Sonic Mayhem
Sascha Dikiciyan, known professionally as Sonic Mayhem, is a video game composer known for electronic and industrial scoring, producer and professional sound designer who has produced the soundtrack for Quake II, Tomorrow Never Dies, Hellgate: London, approximately half of the soundtrack for Quake III Arena, all the weapon sound effects for Unreal Tournament and, since the build 220 patch, also its predecessor, Unreal. Dikiciyan has also produced independent music albums. Dikiciyan's style is primarily a very driving and forceful form of aggro-industrial, with an emphasis on repeated musical phrases (though this is less pronounced in his non-soundtrack work).
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Sonic Mayhem
- Name
- Sascha Dikiciyan
- Born
- 18 December 1970
- Birthplace
- Stuttgart, Germany
- Occupation
- Musician, composer, producer
- Nationality
- Germany
- Languages
- German
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Sascha Dikiciyan, known professionally as Sonic Mayhem, is a video game composer known for electronic and industrial scoring, producer and professional sound designer who has produced the soundtrack for Quake II, Tomorrow Never Dies, Hellgate: London, approximately half of the soundtrack for Quake III Arena, all the weapon sound effects for Unreal Tournament and, since the build 220 patch, also its predecessor, Unreal. Dikiciyan has also produced independent music albums. Dikiciyan's style is primarily a very driving and forceful form of aggro-industrial, with an emphasis on repeated musical phrases (though this is less pronounced in his non-soundtrack work).
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Dikiciyan's work came to prominence when he sent a copy of his first CD, Methods of Destruction, an alternate Quake soundtrack, to id Software in 1996. Dikiciyan is also known under the name Toksin, producing dance remixes for the likes of BT, Celldweller, and many others.
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• Name — Sascha Dikiciyan • Alias — Sonic Mayhem, Toksin • Born — 18 December 1970 • Birthplace — Stuttgart, Germany • Genre — Dance/Electronic • Occupation — Musician, composer, producer • Years Active — 1993–present • Instrument — Keyboards, synthesizer, drums
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• Video games • Title — Year — System — Notes • Quake: Methods of Destruction — 1996 — PC — Alternate soundtrack for Quake • Quake II — 1997 — PC, PlayStation — with Bill Brown and Jer Sypult, also composed the music expansion packs, Ground Zero & The Reckoning • Unreal — 1998 — PC, Mac — Sound effects • Unreal Tournament — 1999 — PC, PS2 • Tomorrow Never Dies — PlayStation — with Tommy Tallarico, Howard Ulyate, and Todd Dennis. • Quake III Arena — PC, PS2, Xbox 360 — with Bill Leeb • Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines — 2003 — PS2, Xbox, GBA, Mobile phones • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent — 2006 — GameCube, PC, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, Wii — Main theme only, with Michael McCann • Battlezone PSP — PSP • Dark Messiah — PC, Xbox 360 • SpyHunter: Nowhere to Run — PS2, Xbox — with Kyle Richards and Cris Velasco • TMNT — 2007 — GameCube, PC, PS2, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360 • John Woo's Stranglehold — PC, PS3, Xbox 360 — with Jim Bonney, Jamie Christopherson and Serj Tankian. • Beowulf: The Game — 2008 — PC, PS3, Xbox 360, PSP • G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra — PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360, Mobile phone, Nintendo DS, PSP • Prototype — 2009 — PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One • Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe — PS3, Xbox 360 — with various others. • Borderlands — PC, PS3, Xbox 360 — with Raison Varner and Jesper Kyd. • Mass Effect 2 — 2010 — PC, Xbox 360 — Composed the soundtrack for the DLC pack, Kasumi - Stolen Memory. • MAG — PS3 — Composed the music for the Raven faction. • StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty — PC — Additional music with Laurence Juber, Cris Velasco and Inon Zur • Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard — PS3, Wii, PC — with Jason Graves. • Tron: Evolution — PC, PS3, PSP, Xbox 360 — with Cris Velasco and Kevin Manthei • Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine — 2011 — PC, PS3, Xbox 360 — with Cris Velasco. • Mass Effect 2: Arrival — PC, PS3, Xbox 360 • Mortal Kombat — PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PSVita, PC — with Todd Haberman and Cris Velasco • The Agency — Unreleased — PS3, PC • Twisted Metal — 2012 — PS3 — with various others. • Might & Magic: Duel of Champions — PC, PS3, Xbox 360 • Mass Effect 3 — PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U — with Sam Hulick, Chris Lennertz and Clint Mansell, also composed the soundtrack for the DLC pack, Leviathan. • Borderlands 2 — PC, PS3, PSVita, Xbox 360, PS4, Xbox One, Nvidia Shield — with Raison Varner, Kevin Riepl and Jesper Kyd. • Injustice: Gods Among Us — 2013 — PS3, Wii U, Xbox 360, PC, PS4, PSVita, Mobile — with various others • Deus Ex: Mankind Divided — 2016 — PC, PS4, Xbox One — With Michael McCann, also scored the System Rift and A Criminal Past DLC packs. • The Long Dark — 2017 — PC, Xbox One, PS4 • Tom Clancy's The Division 2 (Season 9) — 2022 — PC, PS5, Xbox Series X • Metal Eden — 2025 — PC, PS5, Xbox Series X • Solo/other • Title — Year — System — Notes • Quake 3 Arena: Noise — 1999 — Digital Album • Promo 2001 — 2001 • Music for Visual Media — 2002 • Doomsday — 2015 — Physical Album • Dystopika: Meditations from the Future — 2025 • Metal Eden: Corrupted Memory Edition — 2025
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