The Dark Side of Phobos



The Dark Side of Phobos or DSoP is an album of 23 songs, contemporary "rearrangements" of Doom music. The Dark Side of Phobos was a non-profit collaboration of musicians and lovers of Doom, the soundtrack of which having originally been composed by Robert Prince. The double disc album has each disc named after one of Mars' two moons, Phobos and Deimos.

The project was originally undertaken by Mikko "klm09" Nousiainen and began by having the participating artists pick tracks to recreate. After the effort collectively stalled months later, Navid Azeez was convinced to take over the reigns of the album on November 9, 2004 and later provided its title. The finished product was released and spotlighted as 's fifth Site Project on August 8, 2005 and slashdotted on August 9. As of February 11, 2006, the MP3 & FLAC CD Album torrent has been downloaded over 12,000 times.

These files are free and available for download at the project's homepage.

Personnel

 * Navid Azeez ("Mythril Nazgul") – arranger, project director
 * Daniel Baranowsky – arranger
 * Lee Barber ("TO") – arranger
 * Lars Erhardt Christensen ("Larsec") – arranger, additional vocals on "Darkness Dawning"
 * Rafael Moniz Fonseca ("Mr. Firecracker") – album design
 * Jill Goldin ("pixietricks") – vocals, arranger
 * Karl Harmdierks ("Bladiator") – piano, arranger
 * Wes Harris ("Nousentre") – guitar, arranger
 * Tuomas Kanerva ("ArseAssassin") – arranger
 * Aaron Matthews ("analoq") – arranger
 * Jason Miller ("Prophecy") – arranger
 * Michael Molina ("Sir NutS") – arranger
 * Mikko Nousiainen ("klm09") – creator
 * Dain Olsen ("Beatdrop") – arranger
 * Elsa Persson – vocals
 * David Puga ("Joker") – arranger, album design
 * Alex Roe ("RoeTaKa") – arranger
 * Janne Roivainen ("Evil Horde") – arranger
 * Chris Roman ("Hemophiliac") – arranger
 * Marco Rossi ("Claude") – album design
 * Matt Sabol ("DJ Carbunk1e") – arranger
 * Ryan Stern ("Ryan8bit") – guitar, arranger
 * Pex Tufvesson ("Mahoney") – additional vocals on "Darkness Dawning"
 * Aaron Wu ("Global-Trance") – website design

External links and references

 * The Dark Side of Phobos homepage
 * Unofficial arrangements (ReMixes) of Doom's soundtrack at OverClocked ReMix
 * OverClocked ReMix