Musical cryptography
I was inspired by DOOM Eternal hidden ancient language made of syllables, so I am going to try and insert this idea into my music. I am going to tear apart the name of the Demons until I have 26 syllables, I will then assign each syllable of a enemies name to a letter of the English alphabet . This means the made up language will then be possible to translate into English text. My plan on using this is language is get a recording of someone screaming in the words I ask them to sing and insert it into my track, this is similar to the original soundtrack as Mick Gordon hired a heavy metal choir to sing in chants and screams for his DOOM music. I am making my language translatable so that it can have a cool element of musical cryptography like DOOM 2016 and DOOM II do.
| Enemy Name | Syllables | Assigned Alphabetic letter |
| Revenant | Rev – e -nant | A – K – U |
| Mancubus | Man – cu – bus | B – L – V |
| Marauder | Mar -au – der | C – M – W |
| Archvile | Arch – vi – le | D – N – X |
| Gargoyle | Gar – goy – le | E – O – Y |
| Arachnotron | A -rach – no – tron | F – P – Z |
| Carcass | Car – cass | G – Q |
| Prowler | Prow – ler | H – R |
| Soldier | Sold -ier | I – S |
| Zombie | Zom – bie | J – T |
Examples of The Language
| Ancient Language Pronunciation | English Translation |
| Arch – goy – goy – au | DOOM |
| Ier – cu -rev – le – gar – ler | Slayer |
| Bie – sold – bie – rev – vi | Titan |
| Mar – ler -nant – mar – sold – cu – gar | Crucible |
| Ler – Sold – Rach / Rev – vi – arch / Bie – Gar – Rev – Ler | Rip and Tear |
Reading List
GameWith(ゲームウィズ). 2020. DOOM Eternal | All Enemy Demons & Boss List – GameWith. [online] Available at: <https://gamewith.net/doom-eternal/article/show/16233> [Accessed 17 March 2021].
Unfortunately due to the sudden changes in the final weeks of my project I have had to make a trailer. In this trailer the idea for the heavy metal choir would not suit it’s environment.