Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus - Children of the Omnissiah | Reacting To Video Game Music! 

"There is no truth in flesh, only betrayal." "There is no strength in flesh, only weakness." "There is no constancy in flesh, only decay." "There is no certainty in flesh but death." - Credo Omnissiah

The organ is one of the most unique things that can be played, in my opinion. Its actually where the saying "Pulling out all the stops" came from, to pull out all the stops on an organ is to fully use all of the pipes. Pretty cool stuff!

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 it will not decay and fail you, one day the crude biomass you call 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 serve the Omnissiah." Jesse, you're in for a treat with this game's soundtrack. all I'll need to say.

This games entire audioscape, not just the OST but the way sound is woven in to the gameplay, the feel of playing it, is really fantastic. There is a ton of warhammer 40k games, Mechanicus is probably the best of them.

The sound of this game is truly something special. From the music to the sound effects to the 'voice' acting, it's truly an auditory feast.

Mechanicus wasn't as successful as I feel it deserved to be which is a shame as the devs were clearly passionate about the game and the universe and the results of that passion speak for themselves. The whole game oozes character and is certainly the best 40k game I've played when it comes to representing the source. The sound design in particular is excellent and really elevates the experience, no one really knew what Adeptus Mechanicus music would sound like before this game and now every fan I know says they can't imagine it any other way. It's very dissappointing that as far as I can tell this soundtrack is Guillaume David's only publicly available work anywhere as I'd love to hear more of his stuff based on his showing here. If you're interested in checking out more from this game I'd recommend Noosphere or Overlord, though honestly all the tracks are fantastic.

Everything about WH40k Mechanicus is perfection in establishing the feel of the Adeptus Mechanicus faction--and that's just talking the sound design. Hearing Noosphere is what finally got me to fire up the game itself.

I interpret this song as a hymn being sung by machines. A hymn that organic minds can’t understand fully.

Those pulled switches/levers are called stops, which may be where the phrase "pulling out all the stops" came from. Each stop controls a series of pipes that produce a different type of sounds from other wind instruments; flutes, trumpets, even reed instruments like a giant oboe. If the pipes are tuned properly, they'll harmonize with multiple stops pulled. I don't think there's a stop to make it sound like there's a loose valve flapping around, but that effect can be added in editing.

Gosh that organ is 40k as hecc. Everything in 40k is gothic taken to the extreme, and that organ fits it so well If you're interested in checking out more music from Warhammer 40k games, I highly recommend the Dawn Of War III soundtrack by Paul Leonard-Morgan. It's a very different soundtrack to this, but it's just as interesting at least (in my mind, even more interesting). My favourites from the soundtrack are Unite The Wayfarers and Where There Is Darkness. The rest of the Mechanicus soundtrack is also awesome.

Pipe organs are pretty much a forgotten instrument nowadays. It's so cool hearing them in modern arangement. As a kid I was going to a church that had the whole pipe organ setup but it sounded nothing like this.

Teased enough already? ;) Imagine Jesse going wild when he hears Noosphere of Dance of the Cryptek. Muh 40000A.D. electronic organ robot priests chanting. For the love of God PLEASE drop Jesse the W40k: Mechanicus teaser on the next stream.

Mechanicus has some incredible music, I highly recommend checking even more of its music out. This is pretty well the theme, I'd like to think. The theme of humans who worship the Machine God, and the choice of instrumentation is *perfect* for that. Heavy, deep, awe inspiring synths with a pipe organ just sitting on top. It's so awesome. Warhammer 40k is a wild trip, but the Mechanicus faction is likely my favorite. Literal belief can cause their machinery to do wild things normally not possible - and can even *talk* with machines and seemingly actually understand them. Their Tech Priest caste regularly doesn't even speak in spoken words when possible - they instead make bursts of staticky noise that is a stream of code that others of their kind can understand, thus transferring knowledge far faster than otherwise possible.

Hi Jesse, as a big fan of Warhammer 40,000 (or 40k for short) I wanna give a bit of context in the most simple way possible for what is going on with this song's title because 40k has almost 40 years worth of lore at this point. The Mechanicus is a machine worshipping cult of humanity that follow their God the Omnissiah and believe all machines have a latent spirit that makes them work so they try to appease machine spirits by doing Gregorian chanting and burning incense to appease the machine spirit because they forgot how machines work a long time ago. So you get Gregorian chant monks with swooping organ sounds to combine with techno noises like gears, cogs, and static. It's really neat

I am so glad you enjoyed my pick! I debated wether or not to link you one of the extended versions, but I felt this was a perfect bite sized tease to help get you interested in further 40k music.

...BUT I AM ALREADY SAVED

"That was it??" Same. Wish it was longer

The entire game has absolutely incredible sound design and music. It honestly offers one of the best video-game musical scores of all-time. To think that this was the composer's first soundtrack. Game itself is really good too.

It's a french composer, and it was played on the Organ in the Cathedral of Angoulême !

where's the link video?

Those series of knobs on an organ are called stops

Yes Mechanicus OST is so frigging good As for the game. You basicaly play a group of priests that believe Machines are a piece of God and you raid a world spanning tomb of Undead Space Egyptian Terminators that got woken up by you and dont like you poking in their stuff. (This Sentence is pretty tame for 40k in terms of ridiculus)

This OST just f.... ing kicks it out of the park and into orbit (pun intended) ! You should really listen to the OST with the game too! One of the rare cases of a sleeper hit. SOLID 10/10 in my book!

This song is the epitomie of the prompt "hyper religious machine cult"

OH MY GOD 40K. 40K has some of the best ambiance music. I have this song on my phone. It so good! That giant pipe organ? It's pretty much all the imperium!

MECHANICUS This game is SO GOOD. The music, the audio engineering for every little thing, from how they create the sounds for the Adeptus Mechanicus themselves - with the younger ones still having a slight human sound to their speech while the older ones sounding almost completely like this mash of machinery and electronics, - to the sound effects of the countless ridiculous attachments and weapons these technophile cultists use, the music is this gorgeous techno-gothic soundscape that really elevates the experience. Warhammer 40k games tend to have forgettable music, but this one stands out and really has found a home in the world of video game music. Noosphere in particular is the track that tends to be recommended the most and talked about the most BY fans of the game, it's keeping much in theme with the techno-gothic of a grim-dark future, but has an almost LIVING feel, best described as the track 'breathing in and out' over the course of its length. So glad you did this, it made me happy.

I absolutely love your reaction as the song ends. Loving it so much that you got mad that there wasn't more of it. Good thing is that there are a lot of extended loops of that song, and it is fantastic looped. Another good things is that the rest of the album is also phenomenal. Welcome to Mechanicus, Glory to the Omnisiah.

Prised be the Omnissiah for it brought us the understanding of the technology that make this music.

The song gives me the impression of a colossal engine.

I can't even begin to explain the insanity that is Warhammer 40k. Just imagine a hyper dark sci fi universe where we live in the year 40k and everything is screwed up beyond imaginable. All factions in this universe are so stupidly overpowered. From super human religios power armored warriors that shoot explosive redbull cans from an automatic bolter "rifle" to eldrich horrors that turn your inside out, aliens with railguns with reach beyond comprehension, undead death robots with weapons that disintegrate everything and murder bugs that consume worlds as a snack. And that is the tame stuff from that universe! Anyway, FOR THE EMPEROR!

If you like this, you should give the new Darktide soundtrack a go if you want another Warhammer soundtrack to check out.

NOOSPHERE! React to Noosphere from the same game next please!

5:48 well warhammer 40k darktide has come out i would recommend reacting to the assassin boss music

The science and history behind the organ puts on display how incredibly forceful a scientific and emotional impact the church had and still has. No, I'm not religious.

Iirc this is the main menu bgm, so having it in a longer loop would make sense.

In the grim dark future of the 41st millennium there is only War.... and sick gothic organ music. I haven't tried this game before but I might have to pick it up now if this banger is just one of the tracks in this game.

imho a great soundtrack really elevates a good game to an excellent game. It really gets you in the headspace to feel the story and the ambiance they want to present.

Thr adeptus mechanicus happned brother, it's perfection is immeasurable.

Some context for the song: Warhammer 40,000 is a science fiction setting where humanity has spread across the galaxy, but with the caveat that it is controlled by a vast Empire, one that venerates the God-Emperor of Mankind (or else). One of the few quasi-heresies permitted in this setting is the Machine Cult of Mars, which worships the Emperor as the living embodiment of technological progress and scientific understanding (which they call the Omnissaiah). The Machine Cult also, quite literally, worships technology, and strictly regulates all knowledge related to the use, construction, and repair of technological artifacts. In a thematic sense, this song encapsulates that peculiar relationship to technology perfectly. Sacred, but also oppressive, and slightly glitchy, a sign of sacred technology that has begun to fail due to a deterioration of humanity's understanding of the machines that enable its existence across the stars. Even in such oppression, though, there is beauty to be found, a hint of the divine in the whirring of servos and the buzzing of cogitators.

I think you will love the Choir Of Destruction | Dawn of War II - Retribution Soundtrack

Damn, i love those low frequency sounds.

I agree, I also wish they had more of that song. But it is a brief yet perfect example of what the Mechanicus is. A technocratic religious organization that is the same time highly advanced and yet regressive and archaic at the same time. The buzzing and glitches and faint sounds of gears are all intentional.

I'm French, the game was made by French people, but above all, the music was made with a real organ from a cathedral (I forget which one, that of Anger but I'm not sure). And yes, we knew a real Emperor, so for the Omnissiah, we go to cathedrals to glorify them.

Warhammer 40k can be summed up in that it's a world where everything is terrible all the time. "In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only War." Warhammer 40K: Mechanicus is about a squad of the Adaptus Mechanicus, think engineers that like to replace their body parts with tech because the flesh is weak, as they delve into a Necron (Think Undead Robots... it's complicated) fortress to extract artifacts and relics for the benefit of the Imperium. The entire soundscape is a whole mood where it is mostly very subdued with that ominous feeling of dread with mechanical creeping vibes, organs building in the background. One of the best examples would actually be it's primary theme called "Noosphere".

If you are a fan of John Carpenter films and synth I'd highly recommend Great Leader has Fallen (or any of the tracks lol) by Makeup and Vanity Set who did the OST for the Game Brigador :) Mechanicus has electro but with organ drops rather than bass drops! My favourite track from the OST is Warriors of mars.

Cathedral of Angouleme in France.

If you look for more 40K OST " FOR THE CRAFTWORLD" from Warhammer 40k Dawn of War 2 is one of my favorites

I have the complete playlist of this game in my Spotify list

This ended up a bit of a long comment, but it could've been a lot longer lol. If you're not familiar, Warhammer started as a table top war game made by Games Workshop since around the 80s, I think... It's a somewhat grim fantasy setting... Warhammer 40K is the science fiction (although carrying across much of the fantasy) version, set in the year 40,000... Their method of FTL travel is traversing a demon-infested hell dimension, which requires a psychic beacon from a dying demi-god of a man, the God Emperor of Mankind, who has been on life support for about 10,000 years... Life support that involves a crazy machine that is slowly breaking down and they lack the knowledge to fix... Oh and it also takes a sacrifice of about a 1000 souls a day to keep him alive too... Technology is barely understood because of all the knowledge lost over the millennia... The techno-cult of the Mechanicum, on Mars, worship the spirit of machines and are responsible for pretty much all human tech in the galaxy... A mixture of monks, mechanics and the machine parts they replace parts of their bodies with... I believe in this particular game they are up against the Necrons... A race of aliens from before humanity, who were tricked into giving up their souls and flesh to become weird, metal, relentless, skeleton soldier... things?...They were dormant upon many worlds until they were accidentally woken up and decided they should reclaim the galaxy that was once theirs... But yeah, think Terminator meets Stargate, but they're undead... Something like that... That's barely scratching the surface of the setting and its lore >_

This and Noosphere are masterpiece best ost ever

From the moment I recognized the weakness of my flesh, IT DISGUSTED ME

Im not a musician, but i wanted to see your reaction. Seems everyone's mind is blown, and it wasn't just me. 🤯

Praise the OMNISSIAH!!

Warhammer 40k is the most metal thing to ever be created.

If you were blow away by this, you gotta check out Noosphere from the same game. It's so good I listen to it almost daily. Praise be the Omnissiah.

Oh hell yeah, mechanicus has an amazing sound

Hey there, I dont know if you take suggestions... but there is another warhammer 40.000 game, called darktide who got a pretty neat ost. I highly wanna say you should react to the following songs of that ost: Immortal Imperium Moebian sixth Imperiums will fall Light of the imperium

It captures immaculately the very particular atmosphere of WH40k Mechanicus. If enjoyed the visuals of the production process in this video, then I recommend the "Making of Echoes of Auriga OST - Way of The Forerunner". Sadly, no great organs in that vid.

The setting for this one is a giant space-bound cathedral run by the Tech Priests of the Cult of the Omnissiah. Imagine Catholicism at its most Gothic- huge cathedrals, death imagery, skulls on everything, seeking heresy everywhere, violent arguments over dogmatic minutia. Now set it the far future, and substitute in machines and technology as an the object of worship. End up at fanatic cyborg priests who only sort of understand howthe machines they build and operate actually work, but they do know if they don't apply the sacred unguents to the joints on holy days while reciting the Catechism of Movement to the machine spirits then those spirits become angry and the machine seizes up. Like all Warhammer 40K, everything is dark and hyper-exaggerated and dumb in the most delightful way. The music embodies it perfectly.

a lot of the themes in 40k are really gothic and the mechanicus are like tech monks so the music was very fitting with the electronic pipe organ. Really though 40K is nuts at times. They have a tank with a pipe organ missile launcher on the back of it. I think that thing canonically functions too. You can play Flight of the Bumble Bee on it while firing missiles to tune which is so over the top it's hilarious to me.

thanks a head of time reading this comment :) hey I'm not sure if this is your alley but there is a music clip that I think you can sink your teeth into called "Unicron's Medley" by Oscar winner composer name Vince Dicola, I would love to hear your analysis of it IF its in your field interest or expertise.

if you have to use an organ the size of an entire church for your soundtrack, how do you set up the recording equipment?

I could sleep to this, and I mean that as a compliment

I appreciate that you've already seen this by now, but just in case: Look up the Exorcist vehicle from WH:40K. For some reason I rather suspect you'll find it amusing.

well 40k is a rabbit hole like no other , but "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. " realy fits . tbf most warhammer games have nice ost but mechanicus was so diffrent and fitting to the setting that most of the fans of the universe instandly loved it.

Majestic

Even in death, I serve the Omnissiah.

..for the machine is immortal.

what is the story that this composition might tell?

Imagen you're on the bridge of your own Space Ship but the bridge is actually more like a holy cathedral and you and your crew are part of a religion that worships the "Machine Spirit". Everyone is clad in robes andmost of your body has been replaced with machinery. Now you have a rough idea of the atmosphere in which this track is playing^^

I can't seem to be able to find this live recording of that song. What's the actual title?

It's warhammer, you should always expect badassary

Now do Noosphere

Link to the original clip anyone?

Do you have a link to the original video you had in the corner?

Mechanicus has one of the best OSTs I ever heard. Too bad I'm terrible at it.

Damn I need to keep playing this game.

Link to the live video?

Can you please link the original video you're reacting to? I can't find it..

Steel isn't strong boy, flesh is stronger...

O my god, you finally found whay Warhammer 40000 is. Hehe.

Dr robotnik is first tehpriest.

Now do: Dawn of War: The Angels of Death

" is this french ? " Hahahaha so much meanings

Man listen to Noosphere

praise the toaster

L Empereur protège

Jesse doesn´t even know what warhammer is. XD

You have no idea what you are getting into =).