The Dark Side of Phobos

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The Dark Side of Phobos
Studio album by OverClocked ReMix Site Projects
Released	August 8, 2005
Recorded	2004–2005
Genre	Video Game Music
Length	92:42
Label	OverClocked ReMix
Producer(s)	Navid "Mythril Nazgul" Azeez
Professional reviews
PC Gamer (UK) (Favorable) Nov. 2005 (#154 - pg. 140) SOUNDTRACK.notes link
OverClocked ReMix Site Projects chronology
Rise of the Star (2005)	The Dark Side of Phobos (2005)	Chrono Symphonic (2006)
Alternate cover

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 September 14, 2006, the MP3 & FLAC CD Album torrent has been downloaded over 15,000 times.

[edit] Track listing

• Disc 1: Phobos

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

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
    • Disc 2: Deimos
12. "Intermission" (TO) – :57
13. "Infiltrator" [E2M1] (Evil Horde, RoeTaKa) – 3:40
14. "Infected Lab" [E1M7] (DJ Carbunk1e) – 2:40
15. "Secrets and Lies" [E1M9] (TO) – 4:24
16. "The Glass Moon" [E1M8] (DJ Carbunk1e, Ryan8bit) – 6:24
17. "Ocean Pollen" [E3M2] (RoeTaKa) – 4:31
18. "Aria of the Damned" [E2M6] (Hemophiliac, pixietricks) – 3:38
19. "Iron Cathedral" [E3M8] (Prophecy) – 2:13
20. "The Dark Side of Phobos" [E1M5] (Daniel Baranowsky) – 3:55
21. "Darkness Dawning" [Text Music] (Elsa Persson, Larsec) – 4:13
22. "ElectroCute Bunny" [The End] (TO) – 4:07

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

[edit] Credits

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

[edit] External links and references

• The Dark Side of Phobos homepage
• The Dark Side of Phobos (disc 2) at MusicBrainz
• Unofficial arrangements (ReMixes) of Doom's soundtrack at OverClocked ReMix
• OverClocked ReMix