In my conversations there seem to be two schools of thought - that Noise Marine sonic weapons play either heavy metal, or dubstep. What are your thoughts?
I'll have to think about it, but I'm pretty sure it would be neither dubstep nor kiddy metal.
Perhaps something classic and classy like Deep Purple; if nothing else it would provide the opportunity to model a Noise Marine with a (hur hur) enormous organ.
This has gone rapidly off-topic. Lol.
@English Assassin, why the hate for progressive metal? "Kiddy metal"? Thay's a bit harsh, don't you think?
I'm not sure how classical music would work unless it pumped WAY up, cuz they require loud volume more than actual musical value (hence the dubstep).
Skip to 0:40 and crank up the volume. You can't tell me that a Blastmaster thundering out "The Great Gate of Kiev" with a few sonic blasters backing it up wouldn't explode a few heads. And the gentler passages are used to lull their enemies into a false sense of security before. . . . BOOOOM.
I would imagine something like dubstep that doesn't so much sound like music as much as a constant barrage of extremely high and low notes to try to liquefy the enemies brains.
In all seriousness, the way that the fluff describes it, it sounds like the noises they use are things like frequency sweeps, pink noise, and all those other goodies that you use to burn in headphones and the like. Rock music played loudly is nothing special. It's just loud music. Using a frequency sweep to find and exploit the resonant frequency of a land raider and shatter it to pieces, on the other hand, is something different entirely.
In all seriousness, I believe that Noise Marines do not possess any melody when they perform their "music", I just think of their sonic weapons will sound like this...only 300 times louder.
Great White wrote:T-Pain, a person can only take so much autotune.
lol.
The guardsmen first heard it over the horizon. By the time it was a mile away, t-pain was deafening. Guardsmen screamed as they clawed at their ears and faces until blood and shredded flesh began to flake off their fingernails and spatter onto their commrades.
In desperation, a few of the guardsmen turned and stabbed their commissar to death. The bloody carnage would not stop it.
Eh, somehow, I really don't see Daft Punk as head splitting. Or Slim Whittman. I mean, there is no way yodeling cowboys or techno can have that sort of power. (Considering I survived years of exposure to both. Sometimes combined into unholy mashups).
Sorry, I still stand by that Jimi Hendrix solo. After all, they are one guy playing an instrument.
This is just too funny of an idea not to have in there "THE BANJO'S OF DOOM!!!!!"
Just another obnoxious song
Now in reality I envision it as either white noise, or something that is largely inaudable, yet strongly damaging(iirc the human hearing range is fairly limited)
SUNSHINE FOR THE SUNSHINE GOD! LOLLIPOPS FOR THE LOLLIPOP THRONE!
Or maybe disco
In all seriousness, I reckon Noise Marines were intended to be metalheads. Thing is, they don't look like that anymore. More like washed-up glamrockers from the late 70s...
Wardragoon wrote:Now in reality I envision it as either white noise, or something that is largely inaudable, yet strongly damaging(iirc the human hearing range is fairly limited)
Crystal Geyser wrote:In my conversations there seem to be two schools of thought - that Noise Marine sonic weapons play either heavy metal, or dubstep. What are your thoughts?
This -
Or this? -
Deathmetal. Because they're killing people with the power of rock.
Sovspot wrote:This thread seems like a "show your music taste" thread in disguise.
Maybe..... Anywhos, I'd imagine Noise Marines playing something like this. Be sure to amplify by 100 times to get the organ-liquefying effect in motion.
Neutral Milk Hotel. And all other hipster music.
"This is the sound that causes the eardrums of anybody within range to burst. You've probably never heard of it."
This. Specifically a Jazz-Blues-Death Metal fusion with just a hint of Bach.
But in all seriousness, it's probably just discordant noise, as a) doesn't matter what they play as long as it's at sufficient volume to kill people, and b) the more extreme the clashes between notes, the more pleasurable it will be to them. Noise Marines aren't intellectual when it comes to what they like; their brains are wired so as to derive pleasure from normal stimuli and painful ones alike.
The best thing I've heard for what they play is this:
Through the warp Noise Marines have access to all music across all of time, and when they fire at an enemy the innate link between the warp and their weapon selects the single song that will cause most suffering with that particular 'salvo'.
GWAR. Noise Narines play covers of Gwar songs, because Gwar was/is the original Slaaneshi Noise Marine cult. Have you seen how they dress? Seriously, those guys are Chaos worshippers of the first order.
If their ears are so darn sensitive, maybe it's some kind of music that only they can hear, and to other no Slaaneshi-cultists it sounds like a jumble of noise?
Crystal Geyser wrote:its like lmfao...but worse. Like, there's no grammar. Sexy is not a noun. There is no rhyme scheme.
Ew.
Fulgrim would never allow this. Eidolon, maybe.
Yeah. Those poor girls who were in the vid. I'm sure the blonde didn't like getting grabbed around the neck and yelled at by those two douchebags .
Whose Eidolon?
TheAngrySquig wrote:That man predates dubstep and is wearing leapord print armor evidently charged with the elemental power of rock and roll, he is invalid in invalidates this argument thread.
If I had to choice to give Noise Marines their own music I would have them all play Little Voice by Hillary Duff, in honour of their oh so noble primarch
Oh I know, itd just be your average noise marine walking around, they see an IG and blast him with a 16 year old Canadian to the face. That'd be hillarious and amazing
English Assassin wrote: I'll have to think about it, but I'm pretty sure it would be neither dubstep nor kiddy metal.
Perhaps something classic and classy like Deep Purple; if nothing else it would provide the opportunity to model a Noise Marine with a (hur hur) enormous organ.
...must keep watching
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