OK, I am continuing my impromptu, informal gaming motif for another day by posting this Slayer ditty.

WTF??? What does this have to do with gaming?  Just read on.

Like many nerdy guys my age, I was a big fan of the Doom games.  Holy cow, those were great.  Everything about them seemed to work, including the MIDI soundtracks.  Remember, Doom was first released in 1993.  If you wanted your games to have any kind of musical accompaniment, you generally used MIDI playback.  This was before all of the compressed digital audio formats like MP3 really took off.  Sure, at that time most of us had cheap Sound Blaster cards in our computers if we had any sound at all, and MIDI scores sounded pretty damned primitive.  But eventually there was a brief window where MIDI was still a somewhat viable playback format while PC sound hardware had become better at reproducing MIDI sequences, with wavetable synthesis and such.  If you had a sound card like that, the playback of the soundtracks for those old games improved vastly, and the ones from Doom and Doom 2 were pretty cool.  One sequence I was particularly fond of was called "Deep Into the Code", which is heard during the third level of the third episode of the original Doom, or simply "E3M3."

However, a bit later on I discovered that a lot of the Doom tunage was, shall we say, "borrowed" from bands such as Pantera, Metallica and Alice in Chains.  Hell, in some cases, it was flat out stolen.  Of course, "Deep Into the Code" turned out to be from a Slayer song called "Behind the Crooked Cross."

So there you go.  That's how I tied a thrash metal song to a computer gaming topic.  It's what I do.

Hear "Behind the Crooked Cross" on YouTube.

Hear the "Deep Into the Code" MIDI sequence from the original Doom.

Check out these other YouTube vids to explore this issue further.