Opera Singer Reacts: Dance of the Cryptek || Warhammer: Mechanicus
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- Despite ending up falling asleep while playing the game (the gameplay isn't for me) I genuinely adore this soundtrack, the more I listen to it. amazing stuff here. Super unique and wonderful.
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Khepra: "I am heartened that you are not neglecting the psychological health of our troops. Most Tech-Priests do not give it a second thought."
Faustinius: "Most Tech-Priests are not in command here. I am."
Scaevola : "[Combat Data Acquisition Opportunity Detected]"
Khepra : And I'm detecting an excellent chance for good men to die lining your cabinet of curiosities, Scaevola."
Scaevola : "[[[Error]]] Damn not found."
they did such a good job hiring a writer for the dialogs and a good composer, first time in a 40k game and i am very intrigued in the universe of everything else
"We are all mechanisms in the Great Engine. No Machine is arbitrary for within its core is found the faultless Wisdom of the Omnissiah!"
Dude has strong "Not to me" energy.
I really love how all the Magi in the game are so fleshed out (minus the gratuitous ironmongery) and how their personalities mesh and clash
Here's a few notes of lore. Crypteks are not humans. They are Necron engineers/scientist, the brightest minds of their race. They wield technology so advanced, it's sometimes indistinguishable from magic (and that's saying something in the universe where magic actually exists). I like to think that this song is about mechanicus, being scientists first themselves, encountering such a rival. Not just a simple enemy, but a peer.
Scorn the alien
Hell, I'd say crypteks are above most tech-priests, despite being comparatively side-line figures in necron society
Personally I would say the strange sub melody is the implied dominance of the Cryptek. You get the Mechanicus chants and organs, especially at the start, then the Cryptek sequences burst in, as the Necron is or deems himself superior. That sense of superiority is captivated in the discord it causes in the melody, and sometimes overpowering the Mechanicus melody, and then really storming in towards the end, full power and completely silencing the Mechanicus sequence. Then the track end is basically mad ranting of the cryptek, maybe of vengence, superiority or just boasting that he will be back unlike them, and cuts to silence.
I think you wanted to say "rival" cuz there are very few who'd dare to befriend a cryptek. For many reasons.
@@spaceant2919 tbf, the cryptechs do have a few million years on the priests. Some of the newer necron books in the black library do a great job of giving some insight imo 😊
"Despite ending up falling asleep while playing the game (the gameplay isn't for me)..."
Certified 'The Flesh is Weak' Moment
" I genuinely adore this soundtrack, the more I listen to it. amazing stuff here. Super unique and wonderful." fight me.
@@MarcoMeatball *cue the Orks tumbling through your bedroom window to actually come and fight you*
@@MarcoMeatball So no stream on it then? That would be a shame, was really looking forward to it.
@@catscrath25alpha83 i did and fell asleep lmao
@@MarcoMeatball No shame. Wasn't for me either. If you like the idea of an XCOM-style 40k game, Chaos Gate: Daemonhunters is a really solid game.
Cryteks are one of the higher rank enemies of the Necrons so maybe the off feelings come from them, metalic undeads of the vast galaxy
Not enemies. Scientists. And engineers, too.
No, they are the Scientists/Engineers/Scholars/Medic/Mystics of Necrontyr Society.
Think of them like a cross between Court Wizard and a Royal Advisor. But instead of using magic they use technology so advanced it seems like magic to mortals.
I still cannot believe this was the first work of Guillaume David, this OST is INSANE
I keep reading the name as Guilliman David. Though considering the quality of the work being mistaken for a demigod might be a compliment.
French Guilliman
This OST singlehandedly put him in my top artists on spotify
My theory on why the composer went with the feeling of randomness is that Crypteks have their original soul from before bio transference and after the billon year hibernation that they had they developed, for a lack of better term, space dementia which would cause the Crypteks to go through periods of clarity and periods of confusion. For example, Nemesor Zahndrekh who’s been described as having these same symptoms. And who’s author based him on a close family member with dementia
This is true, however I think you mean Necrons. Crypteks are a specific class of Necrons. Not all Necrons have space dementia as well.
@@Rahab369your right I just didn’t say that they were necrons cause there was a million other comments saying that
Well given what we know thanks to the Twice Dead King series and the Nemisor Zahndrekh novella Severed, both by Nate Crowley. In addition arguably the best 40K novel the Infinite and the Divine by Robert Rath, featuring Trayzn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner. Necron Dementia is the result of one of these three main things
1) They have simply gone insane due to a lack of soul and being a sentient robot
2) Irreparable damage thanks to either age or being resurrected one too many times
3) The Necron falling to Flayer Virus (more specifically the Dyspherac).
So yeah your theory is sound except for the soul but. It have been made explicitly clear that Necrons have no souls whatever. And are literally Ghosts in a Machine.
where can i read about this guy
There isn't a single necron that has their soul. That's their whole deal. Crpyteks don't have souls.
Dilapidated Gracefulness sums up a Necron pretty well honestly.
When you cannot communicate with language to another alien race, music is often what we turn to to attempt a breakthrough. This feels less like a fight and more like an exchange, but we're hearing this waltz between alien robots wielding mystifying technology and mechanically-inbred humans who treasure technology as mystic in itself.
It's said a few times by the characters in Mechanicus that while they despise the Necrons for being despicable xenos and a blight in the eyes of the Omnissiah, they are also infinitely fascinated by what they can learn and adapt. For the glory of mankind, of course. It creates this constant struggle of wants versus needs and a sense of piousness as they know to reject consumption of this forbidden fruit, but the vast potential they can imagine is tantalizing. If they adapt Necron technology to their own, they are reminded the challenge posed by the Inquisition: "How far can they transform themselves before they are no longer considered human?"
They no longer human already
Here's a fascinating bit of lore that I feel heavily explains the unusual dynamic the Mechanicus has with the Necrons- a borderline heretical but still often held belief among some radical tech-priests is that the Necrons were actually the first chosen race of the Omnissiah, but they turned their backs on the Omnissiah right as they were on the cusp of achieving what the Mechanicus has been striving for all this time- true oneness of metallic flesh, but for the Necrons it was done at the cost of sacrificing the sacred nature of the Machine Spirit.
It really does have echoes of the Islamic story of jinn, where humanity was actually the second draft of creation, and the jinn were the first almost-perfect race but suffering from one deep, fatal flaw.
@@onerxowns2202not physically at least. Argument can be made that mentally they are still human, with characteristic benefitial for their role being enchanced.
Crypteks are the techno mages of the Necrons. Meaning that, even to the highly technologically advanced race of Necrons, the tech Cryptek use is beyond their comprehension. Skilled Crypteks can, with seemingly little more than the wave of hand, brake the laws of physics, predict centuries into the future and bend time to their will.
Shout out to Orikan the Diviner, who looped back in time multiple times just to win an argument.
@@Derenyx Not just an argument, but a court case. Hilarious. The Infinite and the Divine is one of my all time favorite books.
@@BenjaminMendozaFlostrand Those two have the same amount of fun as Orks do at most all times.
@@arminwraith7356 Trazyn: "And Orikan, I know that as petty you can be, you will not rewind and alter the outcome of this argument."
Orikan: "I do as I please, and if it pisses you off. I shall do it with delight."
"TechnoMagic-programmers" more fitting i think
Man, these soundtracks sound so different when they're not being heard inside the game.
I thought like 40% of the sounds i heard here was background noise when i played the game.
I think that is part of the intention behind the soundtrack, actually. To convey the environment itself, the ancient and hostile Necron temples you're daring to invade.
I love how many random machinery sounds the OST of the game contains, it fits the theme so well.
Yes, the Cryptek are actually necrons, as it was mentioned in the comments already. This ost is so haunting. I got assosiations with voodoo dances, at the point when they are not some meme thing but an actual creepy, brutal ancient ritual.
Henry Cavill needs to tap this composer for his Warhammer cinematic universe.
so true
Would it be too much to ask if we have this artist and Jesper Kyd for the action??
I have to imagine Cavill has played these games, being such an enthusiast of the franchise.
And Marco will never know that he is actuallyin a simulation and is actually in stasis in Trazyn the Infinite's galleries. Because the moment he said "like nothing before or likely after" the meme lord of the Necrons came running.
The necrons are incredible, even among 40k factions. Their race was born as the necrontyr on a hellword, ravanged by radiation, cursed with short agony filled lives. But they slowly progressed, until eventully the c'tan, the star gods, walked among the necrontyr in bodies they had built for them. The necrontyr looked upon a race of immortals known as the Old Ones, who were masters of the warp. The Old Ones refused to bestow immortaity upon the necrontyr, and so they sough to steal the secret and war broke out. It did not go well. So in desperation, they (unknowingly) sold their souls to the c'tan, and became the necrons. No longer fragile beings of flesh and bone, but immortals of living steel. Living weapons. After the war in heaven was done, and the old ones extinct, the necrons turned on their c'tan masters. Shattering them into shards and shackling them to the will of the necrons.
They are masters of technology, possessing the most advanced tech in the 40k galaxy. Well beyond dark age humanity and even the eldar. Crypteks are necron scientists and engineers, wielding the most advanced tech they have to offer, indistinguishable from magic. Often fighting alongside their canoptek robots.
It is really nice to see someone who doesn't have prior knowledge of the lore behind these pieces pick up on the themes and nuances, just from the music. Really opens the eyes and adds to the appreciation of the creator behind one of my favorite game OSTs.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Watching a few of these videos it actually blew my mind how much about the world and themes can be conveyed through music alone
crypteks are necron magicians, astromancers, and court seers. They're generally very secretive and powerful
Technically they're Necron scientists, but yeah they're basically just wizards.
@@TheLangenator At necron tech levels, there is not much of a different other than that if you asked and they were willing, they could explain exactly how it worked to you. You'd need five hundred years of education to understand it, but they could explain it.
I love the metronome like beeping that stays consistent in the background even when the melody is fading out to emphasize other parts of the song. It has such a mechanical feeling to it like a never ending march that even when other stuff is given the focus it’s alway in the back of your mind
Within the context of the necrons its basically like an alarm clock for the apocalypse it’s a hard feeling to describe articulately
And the term Cryptek actually refers to a high level necron whom is well versed enough in technology that Functionally in their own society they’re scientists but to everyone else they are nothing less than techno wizard terminators
They’re capable of some very scary stuff like reprogramming matter or controlling the living metal of their subjects like a water bender from avatar . Certain classes of them are even capable of turning back time
alarm clock is apt since that is a literal gameplay mechanic (the awakening meter).
Most of these songs have the juxtaposition between the electronic sounds and the organ, representing the clash between the necrons and the mechanicus respectively. It's a really neat detail!
The worst part is the Necrons the souless metal skeletons feel more human then the Mechanicus do. Which really shows you how far from humanity the Mechanicus have strayed.
And then the game made the Necrons speak English, while the Mechanicus speak like machines, needing subtitles to even understand them. That for me really sold how far past human the Mechanicus are.
I read somewhere ; Mechanicus are Humans, trying to get rid of their biological self to embrace the "perfection" of the machines, Necrons are those advanced immortal machine in search of a "Soul".
cryptek is obviously refering to the necrons and with that in mind i think you can really hear the two different tech types batteling. on one side the mechanicus with the steel and cogs and on the other side the otherworldly sound of the necron tech
(Edit: sry for bad english)
I love that various sections from Noosphere can be heard in the background as if the noise of the admech and indeed their entire beings are being subsumed by the necrons.
shortening adeptus mechanicus as admech makes it sound like a college major
I'm so glad you finally did this one!
I loved the idea of more of an improvising fighter. Though the Crypteks are Necrons, kind of like tech sorcerers, and they work for the various Necron Dynasties, some of them are free agents only aiding and counseling various necron lords.
What i loved most about this piece is the difference when compared to the actual Tech priest dedicated music, which seems to crave order and leans heavily into the religious aspect, much like the Mechanicus themselves. They wish to be rid of the flesh and aspire to the perfection of the machine, with religious zealotry, and tend to hate any flesh they still have.
While this song (a decidedly necron song) is much more mechanical as a base, with the religious organ only in some bits and the chorus sounding like the disembodied memory of a spirit trying it's best to be heard. The Necrons are in a way the opposite of the mechanicus. They want their organic bodies back, and they want their souls back, even in the game they show disdain to the techpriest's ambition of leaving behind their flesh, and the Necrons have also renounced and killed their gods (kinda), after the gods tricked and betrayed them into becoming machines
They killed one, it didn't go well for anybody involved.
@@Derenyx and that's why i said "kinda". shattering them into pieces then using them as pokemon still kinda counts
"Dilapidated gracefulness" is an excellent way to describe the Necrons. They are a dead civilization that refuses to stay dead, the statue of Ozymandias come back to life to reinstate his long buried kingdom. They see themselves as the rightful heirs to the galaxy, and intelligent beings are at best subjects to be cowed, and at worst an infection to be scrubbed clean.
I'd honestly say the Mechanicus OST/Soundtrack is one of my all time favorite Gaming Soundtracks. Like you said for Dance of the Cryptek, there's nothing out there like it and I feel that way about the whole soundtrack. It gets my imagination going or just lets me space out.
Crypteks are Necron units. The name is so fitting, this track does an incredible job of musically portraying their ancient-beyond-belief and intense, exotic, neigh-mystical atmosphere.
Tl.dr.: Spooky scary egyptian space skeletons wake up to get people of their lawn.
I love how sometimes the organs feel off and kinda glitched out, like how the necrons in the game reproduce a twisted version of the mechanicus' prayers as a mockery
Crypteks are Advisors and Researchers for Lords and Overlords and for Silent King that are the rulers of race called The Necrons (Eqyptian themed Terminator robots)
Ruler of Necron race is called The Silent King. Then there are Overlords that keep watch over spesific Dynasties. And they have advisors that are Lords and Crypteks. Under them are multitude of units like Scarabs, Immortals, Warriors, Destroyers etc.
Warhammer Lore time. trying to keep it TL;DR for people
Necrontyr was one of the earliest races in our galaxy, but they had sun that was killing them activly hence their culture was centered around death. They are modeled after Eqyptian style with Pharaos and advisors. They learned about race called The Old Ones which could heal almost anything. as they asked "hey can you cure our cancer etc that our sun ""blesses"" us with." old ones said "No lol" and there was BIG War called War on Heaven, where Necrontyr were deceived by race called C'tans. They promised immortality and cure from the deseises and after Necrontyr took the deal they were converted into bodies of Living Metal and were dubbed Necrons and became slaves for the C'tans.
After the war, they rebelled against the C'tans and shattered them in multiple shards and caged them like pokemons in pokeballs. They went to sleep.
Fast forward 65 millions years to the year 40.000 in Warhammer universe. They are waking up in different parts of the galaxy one by one in so called Tomb Worlds. Saw Other races and went "Get the Hell out of OUR galaxy!" and want to murder everyone that is not Necron.
YES you did my favorite track! So excited you did a reaction to this. My untrained ear fell head over heels in love with this track and I was excited to see a pro get moved the same way!
It's so good!
delapidated gracefulness are words that fit perfectly into the mechanicus
Honestly something I love about this track is that some of the underlying beat has a very tribal drumming feel to it. Like this is an ancient, but powerful, culture that is preparing for war and bringing up their energy before battle. A wonderful bit of techno-barbarism in this track by fusing the feel of something so ancient with all the mechanized sounds and other feelings the music evokes.
It's unbelievable how it unites with the waltz rhythm
This entire song was the dankest, coolest vibe. When you called it unique in music that meant a lot coming from you.
You 100% need to interview the creator of this music.
That would be a fantastic series even
What choir is complete without the revving of engines?
Guillaume David did amazing job with soundtracks from Mechanicus and Ixion.
The music track to a robot shaped like a man and a man wanting to be a robot fighting over a toaster...
The beats drop harder than the Necrons whole civilization🔥🔥
Such an oddly elegant sway to it. Like a dark ritual where beings are just in the zone swaying their heads and bodies in conjunction to their machines activating. I would imagine a lot of incense is burning in the room this track takes place in lol.
There's a cover of one of their songs by Stringstorm that has better audio quality atleast.
So glad you reacted to this. One of my favourite tracks in the ost. One of the things I like the most about it is how the effect at 3:44 almost sounds like a voice.
Another masterpiece ost from mechanicus is "Overlord" !!!
You gotta check out Overlord next for the Mechanicus ost, the most hype song in the soundtrack in my opinion. (Also Crypteks are Necrons)
Man I really love OST of Mechanicus, and they're the primary reason I got into Warhammer, as their lore is very interesting, as well as the whole Warhammer
Agreed re the amazingly unique feel of this track and OST as a whole
I run a Shadowrun campaign and I used this track in one of my best set-pieces to date.
My hacker player dove into the digital world with a team of other hackers who he'd done a few jobs with in the past to swipe what amounted to a NOC list from a cult that worshiped "ancient" tech (things like manual locks, keys, even a Nokia rip-off), and he unintentionally activated the system's security program as they were on the way out. Since the place was made to look like a crypt with dust and sarcophagi lining the walls. I looped the opening of this song as he traveled through the crypt, but the minute things went bad, the chains started and the digital abomination howled that digital scream. The chase was brief, but intense. The only reason the player survived was that he tricked the leader of the team into giving him the list before sealing the guy off from the escape route. Bad luck, Chummer.
A few weeks of in-game time pass, and he gets a message on his commlink. Through the static of the signal, a familiar mask appears, and before the image blinks away, an unrecognizable scream blares in his earpiece. The Crypt-Tech, as I called it in reference, was delayed, but not yet thwarted.
What I love about this the most is the look of pure joy on his face at points and that fact you can see he just wants to grab an instrument (I think a violin?) And just bite into the music, to be part of it!
I'm late to the party, but I think almost every piece from this soundtrack shows us evershifting nature of the Necron dungeons we explore during the game. Every time you lose the dungeons realign themselves. These crypts your mechanicus explorers go to change constantly. They shift and twists, and every turn will lead you somewhere new and dangerous. It's not exactly part of the lore, it's a part of the gameplay, but I believe it is everpresent in the OST.
Man...
I love this drop soooo so much 3:40 )
I interpret this moment as the Machine God proving that he exists to anyone who thinks he is not.
I visualize the Machine spirit literally physically showing its glorious power and wisdom.
Love this track)
I found your reaction to Noosphere yesterday and proceeded to watch all of your Warhammer reactions, plus plenty of others. I'm not usually one for reaction videos but seeing how into the music you get, plus your musical knowledge and the way you get into the lore or history behind a given song makes yours a joy to watch!
I saw that you previously covered Cao Cao's theme from Total War Three Kingdoms. I would recommend also looking at some of the earlier OSTs from the series, especially the Medieval 2 and Rome 1 works by Jeff Van Dyke. "War of Kings" from Medieval 2 is particularly good, and "Duke of Death" (Medieval 2) and "Melee Cafe" (Rome 1) also come to mind.
Looking forward to more!
one can clearly imagine endless columns of necrons shuffle slowly to and fro in this rythm, whilst a cryptek directs them.
i love the warhammer series! the lore is so good!
dont forget about the tiny masterpdiece of evil league of legends soundtrack :)
I absolutely love the soundscape from this ost. It's almost like it was written for an IMAX or something.
I was thinking today that you would probably love the soundtrack from Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, especially being an opera singer. That soundtrack is just so beautiful, it's almost impossible to even recommend just one song from it to listen to. Aurora is excellent from that OST, or The Light We Cast.
Keep making these your reaction videos are hands down the best on YT. Pausing to speak at the right moments, letting tracks play when they deserve to be heard, great observations informed by real knowledge of music theory, the lot.
Thanks so much really it means the world
@@MarcoMeatball "Finding the Pattern" actually has a good mix of instrumental and vocals now I'm listening to it. And of course, any time! :)
You should totally check out the "Bella Ciao" and "Katyusha" full versions from Hearts of Iron IV. These two are perfect orchestral masterpieces that sound absolutely amazing. I'm sure you would love them!
Oh YES! THANKS for reminding me
or the necrolord theme from wow?
OH MY GOD YES! This track slowly became my absolute favorite, glad to see your reaction
I love this one, feels really amazing while figuring out the best move and then executing it
its truly incredible how much lore you are able to extract and accurately comprehend just by listening to this OST
All the battle songs have a mix of Omminsiah priest and Necron forces.
Omnisiah has vocals, organs traditional church sound with synth.
Necrons have Egyptian instruments like a neir flute, digital computer sounds similar to 56k modem, and also synth.
This is a war between man embracing machine as religion and undead mummylike machines decimating everything they encounters.
This music is just amazing. I love it.
I've been a huge Warhammer fan my whole life and my favourite army has always been the Mechanicus so this soundtrack was like a divine gift. It perfectly captures the feeling i've always had about Warhammer and the Mechanicus but it also makes me sad that there is nothing else like it and probably never will be again in my lifetime.
It is an awesome song along with a lot of other owesome song from the mechanicus game. I personally love to have it in the background when I play a survival game with a nice decor and I just explore.
It kinda reminds me of Paul Leonard-Morgans work on both Cyberpunk 2077 and Dredd (2012), it sounds like they are playing something but slowing it down to something like a tenth which is giving us the weird 'wobbles' in the sound, and on top of that they add a bit of choir singing which (appropriately for WH40k) gives this vibe of the future/machine being infused with religion.
Man does this song feel deep.
The really cool part to me is you can hear sort of this foreign, alien feeling in this but still hear some of the distant echoes of Children of the Omnissiah in the back. Really cool piece and love hearing your thoughts as always, man. Love these. Would love to see you react to more games.
I love the name of the song in particular. The thing is that the cryptek operate machinery that is so far ahead of our own, that to the human eye their actions seem to be nothing but a dance, that carries no purpose.
The Crypteks are the Necrons tasked with the revival of their most ancient and complex technologies. They are as close to autonomous as a machine can be, and have their own individual quirks. They're scholars, and they study technology of their predecessor race so advanced that even they don't entirely understand it.
So, I think it makes sense that their music is so bizarre.
I was listening to this yesterday, thinking “hey I should recommend marco to listen to this” just for him to make a video about it a few hours aftee
Hi, 40k lore nerd of nearly five years here, I'm absolutely baffled and blown away by the fact you're able to nearly hit the lore nail on the head just by listening to the OST, keep up the awsome work, looking forward to binging your videos.
Welcome aboard!
I definitely hear the struggle between the AdMech and the Necrons here, but also the strange attraction between them. The weird EDM techno sounds are the super hi-tech robot people and the church organ is the backwards cyborg religious zealots, and the dance between their themes shows how the two factions are weirdly connected through 60 million years and the length and breadth of the galaxy. Not sure how much you know about the lore of 40k, but it's an open question whether the Omnissiah is actually a C'Tan i.e. one of the Necrons' gods whom they killed before their great hibernation.
My man, you did not just post this whilst I'm in the middle of building/painting a necron army. What an actually weird but welcome coincidence.
A battle between two warriors is often reffered to as a "dance" as well. A dance of death and skill to be precise. The cryptek is propably fighting an adeptus mechanicus, with the adeptus mechanicus loosing in the end. The cryptek are a part of the necron forces, whereas the adeptus mechanicus are part of the imperial forces. Those are at war whenever they encounter each other. Thus the title "Dance of the Cryptek". Honoring the victor and his skill.
When I listen to this track, I get an impression of loneliness, dementia and madness in certain sections.
man, Crypteks have always been my favourite Necron unit, the power they wield, how they wield it... just the way the models look.
"Feel free to scribe" - I feel very free to scribe after a track like that, thank you, and scribe I will!
Question: Have you ever sat down and listened to Two Steps from Hell? At work I get a lot of questions as too what movie/game soundtrack I'm playing over my speaker; and since that is a lot of what you cover (from what I see), thought you might be interested in them.
PWND, Myth, and Azdaja from the Album Myth (no misses in my book for the entire album) as well as Impossible and Unleashed from the album Unleashed have been favorites from recent finds.
I love how this song offers a strong contrast between the alien synths that almost sound like artificial chatter and the equally alien vocalisations and metallic percussion of the Mechanicus. I can close my eyes and imagine the Mechanicus cracking open the vaults of the Necron Tombs and being overwhelmed by the cavernous interiors. This soundtrack is so atmospheric.
Late to the party, but I am enjoying watching your reaction to these pieces because it tells me the composers of this soundtrack did an amazing job because you, a person who (at least at the time of making this video) knew nothing about 40K and yet you are able to pinpoint quite accurately elements of the social worldbuilding that has gone into creating the 40K 'verse. Brava!
Blessed Omnissiah!
Red hooded Tech Monks, goofing around with ancient Undead Robo Tech; the Soundtrack.
Crypteks are part of the Necrons, the most technologically advanced race in 40k, who turned themselves into immortal robots millions of years ago. Crypteks are the scientists and geniuses of this race, they wield a technology that puts almost anything else in the 40k universe to absolute shame. Science so advanced that it's basically magic to everyone else (matter/time/energy ridiculousness), but is still extremely mechanical-looking and super finely controled.
That's what i hear in this: extremely precise but cryptic movements and thoughts, so advanced and above our own that it sounds like gibberish / random sounds, but it's actually profundly methodical and intentional, an artful science of metallic necromancy, of unimaginable complexity.
the storytelling is very strong in this one. Cryptecs are a group of necrons, they are scientists that have basically transcended reality and posses technology that is described as "basically magic" by all other races. Meanwhile mechanicus are a cult of machines. They desire to unite with technology and to posses the most advanced knowlage possible. In a sens, being a cryptek is their greatest desire and their ultimate goal, yet the backword ideals of their religion stop them from persuing it and hold them back. This music tepresents a clash betwen ideals inside mechanicus, the self contradicting goal of transcending flesh and uniting with machine represented by synthetic sounds clashin and fighting to dominate the flaw against traditional horus and organs symbolizing their religious fanatism and dogmatism holding them back. They are made to hate what they desire, and Dance of the cryptec depicts that, just as much as it depicts a battle between cryptecs and mechanicus on a literal level
"F*ck it up, organ boy"
-Composer Instructions
This one is more focused on nekrons kryptek's (crypt technicians if you will) you can hear the mechanicus meddling here and tehere :D
I pre-ordered the vinyl from Laced Records the second I got the notification email lol.
Crypteks are the Necrons' idea of sorcerers; they just discover, study, and employ lost or ancient tech that's so advanced it appears to be magic.
Crypteks are necrons who love to pomder their resurection orbs a tad bit too much
Love seeing how someone outside of the lore reacts to the best Warhammer 40k music (and some of the coolest music ever)
“It shouldn’t be able to do this”
Necron Crypteks like to break the laws of physics without a second thought, so…
I just realised something... does anyone else get Dr. Who vibes from the "OOOOWWWWEEEEAAAOOOOO's" that surface throughout the Mechanicus soundtrack? Took me 3 years to place the feeling they gave me
Me: Oh yes. This music. Such unnerving atmosphere... I have goosebumps.
Marco: Dancing while smiling.
"There is nothing like this in music anywhere else, before or since" - I feel like you should hear the Mechwarrior 2 trilogy soundtrack, it may refute you
Hey Marco, I've really been enjoying your forays into the soundtracks of science fiction games. Personally as a stand-out track I would recommend 'For All Mankind' from the BATTLETECH OST by Jon Everist. It's a really moving piece that conveys the emotions of the various stages of the Battletech universe quite well in the accompanying 1 and a half ish minute cinematic.
Seeing you come back for game OSTs you already covered gives me hope you'll take a stab at Endless Space 2 again
If youre ever up for giving the soundtrack another listen, you should definitely give Treacherous a shot next!
Check out the Mechanicus soundtracks if you have the time, another 40k faction that has their church chants "pristine" almost sounds like orthodox monks
I love this song. It's so alien and creepy, which is exactly what Necron's are. Ancient horror, mechanical terminators, nigh immortal.
came for the warhammer, stayed for marco's dancing
Serious silent king vs the ctan vibes for an origin story.
The audio version of organized chaos
I didn't knew much about 40K besides big dudes in armror killing space orcs, and one day I stumble upon this soundtrack, never played the game, but man that ost, since I've digged more in the lore, which is amazing, read some books and played some games, and I often go back to this soundtrack, it's really special. I hope to see one day a big RPG in this universe, with this composer !
By the way since I'm here, did you heard of Outward ? I think the ost is pretty unique and interesting, I would love to have your opinion on it, tracks like "Monsoon" and "Hallowed Marsh" in particular ;)
One of these days he will find out about gladius - relics of war and it's mechanicus ost
These are no longer people, these are ancient xenos made of living metal, without a soul, who seek to destroy all life.
Amazing grim-dark atmosphere and incredible soundtrack!
I love it when you do unconventional scifi. Please consider giving Hardspace: Shipbreaker a try. I strongly recommend The Traveler (Tension Mix)
You have to listen “Noosphere”!
I have!