Sascha Dikiciyan, known professionally as Sonic Mayhem, is a German game musician, producer and professional sound designer of

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origin, who has produced the soundtrack for ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Hellgate: London'', as well as approximately half of the soundtrack for ''

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'' and all the weapon sound effects for ''

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'' and, since the build 222 patch, also its predecessor,

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. 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). Currently Sascha collaborates with

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who is responsible for orchestral moods in their music. Dikiciyan is also known under the name Toksin, producing dance remixes for the likes of BT and

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and many others. Dikiciyan's work came to prominence when he sent a copy of his first CD ''Methods of Destruction'', an alternate '' Quake'' soundtrack, to

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in 1996. As a result,

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asked him personally to score the soundtrack for ''

''. Dikiciyan has also contributed sound patches to Moog Music's award-winning

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app.

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Sonic Mayhem websiteArtist profile
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1970 births Living people German industrial musicians Video game composers Musicians from Stuttgart German people of Armenian descent {{Germany-musician-stub