Music / StringStorm

StringStorm is a Youtube content creator who often posts Warhammer 40,000 fan music, though he also does BattleTech and Touhou Project fan music. He's most well known for making most of the original soundtrack of the famous fan series If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device. His channel also hosts Warhammer Idol Month.

StringStorm provides examples of:

• Adapted Out: "Scarlet Sky" skips over Rumia and Cirno, only addressing the bosses actually fought at the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
• The Atoner: In "Adepta Sororitas", the members of the titular organization are still ashamed of their key involvement in Goge Vandire's reign of terror, which motivates them to seek violent redemption against the Emperor's foes.
  We shall not forget the place from once we came
  Blinded by the false-light and walked on paths astray
  In the "Reign of Blood" where our hearts, our goals, were maimed
  Unto the grace of the saint, when Vandire was slain
• Bragging Theme Tune: Parodied by "Legend of the SunEater in the Goddamn Spacehell" and "The Greatest of them All", which are about how great Kaldor Draigo and the Ultramarines are, respectively, and both absolutely refuse to take their respective subjects seriously even as they sing about how great they are.
• Church Militant: "The WarriorPope of New Avalon" is about New Avalon Pope Leo XXI, who as a result of the Kuritan massacre of the entire College of Cardinals of the New Avalon Catholic Church, became Pope despite being Grandmaster of the Knights Defensor and not having any particular clerical standing. Leo XXI continues to lead the Knights Defensor from the front in his customized Regent BattleMech and in the song, takes a stab at the Draconis Combine by proclaiming the Knights Defensor the "True Sword of Light", saying they're more worthy of the name than the Combine's elite/fanatically loyal Sword of Light regiments.
• Determined Defeatist: The Lamenters are very much aware of how hopeless their situation is, but continue to fight on to allow more time for the civilians to escape.
• "I Am" Song: Any song with a faction's name as its title is sung from the perspective of one of its members.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • In Lamenters, the titular Chapter establishes a desperate defense to help evacuate the remaining civilians at the cost of their lives.
  • In Rylanor's Last Stand, the Chaos Sorcerer Vistario, after being inspired by the eponymous Dreadnought's courage to stand up to Fulgrim and disgusted by the latter's humiliation of the former and general depravity, permits a virus bomb his psyker was holding in stasis to explode (by way of executing said psyker) to try to take down Fulgrim, at the cost of his own life.
• Hold the Line:
  • The Lamenters buy as much time as they can for the civilians to evacuate.
  • "Last Stand Of The Blackwatch" details the eponymous last stand of the Blackwatch against Stefan Amaris's forces in hopes of buying time for Star League reinforcements to arrive.
  • "Cadian Blood" is about how Cadia held the line against Chaos for thousands of years, the people of Cadia held the line even as their home world was destroyed under their feet, and how Cadians continued to hold the line across the Imperium after the fall of Cadia.
• Humongous Mecha: "Titanicus" is an ode to the massive walking war machines of the Imperium's Titan legions.
• Kill It with Fire: In "Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom", Utsuho Reiji is downright gleeful about the prospect of drowning the surface world in atomic fire.
• Laughing Mad: At the end of "Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom", Utsuho lets out a positively unhinged laugh.
• Leave No Survivors: Invoked in the refrain for "Purging with My Kin" towards those who the Black Templars deem as enemies of the Imperium:
  "We'll sunder down their walls / and kill them all!"
• Made of Iron: Fulgrim can easily survive a virus bomb designed for the bombarding of a planet's full surface. His pride, on the other hand, is left deeply hurt by the event.
• Pyrrhic Victory: In "Rylanor's Last Stand", Fulgrim easily defeated Rylanor's best efforts, but the latter's refusal to join him even in the face of torment, along with a group of Thousand Sons deciding to sacrifice themselves in hopes of killing him left him with a deeply wounded pride that he felt would never come back.
• Shout-Out: "Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom" has a shout-out to the theme song of Firefly.
  Utsuho: "Burn the land, boil the sea, even the skies, I'll burn with glee!"
• Sissy Villain: Fulgrim wears bright pink armor, has long, white hair that has been compared to Marilyn Manson and talks in an Effeminate Voice.
• Soprano and Gravel: "Scarlet Sky" uses smooth vocals to represent Reimu and harsh vocals to represent the various youkai of the Scarlet Devil Mansion, though both the smooth and harsh vocalists are women, rather than the more common male/female arrangement. Additionally, presumably as to preserve the ambiguity of Sakuya's nature, her fight is sung entirely from Reimu's perspective.
• Stealth Pun: Both "The Legend of the Suneater in the Goddamn Spacehell" and "The Greatest of them All" talk about an 'arcane ward', referencing Matt Ward, writer for 40k and Promoted Fanboy of the Grey Knights and Ultramarines somewhat infamous for Character Shilling them too much.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: The singer in Faultless was a loyal factory worker until a brutal Imperial investigation of a possible Chaos cult left him broken and implied to have joined Chaos.