Editing Noise Marines (section)

==What?==
Yeah, so [[Slaanesh]] is the God of Excessive Pleasure: lots of sex, lots of drugs, lots of weird sex, lots of pain, lots of weird sex that's painful, lots of weird sex while on drugs that are painful. You get the picture. So when it comes to making up a Slaaneshi flavor of Chaos Space Marines, what does GW come up with?

Rock stars, naturally. Rock stars with [[Sonic Weaponry|sound-laser guitars]]. Because in the [[Rogue Trader|'80s]], '''everything''' was glam' rock and [[awesome]]. They've since moved away from giving them ''actual'' sonic guitars in favor of [[Sonic Weaponry|sonic guns]], but the parallel is still there. Why have they moved away from something freaking awesome into something just kind of meh (excluding the fact that Blaster-Guitars-Swords sound wonderfully dumb)? <s>Because Games Workshop doesn't know a good thing when it sees one. You really should know this by now.</s> The recent Vigilus Weekender revealed a celebratory model based almost entirely on the original model, with some added flair and modernized scaling. Also with the bonus of it standing on a decapitated Primaris Marine's head.

Even more recently, thanks in part to '''[[Dawn of War II|Dawn of War 2: Retribution]]''' and a certain [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnzuRnKnO7E Youtube video] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsGRsDe3iRw This one is even better] they've seen a slight resurgence of popularity. The goofy idea of '80s, Motley Crue-spewing Noise Marines has been replaced with the <s>goofier</s> cooler idea of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7AC5M7F4ys evil-DJ-esque Noise Marines with long and loud sustained "music" (also known as dubstep) being blasted out of speaker-guns at head-fryingly loud volumes]. Also the idea of a [[Awesome|Land Raver]] is pretty cool too. Their in-game counterparts, however, still stick true to the original Noise Marines [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqROBgF7_DU and attempt to] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yafb25_ObVo rock their enemies to death]. More recently the classic and new designs have been melded together by Forgeworld to produce the Kakophoni (say it out loud a few times and you'll get it). Lore-wise these are now the predecessors of the modern noise marine, and incorporate features from both the current and old designs, carrying around broad frequency warp-dubstep guns that are literally re-purposed musical instruments, and getting speakers installed in their own faces to scream louder. However, representing their status as more or less a prototype of the modern noise marine, their guns are heavy and prone to exploding, and their shriekers are not only weaker than a regular doom siren, but also are described as taking quite some time to recharge between uses.

There have been sightings of the Noise Marine's 21st century counterparts who used weaponised dubstep to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDlif8Km4S4 fuck up Counter Strike wannabes]; if you want to make an ACTUAL terrorist's teeth explode, then you need to called up the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Acoustic_Device L.R.A.D,] a real world sonic cannon with a range of over two miles, with a total volume slightly lower then a shotgun going off next to your ear, but able to just keep that volume up for hours.

L.R.A.D is maybe close, and while it surely does please Slaanesh while doing a pretty awesome job of ruining some terrorist's day, it does not quite match the mark of Slaanesh's rock star/Skrillex Marines, but some day...

If you want to field old style rock star Marines, redesign be damned, you're in luck. [http://www.spellcrow.com/pleasure-legions-c-9_43.html Spellcrow] makes conversion bits for both guitars and arms.

[https://youtu.be/KEpf_RvU3cI Djent Noise Marines is probably the best depiction of them however.]