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Noise Marines are Chaos Space Marines devoted to Slaanesh, mostly from the Emperor's Children Legion, but also from other Slaanesh-worshipping warbands such as the Flawless Host. Their trademark is the use of devastating sonic weapons.
Noise Marines have pursued sensation so obsessively that their senses have been dulled. Only extreme stimuli, especially overwhelming noise, reach them. Their sonic blasters and blastmasters create music and screams that can shatter bodies and armour.
Noise Marines began in the Emperor's Children just before the Heresy. On the xenos world of Laeran the 28th Expedition found a temple to Slaanesh. The Terran composer Bequa Kynska, who travelled with the Legion's remembrancers, was corrupted there. She then built new instruments to recreate what she had heard. At her great performance, the Maraviglia, the music drove audience and Astartes alike into an orgy of violence, and some of the Legion took up the instruments themselves. Every sonic weapon the Noise Marines carry descends from those instruments.
Slaanesh's gift is extraordinary hearing, and a brain that turns loud sound into euphoria. Over centuries Noise Marines become deaf to anything that is not deafening: battle, screaming and their own weapons are the only things that move them.
The Emperor's Children were first exposed to Slaanesh's power in the temple of the serpentine Laer on their homeworld of Laeran. Horus later introduced Fulgrim and his officers to feasting, narcotics and other excesses, inspired by the corrupted tribes of Davin. Their constant pursuit of sensation pushed some warriors toward sound, and the most extreme became Noise Marines. Slaanesh gives them unnaturally sharp hearing, able to pick out tiny differences in pitch within deafening noise.
Appearance & wargear
Noise Marines wear garish pink, purple and gold power armour, often fitted with speakers and amplifiers. They carry sonic blasters, blastmasters and doom sirens.
Noise Marines wear garish pink, purple and gold armour, often with speaker grilles, pipes and vox-amplifiers built in. Their weapons include the sonic blaster, the blastmaster and the doom siren, which can shatter armour and rupture organs.
Noise Marines carry sonic blasters that look like heavy bolters, and blastmasters that use overlapping frequencies to overwhelm the senses and smash armour. Some wear sonic shriekers on their helmets, which draw power from the armour's reactor and need the better part of an hour to recharge.
Weapons & Vehicles
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Battlefield role & tactics
Noise Marines are dedicated anti-infantry fire support. Their sonic weapons ignore cover and devastate massed troops.
They are mid-range infantry who soften up enemy lines with sound. They seek out the loudest part of the battlefield and add to it. Fear is just another sensation to them. That makes them hard to break, but they are often reckless.
Noise Marines are mid-range firepower that ignores most cover and suppresses infantry. They have no fear and keep fighting at full strength under pressure, so they hold their positions well. They are less effective against heavy armour than dedicated anti-tank units.
Munitorum & Ordo Xenos Technical Dossier
Classified under Ordo and Departmento Munitorum threat-index protocols as a primary Noise Marines are dedicated anti-infantry fire support. Their sonic weapons ignore cover and devastate massed troops. asset of Emperor's Children, Noise Marines relies on a tightly coupled symbiosis between operator conditioning and primary armament. Field maintenance and biological recovery logs indicate that extended deployment without liturgical recalibration or bio-stasis rest degrades targeting and metabolic stability by less than 4% per solar week—far outperforming standard sector baselines—while post-engagement recovery teams prioritize the immediate extraction of their core wargear, neural/gene-seed components, or machine-spirit memory cores before enemy scavengers can exploit them.
Notable battles & users
- Emperor's Children: Noise Marines are the signature troops of Fulgrim's Legion.
- Maraviglia: the performance aboard the Emperor's Children flagship where Kynska's music first drove the Legion into frenzy.
- Isstvan III: Noise Marines turned their sonic weapons on their loyalist brothers during the atrocity.
- Cacophonous Chorus: Slaaneshi warriors who join whichever warband makes the loudest and most frenzied noise.
Related
Characters (2)
Lucius the Eternal · Champion of Slaanesh
Fulgrim · Primarch of the Emperor's Children, the Phoenician
