10 Sci-Fi Hard Rock Albums You Need To Hear

6. DOOM & DOOM Eternal - Mick Gordon

There's something about the music Mick Gordon created back in 2016, that practically is the exact audible nexus between hard rock and sci-fi.

Genuinely feeling like a new genre born from scientific experimentation in a cyberpunk future, Gordon hooked up a staggering amount of delay pedals, post-processing effects, delays and guitars themselves to create a brutally aggressive, industrious sound.

Even divorced from DOOM's visuals, this is the sort of music that conjures imagery of ethereal hellscapes, crawling demons, mountains of lava and worlds under attack. It's dystopian sci-fi fiction incarnate, and it stands to reason that metalheads and gamers alike tend to class Mick Gordon's output as bodies of work all their own.

Both 2016's DOOM and DOOM Eternal have their soundtracks separated, remixed and assorted into fuller compositions too - rather than the dynamically-mixed renditions you hear in-game.

The final result will tear your face off.