I remember that in both book 2 and 3 the books mention a type of music that mutants listen to

but i cant remember the exact term and i have lent my book to my friend for the time being

does anyone remember the term

and just for your own opinions sake what style do you think it is?

i think its nye on death metal to an extreme

Mutants listen to techno. (Called Beats, if I remember correctly.)

Classical music is also common in the Imperium, but it's said all kinds of culture is in the Imperium, so if you've got an idea what you want, just go ahead and do it, don't limit yourself in a limitless galaxy. XD

Mutants listen to a music called pound. It's electronic. I always imagined it as being discordant electronic noise- think Nine Inch Nails, but with a slow, insistent, and very heavy, booming rhythm. (hence the name pound)

Funny to her the "original english term". In the german translation of the "Eisenhorn"-Novell (where it was mentioned) the music was called "Stampf" which translates into "Stomp" or "to stomp".

Thereby, I alway imagined it to be "heavy bass beats" with no vocals and very view other elements. Correspondingly, my vision of mutants dancing to it was that of them lifting their feed high from the ground and stomping down HARD (similiar to south american boot dancers, but with less style and more agression).

Feral World: Tribal music as befitting their culture (epic poems for viking type worlds, ullulating haunting guitar hymnals for desert worlds, drumming and chanting for forest worlds and so on)

Hive World: Pound (NIN Remixes with a healthy dose of VNV and Wumpscut)

Imperial World: Boybands & Girl Groups. It's the Norm music.. or possibly Hymns and in the upper eschelons Orchestral with the hint of Enya.

Voidborn: Whalesong. Space Whalesongs at that. *nod*

Forgeworld: "Becoming" by NIN played in loop with some Cubanate mixed in to it.

Gun Metal City: Metallica. Upto and including ~Black~ but nothing fromafter that period.

However i've been Reliably informed that when Ultramarines go in to battle they have Cliff Richards piped over their battlevox net.

thanks for the info

thats the other idea i had for pound but im just not a fan of NIN so ill stick with incredibly base heavy rock, maybe some DevilDriver

Pound was a style of music on one planet, or possibly in one sub-sector or sector. I highly doubt it would be found in the Imperium as a whole.

they said mutants commonly listen to it so im sure there are other variations around somewhere its not like they can ban music

There are passing references within Eisenhorn and Ravenor to the "mainstream" music of Imperial society. This is described in a way which suggests (to me, anyway) a kind of martial / operatic / Wagnerian style, characterised by swooping vocals, gigantic orchestras and over the top instruments. There's also a massive Imperial religious hierarchy too, of course, and you'd imagine that the Adeptus Ministorum would use music characterised by plainsong / chorals / vast and ornate organs that play music that makes your teeth rattle.

One would imagine that a lot of this music is pretty awful (pompous, bombastic, etc) so groups within the Imperium that are outcasts (like the mutants) would probably deliberately adopt alternate, "edgier" styles of music. One would also imagine that this minor act of rebellion is the sort of thing that would draw rebellious teenagers to Mutant music venues.

True heretics and servants of chaos of course would probably produce genuinely terrifying music, atonal screeching, weird scuttlings, the screaming of bizarre hymns etc. A bit like the work of S Club 7.

Lightbringer said:

figured they would be fans of Barney music