If You Liked Doom’s Heavy Metal Soundtrack, Mick Gordon’s Next Project Will Go Even Harder

Celebrated video game composer Mick Gordon has revealed that he is working on his first full video game soundtrack in five years, for the upcoming FPS game Defect. The cyberpunk-themed asymmetric shooter will see Gordon bring his skills to the game, and for this project, he’s aiming to push the music to the very edge of what’s possible using his signature talent for heavy sounds and distortion.”It’s celebrating that deformity, almost like some form of rebellion,” Gordon said to PC Gamer. “I’m always trying to push it, always trying to push it more. Like, how heavy can we get it? I’m really exploring the extremes of distortion with this project. How distorted can you get it, where you lose the musicality, and then bring it back.” Gordon added that he’ll make use of synthesizer sounds traditionally associated with the cyberpunk genre, and he has a few ideas of how to put his own spin on those instruments. “Setting that background theme against this dystopian cyberpunk world gave