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.
What happened to Mick Gordon? Mental health issue over Id Software death threats explained
After the OST for Doom Eternal was released in April 2020, a number of internet music critics and fans pointed out the difference in quality between the OST for Doom (2016) and the one released with Eternal.
Gordon acknowledged that a large portion of it was not his creation on April 19 through Twitter. Marty Stratton, an executive producer at id Software, then published an open letter on Reddit in which he claimed Gordon had failed to give the source material for the new OST tracks and that he needed a contractual extension to finish the OST on time.
Following this, Gordon became the target of widespread outrage, leading to explicit death threats and graphic letters expressing the desire to destroy him and his family. Gordon’s phones, servers, and messaging accounts
