Opera Singer Reacts: Noosphere || Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

[@MarcoMeatball]

I bought this game because of all of you 😂

[@Grim_Kherac]

Praise the Omnissiah!

[@user-leet37598]

I bought this game because of YOU! I'm honestly having a blast, I love tactics games like these

[@xenosarcadius1198]

Praise the Ohmnissiah 🙏

[@elsaltyboi3081]

Another brother to follow lector dogmatis Videx righteous crusade upon the necrons, Praise the Omnissiah !

[@stachuuchats7801]

And How is it?

[@vitalik38815]

"Most electronic music has a base drop, Mechanicus has a pipe organ" - MandaloreGaming 2020

[@tigerii10.5cmpog4]

It is canon that the imperium can infact "drop the Church"

[@riiswalker8241]

@@tigerii10.5cmpog4 as a method of transporting troops to the battlefield ? Yes

[@bryantprak7129]

@@riiswalker8241 sometimes it just a walking church. With guns. Alot of guns.

[@riiswalker8241]

@@bryantprak7129 also

[@gegeutz7743]

The sisters of battle have Organ MLRS vehicles too

[@prophetisaiah08]

"I wonder if this is like the theme of the antagonists." This is Warhammer 40K. *Everyone* is an antagonist.

[@locke03]

"Who is the good guys?" "Whoever is committing the fewest atrocities at this moment."

[@prophetisaiah08]

@@locke03 a.k.a.: Usually the Tau... kinda... maybe?... probably?... we hope...

[@SampoPaalanen]

@@prophetisaiah08 Tau typically fill that role, but the imperium factions can fill the protagonist role as well, mostly because the forces they fight are much, much worse.

[@d-moon4982]

"are we the baddies?" -random imperial guardsman before getting his head blown off by the commissar

[@Deuzen_FIN]

@@SampoPaalanen When the xenophobic, genocidal, hyper-authoritarian Empire is considered one of the good-aligned factions, you can just imagine how horrible the rest of the galaxy must be.

[@Cirac1]

"Is this an army fueled by religion?" Is such a vague question in 40k. Great reaction man, as usual!

[@MarcoMeatball]

😂😂

[@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269]

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” -John 3:16

[@rokkraljkolesa9317]

@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 5 days late and completely irrelevant the Abominable Intelligence once more proves it is inferior to the holy machine spirits

[@NastyStankyChicken]

@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 "F@ck religion." - God Emperor of Mankind

[@vanillaicecream2385]

@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 less goody Christian and more worship a rotting corpse kept barely alive through ritual sacrifice and 10 thousand year old tech who if you can look past the immense mental anguish that scorches the armour of the guards black is a screaming skeleton keeping a galaxy wide light house operational

[@ІванГнатенко-с2ю]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal.

[@minimanbeast1014]

Fuck, that intro gives me shivers every fucking time

[@cocolahoff4292]

Even in death, I serve the Omnissiah.

[@LeQuack147]

Also Mechanicus: "The machine spirit doesn't like that! Now I gotta tell it a bedtime story and reconsecrate it! :V "

[@alejandrovillaseca8735]

@@LeQuack147 "I got to rub this sacred oil in my toaster for it yo work properly"

[@jakefrost7404]

*_~ Magos Dominus Reditus_*

[@LARDSS-rp8cd]

Fun Fact: The main composer of 40,000: Mechanicus, Guillaume David had this game as his first and only work as a composer, or at least that was what I could find about it.

[@Jadenyoung1]

it will hopefully not be his last!

[@DimitriFilichkin]

From what I have heard he is also composing the soundtrack for Ixion.

[@PanzerPlant]

@@DimitriFilichkin Ixion’s main theme is fucking fire.

[@theblobconsumes4859]

​@@skywillfindyou He probably had a career working alongside larger orchestral groups and studying and things of that matter. Similar thing happened with Ed Harrison before he went to work on the Source mod NeoTokyo. Just a musical nerd and person who studied, and occasionally played instruments on some other people's stuff, doing smaller projects, before being hired for NeoTokyo and then making something more experimental, by making his first dive into electronic music and his first time composing with anything electronic. I'd imagine Guillaume has more experience behind him than Ed did before entering the world of scoring, but still.

[@PierreM12345]

Guillaume David is a pseudonym, and Games Workshop won't let anyone know who it is. The guy is basically Alpharius

[@locke03]

The song is for a faction in the WH40k universe called the Adeptus Mechanicus, a cult that worships "the Omnissiah" their machine god. In-universe, humanity has lost much of the knowledge and technical expertise necessary to build and maintain most of the technology developed in its past and which it relies on to maintain a vast interstellar empire. Instead it's all been turned into religious rituals that the techpriests perform with little understanding of why they are actually performing it, other than it is necessary to appease the machine spirits (i.e. keep things running).

[@sciarpecyril]

AdMechs do understands most of their technology though.

[@Firewarz217]

Exept the dunestriders (I think) which the keep running in circles, because only on guy of them could turn them on (he's dead now), and they fear that they will never be able to turn them on again Also Toasters

[@alecritchie5669]

They do understand the machines and a lot of the times rituals are necessary because the belief that machine spirits run everything has projected into the warp making it real. This can be most noticeable with powerful machine spirits like Titans that slowly turn the Princeps that controls it into a copy of the Titans spirit. This is most talked about in the book Titanicus and I greatly recommend it

[@Heseroth]

@@sciarpecyril barely. I remember one book in which a mechanicus ship was under assault by a few chaos ships and losing, and in desperation the Magos begs the machine spirit of the ship to help, and suddenly better void shields are turned on, weapons the magos didnt even know existed on the ship come online, and the ship basically wrecks the chaos ships in seconds. The machine spirit then proceeds rehide it's features and wipe any knowledge of the occurence from the Magos's brain

[@sciarpecyril]

@@Heseroth, I wrote most technology, not all of it. They know how lasers, fusion reactors, radars, augmetic implants, et cetera works, they know physics, chemistry and biology better than we do, but when it comes to ancient tech, like old pre-Imperium space ships or phase technology, they indeed do not understand fully how it operates.

[@Captain_Torres]

If your reviewing Mechanicus tracks, PLEASE listen to Children of the Omnissiah, it is legitimately perfection

[@MrDarkSidius]

One day crude biomass that you call the temple will wither and you'll beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved... FOR THE MACHINE IS IMMORTAL *deep bass intensifies*

[@roguevector1268]

Seconding this ^

[@montyclown223]

There is no power in flesh Only weakness

[@nikrasol]

My god, its my favourite track in this game... That music helped me write my graduate work And then i become a mechanic Even in death, I still serve.

[@davethepants]

Millennial Rage better still

[@tictak959]

i read the words "Noosphere" and then "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus" on my phone and then my eyes began to glow a deep scarlet so bright that it interfered with the air traffic above my house, and then i began to levitate 2 feet off the ground in order to approached my PC to watch this video

[@mordador2702]

That sounds like ultra heresy. Or an unappeased machine spirit. Probably both.

[@TheAlien729]

@@mordador2702 Call the exorcist, we have a demon engine

[@Uberkilltoecheese]

lmao thats too funny of a picture man

[@inquisitorbenediktanders3142]

Time for operation "Ork Snipers".

[@KakhaPrime]

this dude took "rise and shine" a bit too literally :D

[@Heseroth]

For the *actual* antagonists of the game, which are the Necrons, aliens that were stripped of their flesh and souls completely to become nearly immortal metal machines, "Dance of the Cryptek" is the song you want to listen to. There is a strange juxtaposition in this game, where the Techpriests of the Mechanicus revile the flesh and try and replace as much of themselves as possible with machine parts to be closer to their machine god, but are limited by fear of the abominable AI (there was a great war against AI's in this universe), and the Necrons, which are considered the (more) bad guys, which lament the loss of their souls and flesh to become machine servants of their star gods. This is also noticeable in the music for both sides, which is why i'd love to see you react to Dance of the Cryptek as well. Also: Woooooooot! mine and many other's sugestion made it!!

[@silverhand9965]

Yeah, it's also interesting how they made the scary machines actually more human than the human faction. Your techpriests all speak in an undecipherable, binary-like language. Then you get into the tomb of a Necron lord and it starts broadcasting in perfect, well spoken english (or I guess High Gothic in universe), sounding far more human than any actual human in the game

[@alfredobelloni3258]

@@silverhand9965 Yeah i noticed that as well and thought it was really cool, but knowing nothing of warhammer lore, i still dont understand why.

[@manfredrichtoften8848]

​@@alfredobelloni3258 basically, transmittibng code is seen as the warhammer's version of speaking latin in mediveal ages (though to be fair in our case nobles also knew latin so this comparison is not 100% correct), as it is seen as being closer to the Omnissiah by the AdMech, but code (be it whatever) is an extremely dehumanising language. It shows just how ready AdMech is to go "that one more step" to getting closer to their god whilst also showing the Necrong longing for their mortality/imperfection. The entire game is basically a battle between two opposing sides who lost of things dear to them and see the other's side as the desireable one, even though it is impossible for the mo achieve their wishes.

[@alfredobelloni3258]

@@manfredrichtoften8848 that pretty cool. Any books you'd recommend to get started on warhammer? Novels, i mean.

[@manfredrichtoften8848]

@@alfredobelloni3258 yes, I highly recomend "Dead Men Walking" by Steve Lyons, as it has simmilar queues to the Mechanicus game, though he is pretty good in general. I would also recommend his Space Wolves book (don't know the name, if you search for it like that it should pop up) for what is esentially a really cool space version of a viking adventure story. Edit: one thing that I should add is that I wouldn't usually recommend books centred around space marines because they usually make the Imperium look lile it is kicking ass while in reality it is barely breathing

[@justkevinorsomethin]

Marco: So we're using sounds of battle to sound like musical instruments. Thats freaking genius. Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski: *Using 21 cannons for Ouverture 1812* Me: Heck yeah! I know something genius! :D

[@MarcoMeatball]

Fair point 😂

[@Smoliv1212]

Mick Gordon using chainsaw sounds for some songs as well

[@DEDomain]

Oh hell yeah, Marco. You're in for a ride. Talking about this sounding like the theme of the antagonists hits pretty close, but that's the awesome thing about Warhammer. *Everyone is a bad guy.* In this case, Noosphere is the canticle of the Adeptus Mechanicus. A branch of men who idolize machinery and the perfection of their people by becoming one with the machine. The Noosphere is a conceptual form of communication and information sharing based around a world spanning network. Everyone and everything is connected through the Noosphere. Some even say that this music plays through the Noosphere, heard by all who are bound to the network. Oh yeah, and there are battle units in Warhammer that use weaponized organs that fire missiles and artillery shells as they play. Warhammer is great.

[@AraghastThePillager]

Ah yes, the Exorcist. God-Emperor help me I love that tank.

[@jaxxchang-weinberg4684]

Unfortunately due to the context of the game. The Mechanicus are trying to raid a Necron (My Spooky Scary Simulacrum Skeletons. NECRON SUPREMACY!!!) tombworld. And given how insanely advanced the Necrons are (there science seems like magic with out actually being magic, looking at you Eldar), they can infect and preform cyber attacks against the Noosphere.

[@Zamandu]

"A branch of people", there's both men and women in equal parts in the Mechanicus

[@StreetBoyWill]

@@Zamandu Men as in human; like the "Imperium of Man"

[@Zamandu]

@@StreetBoyWill That's not how you say that. That would have been "A branch of man". Man is a synonym for Mankind, "men" is not. Or better yet, "A branch of Mankind"

[@EmporerEmblem]

oh hell yeah, Mechanicus has a godly OST. Also as a note on the usage of the organ for liturgical themes, a key aspect of the Warhammer 40K universe is that mankind as a whole has descended into a state of religious zealotry. Mankind on Earth for their God-King, the Emperor of Mankind, and the humans on Mars, aka the tech-priests/Adeptus Mechanicus, who are the protagonists of the game, for their Omnissiah, the god that dwells in all machines and bestows unto them their machine spirit.

[@Shinzon23]

You forgot to mention that the machine spirits could legitimately be shards of an artificial intelligence that wasn't exterminated back in the dark age of technology

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

The Machine Spirit is knowledge of human technology, and some people know more of the Machine Spirit than others, so only their minds (and therefore souls) have value. The flesh is nothing compared to the old machines, and so those who know nothing should rejoice at their fortune to be remade as loyal automata for their masters.

[@Gleipnir31]

The organ used is the one of the cathedral of Angoulême!

[@onerxowns2202]

Mindless, pointless and self-destructive religious zeal i might add, humanity have no chance in WH40K eventualy Chaos or xenos reach TERRA and burn it with golden Throne, thus ending Eternal War.

[@tigerfight85]

The OST is fire. Nails has a song called “Unsilent Death” and the breakdown reminds me of the crushing violence of an oncoming Land Raider Crusader.

[@Just2Ddude]

The fact he can pretty much describe the whole Warhammer feel and kind of a whole faction just based on music is actually so cool!

[@sootcoot8712]

The composer really nailed it then.

[@Just2Ddude]

@@sootcoot8712 Yes they did

[@joseph1150]

music is a language for those who know how to hear it.

[@raveninquisitor7012]

There are no heroes or villains in Warhammer 40k, just survivors

[@dgalloway107]

And demons. And Nids. And orcs. They be doing more than surviving theyre thriving.

[@tau-5794]

There's also Erebus

[@gingermcgingin4106]

There are villains, & they're called the Dark Eldar. The fact that they manage to out-evil the literal forces of Hell is impressive.

[@theblobconsumes4859]

@@gingermcgingin4106 Hell isn't really only "Hell", after all. The Warp represents far more than just evil. A bit of a theory is the fact that maybe everything being as negative as it is, is the reason why primarily evil is manifested through the Warp.

[@dreambuild8975]

There is a hero, the god emperor.

[@daedlus1220]

When the bass drop is a church organ.

[@AGuy-vq9qp]

Everybody gangsta ‘til the church starts walking.

[@accessdenied5998]

@@AGuy-vq9qp Or when Warships started Dropping Churches out of the orbit and Cover it with Holy Music from Adepta Sororitas

[@Gleipnir31]

It is the organ of a cathedral not a vulgar village church!

[@onerxowns2202]

@@AGuy-vq9qp ... and fire house size shells from skyscraper size gatling gun

[@unclesam5230]

@@onerxowns2202don’t forget that the shells are ingrained with Gothic art as well

[@TheGreegles]

That mention of if feeling "derelict" is on point! Both the Mechanicus and their foe are artefacts of the past, with the former being shackled by religious dogma and the latter being 65 million years out of time, slowly succumbing to the inevitable attrition of time and space.

[@The-jy3yq]

Funnily enough, these shackles of religious dogma had saved Mechanicus (and Mechanicum, before they _really_ decided to join the Imperium) from complete and utter destruction innumerous times Say, your higher standing Magos decides to go "hmm, why don't we use Xenotech to our advantage?" He then proceeds to do that, and.... *He fucks up.* Boom! 20 million die, a forgeworld is ravaged from bottom to up, an agriworld feeding a dozen other worlds is now a barren wasteland, and some moons are now just a lump of asteroids flying through both real and immaterial space. And Necrons? Without them going to sleep, they wouldn't outlive the incredibly powerful Krorks and Eldar, their incredibly technologically advanced empire that had a thingie that can turn stars into supernovas with one click of a button as one of their lower-end weapons, would be destroyed in it's entirety in a matter of decades!

[@C0XKR04CH]

@@The-jy3yq They are shackles regardless, the lack of advancement leads the imperium to a stagnation that will end humanity.

[@BoredDaemon]

A note about what the song is named after. The Noosphere is effectively a way of seeing data in its purest form unburdened by corruption or alteration. Only the most direct processing of whatever it is coming from. And multiple entities can be a part of the same Noosphere all communing with each other. So with this song you have the steady drum line as though you are another piece in this great machine. The organ and liturgical themes added to this all seem to meld with the machine in a holy communion. Very fitting for the faith in the Machine God

[@zealousdfeat]

So the internet

[@trinova9581]

Ah 40k. You are correct to note the liturgical themes. As others have mentioned, the Adeptus Mechanicus is essentially a cargo cult worshiping technology that’s often irreplaceable, complete with rites, prayers, blessings, and so on for the starting up and maintenance of machines. Incense, candles, and holy oils included. They even have what are basically Gregorian chants in what is essentially binary. The humans as a whole in 40k take heavy influence from the Medieval Catholic Church. It’s particularly evident in their architecture. Their starships look like giant flying cathedrals, complete with ornate gold exteriors, giant flying buttresses, enormous stained glass windows, decorative statuary, and towers that wouldn’t look out of place in 15th century France. One of their mechs can even be described as more or less La Sagrada Familia given legs.

[@MrNoPro]

I love how you immediately register it as the bad guy theme. They probably would be the antagonists in any other setting honestly.

[@SolarArmadillo]

Every 40k faction would be the villain in any other setting. The most evil faction in Star Trek(if we don’t count the Borg), the Dominion, seem to more or less allow their subjected species to run their own affairs as long as they pay tribute to the changelings. The Imperium makes the Changelings look like Vulcans in comparison.

[@joshuahandlen9885]

Jesper Kyd's work for Warhammer is also top tier. Darktide isn't even out yet and the music is already phenominal.

[@phantam23]

This, It would be great if he reacted to Immortal Imperium from the Darktide soundtrack.

[@Korfax124]

Just listened to the WHOLE soundtrack yesterday that came out from Fatsharks KZbin channel! Around 2 hours of music for purging Tertium!!

[@Rawilow]

@@phantam23 ya got your wish it seem 😁

[@MrBlueBurd0451]

Jesper Kyd is one of the unsung GODS of the OST world.

[@ipatchymakouli415]

Ah, this pleases the Omnissiah... Without even knowing those are absolute enhancements to their organic life, even fleshlings can appreciate the harmony of steel, pistons and coolants... - ][ - May the Machine spirit bless you in all your future recordings. - ][ -

[@TheUkchiller]

Blessed be the Omnissiah. 🔩

[@Daralyndk]

Ya, dere be a pleny o' good scrap 'ere I wanna bash together da biggest an' greatest dakka of dem all an' get me some gut skullz for me pointy stick WAAAGGHHH!

[@jayvee3165]

Omg can't believe you actually did it. Mechanicus has such an amazingly unique OST, and IIRC this was Guillaume David's first professional venture Definitely take a look at Children of the Omnissiah next

[@Hanfgurkenhasser]

Caestus Metalican is my favorite track - the low Ds on the bass singers (if you can call 'em that, haha) give me the chills in ways that would be heretical to describe any closer.

[@CaptainPerfect]

I really hope that Ixion will have as good as a banger of an ost.

[@CallanElliott]

If you go a little deeper into the lore of the Mechanicus, the soundscape actually becomes even deeper. The kinda of echoey, shadowy chants represents the Binary Chant that serves as the spoken language of the Mechanicus. Its the troops on the field communicating, while the rest of it is the sounds of battle as they annihilate their foes.

[@NoltemReturns]

Praise the Omnissiah

[@TheUkchiller]

Blessed by the Omnissiah brother

[@rayanderson5797]

Ave Omnissiah

[@zarthes]

For the simplest introduction of what can be the 'vibe' of Mechanicus, one simply has to witness the teaser trailer, along with perhaps giving and many others are bound to say the song "Children of the Omnissiah" a listen.

[@NoahLoydOG]

I'm just gonna say it. When the rest of the Darktide soundtrack drops, I can't wait to hear the reactions from Marco. For a guy with such an uncanny ability to deconstruct, or extrapolate the context of, almost any music he comes across, I'd be fascinated to hear what he gets out of tracks like the assassination target theme.

[@MarcoMeatball]

Sure! And thanks Noah!

[@Shinzon23]

Surprise! It's out now

[@thedarklrd6714]

I'd also say that proves the composer's ability to convey the story through music

[@Firewarz217]

Warhammer music?! "A suprise to be sure, but a welcome one"

[@Firewarz217]

Also it might not be official but the music about 40k from officio audiorum is great and fits the vibe of the Character or faction each song is about. Especially Hero of the Imperium

[@newsheo5822]

You should also watch the intro for this game. The monologue captures the style and philosophy of Mechanicus really well.

[@KirunyandNanta]

"The Noosphere is a cybernetic information and communication technology system developed by the Mechanicum during the closing years of the Great Crusade in the late 30th Millennium." I love this track, it best explained as how you as a machine would hear its comrades in arms each sound a layer of information. From the rhythmic march pattern to the almost religious chorus of input to decode from it's attached army, The static of losses increasing as the battle intensifies grow quiet and blaze up again around each corner. I find it strangely beautiful to think about how it can only explore it's surroundings through other inputs.

[@RainbowDevourer]

The Noosphere is just Grimdark Wifi

[@KirunyandNanta]

@@RainbowDevourer That is very accurate, only need to remeber that a real CPU is fleshy in 40k.

[@zlt__]

Oh, there are no words to describe how I am glad to see Mechanicus OST on your channel. Each and every track from there (despite Binary Signal maybe which is basically just ambience) is genious. The game focuses on a local conflict of two factions, Adeptus Mechanicus, human worshippers of Machine God, and Necrons, an incredibly old race of sleeping machines who were organics millions of years ago but sacrificed their bodies and souls in exchange for power and immortality. And the ost captures as many features and fine ideas as possible. Each track is devoted to one of the sides and each has a story to tell. Zealotry and determination to fight for their god, synthesis of cold, precise machinery and religious devotion, echoes of old battles (as lots of the devices that AdMech use are no less than real relics); mourning for what is lost and hope for what is to be aquired again; inditinct voices of machine spirits singing in extacy; exploring the ancient halls which contain wonders and grave dangers beyond human understanding. Sleep of sixty million years, dreams of the great wars of old; the sounds of horns calling for those who once ruled the known cosmos to wake up once again and protect their tumb from intruders; haunting chants and dances of those who have mastered technology to the point of magic; intimidating clicking of warriors' metal bones... All of this can be heard in this ost. There couldn't be a better choice of sounds and style for it. The ost does a great job in telling you that all what you witness in the game has lore, has history, just a tiny piece of a much, much greater story. And on top of all it just slaps on its own. The embodiement of what we love game music for imo. Hope you'll check the other tracks too.

[@elizabethk8718]

Was great to see the reaction as the main part of the song came to life. Going from just calmly listening to the opening rhythms to suddenly in a state of confusion, trying to process what he's hearing, and then just starting to jam along.

[@EndsonLawrence]

Mechanicus has so many fantastic songs in its OST, this one is near the top of its best. Very cool insight in its use of sound effects nad organ.

[@cargogax]

Great reaction ! And very welcome one, and you clearly understood the tone and expression behind it ! Like some people have recommended, if you can listen to other music from the OST of this game (since yes, it's a videogame, a really good tactical rpg). My big recommendations being : "Children of Omnissiah" and "Dance of The Cryptek", but every single music in this OST are magnificent

[@musstakrakish]

insane how he instantly picked up on everything Warhammer just from this song. Absolutely amazing talent for an artist to convey that much in their art in such short amount of time.

[@ReFoxBlue]

The OST of Mechanicus definitely deserves a dedicated video

[@regemhood3651]

If you want some crazy organ usage like this you should check out some of the combat themes from Warhammer 40,000 Darktide specifically Immortal Imperium

[@mistared4021]

A short intro to the mechanics, they're a cult built around superstition and technology, they control *all* human technology in 40k and they jealously hoard knowledge in regards to it and view innovation as a sort of sacrilege. They're this games protagonists, they're facing necrons, ancient Egyptian themed necro terminators awakening from their millennia old hibernation.(I love how ridiculous 40k gets sometimes) Also an intro to 40k is that it's grim dark, it's set in a futuristic dark age where humanity is in decline after it's golden age and has devolved into a fascistic, superstitious, fractured theocracy and there are no good guys, in fact, the humans are the least bad group here. My favourite part of the track is the sorta chanting at 5:40 or so.

[@OperatorVanta]

I wouldn't say humans are... the least bad guy. The Tau are probably better even if they still suck, and the Craftworld Eldar might be dying out, but they are very VERY far from being evil even if they do tend to be arrogant and sometimes aggressive

[@H010CR0N]

I alway think that when you hear the voice starting at around 3:08, it’s saying “ the machine is our god”

[@confusedcabal342]

One has to love the musical themes of the Imperium, where cathedrals are dropped from orbit and towering mechs carry entire monasteries on their backs. Great analysis and reaction! Hope you check out more Warhammer music in the future!!

[@Mr.Praetor]

Very cool to hear this unique track getting some attention, the pipe organ you hear is a 100+ year old piece recorded in it's church to get the proper sound. Amazing and weird piece.

[@ingemar]

i was blown away with all of Mechanicus their music on my first playthrough, its absolutely amazing. keep it Marco love the quality content .

[@TheWeaklingg]

The Noosphere itself is the technology that connects Mechanicus members like a network. It allows them to speak, exchange and store information and even lets them sence things - usually machine and tech related. I always thought that the organ and chanting in the song over the more electronic elements symbolized in a way the Mechanicus in general or even a single individual trying to guide and control the Noosphere(as in using faith to operate the machine). As you can hear, when the two meld is when everything is at it's height. Or maybe the Mechanicus opposing the Necrons with the whole religious themes overlayed on the electronic ones. Great pick by the way.

[@ulch11]

This track is so much better when you understand the background of the adeptus mechanicus. This OST fits the game like a glove. I don't think there could have been a better soundtrack.

[@Gigasius]

The player faction in the game is Adeptus Mechanicus. Martian people who hoards and worships technology and wish to become machines themselves. My favorite quote related to then is also from this game and it describes them so well. "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal. Even in death, I still serve the Omnissiah."

[@extremepredudice]

I love this theme, it just fits the Mechanicus so well. You can just imagine at 2:36 this enormous humanoid walker, hundreds of meters tall, the very earth shuddering with each footfall as it advances, elegant buttresses and spires rising from its back, each bristling with dozens of gun emplacements and missile silos. Each of its gargantuan arms equipped with weapons that can render a swathe of land from horizon to horizon into a field of molten glass in a single white hot flash. Enemy munitions detonating in flashes of violet light as they smash into the layered void shields protecting its thickly armoured hull, its outer surfaces decorated with baroque and Gothic scroll work and artistry, its construction clearly an artefact from a bygone era where man roamed the stars unafraid and triumphant. Ancient and powerful, possessed of a sentient intelligence of its own that constantly strains against the control of the princeps in charge of the machine. Behold the Omnissiah's might. Behold... an Imperial Titan.

[@danksalt5935]

Noosphere is basically Tech priest’s version of Instagram. They communicate through a server across a planet or a sector of space.

[@Flight_of_Icarus]

0:47 Through the deafening sounds of battle, the church bells can be heard loud and clear. I've listened to this song a dozen times and I've never caught onto that. That is an excellent introduction to the Imperium as a whole, not just the Mechanicus.

[@minimanbeast1014]

3:40 they are very much religouse, for a bit of context, this game follows a group known as the adeptus mechanicus, a group in the imperium of man (the "good" guys).in the faction they are essentialy the mechanics. They are an extreamly religouse group, praying to something known as a machine spirit, they believe that that is what makes there technology works

[@Valysion]

The thing is it works. They actually make machines go.

[@QwertyBoredom122]

Warp fuckery literally means that faith makes technology work in this universe, look at the Orks for a prime example of this in action (seriously some Ork guns don't even have moving parts).

[@minimanbeast1014]

Yup, and its absolutley mad

[@ZZMonkeysUncleZZ]

They believe it works and so it does. It works, and so they believe.

[@uncanny3637]

@@QwertyBoredom122 but the thing is the orks make their shit work because they are made to what they think will work will work.

[@arthurmerkulov5904]

Adding to other suggestions Immortal Imperium from Darktide would be also pretty fun to hear! All of this incapsulates the *feeling* of warhammer pretty well :)

[@ruipinho619]

Aw man, this was unexpected, but very welcome! Love the reaction, Caestus Metalicus and Children of the Omnissiah are amazing as well, but probably Dance of the Kryptek would be better for your channel. Anyway, whatever you choose, ill be here, keep up the great reactions and wisdom about music!

[@TheAlien729]

If very briefly and without going into details: In Warhammer 40k, the Noosphere is the Internet, which, like in cyberpunk 2077, allows you to completely immerse yourself. And the Mechanicus who own it are techno-fanatics who have build a "machine cult" with the machine god as the central figure It's already been posted here, but I double recommend "Children of the Omnissiah" and add "Dance of the Cryptek". I also highly recommend "For the Craftworld" from Dawn of War 2 From interesting. This game contrasts humans who want to become like a machine and ancient, like time itself, aliens who long ago abandoned the flesh and became completely machines.

[@PrimeSniper7]

I can recommend Caestus Metalican and Children of the Omnissiah as well if you're interested in more from this OST. If you're interested in learning more about 40k then the Templin Institute has a pretty good video on the Imperium of Man.

[@loadingnewads]

He’s analysis revealed everything behind the music, great work!!!

[@godhimself9528]

Gotta love how this man literally translated the whole plot of Mechanicus from listening to one theme Prase the Omnissiah

[@christofferaav]

Wow. You just accurately described the entire game experience from listening to one song. I plowed many hours into this game and the music is an essential part of it, and you just, like, get it.

[@AcadianBacon8]

The music - as well as everything else - is fantastic in this game. One of the few gems in the WH 40K video game library.

[@EndNoble]

The game has an epic OST. Millennial Rage is my favorite track from it.

[@Vazkiel]

It's one of the themes that plays during battles. If anything is an example of the "flaming piano meme," this is it. Literally made a epic banger for just the regular battles, not even for a special boss battle. The other soundtracks are amazing as well.

[@Vazkiel]

Thank you once again for the heart, Marco. Praise the Emperor! Praise the Omnissiah!

[@ethical_researcher4754]

This is one of my favorite game OSTs just by the virtue of how perfectly it encodes all the themes of its story. And hats off to you just how you were able to decode them without any previous context.

[@pablonarcoboy185]

Hell yeah! I know you would react to this someday. This game and its soundtracks is the one that made me go full deep into warhammer lore. Amazing analysis as usual and pretty spot on with that "Religious driven group" idea. The Adeptus Mechanicus faction is more machine than man and they worship Machine God or the Omnissiah . These are just bunch of tech nerds that replaced most of their body with cybernetics and probably called their decked out RGB PC a place of worship. oh yeah, they pray to the Machine God if one of their weapon jammed during a battle.

[@ashardalondragnipurake]

i love the beat in this song its the popping of a speaker, or as close as possible the distortion, the anger of a broken machine giving the rythm for the song the failing but still working machine setting the marching beat for the army of its vengeance

[@Tearakan]

So the adeptus mechanicus is very hard to explain. In essence it is a theocracy based off of machine worship. This theocracy is within the imperium of man, itself a very repressive empire. This all takes place after an effective apocalypse conflict an old human empire had with its enslaved AI. The mechanicus is highly rigid and dogmatic. Most attempts to innovate are met with charges of heresy. They have lost thousands of years of technological advancement because of that apocalypse war and are on a holy mission to discover the technology of past humans. They also hate any machines made by aliens. In this game one of their fleets has discovered old technology on a far off planet. Turns out it is inhabited by aliens that fully turned their species into machines at the cost of their souls. This directly confronts the mechanicus dogma that the flesh is weak and needs to be replaced by mechanical components.

[@AeromatterYT]

Excellent analysis at the end. You managed to decipher a lot of the character of the factions at play just by deconstructing the sounds being used. Very accurately for someone who doesn't know Warhammer I might add!

[@Tehstampede]

"Who are the good guys in 40k?" The humans. Obviously.

[@Kenosos]

As a lifelong warhammer fan, the Mechanicus soundtrack was one of the best things that ever happened to me, music that so perfectly encompases the feel of warhammer.

[@maxducks2001]

The language of the singers is what’s known as Lingua-Technis, a form of binary machine code that is comprised of non-random bursts of static, emitted through the cybernetic implants present in most tech-priests of the Mechanicus, and cannot be understood by unaugmented humans. Even if one could decipher the language, it contains countless arcane references and allusions to secret knowledge only held by the Cult Mechanicus. Ever since the human civil war known as the Horus Heresy, it has been a priority of the Inquisition, the most powerful organization in the Imperium, to decipher this language. However, after 10,000 years, they haven’t even been able to decipher the most rudimentary syntax of the machine language. TL;DR The singers are speaking an archaic machine language only members of the Mechanicus can understand. If you want examples of what this sounds like, I highly recommend looking up voice lines from the game itself. The sound design is absolutely incredible.

[@bigred75b77]

The entire song feels like a tech priest in a battle; blind of everything around him in ignorance but slowly registers the data around him until it become a orchestra of his deliberate design. A song of gaining knowledge and then being in control with it.

[@TheGuyver010]

"an army of zealots, fuelled by religion" oh you have no idea how right you are lol

[@NickBingham01]

The "Noosphere" is basically Admech WiFi, their augmented vision allows them to see the data in the air around them.

[@chase_h.01]

Without knowing much about 40k, I'm very impressed how much he was correctly able to glean from the music alone

[@Demmon98]

Gotta love the deep electronic tones that simulate the singing/chanting of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Those who forsake their flesh for the solidity of steel and circuitry. So their voices are no longer natural, but they still raise them in praise of the Omnissiah. Such a unique concept perfectly captured by the Mechanicus OST.

[@TheLolwut2]

"Is this army religious zealots or something?" *laughs in binary*

[@ExceedProduction]

Now that's a video I didn't expect AT ALL. The Mechanicus OST is amazing beyond compare, it fits the game and setting perfectly. David did an amazing job.

[@ericwolf9664]

Yep this is from one of the gems of 40k games. Playable on at least PC and mobile. Don't know if steam supports the consoles but I wouldn't be shocked if it did. Now I need some more of the witty Scaevolla's witty banter that pokes fun at curmudgeonly attitude of the rest of the tech priest crew. Sadly even those crewmembers are more interesting than their representation in the vast majority of the lore.

[@emprahsfinest7092]

Seeing your reaction is so precious and your analysis is spot on. Just discovered you but I already love these videos!

[@MarcoMeatball]

:)

[@nopenope7136]

I hope we see some more Warhammer songs, really enjoy when you guess what's going on and what the song represents. Another Warhammer game coming out soon Darktide had it's main theme released on Fatshark channel, hope a patron recommends it or Deep rock galactic.

[@Palestrike]

Props to both you AND the composer. He worte music that told you exactly what it was, and you heard it and knew exactly what it was. perfect! I recommend this game to literally anyone. i normally don't like turn based strategy, but you can just turn your brain off, listen to the mastercrafted soundtrack, and play chess with guns. 10/10.

[@thebanditman5663]

It's insane to think that this song is supposed to be a representation of what the admech hear when communicating to each other through the noosphere.

[@banzaikoowaid]

One can only *begin* to imagine the level of euphoria and zeal that communicating with one another in the Noosphere creates. 👏

[@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind]

David Guillaume is a fantastic composer. Last time I was this surprised by a OST was Mick Gordon (Doom).

[@infernalcontraptions8648]

His Holy Mechadendriteness approves of this video.

[@Echo1608.]

HOW DID I MISS THIS?!?! I'm so happy you did a reaction to Noosphere, I would suggest listening to the full OST of mechanicus whenever you get the chance, it's a beautiful journey. Warhammer 40k is a wonderful world with all sorts of twists and turns. Humanity has this wonderful love of gothic architecture and design in EVERYTHING, even their ships look like massive cathedrals, cutting through the stars. The adaptus Mechanicus is a favorite faction of my as they are basically religious tech zealots, Computer needs to reboot? No more reboot button, you must anoint the computer in holy oils, sing to the omnisia for it's blessings upon the machine spirit, being the rebooting sequence as you light the incense, then pray that the computer will reboot.

[@Uberkilltoecheese]

3:25 spot on marco*, you never fail to impress haha. definitely zealots, fighting ancient or monstrous evils, yet also are not the good guys either.

[@MarcoMeatball]

Marco 😂😂 also thank you :)

[@Uberkilltoecheese]

@@MarcoMeatball IT WAS A TYPO I PROMISE lmao

[@heunam3593]

i have a very niche recommendation, the ost of Kenshi, its an indie game made by i believe one guy. its sort of a sandbox survival in an unforgiving alien wasteland where society has crumbled hundreds of years ago, and the soundtrack is beautful imo. it came to mind because i sometimes listen to this song from mechanicus while playing Kenshi, not that they are similar i just find that it fits, and i believe it has a lot of interesting qualities. been binging your videos for a bit and im loving your insight and commentary

[@JC-op4co]

The soundtrack of this game is a major selling point and long after I stopped playing it I still like to go back and listen to it. Guillaume David is a very talented composer. He also produced an excellent soundtrack for the game Ixion.

[@v.0190]

I dont see anyone mentioning that Mechanicus is hapenning in Necrons Tomb. A lot of backround noises are quite resembling noises of slowly awakening, Necrons surrounding mechanicus Cohort.

[@Clockwork_Mk3]

I have to say thank you. I happen to be a big fan of the Adeptus Mechanicus. This video gave me the opportunity to get to know the deeper essence of the music of this game. In addition, thank you for choosing one of the best soundtracks (as for me, they also include everyone's favorite main theme and Overlord composition). Speaking briefly about the history of the mechanicus: a part of the evil deity (the Dragon of the Void) imprisoned on Mars saved people by giving knowledge, and they in turn founded the faith and cult of the mechanicum. where the flesh fails, the machine succeeds. Rationalism is so cruel that we will search for fragments of knowledge of the past for thousands of years rather than invent something new. Suddenly it will be a new AI that will destroy us. Also, technologies of other types are only being studied. And having such a story, these guys break into the tombs of the necrons - mechanical robots of the Egyptians who sold their souls to those evil gods like the one on Mars. The temptation to explore conflicts with faith, troops are just expendable, secrets of a different kind... that's what the Mechanicus is really about.

[@ЕвгенийВоробьев-т7с]

4:58 "I wonder if this is the theme of the antagonists" Me, after reading "Voice of Mars" by Guy Hailey, being a passionate Iron Hands fan: *YES*

[@HateMachinist]

The entire soundtrack of "Mechanicus" is noteworthy, and unique in ways you have never heard before. And it works. It works so well, I would recommend you check out the rest of the soundtrack as well. Consider "Dance of the Cryptek" next?

[@JettMann8]

I've never heard someone so accurately break down a major philosophical ideal intertwined into Warhammer 40K lore just from listening to the *music*

[@WildWolfGod]

Mechanicus is kind of an obscure game to most people but it's probably got my favorite soundtrack in gaming. I'd love to see you react to anything else on the Soundtrack!

[@KingKass2929]

It’s a good sign that someone’s REALLY listening when they open their mouth, drinking in the sound. Good shit. Good music.

[@carlstein9278]

Man your perfect interpretation of this piece is impressive. you spot on described what the game and setting are about just from the music. i'm blown away

[@masterikej1]

I first saw your video on Children of the Omnissiah, then saw Dance of the Cryptek, then this. All great videos, I wish you also did Overlord, it is my favorite track from Mechanicus.

[@JetBalrog]

I feel this song so strongly exemplifies the Adeptus Mechanicus in every way. It's dark, it's a little dirty sounding, but it has this unmistakable religious angle to it, and yet it also has a deep, heavy synth backing with the chanting, which is perfect. The actual higher up members of the faction have replaced so much of their bodies with robotic parts that when they speak with each other, it sounds like electronic noise being blasted, because speaking in electronic signals is faster, for "the flesh is weak" as they would say. Why bother with normal speech when you can recite several chapters of your religious texts in mere moments? That gets reflected in the way the chants sound: you can tell it's a person, but it has this weird feeling to it, it doesn't quite sound like words, just... sound being used to give meaning. It's wild, and I love it. They're probably my favorite human faction as a whole, even if they don't get the spotlight a whole lot. Side note, they're the only organization in the grim darkness of the 41st century that are *allowed* to have a religion that doesn't follow the God Emperor of Mankind, so that's interesting to note. The reason being, these people are the only ones that can keep the machinery working, and their faith in their own Machine God is key to how their machinery works. They even have special hoverbikes that are literally religiously driven daily with special rituals just to make sure that they don't mysteriously stop functioning one day.

[@thomaskamkar5197]

Please make more of these, Mechanics is a treasure trove of fantastic tracks

[@TheNecromorphkiller]

Watching these is always awesome to see how well the music tells the story, and warhammer is incredibly old so has had a lot of time to refine how it sounds and looks and all that, but hearing you like basically immediately call out what the entire setting is "about" was awesome, i knew mechanicus music was great but I never would have known it told the story of warhammer 40k so well

[@Tremadog102]

I remember buying this game and enjoying it and the soundtrack, but I don't think I ever noticed this track before. I tend to put music on when I go to sleep and this time I queued up the Mechanicus soundtrack. I woke up during the night to this sound and I felt like I had some kind of epiphany. It was so strange. Being a big fan of the tabletop game that this tactical game this means a lot to me. When I listen to it I hear the power of the synth and the organ but to me the chanting almost sounds mournful, like it is lamenting the knowledge that humankind has lost in the game's setting. That the chanting is unintelligible only cements how alien the transhuman nature of the Adeptus Mechanicus really is. As much as I love the faction from the point of view of the art and the miniatures they are a truly chilling faction that would be deeply unsettling to experience first hand.

[@takeaholiday]

Hahah, your face as the music turns into church organs. Classic. I love this genre.

[@deadcat8167]

Its so intresting to see all the incredibly accurate guesses as you listen to it. Its clear you don't know much about 40k, but just on the music alone you can get a sense of the world which is testimate to both your skill as an anaylist and the composers skill in crafting the OST.