Doom Eternal composer Mick Gordon has released a blog accusing developer id Software of mishandling the 2020 game's soundtrack. Gordon aimed most of his accusations at id's executive producer Marty Stratton. In a lengthy post on Medium, Gordon has offered his side of the conflict over Doom Eternal with an account that includes allegations that id Software failed to pay him for half the game's soundtrack, and that executive producer Marty Stratton was a recurringly abusive presence throughout his work on the score and the OST. According to Stratton, Gordon chose to delay the soundtrack and could therefore only mix nearly a dozen of the game's 59 musical tracks. As a result, it reportedly fell on the studio's audio designer to make up the rest of the game's music. Two years later, Gordon is now disputing Stratton's account, and highlighting the struggles that external contractors face when working for studios like id Software. Gordon alleges that he had to frequently rewrite and scrap music submitted to id due to Eternal's fluctuating development. In one instance, he claimed he had to create two levels' worth of music per month, even as the game itself hadn't actually existed. Gordon further claims that he proposed an alternative scheduling plan to management that would allow him to write broader, reusable themes first that could then be shaped into specific final versions as levels were hammered out, but says that Stratton "threw the proposal back in my face and proceeded to tear me down for having the audacity to raise the issue in the first place.” Furthermore, Gordon also raised multiple complains regarding the issue of pay on Doom Eternal, and said that he wasn't paid for his work until January 2019, eight months into developing music Doom Eternal. Gordon notes that all this was punctuated by slow communication from management, him being cut out of meetings about the music, and increasing ostracization from the rest of the team.