Michael John Gordon, an Australian musician, record producer, composer, and sound designer, specializes in creating music for video games. In addition to LawBreakers, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Prey, the 2016 remake of Doom and its sequel Doom Eternal, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and seasons one and two of the 2013 fighting game Killer Instinct, Gordon has composed for a number of first-person shooters.
Does Mick Gordon do concerts?
There are no upcoming tour dates for Mick Gordon.
Is Mick Gordon still making music?
He still makes music, but not as much as he used to.
When Gordon was in his teens, he started playing guitar and playing jazz, and blues. He first started working as a sound designer for Pandemic Studios, where he also contributed to Destroy All Humans’ sound design. He provided the music for the first season of the 2013 remake of the 1994 fighting video game Killer Instinct. The following year, Gordon scored Wolfenstein: The New Order, an action-adventure first-person shooter, and Killer Instinct’s second season (developed by MachineGames). In order to write the score for Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, a prequel to Wolfenstein: The New Order, he returned to the Wolfenstein series in 2015.
Gordon finished the score for the science fiction first-person shooter Doom, a sequel to the 1993 game developed by id Software, in 2016. His score for Doom was nominated for a D.I.C.E. Award for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition, an SXSW Gaming Award for Excellence in Musical Score, The Game Awards Best Music/Sound Design, and a BAFTA Games Award for Best Music. Gordon finished the score for Arkane Studios’ horror first-person shooter Prey in 2017. He also collaborated with Martin Stig Andersen to return to the Wolfenstein series, scoring Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus for MachineGames.
