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‘DOOM’ Composer Mick Gordon Needs You For His Next Project (That’s Probably ‘DOOM Eternal’)
While nothing has been announced as of yet, there’s a very good chance that Mick Gordon is returning to score DOOM Eternal. And he needs your help.
In a video (which you can see below), Mick is looking to recruit a choir of “Heavy Metal Screamers” for his new project. “I really want to record a choir. But for this project, I don’t want to record a regular choir; I want to record a choir made up entirely of ‘Heavy Metal Screamers’. To the best of my knowledge, I don’t believe this has ever been done before.” It doesn’t matter if you’re man or woman, either. “As long as you have a killer metal scream, I want you.”
To apply for the job, you’ll need to be 18, and if selected, willing to travel to a recording session in Austin, Texas. The deadline for the application was February 1st, but due to “an overwhelming response”, the deadline is now January 11th to submit your demos. So, if you think you have the chops, find your inner Dio, Rob Halford, King Diamond or Bruce Dickinson, and belt one out.
DOOM Eternal is due out this year.
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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