The Warhammer: Mechanicus OST Keeps Surprising Me
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ม.ค. 2023
- The more I hear from this OST the more I am completely blown away by it's raw power. Guillaume David is fantastic at thrusting us in a scene and making us feel. It's visceral in its reverence, and I enjoy listening to these tracks each chance I get.
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One of my favourite bits of 40k lore is that the Mechanicus' binaric hymns and chants sound like painfully dissonant static to the unaugmented, but to the techpriests themselves it is processed into the most stirring and beautiful choral arrangements the imagination can produce. Just imagine listening to a terrible phone connection but in actual fact the phone itself is jammin'.
When the internet dial-up beat drops
A prayer in the form of direct neural stimulation. So cool. Thank you for sharing that bit of lore
That's just how it sounds when they talk too. Binharic is a secret langauge only those in the Mechanicum can understand.
Also the way the admech sees the world around them.
For any normal human their architecture looks blant and brutalistic, while in actuallity its all filled up with, for all intense and purposes, wifi nodes which they can see and interact with,
meaning simply put their actuall architecture is VR based with the noopshere strings making it all up.
Likewise they exist simultaniasly in the real world aswell in the noosphere, aka their version of internet/matrix
@@emprahsfinest7092 Not only them to be fair. You need to have proper augmentations and learn how to use them. Of course they don't just give them out for free, so you either need to be working for or be Mechanicus or be someone from Inquisition whether an actual Inquisitor or Acolyte
Worked as an aircraft mechanic and now electrical engineer. There are times I feel like a Mechanicus myself when you understand something that others swear is magic. Praise the Omnissiah!
Agreed. Biomedical engineer here, I have unironically prayed to the Omnissiah when I was stuck on a coding assignment, literally changed nothing about the code, then hit compile.
It worked.
@@shae98sc2 That RNG must have been hit different...
@NewSheo living the dream of every programmer, doing something that should not change anything unless there were neutrinos involved (extremely rare) and actually getting a different result
Praise the Omnissiah!!!
Brothers, imagine the machine in the factory that is as big as middle class american house, that was there since 1930-ies, that is almost one-of-a-kind (as often the case with really heavy factory machines, very very few of them are made), that nobody understands exactly how it work and only couple of grey-haired tech-priests know how to make it work, any documentation was lost or partially lost and it was not complete anyway, it have references to long gone factories and long dead magos...
When you dig deeper it is even better: design engineers follow standard documents to the letter without knowing why certain rules are in place, following standard documents is more important than following common sense and even questioning these standards can get you fired for tech heresy.
Nobody really understands why certain constants are what they are e.g. cos phi is always 0.7 for transformers and constant for temperature regulator is 0.5 - speaking of which what these constants even mean? (okay I actually know that regulator constants come from system of differential equations - like at least 20+ of them for anything resembling real system that could not even be solved analytically, or at least could not ~25 years ago when I studied that stuff in University).
Real-world engineering is uncomfortably close to Cult Mechanicus... Our machines are just too complex even for very smart humans and physical principles behind them are even more so... There are entire branches of applied engineering sciences that nobody even heard of except very few people actually working in this field...
I read in a few places that Guillaume David used a bunch of engines for the making of this soundtrack. Once you learn this information you can't help but listen for them in every track.
cool, I thought it's all synths (except the choirs and the organ - which I think was recorded in a real church)
@@ArinJager1 2:08 these parts in the soundtrack are the engines.
Also old computers processing things and starting up!
@@ArinJager1in the Cathédrale of Chartres on France
This soundtrack is insanely good. Not every day you hear something so hauntingly beautiful and out of the box.
When you can hear a game just by thinking of the game, the OST is the shit.
This is the track that you hear as bgm between missions while you are hanging about on the ship after which the track is named, Caestus Metallican.
So the way I see it, this track is not intended to be "music", it is the background ambiance of the ship, which itself is essentially a spacefaring cathedral. The chanting, the organs, the engine revving sounds are meant to be the sounds you hear on the bridge of the ship, echoing from deep below the decks as thousands upon thousands of Mechanicus workers sing praise to the Omnissiah in the midst of their work and upkeep of the ship.
I think the "engine revving sounds" or the low, rumbling humming sounds in this one and Children of the Omnissiah deserve a special mention. How i personally see them it is the machine itself singing along with, or perhaps answering to, the Mechanicus and their worship.
In Caestus Metallican, those sounds are more rhythmic, which to me personally bring to mind a machine breathing, or perhaps a heartbeat, which fits since you hear this music when you are *inside* the machine, the ship in this instance.
If I remember correctly a lot of buildings have servitors built into the walls and are constantly chanting, I wouldn’t doubt the admech do this as well for their ships, even the admech knights are constantly chanting when under fire that your able to hear it as it passes by
The Caestus Metallican is an Ark Mechanicus, the Imperium’s largest ship class that has ever been built, so not thousands of servants, but millions. It’s a flying small country.
@@24fretsoffury "thousands upon thousands" would come up to be millions...
@@MrTLSfan that’s generally how math works, yes.
I mean they do have an actual binary-language, add in the lack of biological speech organs and all of it synthetized through augmentics.
This is one of those tracks you can leave on repeat as you paint your AdMech army or tinker with your computer and it feels like you're venerating the Omnissiah. I'm pretty sure they sampled engines revving in addition to an actual organ for this OST.
Personally, I listen to the whole Mechanicus OST while I assemble and paint my necrons :-) Dance of the Cryptek is one of my favorite tracks for the necron side ^^
As an Admech Collector this music is a godsend. While I do listen to a variety of music while painting, this is perfect for painting my shiny boys.
I listen to this sometimes when I'm working out. It puts me in a state as if I have some sort of holy mission on this planet. This shit speaks to me dude. I'm not crazy
The Magos Biologis approves.
may the god machine smiles upon you my friend.
Getting into the Warhammer 40k and Fantasy titles lately and I didn't expect the attention to detail in the music. Vermintide has this frantic and skittering energy. Darktide has this sort of Gothic influenced heavy Industrial music. I'm just getting started but I appreciate the specific tone they are trying to set with the music and how it gives an idea of the "culture" of these civilizations.
Darktide I found disappointing but Vermintide is also fabulous, though I feel like Mechanicus offers more long term richness.
The Cult Mechanicus is older than the Imperium... and a few of the individual tech priests are as well. I feel like this track conveys that. Like an impossibly ancient machine that has transcended the material into the spiritual.
Warhammer 40,000 has an exceptional history with it's video game music. The various themes for each faction in the Dawn of War games feels so on point with the theming. The music for the Eldar, 40k's space elves, feels elegant and ethereal, the Orks are heavy on their drums and percussion, the Space Marine music feel suitably heroic and glorious, yet intimidating. I look forward to watching your journey through the music of 40k
Amiga/DOS-era games are kind of all over the place with their music, trending towards heavy metal and general orchestral epics.
And then there's the Orks.
And then there's the old Chaos Gate.
@@povilzem ♫Agitatis Ultramarini♪Nobilitis Ultramarini♫
@@povilzem Nvm Chaos Gate - Final Liberation! The other contender for most 40k-like music
Mechanicus is a great game with some wonderful music, but my favourite track is probably "Millennial Rage" for mixing DUBSTEP with the organ, it's downright genius.
Marco, I love the fact that even your Latin screams "I am the opera singer", you pronounced Caestus in the ecclesiastical Latin, so good!
😂😂🥰
“All we are left with is the machine” - Insight is on point.
The music from the whole game always gives me goosebumps
The Mechanicus soundtrack never misses.
There is nothing quite like the Mechanicus soundtrack. There are so many layers to it. It is haunting, terrible and beautiful in equal measure.
have you ever listened to Deus Ex OST? It reminds me of Mechanicus OST, but with a little more modern vibes. Both are cult classics.
I love listening to the Mechanicus sound track when I'm playing the Adeptus Mechanicus on the table top, feels so good when you roll hot with a unit.
Mechanicus is one of my favourite games (and one of my favourite 40k factions!), and I'm thrilled that you plan on playing it!
It's a blessing to receive even more knowledge on what I love.
One can tell the music is a masterpiece if the guy analysing the music is hitting the nail on the head when describing it's possible meaning when he hasn't played the game yet.
I was waiting for so long for your reaction to this music and I loved it! Your reactions where you did not have the words just expressed how i feel about this one. Noosphere is beautiful and children of the omnissiah is also great, as well as Kryptek, but Caestus Metallican to me just speaks to my soul in a way the others cannot and wanted to see what you would say about it. Thank you for taking the time.
Honestly now I'd be curious to see how a soundtrack for the Dark Mechanicus would be like. Take this vibe, but add hellish, corrupted elements and all sorts of nasty, sickly vibes.
I listen to this when I read or just study passively, and when I need to think more about something like calculating equations or writing code I'll listen to Children of the Omnissiah or Millennial Rage
This is a soundtrack that just has sunk under my skin and I love it.
You're absolutely right about wanting to put this soundtrack on while working out or doing other things. I swear I work more efficiently at my day job when I can stick my earbuds in and put this whole OST on loop while I go through my daily tasks. Really looking forward to that Mechanicus stream!
Don't forget reciting psalm 11101-01 !
You really should have a listen to Guillaume David's other work: Ixion. All the tracks on the OST are bangers, but ENV Charon and Vanir's Legacy would be my picks for conveying an emotive story.
Its on my list for Feb to film
Oh damn, he did Ixion? Another reason to try that game out.
I really like your videos on the soundtrack of this game! I think you should do "Warriors of Mars" and "Dance of the Kryptek" next. They are different, yet similar to what you have already listened to and I would really like your insight on them.
Seconded.
Yes! Finally! I was waiting for you to listen to this one for how long now!
Something I appreciate re-listening to this song is there, in my ears, feels like a really good mix of holy, reverent music but mixed with a slow, workers tune. Like those old slave/prisoner songs what were sung to keep the workers both entertained and keep a rhythm. You can feel that rhythm to the song.
Much more editing than I expected, pretty cool
Im so happy that you find warhammer fun!! Me and my friend got ourselfs last year into lore then we wanted to try the tabletop game and we loved it! It is complex but after few games you get the rules and starts being fun. Thanks on great video too!!
Man....
Im so incredibly happy that you're getting into Warhammer universe)
And the fact that you're going to play Mechanicus on stream.... This makes my soul sing with joy
We will get to see you reacting to all the things that make this game such an incredible piece of art
And all the music you will hear and actually analize...
I absolutely adore the music of Mechanicus but I think with your explanations and analysis of certain details I'll love it even more.
I mean... I love this soundtrack so much that I purposefully play slower to enjoy music more
Can't wait for the stream)
Have a blessed day
Seeing you just GET IT from music alone. I love it. I am so glad you found us in the Warhammer Community. Welcome aboard my friend
Excited to watch you play mechanicus Marco, it's a genuinely well made game!
And the universe is VAST with lots of factions with their own aesthetics and themes. You'll find so much variety here, trust me.
I'm early! I'm so proud of myself! Even more that you're analyzing this piece, I love it so much. Amazing content as always, Marco!
The deep background bass pulse reminds me of a section about halfway through the game Inside. Gives me the same kind of "feeling" I guess, as when you just barely have cover from the blast and bits of debris fly by you. Like you are inside the beating heart of some massive machine.
The machine is pleased.
Marco is becoming one of us, love to see it.
Warhammer 40k is indeed, and I am repeating myself here, absolute insan in it's scale, it's narrative and it's complexity.
Honestly, after listening to this, im looking forward to that gameplay video!
I love the almost diegetic aspects of this ost, really brings the world to life
i need MORE of this kind of music
was not expecting to see wavey marco today
After finishing the game, now i absolutely MUST see you letsplay it!!
I eagerly await the stream for this game~
Bit late but glad to hear you bought it! Ave Omnissiah, Deus Mechanicus
You really need to try the OST of IXION next ! Again Guillaume David as the composer ! it's so good !
So happy you ended up buying the game ! Warhammer is such an amazing stage for such powerful music, you have very religious like music which could point to the emperor or in the case of the Adeptus Mechanicus their "Ommnissiah", you could have very brutal heavy sounding metal for the Orks, extremely nail biting horror for the xenos, a very honourable like triumph music for the Tau and quite creepy gothic sounding music for the Eldar, god i love 40K
Would love to see your Mechanicus playthrough.
YES
WARHAMMER
And here I was, thinking you playing DMC was a great moment...
the world building in this OST is just awesome
I think your note on Warhammer's music (imperial music specifically) having a sort of twisted/unholy vibe is fair because we're talking about a super dystopian future. It IS twisted!
The metallic ding reminds me of bells they sometimes have in Shinto chants.
The best word to describe 40ks distinct design is Gothic. Its weight in that is what has always set it apart from any other universe for me 👍💯
"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 if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you.
But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal."
the Mechanicus are my favorite 40k faction by far, and a pain to paint (love the challenge though) and it would bring me great joy if Marco were to pick some of them up, even if just do have someone else paint and then display. They are awesome figures, especially the large Imperial Knights - just amazingly badass machines with some very interesting lore. Lots of love Marco !
I would absolutely love to watch you play this game.
My favorite track, got it as my wakeup tone for few years now. My God, it is so glorious to wake up to!
AVE DEUS MACHINA
Not sure if it would be up your alley Marco but you discussing subtlety in game music made me think of the Blasphemous soundtrack. The whole OST is entirely flamenco as the philosophy of flamenco is directly embodied within the game itself. Para un Martir del Compas is a stand out piece but the whole album is great.
I keep seeing this so I'm adding it to my list
I kind want to see Marcos reaction to Mechanicus Voice over work. It's something really awesome.
The Machine God is associated with Goosebumps. Get them a lot when the chanting starts.
Woke up to this *and* find out you are going to do a Mechanicus gameplay stream; all while considering getting into the hobby proper?! My day is made :)
Damn, lol the algorithm hooked me up
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 if it will not decay and fail you.
One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you.
But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal.
Can't wait for toy to hear "Rylanor's Last Stand" from Stringstorm, also a song based on the Warhammer 40k lore.
40K is a lot of fun. Can't wait for the World Eaters release.
Def try and stream this. It's a ton of fun. They built a lot of character into the members of the expedition. Not to mention the lore behind the enemy they end up fighting, which I won't spoil.
Yeah, 40k gonna draw you in man :) and that's the beauty of it for me. The factions and lore is present within nearly every property. Darktide had enough to get people into it and make them curious. And guess what? Owlcat is making a 40k CRPG which will have even more cool stuff in it.
Interesting. Wrath of the Righteous has some of the most detailed character creation I have seen in the fantasy genre, without making it messy in the process. So there is certainly potential there.
This guy just woke up one day and decided to grow a big ass beard and become the most fun and exciting music channel on youtube
😂😂😂😂 bro
I absolutely love this game. And yes, I started with the minis about a year ago having been a 40k fan for over 20 years really because I was looking for a hobby that didn't involve sitting in front of a screen.
If I'd walk across a Chapel with such Sounds coming Out of it, I'd want to know what may be hidden inside. Those Kind of chant-like music is what triggers me in so many ways.
Yesss! Join us !!!!
Since you seems to have an affinity with turn-based games (Fire Emblem, Mechanicus ...) I would recommend the soundtrack of Othercide, a dark, gothic looking little number from Focus Home Interactive, the same publisher of Darktide (a few song of which you reacted to), specifically the boss themes. I trust it will be an interesting listening experience.
I absolutely love thexy went for the organ in this soundtrack. Not just because of the religious conotations. But it being absolutely fitting for the Mechanicum. A giant machine, so large the player basically disappears between the arragngement of parts and pipes, but it is still directed and has that human at it´s core that without it would not work.
I have really been enjoying watching you discovering this game's music. You're going through the same "wow this is good... wow this is GOOD... WOW! This is GOOD!" I went through when I played it and it's fun to watch someone else moving through that process.
I'm very curious what Guilliame David did before working on this game. This is his first credit as a composer that I can find, and he hits it out of the park. I really want to hear the things he created before this.
TBH "from the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me" is a banger mentality when going to the gym and listening to this
I kinda wish that you would not cut short those bits when you feel like going to a rant, I'd love to hear all of those :D
Praise the Omnissiah!
There is no truth in flesh, only betrayal. There is no strength in flesh, only weakness.
Oh I'm so glad to hear you bought the game! it's an absolute blast, and you'll learn plenty about the Mechanicus.
I do hope that we get your reaction to Dance of the Cryptek. Though, because that track is my FAVORITE.
you will!
so excited for you to fully dive into the warhammer franchise man. its a bit convoluted and rather dark but man this game just screams everything you would love in a videogame man from the music and how it bleeds into everything else. besides the doom franchise, the warhammer videogames in particular is just some of the manliest, testosterone injected shit you'll ever experience. you'll find yourself quoting this game a lot i promise you. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, FOR THE IMPERIUM OF MAN
I've been casually interested in Warhammer 40k for, well, over a decade by this point, and only now, today, did I realize why the Imperium uses skulls everywhere. It's their symbol for humanity. It's so appropriate that they would use what is to us a symbol of death to represent humanity as a whole, because the Imperium is such an evil, stultifying, horrific place that it's essentially stripped all that was good and decent off those bones - or tried to. Even there, you still have the occasional act of compassion, no matter how hard the authorities crack down.
I remember reading an interpretation somewhere that the use of skulls has a duel meaning.
The first is that the skull serves as a sort of unifying symbol. It is the face of humanity when you strip all ethnicity, creeds and status; it is what we all possess and proves we are as one species.
The second is the skull represents the ultimate service one can commit to the God Emperor and his Imperium, which is self sacrifice. Martyrdom is the truest sign of faith, and what better to express this in symbolism than the human skull, for it both is obviously human and if all goes well, will outlast the rest of your body by a hundred fold. This long-lastingness of the skeleton serves as a analogy that your actions will long outlast your life, and that even in death, through your sacrifices in life you serve the Emperor in your actions echoes. This also why its considered a great honor for a persons brain/skull to be used for a servoskull. Servoskulls represent this echo of sacrifice in a far more literal sense, and being a skull they are the face of the Imperium they don't come from the same ilk that most servitors are born from.
Btw the small "clinging" sound is somewhat a little Easter egg for Catholic churgoers.
Those are little bells (usually 3 or 4 together) that are used during Catholic masses most "spiritual" and sacred moments of Eucharist (turning bread and wine into Christ's "body and blood").
So their use here is really reinforcing the subtle, profoundly sacred layer you reference.
The game is great. I already finished once, but I'll be back to finish it on hard melee combat run only, Gonna be hard but this music is amazing and will keep on motivating me
Caestus Metalican is also the name of the ark mechanicum (an exceedingly rare type of space ship which has an entire factory built into it among other things) which the mechanicus arrived in
My favorite part of the game is that the characters speak a language we don't understand, since they are from the far future and of course would have a different language. But the Mechanicus also has these augmentations to their speech which sound like another language being spoken at the same time.
My hope with Warhammer going more mainstream is that more attention and focus will be made to bring the aesthetics of this universe to life. The soundtracks that exist for this game and darktide alone are perfect examples of what can be done.
Praise the Omnissiah.
I never had much interest in 40k until I heard the OST, bought the game and I’ve been learning more about it ever since
I sincerely hope you get to Dance of the Cryptek. It's my favorite track from this OST.
money well spent! love your content hope you enjoy the game. By the Omnissiah.
The Mechanicus soundtrack is one of my favorites.. I often go back to songs like this (or Noosphere) to just sorta.. vibe on, I guess. Anyways, I've been going thru several of your videos and I really appreciate how well you describe what I feel/can't put into words and often times you point out things I didn't really think about before in a song. Furthermore you present it with contagious enthusiasm. Did you ever have those literary assignments in school that had you dissecting poems line by line, analyzing the words, structure, etc? I'd wager you'd be good at it because these videos are exactly that, but with music. I'm looking forward to more of your stuff. Cheers :)
Is it true that this is the first soundtrack Guillaume David has done? Insane work
Since I've found this channel, I've started listening to my favorite music more thoroughly, carefully, mindfully
And after that I've discovered many, many little details, that were missed at the first meeting with the song
It's just a shame I can't share those thoughts and emotions with others, so I'm rushing here after every notification in hopes to see my favorite soundtracks, but since I tend to like weird and obscure unknown titles, I probably won't see it and that's why I made this ridiculously long thing - to ask you to take a look at the love of my life - Pathologic, both 1 and 2 game. You won't be disappointed
Those sounds still haunt me after all these years and no other game have rooted out such deep and primal feelings from my soul
Btw love your channel, your work and you passion for music, hope to see more of this wonderful videos （人´∀`*）
I never found the time to get very far in the game, but I'm glad I wound up buying the soundtrack to Mechanicus.
I found this channel looking up music from Darktide, and I've been absolutely loving the videos. I've gone back through older videos you've made, for example on theme songs from the Monster Hunter series. It's very entertaining hearing your thoughts on elements of these pieces that I otherwise take for granted. Your occasional 'rants' are fun to listen to and quite illuminating to me. 'Why You Love Video Game Music' translates a lot of my thoughts to words far better than I could, and adds to them greatly.
I'll be sticking around.
Thanks for doing what you do, Marco.
If I could recommend some more songs in the 40k vein:
'Orks on Da Move', 'Brace for Impact', and 'Attack Without Mercy'.
All from Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
🥰 thank you so much for the kind words
Cybernetic Gregorian chanting which is half of my Pandora Playlist lol.
It would be amazing if you even did get into the 40k figure hobby, Marco. But it will be expensive so Godspeed! I know, I just started my IG collection. :)
David Guillaume is a genius 🙏
it's really interesting to me how these completely fictional factions have developed their own identity so much that they have their own type of music now.
warhammer 40k games live and die by their flavour and this game(and most of the better 40k games) does it extremely well and I don't think this would've been possible without the property being old enough to gave it's own flavour.
Just gunna toss this in here on the off chance it gets seen:
I'd love to see your reactions to Madoka Magica's soundtrack.
If i had to pick only one song, it'd be Symposium Magarum. Although, if i had to pick one that actually had vocals in it, i'd have to go with Noi instead of the ever-popular Surgam Identidem... though Surgam Identidem is a lot closer to your operatic roots.
I think i've seen a making of this music showing that every organ part has been played by the great organist of Prague, with his Giant mechanical Organ.... cool eh ? next please do Overlord, it's both epic and desperate. I love every second of this OST
Warhammer 40k mechanicus is a fantastic game for turn based combat lovers. However, even if you aren't into those games, I HIGHLY recommend checking out the trailer just the theme and sounds alone are beautifully haunting.
I love it when you get so excited you start sliding out of your chair 🤣
Programming while listening to regular music:
_programmer_
Programming with Mechanicus music:
_datasmith_
Can the comment section remind me whether Fortress Monastery came out before or after Mechanicus?
While the soundtrack is simpler for that fan animation, it's somehow so relaxing. I listen to it from time to time to zone out.
It’s a great Warhammer game, a bit too easy after the first few missions even on the hardest difficulty, but damn they nailed the feel.