If a bunch of Noise marines would form a (metal) band... What songs would they play?

RAWK! \m/

Ironically most of the 40k metal I know is about Khorne...

Gwar. Though since the advent of modulated bass I lean towards them doing a bit of EDM: Knife Party - LRAD

I would suggest industrial or other noise based music.

I think they'd be playing blow by kesha while snorting lines in their trailer before the show.

They will broadcast high-frequency pitch, just like your average modern-day acoustic weapon.

The real music for them are sounds of battle - snapping bones, hissing sound of burning flesh, gunfire stacatto, and of course the vocal part - tortured screams, desperate commands, battle cries. Combine that with spectacular visage and additional smell stimuli, and you'll get a symphony unlike anything human composer can create.

To make it a bit more clear, think of a heli attack from Apocalypse Now. The guy levels a village by rapid, elegant airborne attack while playing his favorite tune simply to surf on the beach under mortar fire and smell a napalm in the morning.

That's Chosen of Slaanesh for you, as pure as it gets.

Mine would have to be old school, enter the fray playing Angel of Death, or anything else by Slayer.

While you're creating a band, I did have a character concept which might suit the theme for a high ranking noise marine who instead of using their usual weapon, had a daemonically possessed combo heavy bolter/guitar. The RoF of the gun would vary depending on the tune. So Dragonforce would result in an RoF akin to a vulcan mega bolter while say a nice heavy set of chords would produce slow deep thundering shots. I call it, "The Screaming-V".

Badum tish.

Now I wanna see the weaponized cowbell sonic weapon.

Now I wanna see the weaponized cowbell sonic weapon.

This is win.

'The left flank is crumbling! We need MORE COWBELL!'

Dubstep on full volume. The pitch is so low it could crumble rockrete.

I wonder if "let the bodies hit the floor" by drowning pool is still around in the 41st milenium...

They will broadcast high-frequency pitch, just like your average modern-day acoustic weapon.

The real music for them are sounds of battle - snapping bones, hissing sound of burning flesh, gunfire stacatto, and of course the vocal part - tortured screams, desperate commands, battle cries. Combine that with spectacular visage and additional smell stimuli, and you'll get a symphony unlike anything human composer can create.

To make it a bit more clear, think of a heli attack from Apocalypse Now. The guy levels a village by rapid, elegant airborne attack while playing his favorite tune simply to surf on the beach under mortar fire and smell a napalm in the morning.

That's Chosen of Slaanesh for you, as pure as it gets.

Tau don't surf!

Sunshine of your love, by Cream .

It sounds like a cute lil hippy song, but once you start to interpret the lyrics from a slaanesh daemon point of view things get squicky.

It's gettin' near dawn,
When lights close their tired eyes.
I'll soon be with you my love,
To give you my dawn surprise.
I'll be with you darling soon,
I'll be with you when the stars start falling.

I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love.

I'm with you my love,
The light's shinin' through on you.
Yes, I'm with you my love,
It's the morning and just we two.
I'll stay with you darling now,
I'll stay with you till my seeds are all dried up.

I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love.

Hmmm, partially related, but not really... I had a Slaaneshi Sorceror npc in a Rogue Trader game I am GMing who possessed a wickedly tuned, spikey bass guitar with him when he came on board the ship of my PCs (complete with best craftsmanship heretekal amplifier). Of course, when they finally found out he was a Sorceror in cahoots with a daemonette (possessing the mortal form of a brothel madame), they killed him (no fun them). He had in his stats Perform (Metal) (Ag) +30 as one of his skills (he also had Perform (Porn) (Ag) +30, but that goes with the territory of Shaanesh...). They wanted to throw his bass guitar out the airlock, but as I alternate with another guy as GM, I conveniently indulged in letting my (mostly offscreen) character shark his guitar before they could do so as minor GM ****.

As to the original question, if they actually got instruments together to play something mortals would recognize as music? I'd say something along the line of grandiose operatic industrial death-metal with an entire symphonic orchestra of daemonettes and pleasure-cultists backing them up. There would be solos galore. Guitar solos followed by bass solos, followed by a ten-minute drum solo, followed by another guitar and bass solo intertwining, with the vocalist out-singing Pavarati in every way imaginable, alternating their voice in a disturbing mixture of Paul Sorvino and Mariah Carey at her highest pitch. It would definitely be a performance of a lifetime. There is no current mortal music I can think of that I could analogize to it.

On a different note, music that inspired the creation of the Noise Marines (because I believe the band predates the Noise Marines, and was actually signed by Games Workshop in their one and only attempt to produce and release music). Art imitating art

Not bad, not bad at all.

This one is even better. Very Slaaneshi. Even mentions the Emperor's Children by name