Earlier this week, a small Doom Eternal update revealed the arrival of a new Mancubus, the Halloween theme of the event Ghouls, Gourds, and Galleons, to fix precisely a single bug. But it also made a change that I considered to be much more interesting. It resets the main music menu back to 'as it was when Doom Eternal was launched in March 2020.'
He's a strange one, okay? It turns out that when Part Two of the Ancient Gods appeared in March, the main menu included new music. And fans saw: Users across multiple Reddit and steam threads ask what happened and how they can retrieve the original music. The fashion makers eventually took this matter into their hands and put together such creations as 'old main menu music,' 'Mick Gordon main menu subject' and 'Mick Gordon Menu Theme.' "If you have ever changed the main menu music again, you can rely on me to make a new version of this mod'."
No mention has been made of the changes in the DLC release notes and to the extent that Bethesda has never explained, or even acknowledged, why the subject was changed. But it is speculated that the "complicated" connection between Bethesda and the composing composer Mick Gordon is at its root. The first thing that came to light in April, about a month after the release of Ancient Gods Part II, was that Gordon said he had not mixed the most part in the official soundtrack Doom Eternal and expressed doubts that he would work again in the future with Bethesda.
Shortly after that, however, Doom Eternal Managing Producer Marty Stratton explained the position of Bethesda, praising the talents of Gordon and saying he had difficulty working with, "making the project uncertainty and risk pattern unsustainable" for the studio. Production problems forced the late Doom Eternal soundtrack and ultimately led Bethesda to stitch tracks from the game together into a "complete OST," which is why it was so compressed.
Apparently, the tension increased when the soundtrack was published: Gordon was not pleased with some of the content and edition, as well as Mossholder being credited with being a co-composer. Yet Stratton said it was surprised to hear Gordon express doubt that he was working again with Bethesda. "We are about to continue and will not work with Mick on the DLC we currently have at production soon," he added. Stratton added. It's not so long to suppose it could have taken part in the process of "moving on" to swap some of Gordon's non-gameplay music. This is the original main music menu of Mick Gordon.
And this is the eternal doom: the Two-menu tunes of Ancient Gods by Andrew Hulshult and David Levy, composed, together with the rest of the soundtracks of Ancient Gods. It's a very different atmosphere, but similar.
The majority of the reactions at the changeover seem to be happy that the music of Gordon has come back, although Hulshult/Levy is also definitely appreciated. Many fans want Bethesda to add an option to the menu that allows players to change the music menu at will: YaBoyTony writes, capturing the mood of the moment, "That really is nice, the Mick Gordon menu is back, it was missed somewhat. "I think the David Levy menu theme could be missed, but I thought it hit quite hard."
Why the main menu music was first changed or why Bethesda chose to change it six months later is not clear. This is not clear. Earlier this week, I reached everybody involved—Bethesda, Gordon, Hulshult, and Levy—to see if somebody is willing to tell me, and if they are, I will keep updated.
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