DOOM: The Deluxe Edition (2CD)

VARESE SARABANDE CD CLUB release! Doom (2005) was a big-budget feature film adaptation of the hit game from id Software, starring Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike and Dwayne Johnson (billed as The Rock). A team of marines are sent through a portal to a research facility on Mars, where they must battle demonic creatures which are revealed to be mutated humans from genetic experiments.

Doom was an action-packed romp noted for its nods to videogame culture, creature design by Stan Winston Studios, and lengthy first-person shooter sequence. One of its most successful elements is its forward-thinking score by Clint Mansell, blending orchestra and electronics with authentic “alt. rock” elements, including a remix of the Nine Inch Nails song “You Know What You Are.”

Mansell’s score smartly evolves from haunted-house spookiness to balls-out action, all impeccably produced. “I wanted to sort of capture the adrenaline and that sort of metal thrash that goes with the game and world in my opinion. It’s like it needed something edgy,” Mansell said at the time. “The original thought was to do a big orchestral score, and there is some orchestra in it, but it’s a very contemporary-type movie and the score needed to be contemporary, too.”

Doom was released as a 22-track, hour-long by Varese Sarabande at the time of the film. This new Deluxe Edition expands the content to two discs, with 41 tracks and over 140 minutes. The 20-page booklet features liner notes by Daniel Schweiger and two double-page interior spreads of newly commissioned artwork by Micha Huigen. --- *Excerpt from the label

CD 1:
1. Doom (Main Title)
2. Pray For War
3. Facing Demons
4. Olduvai
5. Into Action
6. Stealth
7. Searching
8. Access Denied
9. Sibling Rivalry
10. A Discovery
11. Goat's Demons
12. Nano Wall / Carmack
13. Zombie-Blood Gone
14. Down In The Sewer
15. Man Down
16. Taking Control
17. Carmack's Return
18. Childhood Memories
19. Mac Attacked
20. Resurrection
21. BFG
22. Bathroom Break
23. Destroyed
24. Clip Drop
25. Death From Above

CD 2:
1. Infirmaray
2. Experimental Stahl
3. UAC Data
4. Containment Breach
5. It's Choosing
6. Kill Em All (A)
7. Kill Em All (B)
8. Mass Onslaught
9. C 24
10. First Person Shooter
11. Last Man Standing
12. Semper Fi
13. Fight Scene
14. Almost Home
15. You Know What You Are? (For E.C. Pt. 1) (Clint Mansell Remix)
16. Doom (For E.C. Pt. 2)

Produced and Programmed by: Clint Mansell
Orchestra Recorded and Mixed by: Geoff Foster
Mastered by: Chas Ferry and Melinda Hurley