10 Best Modern Video Game Soundtracks

Doom is a simple game that follows a few easy steps:

1. See demons.

2. Stomp, stab or shoot demons.

3. Jump around till like a flea on Redbull until you spot more future clouds of blood and guts.

This simple yet effective gameplay loop wouldn't really have benefited from sensitive piano melodies and melancholic strings now, would it? So instead, iD software and composer Mick Gordon opted for a different approach: make the nastiest metal hell has ever heard. And boy did they deliver on that promise.

With track titles like Flesh & Hell, DEMIGOD (yes, in all caps, because Doom is ANGGGGRYYYYY), Damnation and SkullHacker, you can expect some of the loudest guitars in the business. Even the heavy beat in the ''calmer'' moments sounds like it's a boxer walking up to a ring. But the ring is hell. And the boxer is a demon.

So right from the first minute of the game you'll find yourself rhythmically destroying demons; blasting heads, ripping apart chests and playing your shotgun like the instrument of death it is. The bass shakes you like an earthquake, the drums take the BPM higher and higher and finally the electric guitar drops in like the gates of Hell have been smashed open by the horde. It's up to you now to smash them closed again.