Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus - Noosphere | Reacting To Video Game Music! 

some fun facts i've picked up: - this is the first (public) work of the composer - the organ they used is 150 years old and they recorded it in an actual cathedral

In a way, this feeling like a constant buildup that never *quite* peaks is perfect for the Mechanicus. Their obsession with progress toward a perfect machine form is neverending, they will always be further improving and advancing in a slow march toward what they believe to be divine perfection. Side note: my favorite part of the music in this soundtrack, and this song in particular, is the *immensely* powerful bass synths. It's so... it gives this feeling of terrifying strength that gives me chills to listen to.

Jesse's WH40K recap: "OK, there's a conflict of somekind here." Spoken like a true Tau...

“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

Mechanicus, the ost that has an Organ drop instead of a Bass drop

A song perfectly fitting for the Mechanicus. They worship technology, chant in binary, and replace their body parts with machines because to them it brings them closer to divinity. Definitely unsettling.

How do you write a soundtrack for a game about monks and priests that literally worship technology? Blend organs and gregorian chanting with dubstep and synth. This is a genre I like to call Techno-Church

Children of omnisiah also a masterpiece, 20 minute loop is dope.

Jesse you dont even know dude. I have been waiting for this reaction for legit months. And here it is. IN ALL ITS TECHNO-DIVINE GLORY PRAISE THE OMNISSIAH

I can imagine mechanicus building half kilometer long gigantic organ on emperor class titan, and just TURN IT TO 11 !!!

The game is pretty good, but the soundtrack demands immense praise.

The buildup on this song is just phenomenal. It's in no hurry to get where it's going and I love that.

this album is a true masterpiece that goes beyond the gaming industry. unfortunately , the greatest creation in the ambient style did not receive the proper attention of listeners outside the fans of the Warhammer universe .

40k is very much a gothic sci-fi setting, with humanity being deeply religious, both towards their God-Emperor and, in regards to the Mechanicus, the "Omnissiah", the Machine-God, who may or may not be an aspect of the Emperor, or maybe that's just the excuse to have a rival faith within the Imperium of Man. The Tech-Priests of the Mechanicus are extremely orthodox about the sancity of machines, to the point of burning incense to accompany maintenance work, and the whole process of work being highly ritualistic, with chanting and what not. Not following the manual - no matter how convoluted and nonsensical in technical terms - basically amounts to techno-heresy. They're generally striving towards oneness with the machine, augmenting themselves into often absurd, grotesque bodies, replacing everything they possibly can to become closer to their god - all while rejecting, furiously so, any sort of true experimentation and innovation. The "Noosphere", meanwhile, is basically akin to... let's say, wifi. Imagine that information is constantly transmitted into and through a wifi atmosphere that AdMech will access. The downside to this all-encompassing atmospheric network? Virus infections do a *real* number on entire worlds. It both encompasses the knowledge, rituals, superstition and glory of the Mechanicum, but also one of their biggest vulnerabilities. Ironically, this game pitches them against the Necrons, who are basically a version of what the AdMech could be - an entire ancient race who was tricked by star-gods into shedding their fleshly bodies and trading them for bodies of living metal. A process that left most of them soulless husks, and what sentience remains may drive them into insanity, draping themselves in the flesh of their enemies, as if trying to become whole again.

With the cavers and the claustrophobia (and the unsettling) you are pretty much on point with the game. Damn.

The whole soundtrack is an absolute banger

OOH, I AM SO HAPPY YOU DID THIS. Warhammer 40K Mechanicus is one of my favorite Warhammer games, purely based on music alone. I'm so glad you decided to do more Warhammer. I assure you the entire soundtrack is worth a listen.

One of my favorite OSTs in general, I'd compare it to Ghost in the Shell in many ways. Warhammer's own Ghost in the Shell level OST, and it is one that the world of Warhammer deserves. Perfect thematic representation too.

The name origin in the lore of 40k is a type of ancient technology rediscovered by the Mechanicus. A giant sphere that allows a tech priest to interact with data in its purest form. A rare find indeed!

The Organ is highly tied to the red faction, they're a religious / fanatic cult of humans called the Adeptus Mechanicus that live mainly in Mars and worship a cyborg God called the Omnissiah. They believe that flesh is weakness, so they start replacing arms, legs, organs, eyes etc with mechanical parts, so the more cyborg / mechanical one is the better. Also they're a sub faction of the Imperium, and they're even worse on the zealotry. Both factions mix elements of the Roman empire with steampunk with dark fantasy 40000 years in the future, so they speak in a mix of gothic / roman / latin / English. Hence the connection to the organ. Also funny tidbit about the Admechs: they provide weapons and vehicles to the Imperium, being an allied faction to them. But instead of being pure mad scientists they're religious scientists, so they pray to their machines so they can work. ( believing their god manifests through the machines ) There's a model of bike like vehicle they ride that it's inventor died, and didn't share the schematics for it, so being fearful that they might stop working, they keep em on, and pray to them, while going for a ride sometimes, so they keep working outside of battles.

I personally like Children of the Omnissiah the most, but the whole soundtrack is the highlight of the game

Congratulations on 40k!

This is one of those songs that is better if you already know a bit about the Mechanicus. They are also known as the Tech-Priests of mars and they worship technology. The main human faction in 40k is the Imperium of Man and they used to be way more advanced before going through a massive collapse. As a result they have a bunch of old tech that no one really knows how to use and the tech-priests keep everything running via a combination of actual engineering knowledge for simpler stuff but also religious rituals that happen to make the thing do what they want. So seeing a game about them with the main soundtrack being this mix of church bells/organs with electronica is just super cool for anyone who is in to the 40k setting and lore.

ITS HAPPPENING!!!!

8:30 If you want "more intense," then listen to the other songs "Millenial Rage" and "Overlord."

Praise the Machine god recommended me this video, thanks my brother for spreading this great piece of music to others.

Everytime I hear the space organ, my mechadendrites is shivering.

The first time i ever heard this during playing with a good set of headphones, i had to put the pad down as for the first time in my life i felt something i can only describe as spiritual wash over me. It felt transcendant, especially haveing the rest of the album build up to it.

Fun fact, a specialized type of Skitarii (Mechanicus' footsoldiers) called Sicarian use Sonic weaponry, to enemies it causes significant trauma and usually death but the Mechanicus' troops have special audio receptors that interrupt the sounds as binirhic hymns, so you could imagine this being close to the actual sounds they would hear and be inspired by during battle all the while it's causing your enemies to be stunned and distoriented as they are cleansed for the glory of the Omnissiah

Oh gosh, Jessie getting to Mechanicus music huh? Excellent

Yessss, so happy for this reaction!

9:22 the game "Warhammer Mechanicus" is about exploring ancient alien tombs, so the vibes you got are spot on XD

Well we must do 'Children of the Omnissiah' the Mechanicus opening song.

YES! By the Omnissiah, finally to see your reaction to this exhilarating piece of music Suprisingly, your reaction mirrors exactly how a stranger reacts in 40K when exposed to the people from the Adeptus Mechanicus! Ever since I saw your comment on "Children of the Omnissiah", I was waiting for this reaction! Also, congratulations on reaching 40K members of the Auditorium. The symmetry is not lost on me, and such occurrences within the Machine-Cult equate beneficent outcomes. _‘Almighty Machine-God whose data binds the Universe, look upon your humble servant and let the tangents of your intersection be beneficent.’_ _~ From 'Imperator - Wrath of the Omnissiah', a 40K novel;_ And this symmetry one was of your own making, which makes it even more thematic to the subject at hand. ⚙❣ There is another symmetry at play here. One between the architecture utilized by the Adeptus Mechanicus and the syntax of this song. Just as the crescendo is so far into the song, with many build-ups having no expected peaks, so do many structures in the Kingdom of Mars, on many Forge Worlds have squatish, flat capered tops. Focusing on width rather than lenght. On stability, rather than imposition. Very rarely do these summits top out as a single sharp point, a peak, unless it is a transmission-spire or some other - function rather than form oriented add-on. The muteness that you mention lends itself very well to the fact that people of the Adeptus Mechanicus have a standing and extremely stifling ortodoxy, a dogma that abhors the flesh, as majority of them see it as not only a basic step on a path of self-evolution and improvement but also a source of much of galaxy's troubles - the desires, the impulses the uncontrolled instincts, the fallibility - what is doctrinally enshrined as Weakness of the Flesh. Within the broad expanse of the Kingdom of Mars, on many planets and worlds, these tech-worshipers, majority of them distance themselves from their desires by replacing their body parts with mechanical and to a lesser degree bio-mechanical augmentation. The emotions are either shock-stymied, neuro-vaulted (a cranial augment that shunts emotions into the background, allowing you to act without emotions influencing your decisions unless you allow them to) and to a lesser, extreme degree completely removed from the brain by a procedure known as a Rite of Pure Thought. But enough about delicious information that oozes from 40K universe that is tangential to the subject and to the aural piece at hand. While the organ and the throbbing bass (the heart-beat of a plasma reactor or...a heart, the monotone motion of a piston-driven footfall or stamp arm on a assembly line) is the staple of this tune, I am glad to see that it also diverges, if only for a bit from the overly emphasized "Latin spirit" with the organ and the choir that is so reminiscent of the Catholic and Protestant denominations of Christianity. Unlike Imperial Cult, Machine-Cult, the Kingdom of Mars diverges expensively, so instead of a spire we might see a slab of angled iron as roof. Wide, giant in scope and squat in stature. An excellent comparison would be starships of the Imperial Navy with their buttresses, arches and spires when compared to a more boxy and painfully utilitarian construction of Mechanicus vessels. I am glad to see this getting more of a show, with a blunt, mechanical, almost alien vibe of the song. During the 05:30 crescendo the male vocal *within* the organ low-end drives this point of alieness that comes with dark transhumanism of Cult Mechanicus and Dance of the Cryptek from the same OST clarifies this point far better, as that song has more single vocals and less choirs. Muted, with no discernable language, free even of High Gothic (a in-universe vague, analog of Latin). So, instead of an Cathedral of the Ecclesiarchy (also known as the Imperial Cult, the in-universe Catholocism on steroids), I imagine a rust-red ziggurat, something more appropriate in Carthage or Mesopotamia. A titan in scope, matching that of continent-sized starships from the Age of Wonder when Omnissiah still blessed the soil of Ancient Earth with His footsteps. Once all of galaxy's knowledge was transmitted there they said - to this single structure - to be processed, understood and transmuted into technical wisdom. This ziggurat, this colossal stepped pyramid, today is always embattled with the encroaching dunes and dust storms of Martian rad-blasted silica, yet the zigggurat's topmost step-layer facade matches the brown-red of the landscape, making the jutting, squat structure appear as if it is a seamless part of the Sacred Mars Itself. Just a smooth face on another of Martian mountains. These ancient digi-tomes also speak of another function to this hollowed, yet now cursed place. A function forgotten and perhaps more useful in a more benign age when we don't spend endless life-cycles turning flesh and steel into instruments of war. Still surviving data-codicies exload of a time, some hundred and fifty centuries ago, long before Iron Messiah came to Olympus Mons, that colossal pillars within the ziggurat were able to lift the celling of the pyramid when the faithful kindred gather within these halls. Titanic like the sky itself, the final barrier would be lifted, and the gathered would commune and share data, they said, in intricate patterns and with technologies long before noospheric communion was re-discoverd. With this done, the comprehended information would blast outwards through the pyramid's open top and across the surface of Sacred Mars, to be received by those with the gifts to Comprehend it. Another step made on the Quest for Knowledge. Ever closer to reaching Comprehension on all creation that is the Machine-God. The surviving data-codicies called this, now cursed place, The Temple of All Knowledge. wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Temple_of_All_Knowledge

G4F is the studio that produced this OST. They've also produced another favorite of mine in the Endless Legend OST.

Personally every time I hear this song I get goosebumps, I don't know if it has something to do with the game or me knowing the universe that this song takes place in, but either way I love this type of music. I would personally suggest you listen to legio symphonica, they have some other things that I'm sure that you'll enjoy as well

You actually kind of guessed the context. Mechanicus (the red guys) as a faction is pretty alien and unsettling when you look at them. It's a cult that butchers their humanity in pursuit to becoming a machine because they worship a machine god and that'll being them closer to it. In the game, they are even less human than the Necrons (the green guys) who are robot aliens. So that gothic church music put through a synthesizer is fitting. Nooshere is the 40K version of the internet to be simplistic.

Adeptus Mechanicus 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 though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the 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

Sing the song of the Machine God. None may stay our march. Let the merciless logic of the Machine God invest thee. None may stay our march. Praise and glory be to the Machine God. None may stay our march.

5:29 Tfw you're beginning to understand.

The Warhammer universe never ends. It's like a fractal that keeps going deeper and deeper no matter what you choose to focus on, that's why people can shoose a faction and read, play and listen about it for years

Trully the music of TECH PRIESTS. About the game itself. There is a "soft" time limit on you. The longer you spend exploring stuff them more rewards you get but the more of the opposing factions wakes up. And you can't face that faction once it fully wakes up. So it's a race against your own cuiriosity of that is behind the next corner.

I hope he does some of the Dawn of War 2 Tracks aswell. For The Craftworld ist one of my all time favorites

If you want another challenging song, I would suggest Exec.Flip.Arphage from Ar Tonelico 3

Ah the machine is eternal

Wait, no Children of the Omnissiah? You should do that

This made me realize that from the moment i understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.

Hey Jesse just an idea since I haven't seen anyone else but like one guy react to it. You should go listen to Titanicus by Stringstorm, not specifically a video game OST but it's also a song about 40k. It's one of my favorites right up there with Krieg by the same person.

I have been rotting ever since I came to this world, the machine god will free me from the curse of the flesh and the imperfection of the body, the omnissiah will make my mind eternal and free from the decaying flaw of humankind

Ave Deus et Machina, Omnissiah.

I know I'm real late to the conversation, but the remark you made about feeling like you're in closed tunnels is way more apt than you realize. Mechanicus is about leading an expedition into a planet sized tomb for a race of ancient eldritch robots, and the first thing you do is accidentally trip an intruder alarm and they're all waking up. The game takes place primarily in a robot catacomb.

All hail Deus Mechanicus

Organ to me has always felt very powerful and haunting. It totally fits the whole Gothic/ nightmare fuel material throughout the entire franchise.

Next time you need to Hear overlord from the same game.

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The flesh is weak The machine is faithful

Now what if I told you they were chanting in binary

The entire faction is just amazingly designed. The idea of a cult of tech priests worshipping technology they no longer understand and maintaining and building things by dint of holy sacraments and rituals (that just so happen to sometimes contain the right steps necessary to repair some wear and tear or common faults in the high tech relics they revere as extensions of their machine god) tickles me pink. It feels like there are lifetimes worth of story hidden just beneath the surface, begging to be explored.

From the moment I understood the weakness of acoustic music it disgusted me. I aspire to the strenght and purity of the synth.

PSA: This game will be free for purchase on Epic on 10/27/2022. Pick it up for free if you are so inclined.

Have you considered reacting to caestus metalican?

"Warhammer sounds like a band from the '80s" Yeah, it's basically if old Metal album covers were an entire fictional universe.

The best 40k music is still Dawn of War 2 - The Angels of Death (Space Marine theme). Its not even opinion. Its just a fact.

You look like a slim Brey Whayett

Hey! Can you please react to kingdom hearts 3 - Dark Domination?! It's one of my favorite tracks from the series. I really do hope you do. I want to see more reactions from you reacting to kh osts!