Opera Singer Reacts: Noosphere || Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

I bought this game because of all of you 😂

"I wonder if this is like the theme of the antagonists." This is Warhammer 40K. Everyone is an antagonist.

"Most electronic music has a base drop, Mechanicus has a pipe organ" - MandaloreGaming 2020

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.

Fun Fact: The main composer of 40,000: Mechanicus, Guillaume David had this game as his first and only work as a composer, or at least that was what I could find about it.

The song is for a faction in the WH40k universe called the Adeptus Mechanicus, a cult that worships "the Omnissiah" their machine god. In-universe, humanity has lost much of the knowledge and technical expertise necessary to build and maintain most of the technology developed in its past and which it relies on to maintain a vast interstellar empire. Instead it's all been turned into religious rituals that the techpriests perform with little understanding of why they are actually performing it, other than it is necessary to appease the machine spirits (i.e. keep things running).

"Is this an army fueled by religion?" Is such a vague question in 40k. Great reaction man, as usual!

If your reviewing Mechanicus tracks, PLEASE listen to Children of the Omnissiah, it is legitimately perfection

Every time I see someone experience the realisation of "wait a second that's a damn pipe organ" while listening to the Mechanicus OST I can't help but grin like a supervillian

i read the words "Noosphere" and then "Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus" on my phone and then my eyes began to glow a deep scarlet so bright that it interfered with the air traffic above my house, and then i began to levitate 2 feet off the ground in order to approached my PC to watch this video

When the bass drop is a church organ.

Marco: So we're using sounds of battle to sound like musical instruments. Thats freaking genius. Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski: Using 21 cannons for Ouverture 1812 Me: Heck yeah! I know something genius! :D

There are no heroes or villains in Warhammer 40k, just survivors

That mention of if feeling "derelict" is on point! Both the Mechanicus and their foe are artefacts of the past, with the former being shackled by religious dogma and the latter being 65 million years out of time, slowly succumbing to the inevitable attrition of time and space.

oh hell yeah, Mechanicus has a godly OST. Also as a note on the usage of the organ for liturgical themes, a key aspect of the Warhammer 40K universe is that mankind as a whole has descended into a state of religious zealotry. Mankind on Earth for their God-King, the Emperor of Mankind, and the humans on Mars, aka the tech-priests/Adeptus Mechanicus, who are the protagonists of the game, for their Omnissiah, the god that dwells in all machines and bestows unto them their machine spirit.

The fact he can pretty much describe the whole Warhammer feel and kind of a whole faction just based on music is actually so cool!

A note about what the song is named after. The Noosphere is effectively a way of seeing data in its purest form unburdened by corruption or alteration. Only the most direct processing of whatever it is coming from. And multiple entities can be a part of the same Noosphere all communing with each other. So with this song you have the steady drum line as though you are another piece in this great machine. The organ and liturgical themes added to this all seem to meld with the machine in a holy communion. Very fitting for the faith in the Machine God

For the actual antagonists of the game, which are the Necrons, aliens that were stripped of their flesh and souls completely to become nearly immortal metal machines, "Dance of the Cryptek" is the song you want to listen to. There is a strange juxtaposition in this game, where the Techpriests of the Mechanicus revile the flesh and try and replace as much of themselves as possible with machine parts to be closer to their machine god, but are limited by fear of the abominable AI (there was a great war against AI's in this universe), and the Necrons, which are considered the (more) bad guys, which lament the loss of their souls and flesh to become machine servants of their star gods. This is also noticeable in the music for both sides, which is why i'd love to see you react to Dance of the Cryptek as well. Also: Woooooooot! mine and many other's sugestion made it!!

Oh hell yeah, Marco. You're in for a ride. Talking about this sounding like the theme of the antagonists hits pretty close, but that's the awesome thing about Warhammer. Everyone is a bad guy. In this case, Noosphere is the canticle of the Adeptus Mechanicus. A branch of men who idolize machinery and the perfection of their people by becoming one with the machine. The Noosphere is a conceptual form of communication and information sharing based around a world spanning network. Everyone and everything is connected through the Noosphere. Some even say that this music plays through the Noosphere, heard by all who are bound to the network. Oh yeah, and there are battle units in Warhammer that use weaponized organs that fire missiles and artillery shells as they play. Warhammer is great.

I love how you immediately register it as the bad guy theme. They probably would be the antagonists in any other setting honestly.