bringing the music he composed for Doom 2016 and 2020\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/doom-eternal-final-review\">Doom Eternal<\/a> on tour, marking the very first time the soundtracks have been played by a live band for a live audience in a full-fledged concert (not counting the short medley of Doom&#8217;s tunes he performed at The Game Awards in 2016). <\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"e3-2019-screenshots-doom-eternal\" data-value=\"e3-2019-screenshots-doom-eternal\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>Gordon and co. are set to headline RADAR 2027, a music festival based in Sheffield, UK that&#8217;s focused on contemporary tunes, tech-metal, and progressive rock. Gordon himself will be performing the tracks alongside the band, with RADAR announcing the news in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/Dbc_-93DtOC\/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet\">Instagram post<\/a> in late July. \u201cThis isn&#8217;t a DJ set. It isn&#8217;t a tribute. It&#8217;s the music that redefined video game soundtracks, performed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick Gordon, the composer of Doom 2016\u2019s award-winning soundtrack, is taking the game\u2019s music tp a festival for the first time ever \u2014 and he\u2019s bringing the Doom Machine with him. Doom 2016 set the standard for the iconic shooter\u2019s musical profile. Famously sampling real chainsaw noises to pull off the unique guitar riffs that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":87300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87302,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87298\/revisions\/87302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}