The album did get to Germany, to certain select places in Cali, but it didn t get the widespread availability it could have had at the time. A lot of people couldn t get it. Doomsday was all but ignored by the music press. If that doesn t sound especially villainous, maybe that s the point. Doom s values seem to be the inverse of prevailing ones, whether in hiphop or the larger culture.
Villains are oppositional, heroes by definition are loved by all.
Even Doom s production style is different. So I try to catch it like, if you were there, in the party, how would the record sound. How would the beats sound, through the speaker, and how would the dude sound on the mic. Deliberately rough and almost ragged-sounding, the album s production may be a bit jarring to listeners accustomed to today s mainstream hiphop sounds even the psychedelic slop of OutKast is crystalline by comparison. Defiantly analog though they may be, Doom s sounds are sophisticated and funky, mining and reworking 70s-style mellow soul complete with female backing vocals.