MegaSphere – Master Levels for Doom II – 25th Anniversary MIDI Pack (2021)

August 23, 2023

Avid players of Doom’s original run of games will know, that the “expansion” to Doom II entitled “Master Levels for Doom II” never had any original music. As a player, one had to load the maps individually, before the existence of a map orderer or sequencer, and therefore one was subjected to Map 1 music over and over and over again for the duration of the Master Levels, which is a bit shit because the Master Levels can be a lot of fun.

Enter MegaSphere then, who has done a lot of work for the Doom community and is generally an excellent composer. Here we have an album of MIDI-style compositions in the style of OG Doom to honour the 25th anniversary of the Master Levels, and if you were going to play them in 2023 I would do so with this soundtrack in the background.

It only gets a 3/5 from me as personally I’m not a huge fan of “trap” style beats and hi hat rushes, and some of the melodies are far too jaunty and upbeat for Doom, but this is just my own personal preference speaking here. Give me the creepy atmosphere and the misery! LOL