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Okay, I've asked this question of various people over the years and no one has yet been able to explain it to me. What is the original concept idea for the Noise marines? Let me explain the context of my question.

The other three cult marine type I can trace back to horror themes.

Plague marines: Zombies in power armor.
Thousand Sons Rubric Marines: Mummies in power armor
Berzerkers: ChainSaw killers. In power armor.

Now obviously the ideas has evolved somewhat into their current incarnations but even now I don't find it hard to look at them and see these core images.

But then we get to the Noise Marines. And we have 80's Metal rock.

So just to map this out: We have Chainsaw psychos in power armor, we have zombies in power armor, we have mummies in power armor and... we have heavy metal rockers... in power armor? Am I the only one who looks at this and says "We took a left turn somewhere?"

The 80's GW was pretty tied in with pop culture, which included Metal bands.

They even had a house band or two, and several rocker models.

Orks had some too

If you've ever heard a bad garage death-metal band you'd agree they fit right in there with the Horror aspect also

Noise marines are drug addicted sadomasochistic rapists, that's plenty terrifying.

could be a kind of anarchy thing. Punk rockers are known for their rebelious ways, and that frightens some poeple. Could just be that you're reading too much into it.

Where is the Disagreement in this thread? I don't get the thread title.
Noise marines are just sensory junkies, which revel in sensory overloads in all forms. They are simply marines who are addicted to that which marines were meant to be forever denied.
So sensory junkies in power armour.

Heavy Metal imagery of the 80s was pretty well tied in with the horror scene. They used make up and clothes often connected to satanism, and videos were often grimdark. I guess that's the part that evolved into Death Metal.

I don't see the schism. I think it follows the theme quite well.

Plus, the whole sensory overload backstory that it evolved into fits the slaanesh way of life perfectly.

I guess that answers my question.

If you're looking for a horror analogy, you could do worse than Hellraiser and the Cenobites. However, released in 1987 I think it's just a tadge too late to have been any kind of inspiration on Noise Marines, and admittedly it's closer to Slaanesh as a whole rather than the Noise Marines specifically.