{"id":90999,"date":"2026-10-11T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90999"},"modified":"2026-10-12T02:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T06:38:52","slug":"doom-2016-composer-mick-gordon-says-fk-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90999","title":{"rendered":"Doom 2016 Composer Mick Gordon Says &#8220;F##k AI&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Aussie composer Mick Gordon is highly regarded for his experimental approach to musical composition. For 2013&#8217;s Killer Instinct he employed a kangling, a Tibetan instrument traditionally carved into a human femur or tibia, to build a theme for the skeletal Spinal character out of actual bones. For 2016&#8217;s Doom he famously sampled real chainsaw noises to pull off the unique guitar riffs that elevated the game&#8217;s soundtrack into a heavy metal masterpiece. However, when asked if he&#8217;s considered incorporating any form of generative AI into his creative process, Gordon doesn&#8217;t mince his words. To paraphrase the late Meatloaf, Gordon will do anything to create a great soundtrack, but he won&#8217;t do <em>that<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;F##k AI,&#8221; said Gordon, during an interview with IGN at PAX Australia 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon can next be heard in Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 when it&#8217;s released on October 14, since he&#8217;s contributed another bone-shattering banger to score the first-person shooter&#8217;s final boss fight (which you can get a taste of in the trailer below). He&#8217;s also still hard at work on the soundtrack to Defect, the cyberpunk-themed squad-shooter that&#8217;s being developed by a team composed of veterans of the Doom and Call of Duty games. Fans can rest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aussie composer Mick Gordon is highly regarded for his experimental approach to musical composition. For 2013&#8217;s Killer Instinct he employed a kangling, a Tibetan instrument traditionally carved into a human femur or tibia, to build a theme for the skeletal Spinal character out of actual bones. For 2016&#8217;s Doom he famously sampled real chainsaw noises&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":91001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90999","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\/90999"}],"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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91003,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90999\/revisions\/91003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}