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A song on the DOOM Eternal soundtrack hides artwork from DOOM II

Now THAT'S an Easter egg!
by rawmeatcowboy
24 April 2020
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Composer Mick Gordon got a ton of praise for his work on the DOOM (2016) soundtrack. He managed to capture the sound and vibe of DOOM perfectly, all while putting his own spin on things. He also managed to sneak in a few Easter eggs in the songs themselves. It looks like Mick's up to his old tricks once again in DOOM Eternal.

When players ran the original DOOM (2016) soundtrack through a spectrogram, they discovered hidden imagery that was tied to the game's theme. The number of the beast, pentagrams, and so on. They were scattered about a few tracks as Easter eggs for those who felt like diving deep into the game's music.

The image above comes from a spectrogram view of "Welcome Home, Great Slayer," a song from DOOM Eternal's soundtrack. I read the Reddit thread about the supposed finding, but I went through the trouble of confirming it with my own spectrogram analysis. The image you see above is the one I pulled right from the song.

Series fans probably recognized the image right away, as it was part of the promo artwork for DOOM II. It looks like Mick slipped in the image while working on the DOOM Eternal soundtrack. If you want to do the analysis for yourself, you can do a spectrogram analysis on the last 10 seconds or so of the song to discover the image.

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