Aussie composer Mick Gordon is extremely regarded for his experimental strategy to musical composition. For 2013’s Killer Intuition he employed a kangling, a Tibetan instrument historically carved right into a human femur or tibia, to construct a theme for the skeletal Spinal character out of precise bones. For 2016’s Doom he famously sampled actual chainsaw noises to drag off the distinctive guitar riffs that elevated the sport’s soundtrack right into a heavy metallic masterpiece. Nevertheless, when requested if he is thought-about incorporating any type of generative AI into his inventive course of, Gordon does not mince his phrases. To paraphrase the late Meatloaf, Gordon will do something to create a fantastic soundtrack, however he will not do that.
“F##ok AI,” mentioned Gordon, throughout an interview with IGN at PAX Australia 2026.
Gordon can subsequent be heard in Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun 2 when it is launched on October 14, since he is contributed one other bone-shattering banger to attain the first-person shooter’s last boss battle (which you will get a style of within the trailer beneath). He is additionally nonetheless laborious at work on the soundtrack to Defect, the cyberpunk-themed squad-shooter that is being developed by a crew composed of veterans of the Doom and Name of Responsibility video games. Followers can relaxation assured that in each situations, Gordon’s music is coming straight from the metal-loving maestro’s thoughts (and fingers) moderately than the results of a ChatGPT immediate.
“Generative AI is all the time going to be behind the place people are as a result of it should be inherently skilled off stuff that people have already created,” defined Gordon. “It creates a big database of what [it’s] been skilled on, after which it attracts a really logical conclusion on no matter that dataset is. It is all the time going to be restricted by its dataset, although. It is by no means going to be in a state the place it should predict the following factor, the brand new factor, no matter people can give you. It is all the time going to be behind simply by the character of the way in which that these items work.”
Gordon stays optimistic that audiences are all the time going to be drawn to the work of different people, moderately than machines.
“People are all the time going to wish to work together with different people. All the time,” mentioned Gordon. “And I really feel this AI stuff is simply giving individuals extra cause to desert this digital an infection that we’ve with our lives now.”
“I really feel that people are all the time going to chase that human connection.”
UK-based followers of Gordon’s work will be capable of make a human reference to the person himself when he takes the stage because the headline act at 2027’s RADAR pageant, the place he’s set to carry out music from his Doom and Doom Everlasting soundtracks stay with a full band for the very first time.
Tristan Ogilvie is a senior video editor at IGN based mostly in Sydney, Australia. He has 25 years of expertise overlaying video video games, having served as Deputy Editor on Official PlayStation 2 Journal Australia and as Editor of Official Xbox 360 Journal Australia, earlier than becoming a member of IGN in 2009. You will discover him on Bluesky @tristanogilvie.bsky.social