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Twitter User Uncovers Final Easter Egg in ‘DOOM’ Soundtrack
Everyone and their mom went nuts over Mick Gordon’s fantastically brutal DOOM soundtrack. And rightfully so. Gordon took cues from Bobby Prince’s original soundtrack, and created something that was perfect to ripping and tearing. What you might not have known was that there are five easter eggs buried within the music, with the fifth one recently being uncovered by twitter user Nick White.
Hey @Mick_Gordon is this the final Doom 2016 soundtrack Easter egg? pic.twitter.com/LgSlaCQeg6
— Nick White (@nick_w94) February 7, 2019
The easter egg in question is found in the song “Authorization; Olivia Pierce,” the seventh track on the DOOM soundtrack. By using a little software trickery, White increased the pitch of the song around the 50-second mark. After the big swell starts to fade, you can hear Olivia Pierce herself say, “You could not have saved them anyway,” a quote directly from Pierce within the game.
Mick Gordon (who is still working away on that “totally not DOOM Eternal soundtrack”) was quick to confirm that the easter egg was found.
Big-ups to @nick_w94, who found the final @DOOM soundtrack easter egg a little over 2 years after release.
Rock on dude!🤘😼🤘 https://t.co/UdYwmYGS8v— Mick Gordon (@Mick_Gordon) February 8, 2019
So, what were the previous four? For the first three, you’ll need to grab yourself something like Adobe Audition, or another audio program that allows you to view a spectral frequency display. Those who are familiar with Aphex Twin and their nightmare fuel know what comes next. By viewing the spectral frequency on the songs “Cyberdemon,” “Authorization; Olivia Pierce,” and “SkullHacker,” you can find hidden images of a pentagram and 666, the number 36, and John Romero’s head on a pike, respectively.
The fourth one is similar to the classic backmasking craze. In the song “IV. Doom,” by switching a certain part of the track to mono, and then reversing the sound, you can hear a woman say, “Jesus loves you.”
DOOM Eternal is set for a 2019 release.
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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