The Dark Side of Phobos



The Dark Side of Phobos or DSoP is an album of 23 songs, contemporary "rearrangements" of the music from the classic video game Doom for the PC. 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 Bobby 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 OverClocked ReMix'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.

Track listing

 * Disc 1: Phobos
 * 0. "Welcome to Hell" (TO, pixietricks) – 1:10

These files are free and available for download at the project's homepage.
 * 1) "Hangarmageddon" [E1M1] (Evil Horde) – 4:08
 * 2) "The Red Moon" [E1M4] (Sir NutS) – 4:58
 * 3) "Industrial Strength" [E1M2] (Joker) – 4:12
 * 4) "Mystery Meat" [E2M9] (Nousentre) – 4:46
 * 5) "The Leaning Tower of Babel" [E2M8] (Evil Horde) – 4:42
 * 6) "Reprocessed" [E1M6] (Beatdrop) – 3:37
 * 7) "Ghosts of Mars" [E2M4] (Mythril Nazgul) – 5:02
 * 8) "The Chemical Imps" [E1M3] (RoeTaKa) – 4:57
 * 9) "Demon Con Gusto" [E3M3] (analoq) – 4:08
 * 10) "This Can't Be Good" [E2M2] (ArseAssassin) – 5:16
 * 11) "Jade Spawn" [E2M7] (Bladiator, TO) – 5:04
 * 12) *Disc 2: Deimos
 * 13) "Intermission" (TO) – :57
 * 14) "Infiltrator" [E2M1] (Evil Horde, RoeTaKa) – 3:40
 * 15) "Infected Lab" [E1M7] (DJ Carbunk1e) – 2:40
 * 16) "Secrets And Lies" [E1M9] (TO) – 4:24
 * 17) "The Glass Moon" [E1M8] (DJ Carbunk1e, Ryan8bit) – 6:24
 * 18) "Ocean Pollen" [E3M2] (RoeTaKa) – 4:31
 * 19) "Aria of the Damned" [E2M6] (Hemophiliac, pixietricks) – 3:38
 * 20) "Iron Cathedral" [E3M8] (Prophecy) – 2:13
 * 21) "The Dark Side of Phobos" [E1M5] (Daniel Baranowsky) – 3:55
 * 22) "Darkness Dawning" [Text Music] (Elsa Persson, Larsec) – 4:13
 * 23) "ElectroCute Bunny" [The End] (TO) – 4:07

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
 * OverClocked ReMix

(Information taken from the Wikipedia Article, and placed in the Doom Wiki for easy reading.)